Irregular or guerrilla forces and warfare

In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controversial actions in recent history.

The true story of Deng Adut - Sudanese child soldier, refugee, man of hope - for readers aged 12+.

The first English-language book to examine the crucial part air power played in the Soviet-Afghan War.

What happens when children are forced to become child soldiers?

In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts of the Burmese population.

Featuring rare photos, detailed colour illustrations and insignia tables, this study explores the contribution made by Czech and Slovak troops fighting alongside Allied forces during World War II.

Boko Haram is the major threat to the Nigerian state, and has emerged as a destabilizing factor across sub-Saharan Africa.

Featuring rare photos, detailed colour illustrations and insignia tables, this study explores the contribution made by Czech and Slovak troops fighting alongside Allied forces during World War II.

The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict brings together and critically analyses the disparate conventional, customary, and soft law relating to non-international armed conflict.

El Salvador's civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later.

El Salvador's civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later.

Since its creation in 1831, the French Foreign Legion has become the stuff of myth, fiction and dreams.

Attempts to resolve why self-determination disputes between governments and ethnic minorities so often result in civil war.

Detention and confinement-of both combatants and large groups of civilians-have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century.

John Tone recounts the dramatic story of how, between 1808 and 1814, Spanish peasants created and sustained the world's first guerrilla insurgency movement, thereby playing a major role in Napoleon's defeat in the Peninsula War.

El Salvador's civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later.

Understanding the Syrian revolution is unthinkable without an in-depth analysis from below.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SOCIETY FOR ARMY HISTORICAL RESEARCH'S 2025 TEMPLER MEDALA detailed new account of the British military campaign in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, based on the experiences of those who served.

In Resisting Rebellion, Anthony James Joes's discussion of insurgencies ranges across five continents and spans more than two centuries.

The Burning Forest is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, homes and communities destroyed.

Tracing the "e;American Guerrilla"e; narrative through more than one hundred years of film and television, this book shows how the conventions and politics of this narrative influence Americans to see themselves as warriors, both on screen and in history.

John Tone recounts the dramatic story of how, between 1808 and 1814, Spanish peasants created and sustained the world's first guerrilla insurgency movement, thereby playing a major role in Napoleon's defeat in the Peninsula War.

Following the Japanese invasion of the islands in 1942, North Luzon was the staging area for several Filipino-American guerrilla bands who sought to gather intelligence and to destroy enemy military installations or supplies.

A concise, detailed examination of the Siege of the International Legations and its aftermath, featuring special artwork and maps.

Three parallel wars were fought in the latter half of the twentieth century in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

A detailed illustrated study of Putin's shadowy security and paramilitary armed forces.

The savage partisan war on the Eastern Front during World War II saw a wide variety of forces deployed by both sides.

The partisan war in the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944 has been the subject of considerable political manipulation in the decades following 1945.

Keenie Meenie Services - the most powerful mercenary company you've never heard of - was involved in war crimes around the world from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua for which its shadowy directors have never been held accountable.

Michael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021.

Afghanistan was an unwinnable war.

an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller' Michael McKernan, Sydney Morning Herald The bestselling, acclaimed, authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in Australian military history now established as a classic.

In 1979 the Soviet Union moved from military 'help' to active intervention in Afghanistan.

The partisan war in the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944 has been the subject of considerable political manipulation in the decades following 1945.

At peak utilization, private security contractors (PSCs) constituted a larger occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan than did U.

From the 1840s onward, United States military forces clashed with the Apache, a group of Native American peoples associated with the southwestern part of North America.

The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history.

A fascinating look at the insurgencies and counterinsurgencies throughout history with a concentration on the 20th and 21st centuries.

This highly illustrated title traces the development of mercenary soldiering from individuals and small units in the African wars of the 1960s 90s to today's state-employed corporate military contractors.

In conflict zones around the world, the phenomenon of foreign insurgents fighting on behalf of local rebel groups is a common occurrence.

Confronting insurgent violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.

An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berber tribes of northern Morocco.

The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history.

A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away.

This fully illustrated study examines the German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation forces in Greece during 1941 44 as well as those of the two Greek Resistance organizations.

This extensive examination of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Iraq, Germany, and the EU focuses on the history and development of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and its impact on transnational security, human rights, and democratization.

In this book, Ariel Ahram offers a new perspective on a growing threat to international and human security-the reliance of 'weak states' on quasi-official militias, paramilitaries, and warlords.

Written by a leading expert on modern Russia, this is an illustrated introduction to the bitter campaigns in Chechnya.