Military history

This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War.

This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War.

When the R101 first took to the skies, she was the largest aircraft ever to fly.

Explore the rise and fall of a legend.

Next only to Continental army commander General George Washington, Nathanael Greene was the most important American general of the War for Independence.

Acclaimed as the Middle Easts "e;All Quiet on the Western Front"e;The first eye-witness account ever published of the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, this riveting memoir of a young Israeli soldier became an instant bestseller on publication in 1949, and is still recognized as the outstanding book of that war, in the tradition of Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front.

This handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centered on war and society.

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Beyond Washington and Jefferson: Ranking the Founders.

Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany.

In 1942, five young German students and one professor at the University of Munich crossed the threshold of toleration to enter the realms of resistance, danger and death.

This book explores and analyzes developments in the military institution, military engagements as well as the larger security environment of (including non-war violence and maritime regions linking to) the Portuguese Empire in India.

This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust.

This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust.

In the summer of 1945, Eberhard Bethge began the search for traces of his colleague and friend Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

The year 1922 marks a major turning point in Eastern Mediterranean history, with the abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate concluding a long period of upheaval known as the "e;Eastern Question.

As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called "e;ecocide.

This book examines Italy's colonial history from the turn of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War.

How can some politicians, pundits, and scholars cite the principles of just war to defend military actionsand others to condemn those same interventions?

Unless you know the history, you cannot see the future.

Who has the answer to the world's fuel problems?

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES GOLDEN TENTACLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C.

Walter Wolff was the son of a Jewish merchant family that fled their German home when the Nazis came to power and took refuge in Brussels, Belgium.

In the South, one can find any number of bronze monuments to the Confederacy featuring heroic images of Robert E.

This book explores and analyzes developments in the military institution, military engagements as well as the larger security environment of (including non-war violence and maritime regions linking to) the Portuguese Empire in India.

This book focuses on the wars that are normally relegated to the periphery of geo-politics at the heart of Europe's 'new' military history.

This book reveals that the visual narrative of the events of the Russian campaign of 1812 was inextricably linked to Russia's search for national identity and helped to form competing definitions of 'Russianness'.

This book explores China's strategic culture in the context of relations across the Taiwan Strait.

This handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centered on war and society.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Only the best officers are given command of U.

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WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE ';A gripping reconstruction utterly compelling reading.

';One of our very best writers on France.

There are no winners in war, only losers.

The battle is for a city.