Military forces and sectors

Conceived as a personal army for the emperor, the elite Praetorian Guard soon took over a wide range of powers in Rome, and thus from the very beginning made a much greater impact on the city's life than just as an imperial bodyguard.

The exploits of the British Army's elite 22nd Special Air Service Regiment - the regiment of the SAS that forms part of the Regular army - are shrouded in mystery and myths abound about its members.

The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure.

Was he a far-sighted war hero, or an ambitious networker promoted well above his natural talent?

The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was the first global conflict and became the key factor in creating the British Empire.

The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was the first global conflict and became the key factor in creating the British Empire.

World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era.

The Royal Flying Corps, later the Royal Air Force, was formed in 1912 and went to war in 1914 where it played a vital role in reconnaissance, supporting the British Expeditionary Force as 'air cavalry' and also in combat, establishing air superiority over the Imperial German Air Force.

The British Empire, the largest empire in history, was fundamentally a maritime one.

Much is known about Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807.

In the century after 1530 the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere.

In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration.

The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure.

The Royal Navy's operations in World War II started on 3 September 1939 and continued until the surrender of Japan in August 1945 - there was no 'phoney war' at sea.

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first truly global conflicts.

Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast changes to the way it operates.

On 27th May 1977, a small demonstration against the MPLA, the ruling party of Angola led to the slaughter of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people.

Conceived as a personal army for the emperor, the elite Praetorian Guard soon took over a wide range of powers in Rome, and thus from the very beginning made a much greater impact on the city's life than just as an imperial bodyguard.

The exploits of the British Army's elite 22nd Special Air Service Regiment - the regiment of the SAS that forms part of the Regular army - are shrouded in mystery and myths abound about its members.

_Reaching for the Stars_ shows why Bomber Command, in one of the largest and bloodiest campaigns of the war, with 55,000 aircrew lost and more officer fatalities than in World War I, has received so much attention and yet remains a 'lost and black sheep' among British wartime achievements.

Air power has come to be seen as a country's first line of defence; in the First World War views were vastly different.

Was he a far-sighted war hero, or an ambitious networker promoted well above his natural talent?

Ottoman naval technology underwent a transformation under the rule of Sultan Selim III.

On the outome of the Battle of the Atlantic from 1939 to 1945 depended Britain's survival in the midst of a global war.

Using the framework of genocide, this volume analyzes the patterns of persecution of the Roma in Nazi-dominated Europe.

While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law.

The First World War has been described as the "e;primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century.

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded.

What did Hitler really want to achieve: world domination.

Convinced before the onset of Operation "e;Barbarossa"e; in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching occupation policy which would result in the political, economic and racial reorganization of the occupied Soviet territories and bring about the deaths of 'x million people' through a conscious policy of starvation.

Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Junger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth century, certainly was the most controversial.

For many years, the history of Byelorussia under Nazi occupation was written primarily from the perspective of the resistance movement.

At nightfall on December 7 1942, twelve British canoeists arrived by submarine off the coast of France, tasked with infiltrating the dockyards of Bordeaux, and wreaking havoc with the German shipping they found there.

The memoirs of General der Flieger a.

Between 1961 and 1974 Portugal fought a war to retain its African colonies of Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.

Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region.

The Flying Tigers and the U.

Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect.

Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare.

Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II.

A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.

Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II-era Chicago.

A long-overdue history of America's "e;forgotten flattop.

One woman's quest for knowledge of her father lost at sea Mary Lee Coe Fowler was a posthumous child, born after her father, a submarine skipper in the Pacific, was lost at sea in 1943.

While the Clinton Administration and federal agencies were busy making government cost less and work better in the near-term, the United States Air Force was regularly visualizing the competencies needed to assure the organization's long-term effectiveness.

Fifty years after the war Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Munch, former Nazi and SS physician, talk face to face.

Unlike the relative uniformity of conventional warfare, the peculiarities of small wars prevent a clear definition of rules and roles for military forces to follow.

Unlike the relative uniformity of conventional warfare, the peculiarities of small wars prevent a clear definition of rules and roles for military forces to follow.

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The noted historian offers "e;a compelling sociohistorical account of an often overlooked yet critical"e; WWII explosive twice as powerful as TNT (Choice).