Warfare & Defence

The First World War was the first conflict in history to be fought in the air, as well as on land and at sea. Britains fledgling air arms, the Roya...

This book analyses how the European Union (EU) has dealt with crises and conflicts, including Russias invasion of Ukraine, Irans nuclear dispute, a...

By 1900, the British government and public had become gripped by a new and growing fear of invasion, not from traditional enemies such as France, b...

In a breathtaking moment lasting less than ten seconds, skimming the rooftops of Brussels, Jean de Selys Longchamps would etch his name into the an...

This new volume from Martin Bowman examines the first three years of the Second World War, consolidating first-hand accounts from German fighter pi...

This book explores why some episodes of mass political violence and genocide are so much deadlier than others and under what conditions perpetrator...

This book examines the role of French-German cooperation within European military cooperation and European defence, and particularly the CSDP (Comm...

In preparation for the liberation of the northern part of the Netherlands, Operation Amherst was launched on the night of 7 to 8 April 1945. This l...

The watery, heavily vegetated marshlands of the Mekong Delta served as a formidable natural defense for Viet Cong units in the region, and the wate...

The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment was a Canadian armoured regiment attached to the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade which landed on the beaches of Norm...

Operation Detachment, the US invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest...

Okinawa is a tiny island of huge geopolitical importance. Located between the tip of Japans mainland and Taiwan, Okinawas sovereignty is contested ...

Okinawa is a tiny island of huge geopolitical importance. Located between the tip of Japans mainland and Taiwan, Okinawas sovereignty is contested ...

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each bo...

This book provides a new analytical framework that investigates the way in which the EU changes its foreign policy after crisis. Adapting existing ...

Risk Communication and COVID-19 explores the risk communication responses by national governments to the outbreak and global spread of the COVID-19...

Risk Communication and COVID-19 explores the risk communication responses by national governments to the outbreak and global spread of the COVID-19...

Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museums Spanning six continentsEurope, Australia, Africa...

What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? England's military heartland provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military pr...

This book offers an interdisciplinary insight into the key debates around information warfare in the digital age and argues that transnational coop...

An authoritative account of the rise and fall of American sea power between 1897 and 1947 and the definitive biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. K...

What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? England's military heartland provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military pr...

A revised and expanded new edition of this classic biography of a legendary American fighter pilot.  Frank Luke was the first American airman ...

What does Australia's military history reveal about us?In Beyond The Broken Years fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage's classic on Wo...

This book provides a ground-breaking assessment of the Israeli national security experience from the establishment of the country through to the pr...

This book intends to reflect the variety and diversity of the musical responses that arose in favour of the Republic and against fascism during the...

This is the first comprehensive history of conscription and the military in Italy from the Restoration to the eve of WWI. The comparative and trans...

This book investigates the ways in which the lethality of terrorist violence depends on how rebel organizations finance their rebellion.The leaders...

This book explores the processes and practices of the securitization and de-securitization of European infrastructures and how political institutio...

This book examines EU external border violence and the role of Frontex, and how it can be made legally and politically accountable for these incide...

This book explores the why and the how of womens participation in armed struggle, and challenges preconceived assertions about women and violence, ...

Insurgency in Indias Northeast provides a systematic analysis of every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within a unified and o...

This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a...

This book explores the relationship between climate changeinduced migration and conflict in Bangladesh one of the most ecologically fragile countr...

This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regimes history in the 1970s, and its opening up to the West.It bridges Polands s...

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula focuses on the United Nations (UN) and its frameworks to examine the power politics on the tw...