Warfare & defence books

This account of the deep-rooted ethnic and ideological divisions in Southern Africa explores the ways in which this...  Read More >>

From Agrippa to Zhukov via Cromwell, Hitler, Napoleon, and Schwarzkopf, the 3,000 entries in this reference work...  Read More >>

While popular images of the British Raj are saturated with images and memories of military campaigns, remarkably...  Read More >>

A few years before he died, James MacGibbon confessed to his closest family members that he had spied for the Soviet...  Read More >>

Covers the USS Stevens (DD-479), one of the 175 Fletcher-class destroyers, and considered one of the finest world...  Read More >>

A French World War II fighter aircraft that saw combat service in North Africa, Bulgaria, and the Eastern Front....  Read More >>

Covers the best known Japanese World War II fighter type.  Read More >>

In 1825, the Empire of Brazil went to war with the Republic of Argentina. The pretext was control the control the...  Read More >>

A revised work concerning the Mirage 2000.  Read More >>

Trapped by Evil and Deceit is a historical account of true events that reads like a political thriller.Amazingly,...  Read More >>

In the aftermath of the Civil War, thousands of former slaves made their way from the South to the Kansas plains....  Read More >>

This manual provides information on the operation, components, and systems of aircraft power plants. The turbine...  Read More >>

The book ambitiously weaves together history and politics to explain all of the major situations where mass atrocities...  Read More >>

How is foreign policy made in Iraq? Based on dozens of interviews with senior officials and politicians, this book...  Read More >>

In January 1943, when the ""U.S. Submachine Gun, Caliber .45, M3"" was officially adopted, it was a step into the...  Read More >>

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For the first time in print, 'Death or Glory' tells the full story of the 17th/21st Lancers in peace and war. Much...  Read More >>

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Powered by twin General Motors diesel engines, the M4A2 Sherman was the standard tank of the US Marine Corps during...  Read More >>

<b>This is a concise but comprehensive biography of David Farragut, one of America's most celebrated naval officers...  Read More >>

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This book, first published in 1980, provides a detailed analysis of the East German army in the last decade of the...  Read More >>

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This book, first published in 1961, is an analysis of the great struggle of the twentieth century, the Cold War....  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1981, examines the influences affecting Soviet military thinking planning and theory...  Read More >>