Military history

How aggressive military strategies win wars, from ancient times to todayThe goal of war is to defeat the enemy's will to fight.

Timeless lessons from the military strategies of the ancient Greeks and RomansIn this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world.

A major history of technology and Western conquestFor six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies.

This book focuses on one of the most visible and important consequences of total defeat in postwar Germany: the return to East and West Germany of the two million German soldiers and POWs who spent an extended period in Soviet captivity.

What makes wars drag on and why do they end when they do?

Why did President John F.

What can we learn about leadership and the experience of war from the best combat leaders the world has ever known?

A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about "e;strategic"e; bombing were formed and implemented.

More than one million American children are schooled by their parents.

A concise history covering the causes and the battles of the world's first global conflict, "e;the war to end all wars.

Amidst all of the criticisms of America's war in Iraq, one essential voice has remained silent .

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In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq.

Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape, in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, Sacred Causes is a penetrating critique of how religion has often been camouflaged by politics.

This biography of the controversial U.

Americas most elite commando unit, the US Navy SEAL Team Six pulled off one of the most remarkable covert operations in military history when they infiltrated the secret hideout of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in the dead of night and killed the hated terrorist mastermind.

This New York Times bestseller shares the true story of a small Midwest town's hospitality to U.

As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H.

This is not your father's warThis is Iraq, where a soldier's first duty is reinforcing his Humvee with sheet metal and sand bags.

An renowned historian offers a "e;compelling"e; analysis of the intertwined relationship between politics and religion in Europe during the late Modern period (The New Yorker).

A son pays tribute to his father and the generation that fought in World War II in this heartfelt New York Times-bestselling memoir.

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Captain Robert McGovern epitomizes all that is right and good in America.

'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal BiographerShe was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a handsome war hero.

"e;Perhaps the worst thing about war is the peace that follows .

At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War.

HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH - THE TIMESOne night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland.

"e;Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye.

Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023*A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023*Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war - from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol.

The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone'Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.

'Haunting.

Preorder the new Mr Ps book 'How to Survive the School Year' - out 29/08/24THE SENSATIONAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A heart-warming and hilarious look at life in the classroom from the teachers who host the most popular UK education podcast, Two Mr Ps in a Pod(Cast).

'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL'One of my favourite reads of 2021' GARETH RUSSELLPoignant and inspiring, Women in the War tells the first-hand stories of ten of the last surviving female members of Britain's 'Greatest Generation'.

A campaign of murder, as Alexander nears his greatest challenge.

Can the mysteries of Ancient Greece, and Alexander himself, be unravelled?

Alexander the Great cannot be fooled.

Alexander must fight for his throne, his father.

A heart-pounding thriller of non-stop action and suspense, with an unexpected twist that will leave you breathless.

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IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME!

IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME!

THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION******SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE******SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE***A Book of the YearThe Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New Statesman * Financial Times * Irish Independent * Daily Mail'A masterpiece' SPECTATOR'Exemplary [and] important.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A terrific book .

From mesolithic Ireland to the peace process, this little book covers all of the main historical and cultural events, places and figures in Irish history.

No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs, as columns of troops paraded down the Champs lyses.

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, emigres, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfather's lifeIn 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German-Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland.

The Cold War was the first major conflict between superpowers in which victory and defeat were unambiguously determined without the firing of a shot.

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Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring American adventure.

A Times History Book of the Year 2022From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily TelegraphThe 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union.