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Manifest Ambition: James K. Polk and Civil-Military Relations during the Mexican War by John C. Pinheiro 9780275984090
£55.96This is not another chronological retelling of the Mexican War. Instead, it examines civil-military clashes during the war in light of Jacksonian politics and the American citizen-soldier tradition, looking at events that shed light on civilian authority... -
Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy by Paul D. Escott 9780275983130
£83.24Never before or since in American history have the needs and influence of the military weighed so heavily on society. Escott analyzes the militarization of life in the Confederacy and probes the relationships between military commanders, legislators, and... -
Military Transformation and Modern Warfare: A Reference Handbook by Elinor C. Sloan 9780275994051
£65.53Military transformation can be understood as comprising three overlapping and sometimes competing layers-the conventional-force dominated revolution in military affairs, a more recent irregular warfare emphasis, and a wider dimension including homeland... -
Prisoners of War: A Reference Handbook by Arnold Krammer 9780275993009
£65.53America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with a new, faceless enemy and the rules of war and the torture of POWs are open to... -
Military Education: A Reference Handbook by Cynthia A. Watson 9780275992194
£65.53Professional Military Education (PME) is broader and more rigorous than is widely understood in the United States. Improving educational programs within the military service branches is at the very center of ongoing force transformation efforts and... -
UN Peacekeeping: Myth and Reality by Andrzej Sitkowski 9780275992149
£52.67In this book, Andrzej Sitkowski confronts two basic peacekeeping myths. First, the belief that peacekeeping is separate from peace enforcement blurs this difference and undermines the viability of peacekeeping operations. Secondly, it is widely believed... -
NATO Divided, NATO United: The Evolution of an Alliance by Lawrence S. Kaplan 9780275980061
£55.96This history of NATO concentrates on the differences within the alliance, particularly between the US and its European partners. NATO's war against terrorism began on September 11, 2001. Invoking Article 5 was a fitting response to the assault on the... -
Phoenix from the Ashes: The Indian Army in the Burma Campaign by Daniel P. Marston, D. Phil. 9780275980030
£95.82In June 1942 the Indian Army suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Japanese Army and subsequently endured its longest retreat ever. The Japanese forces had proved more mobile in tactics and more motivated and seasoned in warfare. As a result, the... -
Between the Lines: Banditti of the American Revolution by Harry M. Ward 9780275976330
£65.93The Revolutionary War was not a polite conflict between orderly troops and gentlemanly officers. Civilians on the home front suffered considerably. This account depicts the ugly side of the War for Independence, where roving bands of robbers, known as... -
Black Soldiers, White Wars: Black Warriors from Antiquity to the Present by William E. Alt 9780275976217
£65.53This overview explores the use of black people, either through coercion or enticement, in the armed forces of predominantly white societies in times of crisis when the supply of white soldiers was exhausted or when whites refused to fill the ranks of a... -
Hijacking and Hostages: Government Responses to Terrorism by J. Paul de B. Taillon 9780275974688
£72.17Terrorism and its manifestations continue to evolve, becoming deadlier and more menacing. This study considers the evolution of terrorism since 1968 and how airlines and governments have attempted to deal with this form of violence through a series of... -
Backwater War: The Allied Campaign in Italy, 1943-1945 by Edwin P. Hoyt 9780275974787
£39.89A year before the much-heralded second front was opened at Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italy-an assault that was marked by argument and dissent from beginning to end, highlighting the fundamental differences in strategic... -
Korea Under the American Military Government, 1945-1948 by Bonnie B. C. Oh 9780275974565
£98.74This collection, edited by Distinguished Professor of Korean Studies Bonnie B. C. Oh, helps to fill a considerable gap in the English-language literature on Korea and the United States. Although much has been written about Korea in the Japanese colonial... -
Vanguard of American Atomic Deterrence: The Sandia Pioneers, 1946-1949 by James L. Abrahamson 9780275978198
£83.24In August of 1946, General Leslie Groves, Chief of the Manhattan Project, ordered 60 young officers to Sandia, New Mexico. In a project so wrapped in secrecy that few know of it even a half-century later, Groves charged them to learn how to assemble the... -
Shaping American Military Capabilities after the Cold War by Richard Lacquement 9780275977641
£83.24For more than 40 years, U.S. defense policy and the design of military capabilities were driven by the threat to national security posed by the Soviet Union and its allies. As the Soviet Union collapsed, analysts wondered what effect this dramatic change... -
Righteous Deception: German Officers Against Hitler by David A. Johnson 9780275969530
£48.28In the spring of 1944, Adolf Hitler firmly believed that the Allies would invade the Continent by landing troops on the beaches of Normandy, but anti-Nazi officers in German Intelligence ultimately persuaded him that Normandy would be a mere diversion... -
Peace and War: The Arab-Israeli Military Balance Enters the 21st Century by Anthony H. Cordesman 9780275969394
£84.24The uncertain Arab-Israeli peace process has scarcely put an end to the threat of war in the Middle East. Israel's relations with its Arab neighbors remain tense, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is a problem for the entire region, and... -
A Tragedy of Arms: Military and Security Developments in the Maghreb by Anthony H. Cordesman 9780275969363
£95.82The Maghreb--Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia--is a region overburdened by unnecessary military expenditures. Despite persistent civil conflicts and militarized regimes in a number of countries in the region, there are actually few genuine external... -
The War for South Viet Nam, 1954-1975, 2nd Edition by Anthony James Joes 9780275968076
£39.49Like 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... -
The U.S. Navy in World War I: Combat at Sea and in the Air by A. B. Feuer 9780275962128
£83.24When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, the clamoring in the press for a strong army largely overshadowed the need for considerable naval contributions to the war effort. Although it was small at the time, the U.S. Navy transported... -
Commando!: The M/Z Unit's Secret War Against Japan by A. B. Feuer 9780275954086
£83.24This little-known story of Australia's M/Z Unit commandos, and the part they played in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, is a fascinating account of daring, clandestine operations conducted by the Allies deep into enemy-held territory. M Unit... -
World Military Leaders: A Collective and Comparative Analysis by Mostafa Rejai 9780275953867
£83.24Focusing on 45 military leaders from four continents and 13 countries, spread across four centuries, this study paints, for the first time, a collective, comparative portrait of high-ranking military officers. The authors develop an interactional theory... -
The Raiders of 1862 by James D. Brewer 9780275954048
£83.24During 1862, a pivotal year in the War Between the States, Southern cavalry leaders Brig. Gen. Frank C. Armstrong, Brig. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest, and Brig. Gen. John H. Morgan conducted cavalry raids that had both an immediate tactical effect and a... -
Navies and Shipbuilding Industries: The Strained Symbiosis by Michael Lindberg 9780275953102
£83.24The central theme running through this book is the mutual dependence of navies and shipbuilding industries. Historically, naval ambitions and the ambitions of industrialists converge, and a symbiosis is born. The technical competence of industry emerges... -
The Operational Art: Developments in the Theories of War by B. J. C. McKercher 9780275953058
£83.24This work considers the modern antecedants and evolution of the operational art in military thought and practice in both peace and wartime. This theme is developed over time and across military cultures. A comparative framework allows the treatment of... -
The Key to the Bulge: The Battle for Losheimergraben by Stephen Rusiecki 9780275953027
£83.24Major Rusiecki tells the story of a pitched and decisive battle that unhinged the German plan for a swift and successful counteroffensive in December 1944 (a battle that was the key to the counteroffensive later called the Battle of the Bulge). A lone... -
When Soldiers Quit: Studies in Military Disintegration by Bruce Allen Watson 9780275952235
£83.24After an introduction showing three examples of military disintegration, the author examines six historical occurrences in depth: The India Mutiny of 1857; the 1917 French Army mutinies; the depredations following the British siege of San Sebastian,... -
Girding for Battle: The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815-1940 by Donald J. Stoker 9780275973391
£83.24The literature on the post-1950 arms trade is exhaustive. In contrast, there is almost nothing that examines the pre-1950 trade in arms in a solid, empirical manner. This volume fills that void. It is a broad collection of articles that examines aspects... -
War in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1700-1789 by Armstrong Starkey 9780275972400
£95.42War in the 18th century war was a complex operation, including popular as well as conventional conflict, between Europeans and with non-Europeans. These conflicts influenced European intellectuals and contributed to the complexity of Enlightenment... -
From Garrison State to Nation-State: Political Power and the Russian Military under Gorbachev and Yeltsin by John P. Moran 9780275972172
£83.24Why has the military not intervened in the post-communist political arena since the advent of democracy in Russia? Do lowered levels of professionalism actually lead to higher levels of intervention? Through a systematic exploration of professionalism... -
Right Backed by Might: The International Air Force Concept by Roger Beaumont 9780275971724
£83.24This study provides an overview of the International Air Force (IAF) concept, which emerged in the early 20th century out of a long progression of schemes for creating multi-national armed forces to enforce the peace, most often referred to as an... -
Nazi Refugee Turned Gestapo Spy: The Life of Hans Wesemann, 1895-1971 by James J. Barnes 9780275971243
£83.24Why would a journalist who was an ardent socialist and an anti-Nazi during the waning years of the Weimar Republic decide to go to work for the Gestapo abroad? Hans Wesemann, a veteran of World War I and a successful journalist, fled his native Germany... -
Stronger than Custom: West Point and the Admission of Women by Robert Lance Janda 9780275971137
£83.24The gender barrier that stood for nearly two centuries at the United States Military Academy was toppled in 1976. Based on more than one hundred interviews, thousands of pages of Academy documents, and a wide array of secondary sources, this is the first... -
Commanding Change: War Winning Military Strategies for Organizational Change by Murray Davies 9780275971106
£83.24The process of military change management must be as well planned and as well led as any other military operation. This book considers the complex and challenging area of change management within military organizations. While the military can learn a lot... -
Treading Softly: U.S. Marines in China, 1819-1949 by George B. Clark 9780275970789
£83.24From the mid-19th century to the early Cold War, the United States has a long history with China, and that interaction has not always been positive or productive. This brief history of foreign intervention in China, viewed through the experiences of the... -
Caesar Against Rome: The Great Roman Civil War by Ramon Jimenez 9780275966201
£65.93Caesar Against Rome is an absorbing narrative of the four-year Roman Civil War that began with Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon in 49 BCE. Focusing always on Caesar, the book sketches a panorama of Roman society-the first society to display the ambition,... -
The Withered Vine: Logistics and the Communist Insurgency in Greece, 1945-1949 by Charles R. Shrader 9780275965440
£83.64An explanation of the failure of the Communist insurgency in Greece between 1945 and 1949, this study provides a striking lesson in what happens to an armed revolutionary movement when it lacks adequate manpower and logistical resources, and is divided... -
Iran's Military Forces in Transition: Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction by Anthony H. Cordesman 9780275965297
£83.64Iran today is still struggling with the legacy of its own Islamic revolution, and is deeply divided between the moderates who enjoy broad public support and the conservatives who control the levers of power. The mixed policies that result are reflected... -
Iraq and the War of Sanctions: Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction by Anthony H. Cordesman 9780275965280
£84.24Since the Gulf War, Iraq has attempted to win through confrontation, diplomacy, and bluster what it could not achieve on the battlefield. Defense analyst Anthony Cordesman suggests that this war of sanctions may be a struggle that Iraq has begun to win... -
Mountain Partisans: Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861-1865 by Sean O'Brien 9780275964306
£83.64This is the story of a civil war within the Civil War. Many mountain whites in Southern Appalachia opposed the Confederacy, especially when the South's conscription and impressment policies began to cause severe hardships. Deserters from the Rebel army...