Warfare & Defence

Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen’s Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experienc...

The Russo-Chechen conflict has been the bloodiest war in Europe since the Second World War. It continues to drag on, despite the fact that it hits ...

Attempts to set out the true role of British Corps (and their commanders) and their control of artillery, which led to their becoming the principal...

The end of the Second World War heralded the start of a new war. It was the war in name only, fought out by the superpowers through propaganda, and...

The Pakistan Army is a uniquely powerful and influential institution, with vast landholdings and resources. It has deep roots in the colonial armed...

A comprehensive and illustrated history of siege warfare and siege weapons, that also contains a how-to guide for re-creating medieval siege weapon...

This book is a compilation of the most recent theoretically and empirically oriented research on international warfare. Some of the chapters are up...

One of Spellmount's most successul books, Patrick Mileham's work is a classic of its kind. 'A remarkable amount of fact and illustration has been p...

Here, John Peddie provides a challenging re-evaluation of the Carthaginian's generalship of Hannibal, and asks how was it that a man so often descr...

Legitimacy is generally a term that is associated with the state. The term surfaces when there are problems with state legitimacy—when it is lackin...

Now in apparent robust health, Russian President Vladimir Putin (age 66) could remain in power for another decade or even longer. But he will not k...

In the run-up to the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower faced a series of seemingly insurmountable dilemmas. Outnumber...

This book explores the rise of two resistance movements in Yugoslavia after its invasion and partition by Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria in ...

During the Iraq War, coauthor Capt. Jason Conroy commanded Charlie Company, which was part of Task Force 1-64, 2d Brigade Combat Team, part of the ...

In this detailed and highly entertaining book the author tells of the extraordinary military achievements of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlboroug...

This book examines military and civilian actors in international interventions and offers a new analytical framework to apply on such interventions...

China’s emergence in the 21st century to the status of great power has significant implications for its relationship with the United States, the so...

When the British invaded Afghanistan in 1878, forty years after the first attempt, it was to scotch Russian influence and to install a friendly gov...

This resource strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the mili...

Six months before the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq, Field Marshal The Lord Bramall warned that an operation to remove Saddam Hussain would pr...

Once again nature’s fury has taken a toll in pain, suffering, and lives lost. In recognition of the need for a rapid and appropriate response, CRC ...

In AD 9 half of Rome's Western army was ambushed in a German forest and annihilated. Three legions, three cavalry units and six auxiliary regiments...

Celebrated history author Rupert Matthews brings his own inimitable approach to one of the greatest battles in history to explain just what happene...

Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War offers new insight into the tragic miscalculations...

Using documents, interviews with experts and contemporary news sources, this book explores how and why Affray became the last British submarine los...

Divided into five sections, the text first examines the individual components of the early modern army, the foot soldier and the mounted soldier, t...

The charge of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) is to provide biannual assessments of the scientific and technical q...

The Ethics of War and Peace is a lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant ethical debates. Focusing on the philosophical qu...

This book examines episodes in NATO’s history from the founding of the North Atlantic Alliance in 1949 to its transition to the post-Cold War order...

Although bibliographies do exist that concern themselves with the Nazi period in Germany and the Third Reich, no one has yet attempted a complete r...

Offers an account of Britain's painful withdrawal from Egypt in the 1950s. This book explores the interaction of politics, diplomacy, strategic pla...

In the late twentieth century many writers and activists envisioned new possibilities of transnational cooperation toward peace and global justice....

The aim of this book is to explore the implications stemming from the recent upgrading of Australia-Japan-US security interactions and the implicat...

In this follow-on report to Europe's High-End Military Challenges: The Future of European Capabilities and Missions, the CSIS Europe, Russia, and E...

This fully revised edition of Martin Shaw's classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surrounding genocide. In ...

Starting in the early part of the nineteenth century, American administrations expressed a desire to own Cuba. A rationale for adding Cuba to the t...

Except for a short period after the end of the First World War and the ensuing armistice, Turkey has consistently denied that it ever employed a po...

In the late twentieth century many writers and activists envisioned new possibilities of transnational cooperation toward peace and global justice....

The Ethics of War and Peace is a lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant ethical debates. Focusing on the philosophical qu...

This book examines a period of particular importance in the formation of the modern French state. The revolutionary strife and international war of...

This is a colourful and authentic account of daily life and work at Government Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most successful int...

The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to every fight. Yet e...

Carl von Clausewitz has long been interpreted as the paradigmatic thinker of major interstate war. This book challenges this assumption by showing ...

Even after two decades, the memory of the Vietnam War seems to haunt American culture. From Forrest Gump to Miss Saigon, from Tim O'Brien's Pulitze...

The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night. Sleeplessness plagued the Union an...

Radicalisation is a conceptual investigation within Western liberal democratic societies that follows an analytical framework linking expertise the...