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The Book of War: 25 Centuries of Great War Writing

de John Keegan

Acclaimed military historian John Keegan’s anthology of war writing from 25 centuries of battle

In The Book of War, John Keegan marshals a formidable host of war writings to chronicle the evolution of Western...

The Mighty Fallen

de Larry Bond & f-stop Fitzgerald

The Mighty Fallen is a beautiful, evocative presentation of more than 150 never-before-seen photographs of the nation's greatest monuments and war memorials, along with text that describes the memorials and...

In the Cockpit 2: Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II

de National Air and Space Museum

In the Cockpit II: Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II provides close-up access to the instrument panels, controls, and crew stations of 34 legendary World War II aircraft in the Smithsonian National...

The Pig War: The Most Perfect War in History

de E C Coleman

With a plot to grace any comic opera, the 1859-1872 'Pig War' broke out when an American living on a quietly disputed small island in the Gulf of Georgia shot a British pig he found rooting up his garden produce....

German Schoolboy, British Commando: Churchill's Secret Soldier

de Helen Fry

Claus Ascher's father, a German Jew, was one of Hitler's political opponents during the 1930s, which led to his arrest, imprisonment and murder in Dachau in 1937. Claus managed to escape to Britain, become a...

Today Is A Good Day To Fight: The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West

de Mark Felton

Blood, guts, dust and hatred: the real history of the American West. Today Is A Good Day To Fight covers the period from the initial penetration of the region by settlers and prospectors in the 1840s until the...

Voices of Silence: The Alternative Book of First World War Poetry

de Vivien Noakes

The poetry of the First World War has determined our perception of the war itself. This volume features poetry drawn from old newspapers and journals, trench and hospital magazines, individual volumes of verse,...

US Marine Corps Handbook 1941-45

de George Forty

Employing a range of archive black and white photographs, this book examines the US Marine Corps' organisation and command structure, strategy, tactics and amphibious assault doctrine. Providing biographies...

Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation

de William C. Hannas, James Mulvenon & Anna B. Puglisi

This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China's efforts to acquire foreign technology.

Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare China's efforts...

Trafalgar's Lost Hero: Admiral Lord Collingwood and the Defeat of Napoleon

de Max Adams

Trafalgar's Lost Hero introduces the man whose real-life exploits have been attributed to the likes of Horatio Alger and Jack Aubrey. Never seeking the public acclaim craved by his closest friend and comrade...

Shadow Voyage: The Extraordinary Wartime Escape of the Legendary SS Bremen

de Peter A. Huchthausen

A fast-paced, little-known story of danger at sea on the eve of World War II

On the sweltering evening of August 30, 1939, the German luxury liner S.S. Bremen slipped her moorings on Manhattan's west side, abandoned...

Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership

de Keith Yellin & Thomas W. Benson

A commanding study of the motivational speech of military leaders across the centuries.

Pistols at Dawn: A History of Duelling

de John Norris

In modern society the thought that someone would organise a deadly competition with a rival, risking his life over a point of honour, is incomprehensible. That this form of resolution would become an accepted...

The Battle of Aughrim 1691

de Michael Mcnally

With over 60,000 combatants, the Battle of the Boyne, which took place on 1 July 1690 was the largest battle ever fought on Irish soil, and has long been regarded as the pivotal event of the Williamite War....

Loos 1915

de Nick Lloyd

In little over three weeks of intensive fighting, which not only witnessed the first British use of poison gas, but also the debut of New Army divisions filled with citizen volunteers, British forces at Loos...

The First Battle of Newbury 1643

de John Barratt

A history of the crucial battle of Newbury, fought during the English Civil War.

The King's Most Loyal Enemy Aliens: Germans Who Fought for Britain in the Second World War

de Helen Fry

This book presents the story of the 10,000 German and Austrian nationals who fled Nazi persecution to volunteer and serve in the British forces, donn the King's uniform, swear allegiance to George VI and become...

The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis

de Kevin Dougherty & J. Michael Moore

The largest offensive of the Civil War, involving army, navy, and marine forces, the Peninsula Campaign has inspired many history books. No previous work, however, analyzes Union general George B. McClellan's...

Death of the Chesapeake: A History of the Military's Role in Polluting the Bay

de Richard Albright

In essence this book deals with an area that contributes significantly to the pollution and degradation of Chesapeake Bay, but has been completely overlooked in many of the efforts to restore the Bay, specifically,...

Ethics and the Laws of War: The Moral Justification of Legal Norms

de Antony Lamb

This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war.

Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited,...