Military history

The Kurds, one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, are reasserting their identity-politically and through violence.

The second book in the TRAITOR SON CYCLE, a radical reinvention of the Arthurian legend by an expert on medieval history and warfare.

'The best one-volume study of Churchill yet available.

Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons.

On April 2 1982 Argentine forces seized the British-dependent Falkland Islands.

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric.

Ever since the Second World War and the Holocaust, historians, psychologists and theologians alike have attempted to explain how a single personality could bring about some of the greatest horrors of the modern era.

A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure.

The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'.

Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history.

The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history.

'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history.

Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes.

'A moving and timely work, which captures the lasting pain and grief of those who lost loved ones during the Troubles.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First & The Second Battalion (Volume 1&2 - Complete Edition)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn.

From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one regiment marched thousands of miles and fought a dozen battles to uphold British rule in America: the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines.

How do armies fight and what makes them victorious on the modern battlefield?

A 2012 Top Ten Sports Book as selected by Booklist, winner of the 2011 Seymour Medal and Larry Ritter Award from the Society for American Baseball Research, and finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction, Fenway 1912 is the remarkable story of Fenway's very first year.

The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation's history.

The train was packed with men.

"e;A masterful achievement.

Amidst the vast literature of the Civil War, one of the most significant and enlightening documents remains largely unknown.

It was the third week of May 1863, and after seven months and six attempts, Ulysses S.

The battles of Belleau Wood and Soissons in June and July of 1918 marked a turning point in World War I and in the stature of the US Marine Corps, whose fighting proved so critical in repelling the Germans that the French would later rename Belleau Bois de la Brigade de Marine.

In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitlers other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest.

The joint British and US campaigns in the European theater of operations during World War II rank among the most impressive examples of coalition warfare in history.

In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during the most ferocious naval engagement fought in the South Pacific.

Choice Outstanding TitleWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: Im an American, and I never retreat.

Forced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike.

The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States.

Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history.

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5'The book we have all been waiting for' BRENDAN SIMMS, author of Hitler: A Global Biography'Gripping, authoritative.

Dilip Sarkar has studied the Battle of Britain period for a lifetime and is renowned for his meticulous research and evidence-based approach, setting events within the broadest possible context.

Blessings on Uncle Sams soldiers!

From the American Revolution to the global war on terror, U.

By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it.

Winner: New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, History book - Arizona subjectIn 1966, nine young men left the Arizona desert mining camp of Morenci to serve their country in the far-flung jungles of Vietnam, in danger zones from Hue to Khe Sanh.

Winner: Norman B.

Physical training in the US Army has a surprisingly short history.

An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and warWhy do nations go to war?

Military pension policies are as old as the republic itself and reside at the intersection of American social, economic, and defense policy.

When, in 1883, Congress charged the US Army with managing Yellowstone National Park, soldiers encountered a new sort of hostility: work they were untrained for, in a daunting physical and social environment where they werent particularly welcome.

Winner: Southwest Book AwardA great white angel spreading her wings across the Moreno Valley: this is how one visitor described the memorial standing atop a windswept prominence in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Taos, New Mexico.

The American Army in Germany, 19181923: Success against the Odds by Dean A.

An army, Lewis Mumford once observed, is a body of pure consumersand it is logistics that feeds this bodys insatiable appetite for men and materiel.

Winner: Guittard Book Award for Historical ScholarshipDuring the Soviet Unions Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945, as many as 24 million of its citizens died.

In 1979, with El Salvador growing ever more unstable and ripe for revolution, the United States undertook a counterinsurgency intervention that over the following decade would become Washington's largest nation-building effort since Vietnam.