Praeger, 2006. — 337 p. Sure to be found controversial by some, compelling by all, this is the only available book-length examination of the way the U.S. Army and Department of Defense have tried to create the capabilities promised by the high-tech Revolution in Military Affairs. Of more immediate concern, it is also the only in-depth account of the effect RMA and...
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. — 275 p. The Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans is very pleased to see its first conference volume published. The Eisenhower Center is a small research center studying the life and times of General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a man who shaped two crucial decades (1940-1960) as few men did in the...
Bloomsbury Press, 2009. — 699 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60819-180-2. The end of the Cold War promised a new, more peaceful era was at hand. But with the escalation of violence by terrorists, insurgents, and guerillas, former CIA director James Woolsey said "After forty-five years of fighting a dragon we finally killed it, and now instead, we find ourselves standing in a jungle with a...
Canelo, 2018. — 378 p. The true story of one young naval officer's journey to war. Spring 1982. The government of Argentina seizes control of an obscure group of islands in the South Atlantic. And the Falklands War, the last great naval conflict of the 20th century, is about to begin. On board HMS Illustrious a young naval officer, James Barrington, started keeping a diary -...
Routledge, 2015. — 335 p. — ISBN: 1138919233, 1138919365. Extensively illustrated with 52 detailed campaign and battle maps and diagrams, this book, originally published in 1990, surveys the evolution of warfare in Europe from Napoleon to the end of the twentieth century and in Asia from the Middle Ages. It considers the interaction of technology and warfare. With wide-ranging...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 198 p. Operating from outside their homelands, exile armies have been an understudied phenomenon in history and international politics. From avoiding the fate of being a mere tool for a patron power to facing issues regarding their military efficacy and political legitimacy, exiled armies have found their journey home a tortuous one. This collection...
Detroit: U-X-L, 2001. — 287 p. Reader’s Guide Korean War Timeline Words to Know Biographies: Dean Acheson Omar N. Bradley Chiang Kai-shek Mark W. Clark William F. Dean Dwight D. Eisenhower Marguerite Higgins Kim Il Sung Douglas MacArthur Jacob A. Malik Mao Zedong Joseph McCarthy John J. Muccio Paik Sun Yup Pak Hön-yöng Peng Dehuai Syngman Rhee Matthew B. Ridgway Anna Rosenberg...
Harper Collins Canada, 2008. — 386 p. In The Fighting Canadians, David J. Bercuson tells Canadian history through the eyes, ears and colours of Canadian regiments. From the 17th century, when the “Good Regiment,” the Carignan-salières, fought the Mohawks at Courcelles, to the Newfoundland Regiment’s valiant but brutal stand at Beaumont-Hamel in the Battle of the somme, from the...
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. — 400 p. “It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual...
Geneza i pierwszy okres największego powstania kozackiego pod przywództwem Bohdana Chmielnickiego, które na pół wieku wplątało Rzeczpospolitą w wojny prawie ze wszystkimi sąsiadami. Szczegółowy opis bitwy nad Żółtymi Wodami i pod Korsuniem, w czasie których Kozacy i Tatarzy pobili całą armię koronną.
London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 301 p. The modern age of naval warfare began with the combination of steam power, iron warships, and modern artillery, which launched an intense period of international competition. Tracing naval warfare from the 1860s into the future, noted historian Jeremy Black provides a dynamic account of strategy and warfare worldwide. He...
Routledge; Taylor & Francis, 1999. — 268 p. Conflict is central to human history and is frequently the cause, course and consequence of change. Yet the study of war, especially prior to the modern period, is a subject that has received insufficient attention in academic circles over the past four decades. Furthermore, most of that attention has been devoted to warfare in...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 326 p. As centers for defense and bases for attack since ancient times, fortifications are a crucial aspect of military history. Indeed, as Jeremy Black shows, the history of fortifications is a global history of humanity itself. Moreover, their remains offer a still potent, often dramatic testimony to the past, notably through the...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 326 p. As centers for defense and bases for attack since ancient times, fortifications are a crucial aspect of military history. Indeed, as Jeremy Black shows, the history of fortifications is a global history of humanity itself. Moreover, their remains offer a still potent, often dramatic testimony to the past, notably through the...
Routledge, 2005. — 318 p. The World of War in the Late Eighteenth Century The American War of Independence, 1775–83 Before the French Revolution The French Revolutionary Wars, 1792–99 The rise of Napoleon Asian conflicts Naval power Empires Rise and Fall, 1800–30 The rise of Britain War in the Americas Napoleon Europe after Napoleon Developments elsewhere Moulding States,...
3rd Ed. — Routledge, 2019. — 367 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138484-19-9. Introduction to Global Military History provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments around the modern world from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Beginning with the background to the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary wars and ending with the recent...
Praeger Security, 2006. — 217 p. What is total war? Definitions abound, but one thing is certain — the concept of total war has come to be seen as a defining concept of the modern age. Celebrated historian Jeremy Black explores the rise and demise of an era of total war, which he defines in terms of the intensity of the struggle, the range (geographical and/or chronological) of...
Yale University Press, 1998. — 344 p. An attempt to write a global history of warfare in the modern era. Jeremy Black, here presents a wide-ranging account of the nature, purpose and experience of war over the last half millennium. Investigating both land and sea warfare, Black examines weaponry, tactics, strategy and resources as well as the political, social and cultural...
Liveright, 2013. — 784 p. As fitting for the twenty-first century as von Clausewitz’s On War was in its own time, Invisible Armies is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world — when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies — Max...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. - 403 p. Editor's Review - Library Journal vol. 133 iss. 7 p. 94(c) 04/15/2008 Brauer (economics) and van Tuyll (history), professors at Augusta State University, GA, here examine military history from the Middle Ages to the present through the lens of economics, intending to explain economic concepts in simple and accessible terms to...
Suffolk: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 283 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4725-0870-6, 978-1-4725-0502-6, 978-1-4725-1062-4, 978-1-4725-0790-7. A World History of War Crimes provides a truly global history of war crimes and the involvement of the legal systems faced with these acts. Documenting the long historical arc traced by human efforts to limit warfare, from codes of war in antiquity...
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 560 p. England's battlefields bear witness to dramatic turning-points in the country's history. At Hastings, Bosworth Field, Flodden and Naseby, the battles fought were to have an enormous effect on English life. This double volume, containing Burne's famous "Battlefields of England" and "More Battlefields of England" make it possible for readers to...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 371 p. Early Tudor Warfare, 1485–1558 Give Me Spirit: Joining and Training This Happy Breed of Men: Elizabethan Warfare, 1558–1603 Why Men Fought Those Were Golden Days: Early Stuart Warfare, 1603–1639 Low Intensity Combat: Campaigning All Diseas’d: Civil Wars and Commonwealth: Events, 1638–1660 Talk You of Killing: Civil Wars and Commonwealth:...
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Vol. 26 (1966), pp. 148-173. Published by: Harvard-Yenching Institute. DOI: 10.2307/2718463. Número de páginas: 26.
London: Future Publishing, 2019. — 129 p. — (Part of the All about History: Special Issue). “War is hell,” General William Sherman told graduates of the Michigan Military Academy in 1879. He had reason to say so – he had fought in the American Civil War, watching brother turn against brother and friend against friend. He had seen his country be torn in two and had tried to help...
Indiana University Press, 2011. — 168 p. Fighting in woods and forests is a very special form of war. Avoided by military commanders unless such terrain is to their advantage, for soldiers forest battles are a chaotic mix of dread, determination, and, all too often, death. Adversaries remain in constant fear of concealed ambush, casualties usually must be abandoned, and...
Routledge, 2008. — 223 p. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) plays a key role in Israeli society, and has traditionally been perceived not only as the guardian of national survival, but also as a 'people's army' responsible for the custody of national values. This volume analyses the circumstances currently undermining these perceptions, and explores both the changes occurring in...
Clarendon Press, 2000. — 360 p. — (The Origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Centuries). In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year that passed without either war or some demonstration of hostility between the many sovereign powers that governed Europe. This volume in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series focuses on the...
New York, NY: Quercus Publishing, 2011. — 320 p. From earliest times, women gained access to leadership in times of conflict and proved themselves equal to the challenge of commanding during war. Women leaders abounded in the ancient world from Ireland to Israel, sometimes through the accident of birth, but often rising to power through naked opportunism and raw courage in the...
Random House, 2008. — 800 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58836-733-4. Prologue: Ptolemy's Map. Caesars: the Contest for the Sea. Epicenter: the Battle for Malta. Endgame: Hurtling to Lepanto. Epilogue: Traces.
New York: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2016. — 269 p. The Sino-Indian border war of 1962 forms a major landmark in South Asian, Asian and Cold War history. Among others, it resulted in an unresolved conflict permanently hindering rapprochement between China and India, the establishment of the Sino-Pakistani axis, the deepening of the Sino-Soviet split and had a lasting impact on...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 260 p. This is a major study of the ideas and practices involved in the making and breaking of peace treaties and truces from Classical Greece to the time of the Crusades. Leading specialists on war and peace in ancient and medieval history examine the creation of peace agreements, and explore the extent to which their terms could be...
London: UBC Press, 2018. — 269 p. Military education was the lifeblood of the armies, navies, and air forces of the British Empire and an essential ingredient for success in both war and peace.Military Education and Empireis the first major scholarly work to address the role of military education in maintaining the empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
Frontline Books, 2016. — 304 p. From 1963 to 1966 Britain successfully waged a secret war to keep the Federation of Malaysia free from domination by Soekarno's Indonesia and by Chinese Communists. At the forefront of this campaign were the men of the Special Air Service – the SAS – an elite branch of the British military whose essence is secrecy and whose tools are boldness,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 220 p. Putting into question the conventional view that the military is detrimental to democratic development, Dolman provides a multifaceted examination of the institutional incentives of the military and its relations with civilian authorities. Drawing on classical political theory, a wide range of Historical examples (Ancient Sparta and Athens,...
Routledge, 2018. — 259 p. Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions brings together leading scholars in medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century, and Romantic studies. The assembled essays trace continuities and changes in the emotional register of war, as it has been mediated by the written record over six centuries. Through its wide selection of...
Pen and Sword Books Limited, 2015. — 320 p. — ISBN: 147382348X. Story of the 7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. With the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908 the battalion was re-designated as the 7th Battalion. It went to France in April 1915 with the rest of the Northumbrian Division seeing action almost immediately at the Second battle of Ypres. In November 1915 the...
Harper & Row, 1970. — 1432 p. Covers leaders, developments, and tactical and strategic trends, and offers historical analysis. Updated to cover the Iran-Iraq war, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the wars in Lebanon and the Falkland Islands
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 280 p. Approximately 2.5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U.S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and Michael Gibler have collected and compiled personal combat accounts from some of these war veterans. In modern warfare no deployment meets the expectations laid down by stories of Appomattox, Ypres,...
Ediciones del Prado, 1994. — 58 p. — (Osprey Military. Batallas de la historia). El año 1994, Ediciones del Prado publicó la colección Ejércitos y Batallas, compuesta por 78 libros de dos series diferentes: Batallas de la Historia pertenecía a la serie en inglés Campaign de la editorial Osprey; Tropas de élite pertenecía a las series Elite y Men at Arms de la misma prestigiosa...
Ediciones del Prado, 1994. — 58 p. — (Osprey Military. Batallas de la historia). El año 1994, Ediciones del Prado publicó la colección Ejércitos y Batallas, compuesta por 78 libros de dos series diferentes: Batallas de la Historia pertenecía a la serie en inglés Campaign de la editorial Osprey; Tropas de élite pertenecía a las series Elite y Men at Arms de la misma prestigiosa...
Springer Singapore, 2016. — 298 p. This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different fields of social and human sciences,...
Helion and Company, 2024. — 100 p. — ISBN: 9781804515785. Whenever one attempts to shed light on ongoing conflicts, the infamous ‘fog of war’ stands in the way, obscuring countless facts behind a veil of secrecy. Particularly within the realm of aerial warfare, this fog is ‘dense’ due to its intricacy, the inaccessibility of information, and the fact that aerial warfare is the...
Pen & Sword Books, 2009. — 394 p. This is the story of what Rudyard Kipling called 'the savage wars of peace'. Throughout Queen Victoria's long reign there was not a single year in which, somewhere in the world, British soldiers were not fighting for her and her Empire. It tells the fascinating story of the little known and extraordinary small wars, and of the men who fought...
New York: The Century Co, 1920. — 382 p. The evils of war are so heart-rending that every friend of the human race would greet with joy the coming of permanent peace, and would aid every movement tending to ensure it. Nevertheless until it is certain that war has actually been banished from the earth, armies and navies must be maintained. In order to give their country the...
Routledge, 2018. — 352 p. War in the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1600 is a panoramic synthesis of the Iberian Peninsula including the kingdoms of Leon and Castile, Aragon, Portugal, Navarra, al-Andalus and Granada. It offers an extensive chronology, covering the entire medieval period and extending through to the sixteenth century, allowing for a very broad perspective of Iberian...
Rosen, 2012. — 240 p. — ISBN: 144884794X. Chronicles military history throughout the world, from early warfare in antiquity to modern wars, and highlights important battles, key weapons, and notable military figures throughout history.
Yale University Press, 2013. — 456 p. A major new history of war that challenges our understanding of military dominance and how it is achieved. This expansive book surveys the history of warfare from ancient Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in search of a deeper understanding of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for its eminence today. Historian John France explores...
Brill, 2014. — 369 p. Entrepreneurs, Military Supply, and State Formation in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods: New Directions Jeff Fynn-Paul, Marjolein ’t Hart and Griet Vermeesch The Medieval Origins of Military Entrepreneurialism Military Enterprise in Florence at the Time of the Black Death, 1349–1350 William Caferro Military Entrepreneurs in the Crown of Aragon...
Rome, 1969. — 140 p. — (Analecta OSBM. Series II. Section I: Works, Vol. XXIV). The Thirty Years War, which occurred іп the first half of the seventeenth century (1618-1648), may be considered the first all European war іп terms of its participants and its extent. The activities of the major European powers іп this war have been examined іп great detail by many scholars....
Rome, 1983. — 140 p. — (Analecta OSBM. Series II. Section I: Works, Vol. 24). The Thirty Years War, which occurred in the first half of the seventeenth century (1618-1648), may be considered the first all-European war in terms of its participants and its extent. The activities of the major European powers in this war have been examined in great detail by many scholars. However,...
Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1959. — 148 p. According to Soviet military experts, the Gulf War was a “technological operation” and therefore a prototype of future war. As a result, the development of the Soviet Armed Forces will now be planned “through the prism of the Persian Gulf.” Soviet military officials have also highlighted several larger and more long‐term lessons...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 839 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-926213-7 Part One : Warfare in First Two Million Years : Enviroment, Genes and Culture Part Two : Agriculture, Civilisation and War Part Three : Modernity : The Dual Face of Janus
Routledge, 2017. — 227 p. This book examines the origins, courses and consequences of conventional wars in post-colonial South Asia. Although South Asia has experienced large-scale conventional warfare on several occasions since the end of World War II, there is an almost total neglect of analysis of conventional warfare in the Indian subcontinent. Focusing on China, India and...
Routledge, 2001. — 249 p. Warfare at sea in European history The transformation of warfare at sea A disjointed historiography Wars, states and societies in historical explanations Technology, tactics and strategy Technical development in organisations and networks Guns at sea Gun-carrying warships Guns, strategy and tactics Tactics and fleet formations Seamen, soldiers and...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 408 p. Barring the guts and glory accounts of British imperial historians, the military history of South Asia has rarely attracted the serious attention of scholars. This volume attempts to fill this gap by tracing the impressive developments that occurred in South Asia-often in close interaction with the outside world-in military organization,...
Routledge, 2003. — 285 p. The Indian frontier Monsoon and Arid India Frontiers and limites Nuclear zones of power War-band and court Ghazis and sadhus Mirzas and Rajputs Court society The military labour market Supply Army organization Military marketing Camp, warhorse and elephant Camp Warhorses Elephants, dromedaries and oxen Forts, guns and sails Forts Guns Oars and sails...
Dorling Kindersley, 2009. — 360 p. — ISBN: 978-0756655785. DK's Battle draws together, for the first time, the many facets of battle — the glory and the gore, the attrition and atrocity — in a new and original way. Organized chronologically, Battle provides a detailed overview of the conduct of warfare through the centuries, from the first recorded battle at Megiddo between the...
Dorling Kindersley, 2009. — 360 p. — ISBN: 978-0756655785. DK's Battle draws together, for the first time, the many facets of battle — the glory and the gore, the attrition and atrocity — in a new and original way. Organized chronologically, Battle provides a detailed overview of the conduct of warfare through the centuries, from the first recorded battle at Megiddo between the...
Cassell, 2002. — 224 p. — (History Of Warfare). — ISBN: 978-0304352630. The turn of the 16th century saw the start of a revolution in sea warfare--one long in the making but, once begun, remarkably swift. The driving force: gunpowder. The principal agents: galleys (long, low boats propelled principally by oars) and galleons (heavy, square rigged sailing ships). Suddenly,...
Brill, 2012. — 625 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-21217-6. Military institutions have everywhere and always shaped the course of history, but women’s near universal participation in them has largely gone unnoticed. This volume addresses the changing relationships between women and armed forces from antiquity to the present. The eight chapters in Part I present broad, scholarly reviews of...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1993. — 513 p. The Vietnam War has seemed more shadowy and cinematic to me than anything else for most of my life. I was born during the Watergate Hearings. My generation was touched by the war in Vietnam, but only in the sense that our parents were part of it--whether they marched for peace or served in the military or fell somewhere in between. But...
Array: Hoover Institution Press, 2019. — 304 p. Setting the Stage September 2001-July 2003: NATO Absence August 2003-September 2008: NATO Getsinto the Game October 2008-December 2014: NATO Surges Why Cohesion Endured under Adversity Appendix 1: Command Structures (OEF and ISAF), 2001-2012 Appendix 2: ISAF Rotations and Commanders Appendix 3: Coalition Force Levels Appendix 4:...
Random House, 2004. — 282 p. In his acclaimed collection An Autumn of War, the scholar and military historian Victor Davis Hanson expressed powerful and provocative views of September 11 and the ensuing war in Afghanistan. Now, in these challenging new essays, he examines the world’s ongoing war on terrorism, from America to Iraq, from Europe to Israel, and beyond. In direct...
Anchor Books, 2009. — 544 p. Examining nine landmark Battles from ancient to modern times — from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive — Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2003. — 278 p. The effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle, the acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson weaves wide-ranging military and cultural history with his unparalleled gift for battle narrative as he illuminates the...
Bloomsbury Press, 2010. — 272 p. Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of past conflicts to bear on the crises of the present, from 9/11 to Iran. "War," he writes, "is an entirely human enterprise." Ideologies...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 420 p. This book is designed to help the reader better understand the conduct of war by focusing on the 'how' not the 'why' of warfare. It examines a number of crucial dimensions of contemporary armed conflict such as: the strategies, operations, tactics, doctrines and weapons of conventional and low-intensity war; military geography; the cultural...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. — 350 p. While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study of military science....
Da Capo Press, 1997. — 177 p. A classic study of the evolving use of infanty and artillery weapons from Gustavus Adolphus to Britain's conquest of India.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 289 p. This book provides a concise and accessible introduction to Modern Military history. The collection is a clear and up to date survey of the significant debates, interpretations and historiographical shifts for a series of key themes in military history. Each chapter is supported by notes and a brief bibliography outlining further reading.
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 352 p. Since the end of World War II, there have been 181 insurgencies around the world. In fact, most modern warfare occurs in the form of insurgencies, including in such high-profile countries as Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. However, in spite of their prevalence, we still know relatively little about how insurgencies function....
Spellmount Ltd., 2005. — 195 p. — ISBN: 978-1-862272-95-6. The History of the French Foreign Legion reveals the facts and reality behind this compelling organization. Its record in combat is described in full, from the Legion's deployment in the conquest of Algeria in the 1840s to its role as a peacekeeping force in the world's troublespots today. The ascetic lifestyle of a...
Knopf Book, 2004. — 304 p. The 2003 Iraq War remains among the most mysterious armed conflicts of modernity. In The Iraq War, John Keegan offers a sharp and lucid appraisal of the military campaign, explaining just how the coalition forces defeated an Iraqi army twice its size and addressing such questions as whether Saddam Hussein ever possessed weapons of mass destruction and...
Routledge, 1997. — 488 p. As the author makes clear, every book has a history; Guerrilla Warfare is no exception. Together with its sequel Terrorism (and two companion readers) it was part of a wider study: to give a critical interpretation of guerrilla and terrorism theory and practice throughout history. It did not aim at providing a general theory of political violence, nor...
Routledge, 1997. — 488 p. As the author makes clear, every book has a history; Guerrilla Warfare is no exception. Together with its sequel Terrorism (and two companion readers) it was part of a wider study: to give a critical interpretation of guerrilla and terrorism theory and practice throughout history. It did not aim at providing a general theory of political violence, nor...
The Holland Press, 1970. — 138 p. This book is a must read if you are entering the realm of Asiatic Archery. All pertinent information is offered here: how to do thumbdraw, Sassanid Draw, proper form, proper release - even how to shoot with a helmet. Extensive info is also presented on arrow types, aiming and finger locks - absolutety vital for shooting properly. This book is...
Routledge Group, 2008. — 450 p. The Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The aim is to provide students with a...
Bloomsbury Press, 2013. — 184 p. A War Mosaic Soldiers: Plebeians and Nobles Sacking Cities Weapons and Princes Siege Armies: Ambulant Cities, Dying Cities Plunder Hell in the Villages Killing for God The State: Emerging Leviathan
Companhia das Letras, 2007. — 744 p. História do Exército Brasileiro, de 1889 a 1937. Soldados da pátria enfoca quase meio século da história do Exército brasileiro, numa narrativa que começa com a queda do Império, percorre toda a República Velha e vai até a instauração da ditadura do Estado Novo, em 1937. Esse período, no qual o Exército se estabeleceu como a única...
Pen and Sword, 1993. — 224 p. The white mercenaries who attracted the world's attention in the Congo during the early 1960s were never more than a few hundred in number. In contrast, no fewer than a million Swiss troops served as mercenaries in the armies of Europe during the preceding 500 years. Swiss mercenaries form a significant strand in the rope of European military...
Concord Publications, 1992. — 66 p. — (Firepower Pictorials 1024). — ISBN: 9623610246. This is a photo album of destroyed Iraqi armor and other Iraqi equipment from the aftermath of the 1st Gulf war in 1991. It also features some of the defensive fortifications erected by the Iraqis.
Editors. — Future Publishing, 2019. — 148 p. The 20th century saw some of the largest, most technically advanced conflicts the world had yet experienced. Discover the true military heroes that fought in its wars and why they're deserving of the ultimate accolades. You'll meet winners of the Medal of Honor and the Victoria Cross, explore the beginnings of special forces, and...
McGraw-Hill, 2008. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0070525846. Designed for use at the college level as a textbook for military history courses or supplemental reading for world history courses, this text offers an introduction and original synthesis of global military history. Each chapter traces key developments in military institutions and practices set in three crucial contexts: politics...
New York: Routledge, 2018. — 365 p. The Routledge History of Global War and Societyoffers a sweeping introduction to the most significant research on the causes, experiences, and impacts of war throughout history. This collection of twenty-seven essays by leading historians demonstrates how war and society studies have dramatically expanded the chronological, geographic, and...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 698 p. Introduction: On strategy Williamson Murray and Mark Grimsley Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian War Donald Kagan The strategy of a warrior-state: Rome and the wars against Carthage, 264-201 B.C. Alvin H. Bernstein Chinese strategy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries Arthur Waldron The making of strategy in Habsburg...
Hamlyn, 2001. — 208 p. This work focuses on 50 battles that changed the the tide of war. It looks at how the upper hand was gained through twists of fate, such as when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1942. It shows how superior forces were overwhelmed by smaller, well-trained armies, an example cited being the Allied defeat by Turkish troops at Gallipoli in 1915. In all the book...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 709 p. History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or...
Osgood, Richard; Monks, Sarah; Toms, Judith. History Press Ltd. 2010. 176 p. ISBN: 0752456970 Bronze Age Warfare offers an intriguing insight into war and society in Europe 4000 years ago.
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 473 p. This book describes the development of the Australian Army and its evolution from the colonial armies of Federation to the modern, professional force it is today. It reveals that the Army's organization is the result of complex interactions between the government's fiscal and security policies, the desires of the public, and the ambitions...
Cambridge University Press, 2012 - 514 p. This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whereas previous accounts have emphasized the growth of state-run armies during this period, David Parrott argues instead that the delegation of military responsibility to sophisticated and...
Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2013. — 193 p. Chris Peers illuminates the evolution of the military art in China with reference to ten battles, spanning more than 2,000 years, from the Battle of Mu in 1027BC to the Fall of Chung Tu in 1215 AD. Selected both for their historical importance and for the light which they shed on weapons and tactics, the author uses these examples to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 224 p. Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds – victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counter attack, an unexpected maneuver, a stubborn refusal to be beaten and the impossible victory is won. In the ten dramatic episodes in this book, military historian Bryan Perrett revisits battles...
Cassell, 2000. — 229 p. — (Cassell History of Warfare). — ISBN: 0304352713. Part of John Keegan's prestigious History of Warfare series. A fascinating look at the realities of imperialism and the wars it spawned. Fully illustrated throughout and incorporating computer generated cartography that brings the battlefields to life. Chronology Introduction: From Trade to Conquest The...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 752 p. The French Foreign Legion is a complete, captivating study of the famed fighting force, from its inception in 1831 to modern times. Historian Douglas Porch chronicles the Legion’s involvement in Spain, Mexico, Indochina, Madagascar, WWI, Vietnam, and Algiers (to name a few) and delves into the inner workings of legionnaires and their...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 752 p. The French Foreign Legion is a complete, captivating study of the famed fighting force, from its inception in 1831 to modern times. Historian Douglas Porch chronicles the Legion’s involvement in Spain, Mexico, Indochina, Madagascar, WWI, Vietnam, and Algiers (to name a few) and delves into the inner workings of legionnaires and their...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 752 p. The French Foreign Legion is a complete, captivating study of the famed fighting force, from its inception in 1831 to modern times. Historian Douglas Porch chronicles the Legion’s involvement in Spain, Mexico, Indochina, Madagascar, WWI, Vietnam, and Algiers (to name a few) and delves into the inner workings of legionnaires and their...
University Press of America, 2016. — 718 p. The third book in Professor Christian Potholm’s war trilogy (which includes Winning at War and War Wisdom ), Understanding War provides a most workable bibliography dealing with the vast literature on war and warfare. As such, it provides insights into over 3000 works on this overwhelmingly extensive material. Understanding War is...
University Press of America, 2016. — 718 p. The third book in Professor Christian Potholm’s war trilogy (which includes Winning at War and War Wisdom ), Understanding War provides a most workable bibliography dealing with the vast literature on war and warfare. As such, it provides insights into over 3000 works on this overwhelmingly extensive material. Understanding War is...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. — 304 p. What are the independent variables that determine success in war? Drawing on 40 years of studying and teaching war, political scientist Christian P. Potholm presents a 'template of Mars,' seven variables that have served as predictors of military success over time and across cultures. In Winning at War , Potholm explains these...
Washington: University Press of America, 1983. — 1043 p. "We assumed that a rich state would win a war. This has never been true. The rich states throughout history have been able to defend their positions only if they saw the relationship between wealth and power and kept prepared (for war)." The Human Condition and Security. Security and Power. The Elements of Power. The...
Center of Military History USA, 2011. — 686 p. The Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics in Grenada, 1983, is the second volume in the U.S. Army Center of Military History’s Contingency Operations Series, provides an account of how Army logistics affected ground operations during the Grenada intervention and, in turn, how combat influenced logistical performance....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 212 p. This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy. Richard J. Reid helps students understand different patterns of military organization through Africa's history; the evolution of weaponry, tactics, and strategy; and the increasing prevalence of warfare and militarism in African political...
Military Illustrated, 2000. — 144 p. The Scottish Highlanders rank as one of the world's greatest military legends, from their origins in ancient Celtic society through the glory days of battles both for and against the English, to today's trusted NATO soldier on duty in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans. The detailed text is backed up by 150 color and black-and-white...
London: Routledge Group, 2006. — 218 p. — (Cass Military Studies). This study presents the first examination of the influence of ideas of honour on the causes, conduct and ending of wars from Ancient Greece to the present day. Paul Robinson begins with a theoretical examination of the concept of honour, to clearly explain the many contradictions and tensions inherent within...
Routledge, 2001. — 176 p. How were medieval navies organised, and how did powerful rulers use them? Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500 provides a wealth of information about the strategy and tactics of these early fleets and the extent to which the possibilities of sea power were understood and exploited. This fascinating account brings vividly to life the dangers and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. — 579 p. There is no single volume which covers the Indian Army’s experiences during the two World Wars. And this is what the present edited volume attempts to do. This collection of 17 essays analyze the army as an institution and also touch upon the cultural ethos of the army and related social issues. Thus, this edited volume is a cross...
Birlinn Ltd., 2010. — 384 p. Scotland's long coastline runs from the waters of Galloway and the Solway, through the Irish Sea to the long sea lochs and myriad islands of the Celtic west, around grim Cape Wrath, the coast of Caithness, Pentland Firth and the Orkneys, eastward down to the Moray Firth, the eastern seaboard, to the Forth and the sentinel of the Bass Rock. It is an...
Birlinn Ltd., 2010. — 384 p. Scotland's long coastline runs from the waters of Galloway and the Solway, through the Irish Sea to the long sea lochs and myriad islands of the Celtic west, around grim Cape Wrath, the coast of Caithness, Pentland Firth and the Orkneys, eastward down to the Moray Firth, the eastern seaboard, to the Forth and the sentinel of the Bass Rock. It is an...
Nation Books, 2008. — 561 p. — Second Edition. On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U. S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary...
NY: William Morrow, 2024. - 384 p. Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky from the dressing rooms of his variety shows to the muddy trenches of Ukraine’s war with Russia. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and...
NY: William Morrow, 2024. - 384 p. Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky from the dressing rooms of his variety shows to the muddy trenches of Ukraine’s war with Russia. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and...
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. — 196 p. The history of mankind is too frequently the history of man's wars, for armed conflict has shaped the history of the world. On this note, Robert Silverberg tells the stories of 15 of the world's decisive battles; battles which have been turning points in wars as well as in history. Beginning with the Battle of Marathon and continuing...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 262 p. This book breaks new ground as the first full account of the role of amphibious warfare in British strategy between VE Day and the Anglo-French assault on Suez in 1956. Ian Speller analyses the development of postwar strategic planning and the manner in which this influenced the nature of Britain's armed forces in the 1940s and 1950s. By...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 394 p. The period 1350-1750 saw major developments in European warfare, which not only had a huge impact on the way wars were fought, but also are critical to long-standing controversies about state development, the global ascendancy of the West, and the nature of 'military revolutions' past and present. However, the military history of this...
Leiden: Brill, 2018. — 489 p. This is a collection of essays that aims to offer a vertical history of war in the Mediterranean Sea, from the early Middle Ages to early modernity, putting the emphasis on the changing face of several different aspects and contexts of war over time.
Princeton University Press, 1994. — 219 p. The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries. Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns offers a very...
Pen and Sword Military, 2006. — 200 p. The necessity to defend territory from strong points has been a fact of life since mankind first settled into agricultural communities. Sidney Toy traces the development of the art of fortification from the period of earliest historical examples down to the forts designed for defense by artillery, noting the salient features of the...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226-26436-3. Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations — such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China — kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1988. — 260 p. This description of the military struggle for Afghanistan (from 1978) concerns the objectives, operations, tactics and effectiveness of the forces involved in that struggle. The aim is to describe the war as objectively and in as much detail as possible.
Helion and Company, 2014. — 320 p. The Bushman soldiers were the most outstanding all-round fighters of the Border War. As the first of the indigenous population to take up arms on South Africa's behalf, they were among the last to lay them down. The border's oldest and most bush-wise people, they became feared as relentless trackers and dedicated soldiers. Coming from a...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 264 p. France experienced two parallel but different outcomes in its Indochina war. While the conflict in the north ended with a disastrous defeat for the French at Dien Bien Phu, in southern Vietnam, or Cochinchina, France emerged victorious in a series of violent but now largely forgotten actions.In the Year of the Tiger tells the story...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 186 p. The introduction of Airborne forces revolutionised military tactics and thinking throughout the twentieth century. In this exciting edition, ex-paratrooper John Weeks presents a history of the Airborne forces across the globe, studying the generals, the planners and parachutists, as well as the aircraft, gliders, weapons and helicopters,...
The University of Chicago Press, 1982. — 416 p. In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow — banned by the Church in 1139 as too...
McFarland, 2015. — 220 p. In June 1876 the 7th U.S. Cavalry was savagely defeated at the Little Bighorn in the Montana wilderness during an attempt to seize Sioux and Cheyenne hunting grounds. Three years later redcoats mirrored this utter disaster with an equally high-handed grab for Zulu lands in South Africa. Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and Lieutenant Colonel Anthony...
McFarland, 2015. — 220 p. In June 1876 the 7th U.S. Cavalry was savagely defeated at the Little Bighorn in the Montana wilderness during an attempt to seize Sioux and Cheyenne hunting grounds. Three years later redcoats mirrored this utter disaster with an equally high-handed grab for Zulu lands in South Africa. Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and Lieutenant Colonel Anthony...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2007 . — 430 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8131-2438-4. Peasants and Revolutions The Formative Years Transformation in Korea Russianizing the PLA Building Missiles and the Bomb Crises and Politics Border Conflicts and Cultural Revolution Survivor and Reformer Technocrats and New Generation
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