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Diary of a Dirty Little War: The Spanish-American War of 1898 by Harvey Rosenfeld 9780275966737
£83.64The Spanish-American War has been called a splendid little war, but, as Rosenfeld contends, it was a dirty little war as well. This colorful account, presented in diary format from the days preceding the declaration of war to the signing of the peace... -
The Maginot Line: None Shall Pass by J. E. Kaufmann 9780275957193
£83.24Tracing the development of the fortifications in Europe from the end of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to the twentieth century, this is the first comprehensive book in English on the forts of the Maginot Line, German espionage, and the German sieges... -
The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command by John A. English 9780275930196
£83.64The reverses experienced by Canadian troops during the late stages of World War II continue to be the subject of intensive inquiry among military historians. Going beyond the obvious immediate causes of these setbacks, the author presents a detailed... -
The Lessons and Non-Lessons of the Air and Missile Campaign in Kosovo by Anthony H. Cordesman 9780275972301
£83.64The conclusion of a war typically signals the beginning of a flood of memoirs and instant campaign histories, many presenting the purported, but often dubious lessons of the recent conflict. Cordesman is careful to avoid such pitfalls in this detailed... -
Hidden Ally: The French Resistance, Special Operations, and the Landings in Southern France, 1944 by Arthur L. Funk 9780313279959
£95.82How did the French Resistance and Allied forces work together to liberate southern France from the Germans during World War II? Arthur Funk gives the first detailed account of the complex British, French, and American operations in 1944, an account that... -
The Century of Total War by Raymond Aron 9780313228520
£95.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313228520Author Raymond AronFormat HardbackPage Count 379Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The Albatross of Decisive Victory: War and Policy Between Egypt and Israel in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli Wars by George W. Gawrych 9780313313028
£83.64In 1967, the Israeli Defense Forces defeated the combined armies of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in a mere six days. This remarkable military accomplishment would, however, have the ultimate effect of creating an albatross around the neck of the Israeli... -
A Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in the Middle East: Problems and Prospects by Mahmoud Karem 9780313256288
£83.64Karem is eminently qualified to write on the role of Nuclear Weapons-Free Zones (NWFZs) in the processes of averting nuclear weapons proliferation, arresting the nuclear arms race, and eliminating the scourge of nuclear weapons. Karem's well-written,... -
From Adversaries to Partners?: Chinese and Russian Military Cooperation after the Cold War by Ming-Yen Tsai 9780275978761
£83.24When China and Russia established a strategic partnership in 1996, both nations declared that they would further develop military cooperation in various fields. Tsai examines the course of this military cooperation to reveal the nature of the military... -
Gettysburg Campaign June-July 1863 by Albert Nofi 9780938289838
£18.09Long recognized as one of the best introductions to the campaign, Albert A. Nofi's The Gettysburg Campaign does not focus exclusively on the three days of the battle, but shows how events of May and June of 1863 set the stage for the engagement, and... -
Manning the Future Legions of the United States: Finding and Developing Tomorrow's Centurions by Donald Vandergriff 9780313345623
£83.24An Industrial Age model continues to shape the way the Army approaches its recruiting, personnel management, training, and education. This outdated personnel management paradigm-designed for an earlier era-has been so intimately tied to the maintenance... -
Planning for Conflict in the Twenty-First Century by Brian Hanley 9780313345555
£83.24This book aims to serve the military profession, and so the national interest, by helping to generate intelligent reform of how the armed forces train, educate, and promote officers who shape our military strategy and write our war plans. Readers will... -
NATO Enlargement During the Cold War: Strategy and System in the Western Alliance by M. Smith 9780312236069
RRP: £89.99£89.87Nato Enlargement During the Cold War analyzes the historical experience surrounding Nato enlargement. Features include the role and influence of external factors, the dynamics of intra-alliance debate, and a taxonomy of membership. Most important,... -
Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign: The Eighth Army and the Path to El Alamein by Jonathan Fennell 9780521192705
RRP: £105.00£70.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Rise and Fall of the German War Machine, 1918-1945 by John Mosier 9780805083217
RRP: £15.99£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805083217Author John MosierFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Holt PaperbackPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 452g -
Marching Orders: The Role of the Military in South Korea's Economic Miracle, 1961-1971 by Jon H. Huer 9780313266485
£83.24This modern day rags-to-riches story tells how one of the poorest nations in the world evolved into one of the most technologically advanced. How did South Korea do it? The `miracle' that occurred in South Korea was produced, in essence, by military men,... -
General Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography by Eugene L. Rasor 9780313288739
£60.35General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an extraordinary military leader and one of the most controversial figures in American history. An enormous amout of literature has accumulated about his career, which spanned most of the 20th century. General... -
The Spanish-American War by Kenneth E. Hendrickson 9780313316623
£54.86The 1898 war between the United States and Spain receives relatively little attention in most American history texts, yet it is an event of major importance. The United States emerged as the world's greatest power in the 20th century. In many ways, the... -
Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategy by Roch Legault 9780275948986
£83.24These essays explore the link between the naval strength and global power of Great Britain and the United States from 1815 to the present. The British Way of Warfare assumed that the country with control of the sea could ensure safe and rapid... -
Looking Back on the Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat, and Legacies by Lawrence E. Grinter 9780275945558
£39.49This text is the first to closely compare and contrast the Gulf and Vietnam Wars on both the war and home fronts. Widely respected experts give a balanced, new perspective on the Vietnam War, based on considerable new primary research to explain the... -
The Sword and the Shield: Britain, America, NATO and Nuclear Weapons, 1970-1976 by Kristan Stoddart 9780230300934
£90.27Kristan Stoddart reveals for the first time discussions that took place between the British, French and US governments for nuclear cooperation in the early to mid 1970s. In doing so it sets the scene for the upgrade to Britain's Polaris force codenamed... -
Christopher Gist's Journals with Historical, Geographical and Ethnological Notes and Biographies of his Contemporaries by William M Darlington 9780788422775
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788422775Author William M DarlingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 354g -
The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources by Marc Jason Gilbert 9780313277405
£83.64In many secondary schools, colleges, and universities across the country, the study of the Vietnam War has become a standard part of the curriculum. In this work, editor Marc Jason Gilbert has organized essays that are designed to serve the needs of the... -
Divided and Conquered: The French High Command and the Defeat of the West, 1940 by Jeffery A. Gunsberg 9780313210921
£95.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313210921Author Jeffery A. GunsbergFormat HardbackPage Count 303Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The Anglo-American Winter War with Russia, 1918-1919: A Diplomatic and Military Tragicomedy by Benjamin Rhodes 9780313261329
£83.24This book chronicles the origins and results of the ill-fated Anglo-American intervention at Archangel during the winter of 1918-19. Basing his account on previously unavailable archival material, including soldiers' diaries and correspondence between... -
Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Cartobibliography of the Northern Daily Press by David Bosse 9780313287053
£60.75During the course of the Civil War, Northern daily newspapers printed over 2,000 separate maps depicting campaigns and military operations. Although they are important primary documents, these maps have been largely overlooked by historians and... -
World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-Military Study by Gordon Rottman 9780313313950
£106.38Covering all Pacific islands involved in World War II military operations, this book is a detailed, single source of information on virtually every geo-military aspect of the Pacific Theater. Arranged regionally and, to the extent possible,... -
Civil War Generalship: The Art of Command by W. J. Wood 9780275950545
£83.24This study challenges both the accepted convention that the American Civil War was the first modern war and the myth that Civil War leaders were guided by foreign and American military thought in fighting their war. Wood's work takes an innovative... -
The Tet Offensive by Marc Jason Gilbert 9780275954819
£37.30The Tet Offensive of 1968 was perhaps the key incident in the War for Vietnam. But the debate surrounding the offensive continues: Was it a failed last-gasp effort by the defeated North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong allies? Or was it part of a larger... -
British Strategy and Politics during the Phony War: Before the Balloon Went Up by Nick Smart 9780275972967
£83.24The so-called Phony War from September 1939 to May 1940 occupies a peculiar yet distinct place in popular memory. All the sensations of war, except the fighting, were present; yet, instead of massed air attacks and great land battles, very little... -
America as a Military Power: From the American Revolution to the Civil War by Jeremy M. Black 9780275977061
£39.49How have military actions shaped the history of the United States and the country's role in world history? Noted military historian Jeremy Black examines American military exceptionalism with the critical eye of a foreign scholar. The British fought two... -
The War for South Viet Nam, 1954-1975, 2nd Edition by Anthony James Joes 9780275968069
£83.24Like the widely praised original, this new edition is compact, clearly written, and accessible to the nonspecialist. First, the book chronicles and analyzes the twenty-year struggle to maintain South Vietnamese independence. Joes tells the story with a... -
Pershing and His Generals: Command and Staff in the AEF by James J. Cooke 9780275953638
£83.24When the United States entered the Great War in April of 1917, there were few officers with any staff training, and none had actually served on large, complex staffs in combat. This work traces the development of the staff of the AEF and describes how... -
A Portrait of the Israeli Soldier by Reuven Gal 9780313243158
£83.64No army in the Middle East has been as written about in English as has Israel's, yet this book actually says something new. Reuven Gal, former chief psychologist of the IDF, looks at the influences on the Israeli soldier and their impact on the IDF's... -
Elements of Military Strategy: An Historical Approach by Archer Jones 9780275955267
£83.64This book uses history in two ways: as the source of ideas about strategy and as examples to illustrate the elements by showing their application to specific campaigns and their utility in understanding the role of strategy in military operations. The... -
Plains Women: Two Accounts of American Women on the Western Frontier---I Married a Soldier or Old Days in the Old Army & Across the Plains to California in 1852 by Lydia Spencer Lane 9780857062000
£18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857062000Author Lydia Spencer LaneFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 381g -
Plains Women: Two Accounts of American Women on the Western Frontier---I Married a Soldier or Old Days in the Old Army & Across the Plains to California in 1852 by Lydia Spencer Lane 9780857061997
£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061997Author Lydia Spencer LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 249g -
History of the Art of War Within the Framework of Political History: Antiquity by Hans Delbruck 9780837163659
£83.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837163659Author Hans DelbruckFormat HardbackPage Count 604Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
American Military Leaders by Joseph G. Dawson 9780275931391
£48.68This book is an abridged edition of the critically acclaimed, three-volume Dictionary of American Military Biography (Greenwood Press, 1984). The scope of the original work encompassed a much wider range of people than soldiers; it included politicians,... -
Truman, MacArthur, and the Korean War by Dennis D. Wainstock 9780313308376
£83.24A general history of the critical first year of the Korean War, this study deals primarily with relations between General Douglas MacArthur and President Harry S. Truman from June 1950 to April 1951, a period that defined the war's direction until...