Military history

This book provides a reappraisal of Germany's military between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of the First World War.

This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from China's most cosmopolitan city-Shanghai.

The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised"e;Will surely become the definitive account.

Case studies explore how to improve military adaptation and preparedness in peacetime by investigating foreign wars Preparing for the next war at an unknown date against an undetermined opponent is a difficult undertaking with extremely high stakes.

Andrew Mumford challenges the notion of a special relationship between the United States and United Kingdom in diplomatic and military affairs, the most vaunted and, he says, exaggerated of associations in the post-1945 era.

"e;Takes the reader into the Pacific war and offers a front-row seat to the exploits of the Wright Project and their highly innovative technology.

This groundbreaking study chronicles the final battles in Virginia at Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House in April 1865.

"e;Naval history enthusiasts and military historians who enjoy taking deeper dives into the backgrounds of well-known battles, particularly concerning tactics and leadership, will appreciate this read.

This award-winning foreign correspondent's vivid account of Central Asia's recent history "e;reads like a novel but is the stuff of hard-won journalism"e; (Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan).

This book covers the complete and long overdue history of the Hunting/BAC Jet Provost and Strikemaster, which for thirty-eight years trained generations of pilots and pioneered the RAF’s all-through flying training program.

Russell Jeung's spiritual memoir shares the difficult, often joyful, and sometimes harrowing account of his life in East Oakland's Murder Dubs neighborhood and of his Chinese-Hakka history.

China's maritime "e;gray zone"e; operations represent a new challenge for the U.

"e;This is much more than a primer.

"e;Burning Horizon reminds us how British and American servicemen and women train together, learn together, and, when called upon, fight together to defeat threats to our common values.

This book proposes a significant new interpretation of the relations between Italian partisans and British forces during the Italian campaign of 1943-1945.

Racial hatred is one of the ugliest of human emotions.

In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do: "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

Immortal is the only single-volume English-language survey of Irans military history.

This book explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression in wartime Poland: the only purpose-built camp for children under the age of 16 years in German-occupied Europe.

The discovery of Robert E.

At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States emerged as an economic colossus in command of a new empire.

"e;Well-written and meticulously researched, the book is an excellent example of truth being more interesting than fiction.

The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.

"e;If the doings of the U.

Although most Americans paid little attention to Cambodia during Dwight D.

Anders als in Frankreich oder England, wo der Erste Weltkrieg die entscheidende Zäsur für die zivilgesellschaftliche Transformation darstellt, ist es in Deutschland der Zweite Weltkrieg, der zu einem grundlegenden Struktur- und Mentalitätswandel führt.

Der staatlich organisierte Genozid an den Armeniern im Osmanischen Reich während des Ersten Weltkrieges kostete mindestens eine Million Menschen das Leben.

Thousands of Black sailors served with valor during the Civil War.

(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction: Doomsday Clock Narratives demonstrates that disaster fiction- nuclear holocaust and climate change alike- allows us to unearth and anatomise contemporary psychodynamics and enables us to identify pretraumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts.

This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608-80), Henry Ireton (1611-51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618-92).

This is the enthralling story of a young man who found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest turning points in recent history - The Battle of Britain.

This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608-80), Henry Ireton (1611-51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618-92).

Covering the daily lives of American soldiers from their training through their arrival in France and participation in the final battles of the war, this book offers a breadth of perspectives on the experiences of doughboys in the First World War via primary documents of the time.

The title of Ambrose Bierce's short story "e;An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"e; is an understatement that belies how profound the subject matter of the story is.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Military History Matters Book of the Year AwardThe only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to the experiences of those men who were there.

In many regions of Europe and beyond fortifications belong to the most impressive of archaeological remains.

In The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia, 19921994 Charles R.

Thirty years after the Civil War, the 121st New York Volunteers (Upton's Regulars) finally published a history of their regiment.

(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction: Doomsday Clock Narratives demonstrates that disaster fiction- nuclear holocaust and climate change alike- allows us to unearth and anatomise contemporary psychodynamics and enables us to identify pretraumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardWinner: Society for Military History Book AwardChoice Outstanding TitleThe Cold War marked a new era for Americas military, one dominated by nuclear weapons and air power that seemed to diminish the need for conventional forces.

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Excerpt: "e;In April 1949, judgment was rendered in the last of the series of 12 Nuernberg war crimes trials which had begun in October 1946 and were held pursuant to Allied Control Council Law No.

Este clásico de la historiografía argentina, abrió en su día perspectivas totalmente novedosas sobre el estudio de la construcción del estado en el Río de la Plata.

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»Wenn unser Überleben auf der Tagesordnung steht, dann werden Bücher, wie die von Günther Anders, benötigt, die das Bewusstsein verbreiten und stärken, dass wir – vielleicht – die Grenze unserer Existenz erreicht haben«Aus der Urkunde des Theodor-W.

The second half of the two-volume history of the Union's and Confederacy's opening moves of the American Civil War's Gettysburg Campaign.

The third volume in D K Brown's bestselling series on warship design and development looks at the Royal Navy's response to the restrictions placed on it by the Washington Naval Treaties in the inter-war years, and analyses the fleet that was constructed to fight the Second World War.

In 1971, antiwar activists Michael Uhl and Tod Ensign founded the Safe Return Committee in New York City, seeking amnesty for those who resisted the Vietnam War.

Avenger Wrath es la historia de un Hog Driver y su viaje durante la guerra en Afganistán, que opera desde la base aérea de Bagram con la hermosa, aunque mortal, cadena montañosa afgana como telón de fondo.

In many regions of Europe and beyond fortifications belong to the most impressive of archaeological remains.