Military institutions

This is a military-political history with a vital and all-pervading cultural and social theme which shapes the narrative - race, color and prejudice.

Not for King or Country tells the story of Edward Cecil-Smith, a dynamic propagandist for the Communist Party of Canada during the Great Depression.

Scholars and military practitioners alike have long sought to understand why some country's militaries fight hard when facing defeat while others collapse.

This book describes the organization, lists the units and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the four Canadian divisions which earned an elite reputation on the Western Front in 1915-18.

The Pacific War was the greatest and bloodiest war ever fought in the Andean region, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history.

The Baltic nations - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - enjoyed a brief independence between the World Wars before being annexed by the USSR in 1940.

The Royal Dragoon Guards have a long and distinguished history dating from 1685.

The Gurkha Army Service Corps, the predecessor of The Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment, was raised in Singapore in 1958 ten years after the transfer of Gurkha regiments from the Indian Army to the British Army and towards the end of the Malayan Emergency.

The Waffen-SS grew from a handful of obscure infantry battalions in 1939, to a force of more than 30 divisions by the end of World War II, including units of every type and every level of battlefield value.

The origins of what would become the German General Staff of the late 19th and 20th centuries - probably the most professional military machine in the world - can be traced to the Prussian Army of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

In 1798, the Irish rose up against the corrupt English government run out of Dublin.

First mentioned by name in AD 297, the Picts inhabited Northern Britain from the end of the 3rd century AD to the 9th.

The tragic national epic of Polish history began in these late 18th-century wars.

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From the Liebfahne and Ordin rfahne of Austria, to the eagle and wreath of Russia, the flags of the Napoleonic Wars comprised a range of designs and colours.

In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism.

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

Studies of the military that deal with the actual experience of troops in the field are still rare in the social sciences.

A fully-illustrated, in-depth exploration of early Islamic military forces, their weapons and armour, and the conflicts in which they fought.

The King's Own Scottish Borderers is one of only two Scottish regiments never to have been amalgamated until it joined forces with The Royal Scots to form the 1st battalion of The Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006.

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

This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought in the Boer War.

The years immediately following the French Revolution of 1789 saw an extraordinary transformation of the French army.

Surely nobody who had suffered the ferocity of the Nazi invasion could consider switching sides and joining the Germans?

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Contrary to popular belief, the capture of India was not accomplished by the British Army, but by the private armies of the East India Company, which grew in size to become larger than that of any European sovereign state.

The history of Poland is a fascinating story of a people struggling to achieve nationhood in the face of internal and external conflict.

The official tie-in book to the wildly popular Facebook page, featuring brand-new crazy, off-the-wall, outrageously funny, and downright “awesome” pearls of wisdom from real-life drill sergeants and instructors from all branches of the military.

In World War II a number of German Army units and divisions were classed as lites, and were distinguished by special insignia of various kinds.

An illustrated study of the uniforms and personal equipment worn by the personnel of the Kriegsmarine, the German Navy of the Third Reich, from 1935 45.

In this sophisticated quantitative study, Joseph T.

Though the 'Wehrmachtsgefolge' (Armed Forces Auxiliaries) were generally inferior to their armed forces equivalents, their contribution to the German war-effort was far from negligible.

The 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th Georgia volunteer infantry regiments spent most of the Civil War fighting under Brig.

The fateful attack on Pearl Harbor forced the Western world to revise its opinion of Japan's airmen.

In this companion volume to The French Army 1939-45 (1), Ian Sumner and Fran ois Vauvillier examine the history, uniforms and insignia of the Free French, Fighting French and the Army of Liberation.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of sexual assault in the military from historical and contemporary perspectives, offering suggestions that could change the existing culture and approaches that will reduce or eliminate sexual assault in the armed forces.

A key part of Napoleon's Imperial Guard were undoubtedly the Mamelukes the bodyguard of Turkish cavalry which remained with his Mounted Chasseurs regiment throughout the First Empire.

The legendary Dutch 'Red' Lancers the 2nd Light Horse Lancers of Napoleon's Imperial Guard were formed in 1810 after the emperor annexed Holland and its army to France.

On 21 October 1983, following the death of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, the leaders of the six small nations forming the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States voted to intervene militarily to restore order in Grenada.

The Lebanese Civil War of 1975-76 caused 80,000 dead and totally split the country along factional lines.

War played a central part in the history of Japan.

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

The capitulation of Napoleon and his army at Sedan in September 1870 shook Paris to its foundations.

The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world.

A fascinating look at the realities of day-to-day life as a Napoleonic Infantryman.

This book describes the organization of this formidable force from 1917-18 and details their uniforms, insignia and decorations, weapons and equipment.

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Coats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles, but by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who later came to be styled gentlemen.

In 1939 a new grade in the Iron Cross series was introduced, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes).

With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of secessionist Biafra faced off against the Nigerian Federal forces.