War and defence operations

The Mexican-American War (1846-48) found Americans on new terrain.

This book is a compilation of CRS reports in 2018 and 2019 addressing Homeland Security issues.

These compelling, enlightening, and often highly personal experiences tell stories of average citizens as well as historical figures who made huge sacrifices by serving in the military, giving the reader new perspectives on war, and its real costs.

A gripping account of how and why the legendary 'scourge of God' was able to inscribe his legacy into the annals of military history.

In this gripping, previously untold story from World War II, Michael Smith examines how code breakers cracked Japans secret codes and won the war in the Pacific.

In the spring of 1864, as the armies of Grant and Lee waged a highly scrutinized and celebrated battle for the state of Virginia, a no- less important, but historically obscured engagement was being conducted in the pine barrens of northern Louisiana.

A riveting and applicable study of how Francis Marion delivered the leadership and strategy to defeat the British in the South Carolina lowcountry campaigns.

In 1940 a British offensive in the Western Desert provoked a major Italian military disaster.

An eye-opening guide to a crucial turning point in the American Revolution, a masterpiece of manoeuvre and deception.

This volume examines how the U.

In this book, thirteen eminent historians discuss the origins of and legacy of a landmark conflict in the American Civil War.

A gripping tale of three crucial battles fought at the end of 1943 as Allied forces approached the Gustav Line in Italy.

To win the war against German U-boats, the Allies had to protect their convoys in the vast black hole of the mid-Atlantic known as the Azores Gap.

A highly illustrated account of the Pacific operation that was, at the time, the longest shore-to-shore amphibious assault in history.

The Crookenden brothers – Henry, Napier and Spencer - were born into a military dynasty.

An in-depth 2007 analysis of the sources of success and failure in UN peacekeeping missions in civil wars.

How can sustainable peace be achieved?

This fascinating title offers a new look at Operation Market Garden and the Arnhem campaign from the perspective of the German forces who defended against the Allies.

Russia's Turkish Wars examines the changing place of the Balkan population in Russian military thought, strategic planning, and occupation policies.

The most successful commerce raider of the Civil War, the CSS Alabama almost single-handedly drove United States merchant shipping from the seas.

On 28 September 1941, Hitler instituted a new, supreme class of the Knight's Cross decoration for gallantry and leadership: the Oak-Leaves with Swords and Diamonds.

A focused, illustrated history of NATO's war against Serbian forces over Kosovo.

The author of an award-winning memoir about growing up black in Mississippi, Chalmers Archer turns his attention in this book to his experiences as one of the first members of the U.

A book by the specialist for the specialist, this is a must-have history of the SturmartillerieThe Sturmartillerie was a key part of Germany's armoured arsenal throughout World War II.

Following the successful landings in Normandy on D-Day and consolidation during Operation Cobra, the Wehrmacht was ordered to begin a counter-offensive named Operation L ttich.

The remarkable early successes of the armed forces of the Third Reich prompted the decision that the supreme decoration for personal valour or outstanding leadership the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was insufficient.

Just two weeks after the close of the Vietnam War, communist Cambodian Khmer Rouge elements seized the S.

United States historians have long regarded the U.

In this fully illustrated ebook, TV's Dan Snow brings to life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and allows the reader to experience the clashes up close.

This book explores the transformation of Europe''s military forces as they prepare for global intervention missions.

Overshadowed by the dramatic British failure at Arnhem, the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were a vital component of Operation Market-Garden and succeeded in capturing their objectives at Eindhoven and Nijmegen.

A compact, illustrated guide to a key battle that originated firearm warfare in Japan.

With first-hand accounts and colour artwork, this title describes the planes and pilots of the famous 4th Fighter Group 'Fourth but First' that became the highest-scoring unit of the mighty 8th Air Force in World War 2.

The protection of civilians is a highly topical issue at the forefront of international discourse, and has taken a prominent role in many international deployments.

First in a trilogy—a study of the strategy, tactics, and rivalry between two leaders of the Army of the Potomac’s cavalry during the American Civil War.

Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of war's significance to the history of the Great War.

A superbly illustrated study of the Native Americans' last major effort to drive the English colonists out of New England.

War Memories explores the patchwork formed by collective memory, public remembrance, private recollection, and the ways in which they form a complex composition of observations, initiatives, and experiences.

A fundamental reassessment of German politics and strategy during the First World War and why it was that Germany lost.

The Great War was a pivotal experience for twentieth-century Canada.

Using previously unpublished diaries, letters, and photographs-plus the writings of war correspondent John T.

Oil is the source of wealth and economic opportunity.

Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY Catalina was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force.

'My primary aim in writing this book is to demonstrate the importance of individual human beings in modern warfare.

Introduces conflict and peace economics, outlines its history of thought, contemporary theory and evidence, and maps trajectories for further research.

Over time the impression has grown that the 2003 invasion of Iraq met with little resistance and that, with few exceptions, the Iraqi army simply melted away.