Military forces and sectors

Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea examines the rights and duties of states across a broad spectrum of maritime security threats.

A comprehensive reference resource on the uniforms, dress, flight gear and personal weaponry of the Imperial Japanese Navy airmen of World War II.

John Warry, an expert on the warfare of the Classical world, examines the principle battles of Alexander's campaigns in detail.

This major history documents the German invasion of Norway, focusing on the events at sea.

The Supermarine Spitfire arguably remains the most iconic fighter aircraft ever produced.

The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine.

This study examines the transformation of the United States Navy as a fighting organization that took place on the North Atlantic Station between 1874 and 1897.

Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and full of astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of Eye of the Viper are poised for the toughest assignment of their career: the exhaustive six-month training course at Arizona's Luke Air Force Base, at a cost of $2 million each.

A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as it did.

This book is the story of a majestic bomber of the propeller era flying perilous combat missions against a sleek, nimble warplane of the jet age, the Soviet MiG-15.

For over 40 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships.

Author Lena Sisco, a former Department of Defense Military Interrogator and U.

This book examines in detail the Japanese Infantryman who was, despite comparisons with the notorious German Waffen SS, an enigma to Westerners.

Anzio 1944 covers the amphibious landing which has become one of the most controversial campaigns of World War II.

The memoir of a special forces veteran of the Rhodesian War, with over a hundred photos included.

This innovative study by one of the leading specialists in the field examines the social and economic role of the German army in the nation's internal affairs during the First World War.

More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain’s colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century.

The US Marine Corps has a long heritage of aviation excellence, a reputation that was largely built on the impact and performance of the flying leathernecks in the bitter fighting in the Pacific during World War II.

Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service.

Panzer warfare is synonymous with the Wehrmacht of World War II.

Donald Osborne Finlay, a sporting name familiar to households in the 1930s, was Britain’s greatest athlete of the time; a hurdler whose triumphant exploits graced the sports pages and newsreels week after week.

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.

The Soviet government tried to minimize the importance of Lend-lease fighters well into the 1980s.

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An illustrated account of the infamous Me 262 and its pilots in the dark days of 1945, containing previously unseen photographs.

The perfect companion to Masters of the Air on Apple TV+, this is a superbly illustrated examination of the aircraft, pilots, crews and operations of the US Eighth Air Force.

In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its Empire.

A portrait in words and photographs of the interwar Navy, this book examines the twenty-year period that saw the U.

By the end of the Civil War the US Navy was the most advanced in the world, but in subsequent years America's naval might dwindled.

A gripping account of the U-Boat war.

The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union.

Whitey is the first complete biography of one of the last surviving World War II U.

Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Dayton, Ohio, secured their place as the most famous names in aviation history when, on December 17, 1903, they made the first powered, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air flight.

An "e;amazingly detailed"e; and "e;inspiring"e; account of the only daytime air expedition to help Polish freedom fighters during World War II (Books Monthly).

After he was selected to be NATO's sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander, The New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a "e;Renaissance admiral.

Unlike his contemporary American theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Britain's eminent maritime strategist, Sir Julian Corbett, believed that victory in war did not come simply by the exercise of sea power and that, historically, this had never been the case.

In this remarkable book, now reissued in paperback, Brian Lavery examines every aspect of the Royal Navy, both ashore and at sea, during the Second World War, and casts a lucid eye over the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation that was put under acute strain during the period, yet rose to the challenge with initiative and determination.

Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-Hungarian commands held high hopes for 1916.

Maritime Power in the Black Sea provides the first comprehensive assessment and evaluation of the comparative maritime power of the six littoral states in the Black Sea - Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Romania and Bulgaria.

Written by a pilot who flew near-daily combat missions, this engrossing book is the story of one man, his colleagues and his machine, the mighty F-4 Phantom II, at war.

Winner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval LiteratureThe Neptune Factor is the biography of an ideathe concept of ';Sea Power,'a term first coined by Capt.

Between the reigns of Augustus and Septimius Severus, the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire frequently saw brutal fighting, most notably during the conquest of Dacia by Trajan, the suppression of the Great Revolt in Judea and intermittent clashes with Rome's great rival Parthia.

With specially commissioned artworks and dynamic combat ribbon diagrams, this volume reveals how the 'last of the gunfighters', as the F-8 was dubbed by its pilots, prevailed against the growing MiG threat of the Vietnamese People's Air Force.

Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s.

The world's first war machines were ships built two millennia before the dawn of the Classical world.

The US Marine Raider was an "e;elite within an elite.

Great Britain had introduced the tank to the world during World War I, and maintained its lead in armoured warfare with the 'Experimental Mechanised Force' during the late 1920s, watched with interest by German advocates of Blitzkrieg.

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The story of the highest-scoring P-38 aces of the war, who had claimed approximately half of their total victories by the end of 1943 flying Lightning models ranging from the F-1 through to the H-5.