Warfare & Defence

The sharp and unforgiving suffering of the morally injured veteran cannot be fully understood, much less effectively addressed, without a comprehen...

This engrossing and meticulously researched volume reexamines the decisions made by Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff in the crucial months leadin...

With a focus on China, the United States, and India, this book examines the economic ambitions of the second space race. The authors argue that spa...

A bestseller in 1946, Railroad of Death is the first and best account of forced labour on the Burma Railway. John Coast was a young officer in the ...

Success in war ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order. Nadia Schadlow argues that the steps needed to consolidate a new politic...

Gross violations of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Laws have been committed in Syria. After a full cessation of viol...

In the spring of 1940 Canada sent hundreds of highly trained volunteers to serve in Britain's Royal Air Force as it began a concerted bombing campa...

New Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War: No Victor, No Vanquished analyzes the continued impact of the Nigeria-Biafra war on the Igbo, the failu...

Peacebuilding in Africa: The Post-Conflict State and Its Multidimensional Crises argues that building enduring peace in post-conflict states in Afr...

This final volume in the Making Sense of War trilogy, builds upon the concepts and reassessments of its predecessors, About War and War in Context....

Exploring NATOs post-Cold War determination to support democracy abroad, this book addresses the alliances adaptation to the new illiberal backlash...

EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT WAR IS WRONG. We are living in an age of conflict: Russia's resurgence and China's rise, global terrorism, inte...

A compact study of one of the less well-known campaigns of the Pacific War, which featured complex Japanese and Allied operations, and included the...

The United States Marine Corps came into its own in the Pacific Islands campaign against Japan in World War II. From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, US Mar...

Douglas MacArthur is one of the most controversial generals in American military history. During World War II, some adored him while others mocked ...

SURVIVOR STORIES FROM DUNKIRK, NOW THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR FILM FROM CHRISTOPHER NOLANWhen Britain declared war against Germany in September 1939, t...

'Vivid, wholly convincing, compelling. One of the best memoirs for years about the experience of flying in war' Max Hastings, Sunday TelegraphTwo m...

Christian Tobler makes a deep dive into the fighting traditions of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, particularly as recorded by Johannes Lie...

The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is, at least theoretically, to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become ...

The white-knuckled saga of a maverick captain, nine courageous sailors, and a US Navy task force who achieved the impossible on June 4, 1944--captu...

The Salaspils camp near Riga, which was operated during the Nazi occupation of Latvia, has long been the subject ofcontrovery. Around 23,000 people...

As with appeasement, myths and legends have proliferated about the origins of the Cold War. It has often been treated as largely a European affair,...

The first international peace operation by the United Nations took place in 1948. Seventy-five years later, more than one hundred multilateral miss...

The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers European, the US, Japan and China attempted to militari...

The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of Allied and Japanese aircraft which served throughout Australia; the South P...

This third volume of Solomons Air War chronicles aerial warfare in the Solomon Islands theatre during the months of November and December 1942. It ...

Scholars have long viewed intelligence as the preserve of nation states. Where the term 'private sector intelligence' is used, the focus has been o...

For over a decade this annual has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, comb...

A study of the history of the US Navy's gunboats and their role in building a worldwide American naval presence abroad and in combat, from the Yang...

In an effort to provide the US infantryman with more firepower to cover the range gap between the hand grenade and the light mortar, the 40mm M79 g...

This volume presents the most detailed history and accurate profiles to date of the Douglas Boston light bomber (DB-7B and A-20 models) in RAAF Pac...

There are photographs in this book that will stay in the hearts and minds of the people who view them, and who, like Corinne Dufka, will resolve to...

Machiavelli is one of the most famous strategists of all time. In this collection he discusses the dangers of conspiracies, and the component parts...

They call you a battalion surgeon. I didn't know surgery; really, I was simply trying to save lives. (Audio Interview) William M. McConahey gradua...