Military institutions

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945.

This volume is designed to be an in-depth and nuanced philosophical treatment of the virtue of obedience in the context of the professional military and the broader civilian political community, including the general citizenry.

A fully-illustrated history of Muslim Arabs in the 7th century AD, including the formation of the Umayyad Caliphate, and the Abbasid Revolution.

In the years immediately before the First World War, Archibald Haswell Miller, a young artist, travelled Europe to study painting.

'Diving was a boys-own adventure, a jump into the unknown full of devil-may-care attitudes.

A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada.

In this sophisticated quantitative study, Joseph T.

The King's German Legion was the largest and most respected of the foreign corps which fought as integrated elements of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars.

At Gettysburg, PA, during three days of July 1863, 160,000 men fought one of the most fierce and storied battles of the US Civil War.

Honorific rewards are all about status and illustrate status processes in a way that few other social phenomena do.

In May 1968, as part of cutbacks to the British Army, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was disbanded at a moving ceremony held at the same spot in Douglas in Lanarkshire at which it had been raised in 1689.

Of all the military assignments in Vietnam, perhaps none was more challenging than the defense of the Mekong River Delta region.

Between 1890 and 1920 the US Army underwent profound changes in organization, function, composition and appearance.

In March 1941, an anti-German coup in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia prompted Hitler to order an invasion using allied Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Romanian forces.

In the closing years of the second century B.

The British Army's Challenger II Main Battle Tank is one of the most awesome war machines ever built.

Throughout the wars undertaken by Frederick the Great, probably his greatest resource was his infantry.

Published to coincide with the centennial of the end of the First World War, this informative book is an essential guide to the memorials of the war on the Western Front, describing their history and meaning.

For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers.

In the age of modern warfare the changing landscape of the 21st century battlefield has demanded a transformation within the US Marine Corps Special Operations.

The history of medicine in the United States military.

The First Carlist War broke out after the death of King Ferdinand VII, the king restored at the end of the Peninsular War thanks to Wellington's victory.

In June 1941 the US Army's air organisations were consolidated under a single command, the Army Air Forces or AAF.

While existing accounts of this period have elevated the exploits of the British soldiers on the battlefield to almost legendary status, the operations of the British Expeditionary Force in the dramatic opening campaign of the First World War remain poorly understood.

It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria.

Despite the many celebrated victories of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, the role of the Royal Navy should never be overlooked.

Following the Nazi occupation of Norway in 1941, the Waffen-SS began recruiting volunteers to serve in their ranks.

*; First book in English on Germanys failed experiment with independent armored brigades in World War II*; Dramatic story of Panzer Brigade 105, one of ten such units, and its formation, deployment (including its defense of the Siegfried Line), and ultimate destruction*; Also presents American accounts of what it was like to fight the brigade*; Relies heavily on primary documents and interviews

This volume provides an in-depth look at the experience of the ordinary US marine 'grunt' in Vietnam.

A comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War.

An in-depth analysis of the Chinese Armies that fought a series of increasingly fractious wars over nearly a century.

This volume covers the classic 'Beau Geste' period, of the French Foreign Legion when the corps was expanded during the most dynamic years of French imperial expansion.

The volunteer army that fought the Mexican dictator Santa Anna from 1835 to 1836 was immortalized in the epic battle of the Alamo.

American political culture and military necessity were at odds during the War for American Independence, as demonstrated in this interpretation of Continental army administration.

The author Boris Sokolov offers this first objective and intriguing biography of Marshal Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, who is widely considered one of the Red Army's top commanders in the Second World War.

Rome's rise to empire is often said to have owed much to the efficiency and military skill of her armies and their technological superiority over barbarian enemies.

Authoritative illustrated analysis of the history of the military Special Forces units of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation.

In this sophisticated quantitative study, Joseph T.

The dilemma of the young Italian kingdom and the experience of her army in the Great War were unique among the combatant nations.

In 1795 the Russian army was as vast as the territory from which it was drawn.

At the time of the Second Empire, under Napoleon III, the French army, elevated from tactful obscurity, was re-modelled on Napoleonic lines.

A US soldier recounts his extensive guerilla campaign against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in this thoroughly researched WWII memoir.

This focuses on the history, costume, and material culture of the native peoples of North America.

Long before England established a serious presence in the New World, Spain had already established an overseas Empire.

In the late 19th century, the new nation-state of Italy was eager to join her European neighbours in creating an international empire, and her eyes turned toward Africa as a source of potential colonies.

Polish soldiers fought in nearly every major campaign in the European theatre, and their tale is a complicated and tragic one.

There exists among the world's armies a proliferation of special forces groups.

When re-armament came after World War I, the German Navy was forced to build anew, so the Reichsmarine and its successor, the Kriegsmarine, found itself in possession of some of the most modern, powerful and technically advanced vessels in the world.

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