Military forces and sectors

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.

The 1970s were an event-filled and action packed decade for the Royal Air Force.

This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view.

This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view.

The 1970s were an event-filled and action packed decade for the Royal Air Force.

THE FOURTH YEAR began with intensified fighting on Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands in September 1942.

This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare.

This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare.

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.

This book analyses China's maritime strategy for the 21st century, integrating strategic planning, policy thinking and strategic prediction.

This book analyses China's maritime strategy for the 21st century, integrating strategic planning, policy thinking and strategic prediction.

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.

A military history of the four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber flown largely during World War II and the Korean War, perfect for model building.

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.

This volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today.

This volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today.

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.

This highly illustrated new study tells the full story of the German light Panzers in World War II.

This book provides a comprehensive history of the modern Chinese navy from 1840 to the present.

This book provides a comprehensive history of the modern Chinese navy from 1840 to the present.

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.

Readers of this book will gain a fascinating insight into Naval discipline and social conditions.

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 is Volume 1 of the Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milner 1806-1896.

The 2003 edition of The Naval Miscellany illuminates almost every aspect of naval life.

Includes regular reports of the admirals in command of the Tenth Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet.

'The Channel Fleet and the Blockade of Brest, 1793 - 1801', edited by Roger Morriss, based in part on transcripts made by Richard Saxby.

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.

'The Rodney Papers, Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral Lord Rodney, Volume II, 1763-1780'.

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 seventh volume of Naval Miscellany contains documents which range in date from the late thirteenth century to the Korean 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.

Following America's entry into World War Two, there was a necessity for the Royal Navy to strengthen co-operation with the United States Navy.

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 is Volume 1 of the Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milner 1806-1896.

The 2003 edition of The Naval Miscellany illuminates almost every aspect of naval life.

Includes regular reports of the admirals in command of the Tenth Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet.

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.

'The Channel Fleet and the Blockade of Brest, 1793 - 1801', edited by Roger Morriss, based in part on transcripts made by Richard Saxby.

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.

Sir James Somerville (1882-1949) was one of the great influences on the 20th-century navy, both as a commander of fleets and a pioneer of radio and radar.

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.

The early history of British aerial defence development is one of misdirection and delusion.

The early history of British aerial defence development is one of misdirection and delusion.

This book explores the tumultuous period following the First World War, where Poland, caught between the competing ambitions of Germany and the Soviet Union, navigates political upheaval, territorial disputes, and the emerging threat of Hitler.