Warfare & Defence

The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served ...

In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthause...

John 'Willy' Williams was a medical student and passionate surfer turned Squadron Leader and Second World War ace. In the Australian tradition, he ...

'The story of a lesser known - but perhaps the greatest - escape of Second World War prisoners has been told in a new book.' The Scotsman 'This is ...

Men captured in war, deprived of their purpose as well as their liberty, naturally think of escape. During the Second World War, when vast numbers ...

In July 1864, Union General William T. Sherman ordered the arrest and deportation of more than 400 women and children from the villages of Roswe...

Located on Pea Patch Island at the entrance to the Delaware River, Fort Delaware was built to protect Wilmington and Philadelphia in case of an ...

Despite their insistence that the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops was the condition for the release of prisoners of war, the Democratic Repub...

Lost in action, a term used to account for soldiers last seen in combat but not identified as killed or captured, was applied to the author for ...

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. ...

And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder is the experience of an ordinary soldier captured by the Japanese at Singapore in February 1942. Leo Rawlings' st...

On 7 March 2004, former SAS soldier and mercenary Simon Mann prepared to take off from Harare International Airport with an aeroplane full of heavy...

'a compelling account of one of World War II's most brutal prisoner of war camps'DAILY TELEGRAPHIn February 1942 the Indonesian island of Ambon fel...

'The story of a lesser known - but perhaps the greatest - escape of Second World War prisoners has been told in a new book.' The Scotsman 'This is ...

The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two's only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell.Judy, a beautiful liver and white Engli...

In 1775 the British Empire was in crisis. While buried in debt from years of combat against the French, revolution was stirring in its wealthiest N...

In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more disorganised world...

The laws of war have always been concerned with issues of necessity and proportionality, but how are these principles applied in modern warfare? Wh...