War and defence operations

This book examines the causes and consequences of post-conflict elections in securing and stabilizing peace agreements without the need to send troops.

War breeds myths, especially those made up by the vanquished to explain or soften their loss.

Iconic photos from the First World War, newly colourized.

In 1277 Edward I gathered a huge army and marched into Wales to subdue the rebel Welsh princes.

An expert on German military history offers the first extensive, English-language study of one of the critical campaigns of World War I.

An inside look at the work and adventures of Harry Hopkins and Averell Harriman in the creation of history's most remarkable international partnershipAfter the fall of France in June 1940, London became the center of world political theater.

New York Times bestselling authorDon Man and Lance Burton tell the history of the most respected and feared fighting force every createdThe US Navy SEALs.

A detailed, illustrated account of another Union failure early in the Civil War.

The Royal Navy's attack on Taranto in 1940 heralded a new age of warfare.

The decision to mount an armed foreign intervention is one of the most consequential that a US president can take.

The story of the second major amphibious landing in France in 1944, which built upon the lessons learned from D-Day.

In the summer and autumn of 1918, the British Expeditionary Force, under Field Marshal Haig, fought a series of victorious battles on the Western Front that contributed mightily to the German Army's final defeat.

In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the first of over 150,000 Allied soldiers stormed five beaches in Normandy against fierce German resistance.

The history of the Mongol armies is a catalogue of superlatives.

This highly detailed study provides a clear account of how the British Army was organised, who commanded it, and how it functioned in the field during the Peninsular War.

A detailed, compact volume on the British response, under Lieutenant-General Wolseley, to Egyptian mutiny.

An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil war Most accounts of Syria’s brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the escalating violence.

In May 1941, the Norwegian Section of SOE received a dossier warning of the dangers of a hydroelectric fertiliser plant in Norway.

Delville Wood in the Somme was the most famous battle ever fought by South Africans.

Leading up to the Pacific War, Japanese naval strategists believed that a decisive fleet engagement would be fought against the United States Navy.

A ground-breaking narrative history, which examines the never-before-told story of one of the most devastating battles of American involvement in World War I the battle of Montfaucon.

The air war over the Steppes was more than a brutal clash in which might alone triumphed.

This study challenges the common view that extrajudicial executions in Republican Spain in July 1936 were the work of criminal or anarchist ''uncontrollables''.

The threat of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's surprise invasion of Russia in June 1941, succeeding prompted Churchill to decide to send vital military supplies to Britain's new ally.

The castles built by the Crusaders, Hospitallers, Venetians and Genoese in Cyprus, Greece, the Aegean, and on the Black Sea served to defend against a complex array of constantly changing threats.

First published in 1977 this accessible general overview of Canada's contribution to the Second World War and of the war's effect on Canada's evolution.

United Nations peace operations have undergone multiple transformations over the more than seventy years of their existence.

This book provides a comprehensive study of the complex impacts of the war in Ukraine on Russo-Iranian relations, and the resulting consequences for the international relations of the Middle East.

It was no coincidence that the Civil War occurred during an age of violent political upheaval in Europe and the Americas.

Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction'Spellbinding .

While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts.

Austria-Hungary did not have an overseas empire; its empire lay within its own boundaries and the primary purpose of its navy until the beginning of the twentieth century was the defense of its coastline.

By 1960, following Korea, tanks and their crews had proved themselves to be a fundamental part of the Marine Corps' combined arms team.

RUSSIA'S WAR is the epic account of the greatest military encounter in human history.

Written by one of the world's leading experts on D-Day, Smashing Hitler's Guns is a ground-breaking new history of the legendary Rangers' attack on Pointe-du-Hoc.

It is 1966, the war is escalating, and a young Air Force Academy graduate's assignment is to patrol unfriendly territory with six-man hunter-killer teams.

A very Australian story of heroism and healing.

In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenomenal worldwide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design, procurement, development, manufacturing, and combat employment of Soviet armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War to Russians).

In 1941, the European war became a world war.

“[An] exceptionally raw look at the Vietnam War .

Dive into the tactics behind the Battle of Talavera as British and Spanish armies clashed against France in the opening engagements of Spain's late 1809 campaign.

This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest.

Winner of the 1990 Richard Barksdale Harwell Award, Atlanta Civil War Round Table Winner of the 1991 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, Military Order of the Stars and Bars "e;An excellent study of what the Mighty Stonewall considered the 'most successful of his exploits'.

The second volume in a two-part illustrated study of the October 23-26 Battle of Leyte Gulf, which resulted in a decisive defeat for the Japanese.

In 1961 - two years after a revolution in Cuba overran the government of Fulgencio Batista - a group of Cuban exiles (backed by the CIA) landed on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro from the new government.

The Ardennes offensive in December 1944, known to history as the 'Battle of the Bulge', was the decisive campaign of the war in North-West Europe.

In 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusades and pilgrimages.

This detailed account of Britain's Siege of Charleston is "e;a welcome addition to the history of South Carolina and of the American Revolution"e; (Journal of Military History).