Warfare & Defence

The inspiration for this brilliant anthology is the ‘I Learnt About Flying from That’ articles that first appeared in the RAF Flight Safety magazin...

This book investigates the representation of civilian and military drones in visual arts, literature, and architecture. What emerges, is a compelli...

Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Cri...

Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Cri...

Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the Fr...

What does it mean to be secure? In the global news, we hear stories daily about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, about domestic-level conflicts ...

We live in a world where children have grown up in exile as refugees and have never known their actual home. The question of their educational inte...

In his book The Line of Fire, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral William J. Crowe wrote `Pound for pound, Bahrain has been about...

One of the key issues facing naval strategists and planners is whether China poses a threat. The editors of this hot-topic book - professors and an...

In NATO’s Gamble, Henriksen discloses the origins and content of NATO’s strategic and conceptual thinking on how the use of force was to succeed po...

In May 1987, an Iraqi plane fired two missiles into USS Stark, a US Navy frigate on patrol in the Gulf. The missiles severely damaged the ship and ...

Continuing its longstanding tradition as the most complete naval resource of its kind, this updated 19th edition of The Naval Institute Guide to th...

Only seven US submariners earned the Medal of Honor in World War II. Sam Dealey, the USS Harder’s commander, was one of them. His award was made po...

After the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which crushed Japanese naval power in the Pacific even more effectively than American naval chiefs were aware at th...

This all-new 5th edition of the venerable Service Etiquette cements the guide’s reputation as the definitive resource of military protocol. Interna...

Why do weak states resist threats of force from the United States, especially when history shows that this superpower carries out its ultimatums? C...

On 11 May 1944, just four weeks before D-Day, sixty-seven American heavy bombers dropped 168 tons of bombs on the sunlit French town of Épinal on t...

Drawing on recently declassified documents, and now available in paperback, this is the utterly compelling history of the successes and failures of...

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The Essential Guide to Airsoft Gear provides the perfect introduction to assembling some of the most sought-after gear you need to look the part on...

Drawing largely on Bomber Command's operational records, 'RAF Coningsby in the Second World War' charts the wartime history of Royal Air Force Coni...

James McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”—and spurred countless other historians to ask a...

Pershing's Lieutenants details the history of the key leaders working for and with the American Expeditionary Forces Commander-in-Chief General Joh...

Today's vision of world order is founded upon the concept of strong, well-functioning states, in contrast to the destabilizing potential of failed ...

In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied intent to bring Axis crimes to light led to both the Nuremberg trial and its counterpart in Tokyo, the...

Across black America during the Golden Age of Aviation, John C. Robinson was widely acclaimed as the long-awaited “black Lindbergh.” Robinson’s fam...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings...