Military history

One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft.

Following the success of his recent book on Navy SEALs in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, bestselling author and combat veteran Dick Couch now examines the importance of battlefield ethics in effectively combating terrorists without losing the battle for the hearts of the local population.

At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the international community came together to find a way forward in the aftermath of the First World War.

An American soldier vividly recounts leading a platoon through the most chaotic and significant year of the Vietnam War.

This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme.

Joint Winner of Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History 2001, London.

Tyrant, psychopath, and implementer of a ruthless programme of racial extermination, Adolf Hitler was also the charismatic Fuhrer of millions of dedicated followers.

Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers.

Following Argentina's military operation to take possession of the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government launched a major naval operation to return them to British rule.

A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.

Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents.

Hitlers regime was notorious for its many experiments and its various secret ploys, weapons, and technological developments.

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups.

A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society-for the better.

First published in 1928.

From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule.

This anthology argues that facing the diverse threats in the 'new world disorder' requires a new look and new approaches.

This work attempts to clarify the major problems facing Russia's armed forces in the present and immediate future.

A dramatic blow-by-blow account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet - a tale of daring and disaster on the high seas by one of our best narrative historians.

The original forced conversion of pagan Livonia, what is now the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia, was carried out by a military order known as the Brethren of the Sword.

The papers in this book present, for the first time, the world of warfare, both defensive and offensive, from the Classical periods to end of the Middle Ages in one collection.

A riveting combination of war memoir and analysis providing “valuable insights” into the role of military intelligence in Vietnam (International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence).

As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-boat menace.

New edition: The classic illustrated history of the special ops unit—“an unprecedented look into this little-known aspect of the Vietnam conflict” (American Rifleman).

Winner of the Seaborg Award A History Book Club SelectionOn October 8, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed near Perryville, Kentucky, in what would be the largest battle ever fought on Kentucky soil.

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

When rifleman Tom Guttridge returned from war in the early summer of 1945, he brought home not only vivid memories of the battlefield and his five years in prisoner-of-war camps, but a unique collection of photographs obtained from his German captors by trading items from Red Cross parcels.

During the Cold War, the G3 was one of the world's pre-eminent battle rifles.

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This book challenges the widely held view which condemns as weak and half-hearted Anglo-Jewish efforts on behalf of European Jews during the Nazi period.

Major General Maurice Rose (1899-1945), commander of 3rd Amored, First Army's legendary "e;Spearhead"e; division, was the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle, and the only individual casualty to spark a War Crimes Investigation.

At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903.

The Great War is a collection of seven original essays and three critical comments by senior scholars dealing with the greatest conflict in modern history to its time - the 1914-18 World War.

How to persuade citizens to enlist?

First full-length study of the use and perception of deceit in medieval warfare.

Over the past eight decades, developments in vertical lift aircraft--both helicopters and vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) planes--have given the American military unparalleled capabilities on the modern battlefield.

Despite the wake-up call of September 11, 2001, terrorism remains a dire threat to the security of all civilized nations, making it imperative for leaders to develop better national, regional, and global strategies to counter its many forms.

This book contains, in a brief form, author's views a to the conduct of the principal strategical and tactical operations of war, and will be found to be a short and convenient introduction to a deeper study of the rules which should underlie the direction of the ever-varying incidents of modern fighting.

In 1795 the Russian army was as vast as the territory from which it was drawn.

For half a century, the United States and the Soviet Union were in conflict.

The effects of weapons of mass destruction cannot be contained, either spatially or temporally, are unpredictable, discriminate poorly between combatants and civilians, and are highly disruptive of ecosystems.

This book focuses on the mass participation of women in the communist-led Yugoslav Partisan resistance during World War II.

The war years 1939 - 1945 were the most perilous in the long history of the British Merchant Navy.

“An important contribution to Civil War scholarship, offering an engrossing portrait of these important campaigns .

This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police.

This masterful book is the first comprehensive reappraisal of the Vichy France regime for over 20 years.