Warfare & Defence

This book examines the digital explosion that has ripped across the battlefield, weaponising our attention and making everyone a participant in war...

Perhaps no other weapon represents Renaissance Italian fencing like the rapier. But do we know how it was used and how it was taught? This book tak...

The Royal Air Force was formed in 1918 to defend the skies over Britain during the First World War and made a major contribution to winning one of ...

During the First World War, rumours of heavily-armed German raiders led to the building of the first modern heavy cruisers by the Royal Navy. Named...

During the First World War, rumours of heavily-armed German raiders led to the building of the first modern heavy cruisers by the Royal Navy. Named...

A Few Bad Men is the incredible true story of an elite team of U.S. Marines set up to take the fall for Afghanistan war crimes they did not commita...

Military Airlift Command was a United States Air Force Major Command, responsible for strategic and tactical airlift, primarily operating C-130, C-...

A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the...

An estimated 200,000 men of German birth enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, far more than any other contemporary foreign-born populat...

This volume explores the determinants of state power, the strategic options of rising powers, the drivers of conflict in dynamic international syst...

Archery in Medieval England is an account of how archery developed amongst ordinary people in England and Wales after the Norman Conquest. In the 3...

In the late 14th century, the German swordsman Johannes Liechtenauer developed and codified a system of armed combat with sword, spear and dagger t...