Military history

This fully updated and expanded edition of The Crusades: A History provides an authoritative exploration of one of the most significant topics in medieval and religious history.

Appreciating the power of language, and how discriminatory words can have deadly consequences, is pivotal to our understanding of the Holocaust.

Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany begins in flames in 1933 with Adolf Hitler taking power and ends in the ashes of total defeat in 1945.

While much has been written about the Nazis' panzers, comparatively little is known about the armored vehicles in service with the other Axis armies.

Did you ever wonder, 'How did I get here?

Horst Schreiber analysiert in vier Geschichten von Opfern und Tätern die terroristische Seite des Nationalsozialismus und ihre Aufarbeitung nach 1945.

Dem Journalisten Frank Schmidt-Wyk geht es wie vielen Menschen: Seit dem Tod seines Großvaters bedauert er es zutiefst, mit ihm nicht intensiver über dessen Erlebnisse als Soldat im Zweiten Weltkrieg gesprochen zu haben.

Explosive SAS action in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts is a wide-ranging investigation of the integral role prisoners of war (POWs) have played in the economic, cultural, political, and military aspects of American warfare.

Heart-pounding real-life tales from the military's most experienced snipers, the best of the best snipers in action today.

The only Confederate ship to circumnavigate the globe The Confederate cruiser Shenandoah was the last of a group of commerce raiders deployed to prey on Union merchant ships.

What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D.

Winner of the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for Biography, 2006.

This is the story of their bitter combat--in the words of German and American soldiers who were there.

The Battle of Belleau Wood, stunning in both its concentration and intensity, was the fiery furnace from which the modern United States Marine Corps emerged as America's fiercest and most effective warriors, the world's preeminent fighting elite.

Gripping firsthand accounts.

Ord Elliott was a Marine Rifle Platoon Commander in Vietnam in 1967.

Demonstrates the relevance of comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices.

'Do we need another history of the First World War?

This book develops an interdisciplinary framework rooted in philosophy for addressing the political evils experienced around the world.

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

The Maginot Line was the last great gun-bearing line of subterranean forts built before World War II.

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western FrontAt the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible.

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Primary documents from the World War I era bring to life the causes, events and consequences of those tumultuous and violent years.

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This is the first study to analyze the content, training, and performance of a World War I draft division from its formation onward.

Following the end of World War II, 500,000 American troops occupied every prefecture of Japan and interracial marriages occurred.

In the 1830s Russia was facing a crisis.

This bibliography is the first attempt to establish a comprehensive list of secondary material relating to the Spanish Civil War in literature, film, and art.

Establishing a 'missed link' between the work of Piero Manzoni and Helio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists' practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s.

A narrative history of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference, the bipartisan, last-ditch effort to prevent the Civil War, an effort that nearly averted the carnage that followed.

'Beware of Small States' wrote Mikhail Bukanin in 1870.

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

The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare.

The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths.

The complete and authoritative account of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney, and the recent finding of her wreck.

'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.

Economic Trends in Soviet Russia (1930) examines the economic position of the USSR a decade after the Revolution.

To his enlisted men on U-154, Lieutenant Oskar Kusch was the ideal skipper-bright, experienced, successful, caring, tolerably eccentric-and a popular captain who always brought his boat home safely when so many others vanished without a trace.

The Marine Corps Way of War examines the evolving doctrine, weapons, and capability of the United States Marine Corps during the four decades since our last great conflict in Asia.

A biography of the often misunderstood, yet heroic, Confederate general who sacrificed everything for his native state of Virginia during the Civil War.

This volume brings together a series of articles by John France, published over a span of more than forty years, covering a number of aspects of the military and crusading history of the Middle Ages, both in Europe and the Near East.