Military history

Gibraltar has been one of Great Britain's most legendary fortresses since its capture from Spain in 1704 and its strategic location as the gatekeeper of the Mediterranean Sea has given it a commanding position in the history of Modern Britain and in the history of the region.

Although countless books have been written about the U-boat war in the Atlantic, precious few facts have come to light about the men who served in the submarines that wrought such havoc on Allied ships.

Eugene Fluckey was one of the great naval heroes of World War II.

In 1965, despite pronounced disadvantages in firepower and mobility, the Communist Vietnamese endeavored to crush South Vietnam and expel the American military with a strategy for a quick and decisive victory predicated not on guerrilla but big-unit war.

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No, this book does not and will never promote war or any battle to your kids' precious young minds.

There are a few books on all naval weapon systems for all nations in the world.

Knowledge is power.

Real-life accounts of the highly trained marksmen who have honed the art of killing to a fine edge-and can turn the tides of war with one perfect shot.

Explore the first English children's picture book on how fireworks and gunpowder were created!

In 1787 the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty, captained by William Bligh, set sail for Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants.

In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj.

For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all.

Political Fallout is the story of one of the first human-driven, truly global environmental crises-radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War-and the international response.

Few episodes in American history were more transformative than World War II, and in no region did it bring greater change than in the West.

STEM disciplines are believed to be founded on the idea of meritocracy; recognition earned by the value of the data, which is objective.

Can there be good social policy?

"e;A lovely tribute to the courage and creativity of Iran's musicians .

At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound.

During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity.

Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta campaign.

In this work, Fred Drogula studies the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and concepts of the Romans themselves as reference points.

The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history.

Numerous studies have documented the transnational experiences and local activities of Chinese immigrants in California and New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

This abridged edition of Donald R.

In July 1941, the Soviet Union was in mortal danger.

In the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage.

Luftwaffe commander Wolfram von Richthofen was a brilliant master of the tactical and operational air war and one of the key catalysts in the resurrection of Germanys air force.

For most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the subsequent war, it had finally moved to center stage.

For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats.

Some will be shocked to find out that the United States and Ho Chi Minh, our nemesis for much of the Vietnam War, were once allies.

In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D.

Winner: Society for Military History Distinguished Book AwardThis year begins the centennial of the Philippine War, one of the most controversial and poorly understood events in American history.

In 1940 Brummett Echohawk, an eighteen-year-old Pawnee boy, joined the Oklahoma National Guard.

Carl von Clausewitz (17801831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of ten volumes of his published writings.

Why does the Civil War still speak to us so powerfully?

The Medal of Honor may be America’s highest military decoration, but all Medals of Honor are not created equal.

Throughout history, battlefields have placed a soldiers instinct for self-preservation in direct opposition to the armys insistence that he do his duty and put himself in harms way.

By prosecuting war crimes, the Nuremberg trials sought to educate West Germans about their criminal past, provoke their total rejection of Nazism, and convert them to democracy.

World War I propelled the United States into the twentieth century and served as a powerful catalyst for the making of modern California.

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An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empireand a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe.

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So ungeheuerlich es auch klingen mag: Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist nicht von Adolf Hitler, sondern von Franklin D.

"e;Politics is the art of the possible,"e; Otto Von Bismarck famously said, and here, in his own words, the art of politics is laid bare by one of the most prominent and influential European statesmen of the nineteenth century.

"e;An engaging, punctilious, and revealing analysis of German and Japanese war decision-making"e; from the military historian and author of The Tank Killers (Aether: A Journal of Strategic Airpower & Spacepower).

Step into the dazzling world of Louis XIV, the Sun King, whose vision transformed France into a beacon of culture, power, and grandeur.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An instant classic'RICHARD CURTIS'A non-fiction Catch-22'MATT HAIG Readers are LOVING The Accidental Soldier:'One of the funniest books you will ever read' 'I absolutely loved it - it's so very funny but also very poignant in parts.

In June 1967 Israel, which seemed on the verge of being annihilated by its Arab neighbors, took six days to redraw the Middle Eastern strategic map in one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern times.