Warfare and defence

Drawing on recently declassified documents, and now available in paperback, this is the utterly compelling history of the successes and failures of the German Intelligence Services throughout World War II.

This edited collection offers an empirical exploration of social memory in the context of politics, war, identity and culture.

A gripping and detailed study of the brutal urban battle for Budapest, which saw German and Hungarian troops struggling to halt the joint Soviet-Romanian offensive to take the key city on the Danube.

Criminal punishment is increasingly seen as a necessary element of human rights protection.

Drawing upon Soviet sources, this book assesses the evolving organization, uniforms, insignia, weaponry and personal equipment of Soviet naval infantry units from 1917 to 1991.

After the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938, the Nazis forced Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resign and kept him imprisoned for seven years, until his rescue by the Allies in 1945.

Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War, The Gro raum Order of International Law, and The International Crime of the War of Aggression and the Principle "e;Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege"e;.

In the decades before the American Civil War various political, social, and religious groups agitated for reforms in American society that would be in keeping with its professed democratic and national principles.

A highly illustrated account of the fall of the Philippines in 1941 42, one of the least covered campaigns of World War II.

To determine the government's commitment to a comprehensive mobilization strategy, Stevenson considers the effect of NSS policies on eight significant sectors of the Canadian population: Native Canadians, university students, war industry workers, coal miners, longshoremen, meatpackers, hospital nurses, and textile workers.

"e;The personality of a general is indispensable,"e; Napoleon once said.

With a focus on China, the United States, and India, this book examines the economic ambitions of the second space race.

In Bracing for Armageddon, Dee Garrison pulls back the curtain on the U.

“The compelling story of the squadron of adventurous young American pilots who were among the first to engage in air combat.

Published to coincide with the 80th birthday of the Spitfire, this is the combat history of one of the most iconic planes ever built as it pushed on from the successes of the Battle of Britain and took the fight to the Germans over the Channel between 1941 43.

Decisions about war have always been made by humans, but now intelligent machines are on the cusp of changing things with dramatic consequences for international affairs.

The Rhineland, scene of European conflict for generations, remained an intensely contentious area following the end of the hostilities of World War I.

Guerrilla insurgencies continue to rage across the globe, fueled by ethnic and religious conflict and the easy availability of weapons.

The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of its legitimacy is embedded in apparently 'axiomatic' historical truths.

From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the recent trials of Slobodan Milo evi and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are an increasingly pervasive feature of the aftermath of conflict.

Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs.

Based on 20 years of research, Gianluca Barneschi has uncovered the true story of a real-life James Bond.

This book provides a framework for analysing the interplay between securitisation and foreign affairs, reconnecting critical security studies with traditional IR concerns about interstate relations.

An illustrated technical history of the Gobbi Maledetti ('damned hunchbacks'), Italy's most recognisable combat aircraft.

This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare.

This Handbook links the growing body of media and conflict research with the field of security studies.

This book provides an in-depth account of India's role in world politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

When Robert Haddick wrote Fire on the Water, first published in 2014, most policy experts and the public underestimated the threat China's military modernization posed to the U.

First in-depth, comparative study of the treatment of prisoners of war during the First World War.

The global business environment has never been so complex, making supply chains more fragile than ever.

This book examines the dynamics of intelligence practices in the Scandinavian culture of high social cohesion and high trust.

Case studies explore how to improve military adaptation and preparedness in peacetime by investigating foreign wars Preparing for the next war at an unknown date against an undetermined opponent is a difficult undertaking with extremely high stakes.

The "e;war on terror"e; and the battle in Iraq provided the framework for George W.

Owain Glyndwr is a towering figure in Welsh history.

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.

More than seventy years following the D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944, Normandy's war heritage continues to intrigue visitors and researchers.

This book focuses on security practices, civil liberties and the politics of borders in liberal democracies.

This resource strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars.

An unprecedented look at the evolution of American police, from filling their intended role as peacekeepers and guardians of citizen rights to calling themselves-and acting primarily as-"e;law enforcement officers.

The British Centurion and the American M48 Patton, two leading tanks of the Cold War era, clashed in the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War.

The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.

The complicated question of Taiwan's sovereignty has led to its exclusion from virtually all international security organizations.

William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerston's extensive programme of fortification against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the nineteenth century.

A must-read for every concerned citizen, this absorbing book goes inside the mind of the psychological terrorist to look at what motivates him to act and to choose the weapon he does.

In the history of warfare, an elite group of men have attained almost legendary status through their courage, ambition and unrivalled military genius.

Racializing the Soldier explores the impact of racial beliefs on the formation and development of modern armed forces and the ways in which these forces have been presented and historicized from a global perspective.

This book uses cross-cultural analysis across Eurasia and Afro-Asia to trace the roots of contemporary border disputes and insurgencies in South Asia.

Nominated for the NYMAS Arthur Goodzeit Book Award 2013Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guiné-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of warfare ethics in early China as well as its subsequent development.