Military forces and sectors

The assassination of Osama bin Laden by SEAL Team 6 in May 2011 will certainly figure among the greatest achievements of US Special Forces.

The assassination of Osama bin Laden by SEAL Team 6 in May 2011 will certainly figure among the greatest achievements of US Special Forces.

In conflict zones around the world, the phenomenon of foreign insurgents fighting on behalf of local rebel groups is a common occurrence.

Written by a leading authority on Roman military history, this fascinating volume spans over a thousand years as it offers a memorable picture of one of the world's most noted fighting forces, paying special attention to the life of the common soldier.

When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy.

Admiral Horatio Nelson captures our imaginations like few other military figures.

Arguing that the unprecedented nature of our first postmodernist war demanded either the revision of traditional modes of war writing or the discovery of new styles that would render the emotional and psychological center of a new national trauma, this study assesses the most important novels and personal memoirs written by Americans about the Vietnam War.

In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F.

The Fall of Che Guevara tells the story of Guevara's last campaign, in the backwoods of Bolivia, where he hoped to ignite a revolution that would spread throughout South America.

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Adapted from the naval history classic and New York Times bestseller, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors pieces together the action of the Battle off Samar, bringing to life a riveting story of heroism against daunting odds, duty, and sacrifice in a way never seen before.

Stalin's Defectors is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945.

Stalin's Defectors is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945.

In 1918, the Royal Air Force became the first major independent air force in the world.

In 1918, the Royal Air Force became the first major independent air force in the world.

The complete operational history of an outstanding Marine fighter squadron throughout the Cold War.

This is the first systematic pan-European study of the hundreds of thousands of non-Germans who fought -- either voluntarily or under different kinds of pressures -- for the Waffen-SS (or auxiliary police formations operating in the occupied East).

This is the first systematic pan-European study of the hundreds of thousands of non-Germans who fought -- either voluntarily or under different kinds of pressures -- for the Waffen-SS (or auxiliary police formations operating in the occupied East).

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

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

The Gestapo was the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich, brutally hunting down and destroying anyone it regarded as an enemy of the Nazi regime: socialists, Communists, Jews, homosexuals, and anyone else deemed to be an 'anti-social element'.

The Gestapo was the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich, brutally hunting down and destroying anyone it regarded as an enemy of the Nazi regime: socialists, Communists, Jews, homosexuals, and anyone else deemed to be an 'anti-social element'.

The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities.

The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities.

The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict brings together and critically analyses the disparate conventional, customary, and soft law relating to non-international armed conflict.

The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict brings together and critically analyses the disparate conventional, customary, and soft law relating to non-international armed conflict.

Pity the Nation ranks among the classic accounts of war in our time, both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery.

This book completes a trilogy by the anthropologist Wendy James.

Why did the British government declare war on Germany in August 1914?

Many books have been written about the Second World War and the majority of them either concentrate on a particular battle, campaign or unit.

This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete.

This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete.

The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination.

The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination.

'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy.

'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy.

A Spitfire Named Connie is an exciting rollercoaster of a story.

'Naval tradition?

In Belgien explodieren Bomben im Flughafen und an Bahnhöfen.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Vivid, honest, inspiring and sometimes shocking, Pippa Latour's memoir shows how right the SOE were to assess her as having '"e;tons of guts"e;' -CLARE MULLEY, author of Agent Zo'***** Extraordinary.

At the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, thousands of pro-democracy rebel groups spontaneously formed to fight the Assad regime.

At the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, thousands of pro-democracy rebel groups spontaneously formed to fight the Assad regime.

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai.

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai.

In Gambling with Violence, Yelena Biberman tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of violence to ordinary civilians, criminals, and ex-insurgents.

In Gambling with Violence, Yelena Biberman tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of violence to ordinary civilians, criminals, and ex-insurgents.

A detailed narrative of how the Red Army pushed west and into Berlin in 1945.

The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield.

The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield.

"e;An excellent work that adds to the history of the Normandy Campaign.