Military forces and sectors

The astonishing story of FDR's yearlong, defining battle with Churchill in 1943, as the war raged in Africa and Italy: "e;Superb.

Choice Outstanding TitleWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: Im an American, and I never retreat.

"e;Well-researched .

The self-propelled or locomotive torpedo was probably the greatest game-changer in the history of naval warfare.

Dilip Sarkar has studied the Battle of Britain period for a lifetime and is renowned for his meticulous research and evidence-based approach, setting events within the broadest possible context.

An important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland.

An important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland.

Explores the fundamental role of the British state in facilitating the nation''s global expansion and ascendancy in the eighteenth century.

An explanation of the frequency of war and its specific causes and consequences, first published in 2010.

Winner: Norman B.

Explores the fundamental role of the British state in facilitating the nation''s global expansion and ascendancy in the eighteenth century.

About the Allies victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japans defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power.

This book is new in every aspect and not only because neither the official history nor an unofficial history of the KGB, and its many predecessors and successors, exists in any language.

After World War I, the U.

Comparative essays on the political and cultural ''mobilization'' of populations during the First World War.

An army, Lewis Mumford once observed, is a body of pure consumersand it is logistics that feeds this bodys insatiable appetite for men and materiel.

Winner: Guittard Book Award for Historical ScholarshipDuring the Soviet Unions Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945, as many as 24 million of its citizens died.

In 1979, with El Salvador growing ever more unstable and ripe for revolution, the United States undertook a counterinsurgency intervention that over the following decade would become Washington's largest nation-building effort since Vietnam.

This collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting.

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

The German offensive on Stalingrad was originally intended to secure the Wehrmachts flanks, but it stalled dramatically in the face of Stalin's order: Not a Step Back!

Smith reexamines German continuities and sheds new light on nationalism, anti-Semitism and genocide.

Revisionist account of the Ottoman Empire''s fateful decision to enter the First World War in 1914.

An analysis of Russian democracy''s collapse in 1917 through the experiences of ordinary people.

This 2007 book provides the most comprehensive examination of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) combat doctrine and methods ever published.

This book presents a theory to account for the different strategies pursued by rebel groups in civil war.

This book, first published in 2006, explores the memory of the Great War through the historical experience of pilgrimage.

An examination of the effectiveness of naval blockades and sanctions since 1750.

This book examines the doomed political situation of the Jews in Germany under Nazi rule.

This book explores the realities behind the Palestinian exodus of 1948 during the Arab-Israeli war.

A major re-interpretation of international relations from Versailles to the outbreak of war in 1939.

This book re-examines the course of the First World War through the lens of the Franco-British coalition.

A compelling assessment of the experience of the British soldier in the First World War.

A major contribution to our understanding of total war.

This 2005 book is a fully comparative history of the writing of the history of the Great War.

Decisions for War focuses on the question: why did World War I happen?

The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period.

This book provides an examination of the development of memorial landscapes in Ireland.

This 2003 text examines the role of Kaiser Wilhelm II, focusing on the final years of his reign.

This book, first published in 2000, examines the real state of German public opinion on the Great War and its aftermath.

This compelling study examines the experience of German soldiers on the Eastern front in World War I.

This 2002 book is a study of myth and controversy in Britain''s role in the First World War.

"e;Huchthausen knows the hidden history of the Cuban missile crisis .

Advance Praise for The Rescue "e;Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Japan's 'Z Plan' (the decisive-battle strategy for destroying the U.

Raised on a Montana farm, Vernon Drake enlisted in the Army Air Corps, piloting B-24 bombers and painting nose art while enduring perilous missions in the Himalayas during World War II.

Explores the contrasting fates of Admiral John Duncan Bulkeley and General Douglas MacArthur, revealing the often-overlooked sacrifices of Bulkeley's PT boat crew during a heroic yet controversial rescue from the Philippines in World War II.

A former New York Times reporter's year behind the scenes at the scandal-ridden Air Force Academy Diana Jean Schemo covered the Air Force Academy's sexual assault scandal in 2003, one of a series of academy embarrassments that have included drug use, rape complaints, and charges of evangelical officers pushing Christianity on cadets of all faiths.