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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... -
The Pacific War: Japan versus the Allies by Alan Levine 9780275951023
£83.24Nineteen ninety-five is a year of celebration and remembrance of the Axis collapse that signaled the end of the Second World War. In August, the world will mark the 50th anniversary of V-J Day. Particularly important, then, is this new historical study o... -
Shadow of Suribachi: Raising the Flags on Iwo Jima by Parker B. Albee 9780275950637
£83.24For nearly 50 years myth has surrounded the American flag raisings on Suribachi. This book presents the first complete and accurate account of those controversial events. The battle for Iwo Jima was a classic, seminal event of World War II, and Joe... -
Naval Warfare in the Baltic, 1939-1945: War in a Narrow Sea by Charles W. Koburger 9780275950279
£65.93Previous books written about naval warfare in the Baltic from 1939 to 1945 focus only on single navies, while the role of smaller secondary players--the Finnish, Danish or Swedish navies--tends to be ignored. This book looks at the overall picture, with... -
On Armor by Bruce I. Gudmundsson 9780275950194
£83.24On Armor tells three important and interconnected stories. The first is a tale of a technology, in particular, the rise and fall of the main battle tank-a type of armored vehicle that came to dominate land warfare in the middle of the 20th century but is... -
The U.S. Air Service In the Great War: 1917-1919 by James J. Cooke 9780275948627
£83.64When the United States went to war in April 1917 the Army's Air Service had one squadron of obsolete aircraft. By November 1918 the Air Service had aero squadrons which were specialized in air combat, observation, bombing, and photography. Each combat... -
The OSS Norwegian Special Operations Group in World War II by Bruce H. Heimark 9780275948603
£74.38The Operational Groups (OGs) are the unsung heroes of the OSS, and this story is about the Norwegian OGs, who operated deep behind enemy lines in France in 1944, and in Norway, China, and Indochina in 1945. OGs were the Infantry of the OSS. They were... -
War, Chaos, and History by Roger Beaumont 9780275949495
£77.00War, Chaos, and History considers the implications of the emerging field of research in chaos-complexity-non-linearity for the study of war. This study examines the special dependence of military professionals on history in their shaping of doctrines,... -
Franco-American Naval Relations, 1940-1945 by Charles W. Koburger 9780275946395
£65.53In the United States there has been a wide divergence of views on the role of France's Navy in World War II. We have tended to remain trapped by wartime half-truths. This book attempts to set the record straight. Koburger's study discusses the history of... -
KGB: Death and Rebirth by Martin Ebon 9780275946333
£83.24It was official. In 1991, two months after an abortive coup in August, the KGB was pronounced dead. But was it really? In KGB: Death and Rebirth, Martin Ebon, a writer long engaged in the study of foreign affairs, maintains that the notorious secret... -
The Rainbow Division in the Great War: 1917-1919 by James J. Cooke 9780275947682
£92.50The Rainbow Division (42nd Infantry Division) was the premier National Guard division to fight on the Western Front in the Great War. Made up of units from 26 states and the District of Columbia, the Rainbow was a unique attempt to combine units from... -
Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill by James H. Hallas 9780275947262
£65.53On May 12, 1945, the 6th Marine Division was nearing Naha, capital of Okinawa. To the division's front lay a low, loaf-shaped hill. It looked no different from other hills seized with relative ease over the past few days. But this hill, soon to be... -
The Day the War Began by Archie Satterfield 9780275942519
£65.53December 7, 1941, is one of those days engraved in the twentieth century memory. It is a landmark day, along with Armistice Day in 1918, the stock market crash in 1929, and the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. This book is about ordinary... -
Hitler's Mind: A Plunge into Madness by Edleff H. Schwaab 9780275941321
£83.24This unique book is a comprehensive analysis of Hitler written by a psychologist. The author goes beyond the prevalent Freudian interpretations of Hitler as the victim of a traumatic childhood by explaining the inner world of Hitler's ideas and visions... -
Military History and the Military Profession by Marc Milner 9780275940720
£83.24This volume examines the state of the art in modern military history, and the utility of the subject as a training, educational, and policy-relevant tool for professional armed forces. Part 1 explores the state of military historical writing in Britain... -
Target Hitler: The Plots to Kill Adolf Hitler by James P. Duffy 9780275940379
£65.53The infamous reign of Adolf Hitler occurred half a century ago, but how he managed to escape so many attempts on his life remains a mystery. Target Hitler addresses the subject anew and is the only book for general audiences which recounts this... -
The Military Committee of the North Atlantic Alliance: A Study of Structure and Strategy by Douglas L. Bland 9780275937126
£83.64Focusing on the Military Committee of the North Atlantic Alliance and its role in shaping NATO, this book examines the development in Western societies of structures for Allied civil-military relationships and their influence on Western alliance since... -
Go Spy the Land: Military Intelligence in History by Professor Keith Neilson 9780275937089
£65.53For too long military history has ignored the role of intelligence. As a result, many people do not realize that military intelligence has played a significant role in history. However, intelligence gathering, evaluation, and analysis has always been... -
American POWs of World War II: Forgotten Men Tell Their Stories by Tom Bird 9780275937072
£83.24During World War II, thousands of American servicemen were taken prisoner by the Axis powers. They were beaten and tortured; over half never reached home again. Of those who did, many never fully recovered from what they saw, what they lived through, and... -
The Great Indian Mutiny: Colin Campbell and the Campaign at Lucknow by Bruce Watson 9780275938345
£65.53In 1857-1858, rebels in northern India recruited tens of thousands of civilian volunteers in a mutiny that threatened to engulf the entire subcontinent. This study explores a fundamental question never explicitly investigated in histories of the mutiny:... -
The French Navy in Indochina: Riverine and Coastal Forces, 1945-54 by Charles W. Koburger 9780275938338
£92.10This narrative history of the French Navy in Indochina from 1945 to 1954 draws on recently published French language sources, as well as English sources, to create a detailed, highly readable account of the critical first ten years of the 30-year war in... -
Combat Diary: Episodes from the History of the Twenty-Second Regiment, 1866-1905 by A. B. Feuer 9780275939298
£65.53Feuer has fine-tuned our understanding of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection by unearthing and publishing for the first time an illuminating combat diary. . . . Serious students of American military history will appreciate the... -
Forgotten Warriors: Combat Art from Vietnam by Dennis L. Noble 9780275938680
£74.38A multitude of literary and cinematic works were spawned by the Vietnam war, but this is a unique book, combining moving prose with powerful illustrations created by combat artists in the U.S. military. Dr. Noble has assembled a remarkable collection of... -
Campfollowing: A History of the Military Wife by Betty Sowers Alt 9780275937218
£65.53We know that a supportive family is the key to a person's success. It is fascinating to read a history of military wives that begins to give them the credit they deserve for service to their country and their families. Patricia Schroeder U.S... -
Gorbachev's Military Policy in the Third World by Mark N. Katz 9780275933418
£30.71Mark Katz's highly readable and useful overview of Soviet military interest in the Third World will be an important resource for anyone doing research in this field. Francis Fukuyama, Deputy Director for East-West Relations, Policy Planning Staff, U.S... -
Gorbachev's Military Policy in the Third World by Mark N. Katz 9780275933401
£60.35Mark Katz's highly readable and useful overview of Soviet military interest in the Third World will be an important resource for anyone doing research in this field. Francis Fukuyama, Deputy Director for East-West Relations, Policy Planning Staff, U.S... -
Narrow Seas, Small Navies, and Fat Merchantmen: Naval Strategies for the 1990s by Charles W. Koburger 9780275935573
£83.24According to Charles W. Koburger, Jr., the naval world has been turned upside down and the United States is not prepared for it. Most naval thought has been written for large blue water ships isolated on the open sea. But low-intensity... -
Guderian's XIXth Panzer Corps and the Battle of France: Breakthrough in the Ardennes, May 1940 by Florian K. Rothbrust 9780275934736
£83.24Certain to become the definitive work in English on the Battle of France, this volume is a long overdue and much needed correction to all previous English accounts. With extensive use of primary sources and strong secondary sources, it places us closer...