Military history

The story of an era shrouded in mystery, and the gradual changing of a nation's cultural identity.

We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time.

Since September 1962, hardly a week passed without a major armed confrontation or an outright war in Yemen.

A military study of the 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan-the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems.

"e;Gavin at War provides a lively self-portrait.

A comprehensive account of this bitterly fought yet unjustly forgotten early conflict of the Civil War.

A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.

With his parting words “I shall return,” General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan.

This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II.

On the morning of March 19, 1945, about fifty miles off the coast of Japan, the aircraft carrier USS Franklin was bombed by Japanese aircraft.

The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.

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Cherokee women wielded significant power, and history demonstrates that in what is now America, indigenous women often bore the greater workload, both inside and outside the home.

This book analyses the letters of marginalised groups of World War I soldiers - including Black, Indian and disabled ex-servicemen - from a linguistic perspective, looking at issues such as descriptions of disability, identity and migration, dealing with minority groups who have long been rendered invisible, and exploring how these writers position themselves in relation to the 'other'.

This entry in the MiddleEast@War series is illustrated with abundant photographs from previously unused, or very rarely used, private and official sources.

This volume provides a historical narrative, historiographical reviews, and scholarly analyses by leading scholars throughout the world on the hitherto understudied topic of Shanghai Jewish refugees.

The borders of the Roman Empire were frontiers that were often wild and dangerous.

Almost ten years before Osama bin Laden was killed, the United States had the opportunity of a decade to decapitate the organization that so ruthlessly enacted the deadliest foreign attack on American soil in the nation’s history.

This seminal work by historian Alexander Bennett presents a broad overview of the Japanese "e;Way of the Warrior"e; as it is expressed in scores of classical Japanese texts written by famous Samurai themselves.

The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.

Class insecta is numerically the largest class of the largest phylum outnumbering the total number of all the other known species of the rest of the animal kingdom.

The conventional narrative of the Vietnam War often glosses over the decade leading up to it.

Slavery was at the heart of the South's agrarian economy before and during the Civil War.

The Damanhur Federation, situated in Valchiusella, North-West Italy, is one of Europe's longest-lasting spiritual-esoteric communities.

This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once safely resettled in the United States, became an activist for other refugees, earning renown in the Bay Area as "e;the oldest refugee"e; of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant.

We have often heard about the brutal world of the trenches, the willingness of brave young soldiers and the apparent indifference of the generals, but reevaluations of the Great War in previous decades have shown us much more complexity, and in many cases some surprising reconstructions of very standard narratives of the war.

The definitive account of a tragic episode in U.

The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending.

This book addresses the global history of technology, warfare and state formation from the Stone Age to the Information Age.

Can you keep a secret?

One gunshot by a single person could be powerful enough to move a whole nation.

Pastor Bryan Loritts dives deep into what it's like to be a person of color in predominantly white evangelical spaces today and where we can go from here.

Der Band befasst sich mit den philosophisch-ethischen Begründungszusammenhängen des Militärs und des Soldatenberuf in Geschichte und Gegenwart.

This book uncovers the history of a group of Jewish workers and merchants in the Amsterdam diamond industry during the Holocaust.

Success in war ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order.

This book explores imperial entanglements to reassess the Napoleonic Empire as a missing link-or at least an important chain-in the global and longue duree history of Empires.

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The captivating story of an influential journalist demonstrates the value of a free press to democratic societyIn the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda in the United States, the best reporter in the business was a rumpled, hard-drinking figure named Homer Bigart.

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Students and enthusiasts of American history are familiar with the Revolutionary War spies Nathan Hale and Benedict Arnold, but few studies have closely examined the wider intelligence efforts that enabled the colonies to gain their independence.

The campaign intended to secure the Wehrmachts flanks had proven one front too many for the German Army.

In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenomenal worldwide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design, procurement, development, manufacturing, and combat employment of Soviet armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War to Russians).

An in-depth assessment of innovations in military information technology informs hypothetical outcomes for artificial intelligence adaptationsIn the coming decades, artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionize the way humans wage war.

This book examines the lasting impact of war on individuals and their communities in pre-modern Europe.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date general reference book on honey bee biologyHoney bees are marvelously charismatic organisms with a long history of interaction with humans.

A roadmap for US military innovation based on the Navys history of success through civilian-military collaborationsThe US military must continually adapt to evolving technologies, shifting adversaries, and a changing social environment for its personnel.

This book analyzes how Second World War heritage is being reframed in the memorial museums of the post-socialist, post-conflict states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia.

A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy is a deliberately compact introductory work aimed at junior seafarers, those who make decisions affecting the sea services, and those who educate seafarers and decision-makers.

During the 1980s, millions of ordinary individuals around the world mobilized in support of nuclear disarmament.