This edited volume focuses on aspects of the understudied theme of African sea-power, including African navies and the engagement of non-African navies with the continent.
When asked to conjure an impression of the 'typical fighter pilot', you may be inclined to think of the confident, extroverted, gregarious type, rallying his men and flying in the pursuit of victory.
Explores the story of one star of the Silver Screen's role in the Second World War James Stewart was already a Hollywood star when the United States went to war in December 1941.
This handbook offers a critical and substantial analysis of maritime security and documents the most pressing strategic, economic, socio-cultural and legal questions surrounding it.
This handbook offers a critical and substantial analysis of maritime security and documents the most pressing strategic, economic, socio-cultural and legal questions surrounding it.
Strategic Survey 2021: The Annual Assessment of Geopolitics provides objective, in-depth analysis by leading experts of the events, actors and forces driving international relations.
Strategic Survey 2021: The Annual Assessment of Geopolitics provides objective, in-depth analysis by leading experts of the events, actors and forces driving international relations.
This book examines the evolution of China's maritime security strategy, and questions what has made China shift from a constrained to a more assertive strategy.
This book examines the evolution of China's maritime security strategy, and questions what has made China shift from a constrained to a more assertive strategy.
How the United States helped restore a Europe battered by World War II and created the foundation for the postwar international orderSeventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States did something almost unprecedented in world history: It launched and paid for an economic aid plan to restore a continent reeling from war.
In the Gray Area builds on Seth Folsoms earlier award-winning memoir, The Highway War, which described his 2003 command of one of the first Marine light armored reconnaissance battalion companies to march on Baghdad.
Strategic Survey 2020 The Annual Assessment of GeopoliticsThe worst pandemic in a century tested governments, strained societies and frayedinternational ties during the year to mid-2020.
Strategic Survey 2020 The Annual Assessment of GeopoliticsThe worst pandemic in a century tested governments, strained societies and frayedinternational ties during the year to mid-2020.
This book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and to those interested in the Naval History of the Second World War, particularly after the USA's entry.
This is the first of two volumes of Admiral Lord Rodney's correspondence edited by Professor David SyrettThis is the first of two volumes of Admiral Lord Rodney's correspondence edited by Professor David Syrett, Distinguished Professor of History at Queen's College, City University of New York, and published after his untimely death in 2004.
This collection of documents - official communications from high ranking officers together with extracts from diaries and memoirs of lesser figures - records one of the more bizarre episodes during, but only distantly related to, the Napoleonic wars.
This collection of papers charts the development of a collective system of naval defence for the British Empire from the dying days of the nineteenth century up to its greatest test following the outbreak of the Second World War.
This, the second of three volumes of the correspondence of George Brydges Rodney, covers the admiral's life from the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 until August 1780.
This is the first of two volumes of Admiral Lord Rodney's correspondence edited by Professor David SyrettThis is the first of two volumes of Admiral Lord Rodney's correspondence edited by Professor David Syrett, Distinguished Professor of History at Queen's College, City University of New York, and published after his untimely death in 2004.
This collection of documents is drawn from a wide range of sources including Admiralty and Cabinet Papers at the former Public Record Office, now the National Archives, additional manuscripts at the British Library and Admiralty Constructors Department records at the Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum, together with the private papers of, among others, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911 to 1915, and Admirals of the Fleet Lord Fisher and Lord Keyes.