Warfare and defence

Winner: Arthur Goodzeit AwardThroughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare.

Winner: Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobzcak Memorial Book AwardWithout what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 19421944, the Normandy landingsand so, perhaps, the Second World War IIwould have ended differently.

Chinas anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM), the DF-21D, has reached the equivalent of Initial Operational Capability.

Action-packed history of the Germans in Africa in World War II.

In asymmetric interstate conflicts, great powers have the capability to coerce weak states by threatening their survival-but not vice versa.

Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the U.

Action-adventure narrative about elite German airborne troops.

Originally published in the 1930's, this book is a mocking expose of European dictators, comparing them to American gangsters like Al Capone.

A foreign policy expert "e;presents a thoughtful, comprehensive case"e; for the War on Terror-a "e;historically powerful support of Mr.

In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast.

When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.

Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the war in Europe after D-Day.

The Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services.

For modelers and military enthusiasts, a collection of scale drawings of post-WWII 20th century military vehicles.

A military historian analyzes the ingenious WWII tanks known as Hobart's Funnies, detailing their development and their role in the D-Day campaign.

Familiar modes of problem solving may be efficient, but they often prevent us from discovering innovative solutions to more complex problems.

Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis argues that the provision of national security has changed in the 21st century as a result of a variety of different pressures and threats.

Joseph Balkoski concludes his landmark series on the U.

Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics is an analysis of how ideas, or political ideology, can threaten states and how states react to ideational threats.

First full-length history of the largest and most successful airborne offensive ever.

At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a budding young historian was drafted into the U.

Filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, and Romania.

Angus Konstam setssail through the brutal history of piracy, separating myth from legend and fact from fiction.

From a WWII veteran, an illustrated military history of the German tank division that fought exclusively on the Eastern front.

An look at what Intelligence Community analysts do and how, and how they are affected by the political context that shapes, uses and abuses their outputs.

"e;Examines and analyzes the organizational culture of three armies, those of the United States, Britain, and Israel .

"e;An excellent contribution to the debate on the future role of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence in American foreign policy.

These essays by nuclear policy experts provide "e;a speculative but serious and well-informed journey through a variety of scenarios and contingencies"e; (Foreign Affairs).

The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffleys trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction.

Interest in nuclear energy has surged in recent years, yet there are risks that accompany the global diffusion of nuclear power-especially the possibility that the spread of nuclear energy will facilitate nuclear weapons proliferation.

This book examines the experiences of a range of countries in the conflict in Afghanistan, with particular focus on the demands of operating within a diverse coalition of states.

In recent years there have been reports of actions purportedly taken by People's Liberation Army (PLA) units without civilian authorization, and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) civilian leaders seeking to curry favor with the military-suggesting that a nationalistic and increasingly influential PLA is driving more assertive Chinese policies on a range of military and sovereignty issues.

This book discusses the role of the U.

Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the US Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War.

Gripping firsthand accounts.

The Dodgeris the story of John Bigelow "e;Johnny"e; Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood filmThe Great Escape.

In 2008, the iconic doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistswas set at five minutes to midnight-two minutes closer to Armageddon than in 1962, when John F.

For a relatively short war, the Crimean War holds an important place in history.

Intrigued by hints of ';the bigger man' behind the war personality of Gen.

A frank and refreshing evaluation of several Chief Executives, their Directors of Central Intelligence, and even some lower in the hierarchy, Executive Secrets shines light on the development and execution of foreign policy through the understanding of the tools available, of which covert action may be least known and understood.

State failure is seen as one of the significant threats to regional and international stability in the current international system.

A comprehensive pictorial study of Germany's armored reconnaissance operations across all WWII combat zones.

This sweeping recasting of American naval history is a bold departure from the conventional ';sea power' approach.

Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades.

The years 1909-1918 can be regarded as formative for MI5, an era in which it developed from a small counterespionage bureau into an established security intelligence agency.

Ante Pavelic was the leader of the fascist party of Croatia (the Usta e), who, on Adolf Hitler's instruction, became the leader of Croatia after the Nazi invasion of 1941.

At the end of World War II, Gen.

Hide& Seek chronicles the intensely personal war between wartime Rome's Nazi SS Chief Herbert Kapplerand the Vatican's Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a fiercely fought rivalry that culminated in Kappler attempting to kidnap and murder his Irish opponent, who was determined to fight Rome's Nazi rulers.

The fourth and final volume in a pioneering series on the Chinese military, Imagined Enemies offers an unprecedented look at its history, operational structure, modernization, and strategy.

In the final, desperate months of World War Two, at a time when the German war machine was considered by the Allies to be an almost spent force, Adolf Hitler unleashed a new weapon against England and western Europe that fell from the silence of the Earth’s upper atmosphere and the edge of space.