Military category: 34701 books
The Normandy Campaign: 1944: Sixty Years On
Sixty Years On
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2006
With essays from leading names in military history, this new book re-examines the crucial issues and debates of the D-Day campaign.
It tackles a range of core topics, placing them in their current historiographical context, to present new and sometimes revisionist interpretations of key issues,...
Cold War Casualty
The Court-Martial of Major General Robert W. Grow
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
New research data gathered through the Freedom of Information Act and the first use of the Grow files provide the framework for this absorbing account of the general court-martial of one of General George S. Patton’s famous armored division commanders of World War II.
The 1952 court-martial...
by Colonel John R. Quantrill
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
On 21 June 1941 Churchill relieved General Archibald Wavell from command in the Middle East. This action followed a series of set-backs in the theatre during which Churchill had direct dealings with Wavell. Given the significant internal conflict within the British High Command during World War I,...
by Major Kirk M. Kloeppel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The Tomahawk cruise missile, the conventional Air Launched Cruise missile, and the SCUD surface-to-surface missile each made an impact during the Gulf War. The cruise missiles were instrumental in incapacitating the Iraqi electrical network. The SCUD missile was not as successful, but did divert the...
French Tanks of the Great War
Development, Tactics and Operations
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The French tank corps was an essential part of the French army from 1917 onwards, yet its history has been strangely neglected in English accounts of the Western Front – and that is why Tim Gale's meticulously researched history is such a timely addition to the literature on the First World War....
World War II
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In the First World War many battles of the Western Front lasted for weeks or several months, all too often degenerating into glacial and indecisive campaigns of national attrition. By the 1930s, however, military science had recreated the possibility of a decisive battle. An unprecedented rate of...
by Clayton B. Kyker
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The Red Army’s defeat of the Germans during the Second World War is one of the great achievements in military history. The military man most responsible for that victory was Marshal Georgi Zhukov. Though less well known than some of his German or allied counterparts, Zhukov was a brilliant practitioner...
The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History
The Colonial Period to 1877
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History provides a comprehensive analysis of the major events, conflicts, and personalities that have defined and shaped the military history of the United States. This volume, The Colonial Period to 1877, illuminates the early period of American...
Intimate Strategies of the Civil War
Military Commanders and Their Wives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
From Robert E. and Mary Lee to Ulysses S. and Julia Grant, Intimate Strategies of the Civil War examines the marriages of twelve prominent military commanders, highlighting the impact wives had on their famous husbands' careers. Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon assemble an impressive array of...
War of Intervention in Angola. Volume 1
Angolan and Cuban Forces at War, 1975-1976
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
As of 1975, the decades long insurgency in Angola appeared to be short of its conclusion. However, with no less than three major insurgent movements fighting for supremacy, the war went on and then South Africa, USA, the Soviet Union, Zaire and Cuba became involved.
Affairs like the CIA’s...
Syrian Conflagration
The Syrian Civil War, 2011-2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
The Syrian Civil War, (the colloquial name of the ongoing conflict in Syria), has experienced an entirely unexpected transformation during its first two years. It started as unrest within the Syrian population and a series of mass demonstrations within the context of wider protest movements in the...
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by John Codman Ropes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations.
John Codman Ropes was not only a lawyer of the first order, but also a military history of great note. Intimately involved in supporting troops from his native Massachusetts in the American...
Hannibal's Last Battle
Zama & the Fall of Carthage
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
A “crisply written, well researched . . . superb piece of scholarship about one of the most dramatic and decisive battles in the ancient world” (Journal of Military History).
At Zama (in what is now Tunisia) in 202 BC, the armies of two great empires clashed: the Romans under Scipio Africanus...
Dervish
The Rise and Fall of an African Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Dervish is the vivid and colourful story of one of the more remarkable episodes in the ‘high Empire’ period of British history. The Mahdi’s rising in the Sudan in the 1880s starting as a localized Holy War against the ‘decadent’ Turkish/Egyptian overlords, engulfed a million square miles...