Military history

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.

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.

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.

The conduct of a successful air campaign requires a combination of strategy, tactics, capable aircraft, well trained pilots - and good leadership.

The North American Mustang is certainly one of the legendary fighters of the Second World War.

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.

Henri Chennebenoist a 34 ans lorsque, le 4 août 1914, la guerre le saisit et l'arrache à sa famille et à son commerce.

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

Ce livre constitue un humble hommage aux Alsaciens et Mosellans incorporés de force dans les armées allemandes lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et qui vivent dans l'ambiguïté de leur destin.

Sabine Olewkowiez Cann part à la recherche des traces de cet homme dont elle porte le nom.

64 ans après la Libération, l'auteur est partie fouiller les Archives à Lille, Roubaix et Lewarde à la découverte de l'action héroïque de l'ingénieur en chef des mines de charbon du Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

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.

Ces lettres d'amour et de guerre présentent le récit de la participation de l'adjudant Escholier à l'Armée d'Orient et à l'étonnante épopée qui l'amène, en 1918, des monts de Macédoine aux plaines de Hongrie.

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

Le 22 juin 1940, le caporal Léon Noguéro du 49e Régiment d'Infanterie de Bayonne est fait prisonnier par les troupes allemandes dans les Vosges, au hameau les Feignes, les armes à la main.

Raymond Escholier se présente ici sous les traits du volontaire Bussières, qui participe à la bataille de Verdun, soutenu par sa foi et l'amour des siens, séduit par le mysticisme et tiraillé entre le devoir du patriotisme et l'horreur du combat.

Lors de la déclaration de guerre, Armand est un étudiant de 20 ans.

Ce récit raconte une histoire très banale : celle d'un jeune homme semblable à des millions de jeunes gens tombés au champ d'honneur.

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

1920, Clotaire se lance dans la fabrication de prothèses pour les blessés et les mutilés de guerre.

La tonte de milliers de femmes soupçonnées de "collaboration horizontale" avec l'ennemi est un phénomène qui a longtemps filé entre les doigts des historiens professionnels.

(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).

A history of the gas mask in Germany from first use in combat in 1915 to the eve of the Second World War.

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).