Warfare & Defence

Special Operations Success establishes a new benchmark in military theory in this deeply analytic and innovative work. It answers several pressing ...

At the end of July, Operation 'Cobra' broke through the German defences and the American leaders rushed through Coutances and Avranches, and took t...

In Strong Commanders, Weak States, Philip A. Martin investigates a fundamental political challenge faced by post-conflict states: how to create obe...

At the End of the World There Is a Pond is a book about aftermaths. Each poem comes in the wake of a deep rupturethe ruptures of mental illness and...

Volume II of The Cambridge History of Strategy focuses on the practice of strategy from 1800 to the present day. A team of leading scholars examine...

Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eigh...

Martial Arts are literally The Arts of Mars, the Roman god of war. For over two and a half millennia, the combat arts of Europe served the hoplite,...

Battleships and Carriers features 300 of the most significant capital ships to have sailed the seas since the age of sail. These include such famou...

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...

In the 1600s, the elegant and deadly Italian rapier was the choice sword of duelists, officers, gentlemen and noblemen: to master the rapier was to...

The presence in Romantic-era literature of the mercenary is historically important, but often neglected. This book proposes the mercenary as a foca...

The authors of all manuscripts in this monograph were specifically invited for papers that would provide new insights into the complex nature of m...

Explores the critical battle of Carrhae, a fascinating tale of treachery, tactics, and topography in which Rome experienced one of its most humilia...

'The Legacy of Iraq' critically reflects on the abject failure of the 2003 intervention to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-...