Warfare & defence books

This book addresses the causes of civilian targeting during counterinsurgency campaigns in occupied territories....  Read More >>

Political Leadership in Africa (1983) reviews the different types of leadership in Africa, ranging from the beneficial...  Read More >>

Military Expenditure in Third World Countries (1986) analyses the economic dimensions of military spending in less...  Read More >>

In Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away, Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson tell the stories of twelve...  Read More >>

An overdue reassessment of one of the US Navy's most decorated--and divisive--early commanders, whose legacy remains...  Read More >>

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The Silent Killer: The Rise and Fall of the USS Scorpion takes you deep into the heart of one of the most mysterious...  Read More >>

Black Sheep at Altitude: ""Pappy"" Boyington and the Discipline of Marine Air is a sweeping World War II aviation...  Read More >>

Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the Known World - The Relentless Campaigns That Reshaped Civilization by Rufus Ceejay...  Read More >>

In The Battle of Red Cliffs: Fire Ships, River Fog, and China's Legendary Naval Victory, Jack Whitaker tells the...  Read More >>

In The Battle of Majuba Hill: A Stunning Reverse in the First Boer War, Jack Whitaker recounts the dramatic clash...  Read More >>

The Secret History of the Hawker Hurricane The Hawker Hurricane is often remembered as the Spitfire's sturdier...  Read More >>

Ein Ring, ein Brautkleid, ein Schlauchboot und ein Regenwassertank - diese Gegenstände sind Teil der Geschichte...  Read More >>

This book, in two volumes, attempts to explain the technology developments that evolved in the period from 1900...  Read More >>

MASTERS OF WAR: WILLIAM SLIM Field Marshal William Slim transformed one of history's most catastrophic defeats...  Read More >>

The Battle of Waterloo is commonly remembered as a clean and decisive ending: one final clash that closed the Napoleonic...  Read More >>

This document deals with questions of belonging, where author tries to unravel a modernizing civilization through...  Read More >>

The Devouring follows the Lovara family-horse-traders, musicians, and metalworkers-from the vibrant, itinerant life...  Read More >>

Examines and analyses how the Soviet tank forces that fought at Stalingradwere rejuvenated in the months leading...  Read More >>

Fiercely fought with all the latest weaponry of World War I, Italy’s Adriatic campaign is the forgotten war of the...  Read More >>

An illustrated study of the development and operations of coalition and Afghan Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan...  Read More >>

An illustrated study of the famous Heinkel He 219 – the Luftwaffe's only pupose-built nightfighter – and its role...  Read More >>

What if the monsters were never monsters at all? In 1968, a schoolteacher in Iowa divided her classroom by eye...  Read More >>

This colourful study describes and illustrates the troops of the Seleucid Empire in West Asia throughout its turbulent...  Read More >>

An in-depth study of the ground campaign led by the US and Coalition forces against Iraq in the Gulf War.  Read More >>