Authors not specified. — Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd, 1913. — 61 p. As the Introduction says, the History of the Regiment and its wonderful Traditions must the pride of every member of the Royal Welch. This book starts with the raising of the regiment in 1689, battles in Ireland and Flanders, the Seven Years War, the War of American Independence, the Peninsular War 1808-14,...
London; New York: Routledge, 2007. — 620 p. — ISBN: 978-0-582-30807-7. The Ottoman Empire had reached the peak of its power, presenting a very real threat to Western Christendom when in 1683 it suffered its first major defeat, at the Siege of Vienna. Tracing the empire’s conflicts of the next two centuries, The Ottoman Wars: An Empire Besieged examines the social transformation...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 224 p. — (Osprey General Military). To the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Celtic warrior of the late Iron Age was the archetypal barbarian: savage, undisciplined, and bloodthirsty. In a clash of cultures that lasted almost 500 years, the rich and vibrant society in which he lived, fought, and died was virtually destroyed, becoming the...
Washington, DC: National Defense Universty Press, 1986. — 198 p. The Legacy of Korea The "New Look": Impact and Counterattack Design for a New Army Re-Equipping Reorganizing: The Pentomic Concept Reaction and Rejection
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 320 p. — ISBN: 1846033276. Throughout time, violent battles and bloody clashes have changed the course of history and shaped nations or empires. Battles of annihilation are rare, but ever since antiquity a stunning victory on the battlefield, even if it has failed to win the war, has captured the imagination of many. The battle of Cannae in 216BC,...
Washington D.C.: U.S. Goverment Printing Office, 1982. — 326 p. Series "USA in Southeast Asia". The book describes the history of the creation of heavy attack aircraft on the basis of military transport aircraft during the Vietnam war. Illustrations and Photographs Maps and Charts Tables. Origin and Early Development Gunship I (AC- 47) Gunship II (AC-130) Advanced AC-130...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 338 p. Muster rolls Methodology The Peerage Age Length of service Frequency and type of service The Knights Trends in rhe numbers and proportions of knights serving in armies Why did rhe number and proportion of knights decline? Strenui milites: who were the fighting knights? Roles and careers The Men-at-Arms Ratios and numbers What was a...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0521470331 ISBN13: 9780521470339. The three centuries following the discovery of the New World was a period of unprecedented global expansion, spearheaded by the lusty armies of the imperial European powers. This volume of The Cambridge Illustrated Atlases of Warfare is a lively and elaborately illustrated study of warfare...
New York: The Dial Press Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, 1985. — 572 p. — ISBN: 0-385-27888-8. Designation: Airborne Sicily: Baptism of Fire Italy: Airborne to the Rescue England: Eve of Invasion Normandy: The Stuff of Instant Legend Holland: Disaster at Arnhem Bulge I: The German Attack Bulge II: The Allied Counterattack Germany: Destruction of the Third Reich Sources...
Pike & Shot Society, 2011. — 102 p. As it is well known, there is not very much documentation on the organisation of the Spanish armies of the end of the 17th century. The principal reference is the "Historia Organica …" of Count de Clonard, written and published around the 1850’s. It is a monumental work (sixteen volumes), based on scrupulous researches, that were conducted...
Boydell & Brewer, 1992. — 362 p. In medieval warfare, the siege predominated: for every battle, there were hundreds of sieges. Yet the rich and vivid history of siege warfare has been consistently neglected. Jim Bradbury's panoramic survey takes the history of siege warfare in Europe from the late Roman Empire to the 16th century, and includes sieges in Byzantium, Eastern...
Boydell & Brewer, 1992. — 362 p. In medieval warfare, the siege predominated: for every battle, there were hundreds of sieges. Yet the rich and vivid history of siege warfare has been consistently neglected. Jim Bradbury's panoramic survey takes the history of siege warfare in Europe from the late Roman Empire to the 16th century, and includes sieges in Byzantium, Eastern...
Routledge, 2004. — 384 p. This comprehensive volume provides easily accessible factual material on all major areas of warfare in the medieval west. The whole geographical area of medieval Europe, including eastern Europe, is covered, together with essential elements from outside Europe such as Byzantine warfare, nomadic horde invasions and the Crusades. The Routledge Companion...
Praeger, 2001. — 334 p. Most studies of ancient warfare focus only on the Greeks and the Romans, but this sweeping study covers the whole of the ancient world from Greece and Rome to the Near East, then eastward to Parthia, India, and China. Bradford transports the reader into the midst of ancient battles behind such great leaders as Thutmose III, Ashurbanipal, Alexander,...
Routledge, 1998. — 273 p. This is an excellent, thoughtful, and thorough summary of the history of air power. Professor Buckley artfully and succinctly weaves the national strategies, technological, and aeronautical industry capabilities of the major air power countries (and their respective and often competing air services) into a coherent story of the progression of air...
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 225 p. — ISBN: 1846030196. The great warleaders and generals, including Darius, Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Julius Caesar successfully used siegecraft to gain their objectives. As siege tactics became integral to success in war, generals employed the minds of engineers and scientists to develop tactics, and offensive and defensive technology to...
Description of the design. - 15 p. The trebuchet is a medieval machine designed to hurl objects into the interior of castles under siege or even knock down castle walls. Our model trebuchet uses a swinging counterweight, instead of the simpler fixed counterweight. The swinging counterweight, though more complex to build, transfers more energy to the projectile.
A paper submitted to the Faculty o f the Naval War College in partial satisfaction of the requirements of the Department of Operations. — Newport: Naval War College, 1999. — 24 p. This research effort reviews the Soviet military's involvement in Afghanistan from 4 general perspectives: systemic problems in Soviet military culture, the use of surprise, operational maneuver and...
Cassell, 2001. — 232 p. — ISBN: 0304352896. During the 17th century, technological evolutions in fortifications and arms meant that wars grew longer, armies larger, and military formations more disciplined. Yet, militias remained primarily mercenary; although armaments developed from the pike to the socket bayonet and uniforms began to appear, professionalism remained low. From...
Boston; London: Shambhala, 1992. — 112 p. — ISBN10: 0877739072 / ISBN13: 978-0877739074. "The Japanese Art of War should be required reading for modern-day missionaries of Western business, politics, and culture."—San Francisco Chronicle "'Set aside all the slogans you have learned and all the intellectual views that stick to your flesh.' Cleary quotes Chinese Zen master Yuanwu...
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2017. — 825 p. Geographic designations used to effect the following arrangement are in some cases (e.g., “Eastern Europe”) compromises aimed at enhancing reference use; they are not meant to have political implications nor are they rigidly the same from one century to the next. Wars involving several geographic regions ( for example, World War I)...
New York: Doubleday, 1966. — 372 p. As this book has shown, there is no scientific way of assessing the worth of the fighting man of the nation over those of others. For courage, that most vital element of the combat soldier, we have seen to be drained away by continuous use. Also, like a battery, it can be recharged. the ancient world. the greeks. the romans. the vikings. the...
Watkins Publishing, 2018. — 424 p. Part of the acclaimed Book of Samurai series, which presents for the first time the translated scrolls of the historical Natori-Ryū samurai school of war, this volume offers an exceptional insight into the weaponry and armour of the samurai era, as well as tactical advice for use on and off the battlefield. Two secret scrolls by the samurai...
Back Bay Books, 2017. — 464 p. The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David. On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by a group of Arab and German terrorists who demanded the release of 53 terrorists. The plane was forced to divert to Entebbe, in...
Back Bay Books, 2017. — 464 p. The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David. On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by a group of Arab and German terrorists who demanded the release of 53 terrorists. The plane was forced to divert to Entebbe, in...
ABC-CLIO, 2000. — 453 p. — ISBN10: 1576070751, 13 978-1576070758. Key battles have shaped history since time immemorial. This handy reference work spotlights 100 of the world's most important military confrontations, from 1469 B.C.-A.D. 1991. Describes the historical context and goals of each conflict, with detailed statistics and information on every aspect of each battle.
ABC-CLIO, 2001. — 369 p. — ISBN10: 1576071952, 13 978-1576071953. Besieged examines the most important sieges in history-the actions and motivations of attackers and defenders along with conditions inside and outside the city walls. Examines 100 great sieges, from Jericho in 1405 B.C. to Grozny in 1997 Establishes the historical background of each siege, describes the siege...
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. — 366 p. First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of...
Boston: Brill, 2002. — 438 p. The idea for this book was first discussed with Professors Thomas Allsen, Peter Golden, and Reuven Amitai in Leiden, at the Symposium on Nomads in Sedentary Societies (2–3 July 1998), organized by Professors Anatoly Khazanov and André Wink at the Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden University). To Professors Khazanov and Wink, therefore, I am...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 232 p. Throughout history cities have been at the center of warfare, from sieges to street-fighting, from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest realization of warfare was to attack a fortified city. Indeed, although strategists have advised against it across the millennia, armies and generals...
Amstelodam: Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1647. — 54 p. Varius Hiftorijs, tam veteribus quam novis confirmata, et praecipuis totius Europae mu nimentis, ad exemplum adductis exornata. Plans of fortresses and fortifications.
Dorling Kindersley, 2012. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-0756695484. The most wide-ranging and visually arresting history of wars and warfare ever published, War: Definitive Visual Guide documents every major war or significant period of conflict in over 5,000 years of human history. A must-have reference gift for military enthusiasts and general readers alike, no other book about...
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1979. — 304 p. Prologue: The Earliest Artillery Fortification Fortress Warfare in Renaissance Italy Later Italian Wars and the Origins of Permanent Artillery Fortification 1530-1600 The Frontiers of France 1513-59 The Eighty Years War in the Netherlands 1566-1648 The Apprenticeship of France 1560-1660 The English Civil War and the Subjugation of...
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. — 336 p. One Louis XIV and the Apogee of the Old Fortress Warfare 1660-1715 Two The Masters: Coehoorn and Vauban Three The Resolution of the Conflict: the Last Struggles of Habsburg and Bourbon Four The Age of Frederick the Great 1740-86 Five A Time of Doubt: the Standing of Permanent Fortification in the Eighteenth Century Six The Subjugation of...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. - 219 p. While many scholars agree that Clausewitz's On War is frequently misunderstood, almost none have explored his methodology to see whether it might enhance our understanding of his concepts. This book lays out Clausewitz's methodology in a brisk and straightforward style. It then uses that as a basis for understanding his...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 144 p. — ISBN10: 0199607893; ISBN13: 978-0199607891. Warfare is the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and society of modern times. But what do we mean by modern war? What causes modern wars to begin? Why do people fight in them, why do they end,...
London; New York: Routledge, 2007. — 256 p. This volume examines how the Ottoman Army was able to evolve and maintain a high level of overall combat effectiveness despite the primitive nature of the Ottoman State during the First World War. Structured around four case studies, at the operational and tactical level, of campaigns involving the Ottoman Empire and the British...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 182 p. Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. He follows the development of organization and uniforms not only for the British Colonies of North...
New York: Avon Books, 1999. - 295 p. For as long as armies have clashed on fiery fields of battle, professional soldiers of fortune have fought, bled, and died. They are the ultimate warriors, sharing skills few men possess, a pride few men can merit, and an unassailable courage in the face of overwhelming numbers and superior weaponry. These are the men who take risks that...
Mariner Books, 2006. — 400 p. If the Marines are the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick’s career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances to the pinnacleRecon two years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. His vast skill set puts him...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 424 p. When the Soviets fortified Sevastopol in 1941 it heralded the beginning of a period of intense fighting over the Crimea. In this remarkable work, acclaimed author Robert Forcyzk assembles new research to investigate the intense and barbaric fighting for the region in World War II, where first Soviet and then German armies were surrounded and...
Praeger Security, 2005. — 200 p. Transnational politics, modern communications, and access to the tools of warfare have combined to give political movements the ability to wage global war to promote their own agendas, a development that has changed the face of both politics and warfare. Fowler examines current aspects of conducting war, including mobilization, funding,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 138 p. — ISBN: 0-333-77348-9 Liddel Hart s Theory of Armoured Warfare British Influence and the Evolution of the Panzer Arm: Origins: the 1920s and early 1930s The creation of the Panzer Arm
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 291 p. — ISBN: 0-19-820257-1 The Military School of Enlightment. The German Movement, Clausewitz and German Military School.
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute, 1990 — 202 p. — (Leavenworth Papers No. 17). In the fall of 1944, some 56,000 German troops of the XIX Mountain Corps were occupying a strongpoint line just 70 kilometers northwest of Murmansk, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. To clear these enemy forces from Soviet territory, STA VKA ordered General K. A....
London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. — 228 p. The Roman army was one of the most successful fighting forces in history. Its organization and tactics were highly advanced and were unequaled until the modern era. Spectacular monuments to its perseverance and engineering skill are still visible today, most notably Hadrian’s Wall and the siegeworks around the fortress of Masada. This...
Dorling Kindersley, 2010. — 360 p. Focusing on the frontline soldiers who fought for their tribes, their cities, their overlords and their countries-from the Ancient Greeks who repelled the invading Persians in the 5th century to the US Marines in action in Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, this visual history paints a compelling portrait of the frontline soldier through...
Dorling Kindersley Ltd., 2011. — 362 p. — ISBN: 0756667364, 9780756667368 From Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world to the generals leading today's campaigns in Afghanistan, Commanders casts new light on the leaders who have forged history on the battlefield. Focusing on the greatest leaders in naval, field, and aerial warfare, such as Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and...
London: Macdonald and Jane's. — 161 p. — ISBN: 0-385-04247-7. Introduction and Acknowledgements. Parachute Commando. Training and Organisation. Insignia, Clothing, Weapons, Equipment and Air Transport. Military Operations - The Red Devils. Military Operations - A Bridge Too Far!
Air Force History & Museums Program, 1985. — 396 p. — ISBN: 0912799242. This book describes the struggle to desegregate the post-World War II U. S. Army Air Forces and its successor, the U. S. Air Force, and the remarkable advances made during the next two decades to end racial segregation and move towards equality of treatment of Negro airmen. The author, Lt. Col. Alan L....
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 297 p. — ISBN: 978-0-87021-060-0. In Fire on the Water, Robert Haddick contends that much of the general public and many U.S. policy experts are unaware of the threat that China’s military modernization poses to America’s national interests in the Asia-Pacific region. He maintains that within a decade China will have the military power to place...
N.Y.: Alfred A.Knopf, 1989. — ISBN: 0520260090, 0394571886. The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics — that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens — but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, or combat between individual heroes, the Greeks of the...
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2010. — 412 p. The Red Army's leading operational theorist in the 1930s, Georgii Samoilovich Isserson was the mastermind behind the "deep operation"--the cornerstone of Soviet offensive operations in World War II. Drawing from an in-depth analysis of Isserson's numerous published and unpublished works, his arrest file in the...
Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College Press, 2008. — 358 p. Foreword, by Carnes Lord Maritime Strategy Presentation (for the Secretary of the Navy, 4 November 1982) The Maritime Strategy, 1984 The AmphibiousWarfare Strategy, 1985 TheMaritime Strategy: Global Maritime Elements for U.S. National Strategy, 1985 The Maritime Strategy, 1986 Looking beyond the Maritime Strategy...
Rob Young NASIC Historian Wright Paterson Air Force Base Ohio United States 1 p. National Air and Space Intelligence Center The Have Nose project took place in the last days of the operation desert storm on 9 March 1991. A team of the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) of the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center landed at Jalibah Air...
Montvert Publications, 1992. — 64 p. The Achaemenid Persian empire dominated the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean for about two centuries, from the mid-sixth century BC to the mid-fourth. It was the largest empire the world had yet seen, and in many ways the most successful. For a long time we have seen Persia mainly through the eyes of the classical Greeks; Greeks...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 594 p. Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial new account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political...
Durban: Partners in Publishing, 2018. - 306 p. Colonel Mike Hoare led 300 ‘Wild Geese’ across the Congo to crush a communist rebellion, rescue 2000 nuns and priests from barbarity, beat Che Guevara … and become a legend. Of Irish blood, Mike was schooled in England and, during World War 2, was the ‘best bloody soldier in the British Army’. He demobbed as a major, qualified in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 264 p. This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and unconventional war across time and around the globe. The use of non-uniformed and often civilian combatants, with tactics eschewing pitched battles, is the most common form of warfare throughout history and comes in many forms. The collection works back in time beginning with the ‘Long...
U.S. War Department, 1945. — 61 p. Training Training Aims Paratroop Qualifications Training in Technique Parachute Jumping Technique Use of Emergency Chutes Mass Jumps Use of Cargo Chutes Maneuvers Faults Organization Army Paratroop Units History Raiding Group (Teishin Shudan) Raiding Brigade (Teishin Dan) Raiding Regiment (Teishin Rentai) Raiding Flying Brigade (Teishin...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. — 314 p. For centuries, mounted cavalry dominated the battlefield through shock and mobility. Man maintained a symbiotic relationship with the horse, which became particularly sacrosanct on the battlefield and even created a new, exalted social class. These mounted warriors sought to preserve their prestige despite the advent of new...
New York University Press, 2001. — 409 p. Technology of one kind or another has always been a central ingredient in war. The Spartan king Archidamus, for instance, reacted with alarm when first witnessing a weapon that could shoot darts through the air. And yet during the past two centuries technology has played an unprecedented role in military affairs and thinking, and in the...
Washington: Army Center of Military History, 1979. — 497 p. Over the years the study of military history has had its upsand downs within the Army. In the education of the World War IIgeneration of military leaders it played an important part, for thestudy of past operations held a preeminent place in the Armyschools' curricula in the period between the two great worldwars. In...
William Kimber & Co, 1986. — 211 p. In WWII fifteen U-boats were sunk by British submarines and three British submarines were lost to U-boats. This book examines these eighteen episodes chronologically, describing the careers of the boats and their commanders, and unfolding their final actions.
New York; Abingdon: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group, 2002. — xiv, 158 p. — eISBN 9780203815144. This book establishes beyond doubt that China is building up manttme power in all its dimensions. The main units of its sea-going Navy are expanding in number, reach and military capacity. China's fishing and merchant fleet is now huge, and its leaders are developing the shore-side...
Routledge Group, 2007. — 193 p. — (Cass Military Studies). Sun Tzu and other classical Chinese strategic thinkers wrote in an era of social, economic and military revolution, and hoped to identify enduring principles of war and statecraft. The twenty-first century is a time of similarly revolutionary change, and this makes their ideas of particular relevance for today’s...
Vintage, 2012. — 432 p. — ISBN: 9780307828576. The acclaimed author and preeminent military historian John Keegan examines centuries of human conflict. From primitive man in the bronze age to the end of the cold war in the twentieth century, Keegan shows how armed conflict has been a primary preoccupation throughout the history of civilization and how deeply rooted its practice...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. — 340 p. Warfare was a formative influence on the civilization and the social structures of the European middle ages. Its history in that period is in consequence of high significance alike for those who are interested in the mid- dle ages for themselves and for their legacy, and for those whose interest is in war and its place in the...
Routledge, 1998. — 268 p. In this new edition, with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the author provides a comprehensive and well-documented survey of the evolution and growth of the remarkable military enterprise of the Roman army. Lawrence Keppie overcomes the traditional dichotomy between the historical view of the Republic and the archaeological approach to the...
Pen & Sword Books, 2015. — 370 p. Napoleonic artillery can usually be divided into two types: field, or light artillery which was employed by the armies on campaign and in the field and siege, or heavy artillery, which was employed in siege operations and against opponents holding the fortresses against them. While field artillery consisted of calibers up to and including...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 560 p. How do small groups of combat soldiers maintain their cohesion under fire? This question has long intrigued social scientists, military historians, and philosophers. Based on extensive research and drawing on graphic analysis of close quarter combat from the Somme to Sangin, the book puts forward a novel and challenging answer to this...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 400 p. When Hitler ordered the start of Operation Barbarossa, millions of German soldiers flooded into Russia, believing that their rapid blitzkrieg tactics would result in the an easy victory similar to the ones enjoyed by the Wehrmacht over Poland and France. But the huge human resources at the disposal of the Soviet Union, and the significant...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 190 p. This book suggests a general framework for the analysis of formative factors in military thought and offers an account of the Israel Defense Force’s state of intellectualism and modernity. This account is followed by an attempt to trace the factors that have shaped Israeli military thought. The explanations are a mixture of realist and...
Brill, 2017. — 272 p. What determined the choices of the Greeks on the battlefield? Were their tactics defined by unwritten moral rules, or was all considered fair in war? In Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History, Roel Konijnendijk re-examines the literary evidence for the battle tactics and tactical thought of the Greeks during the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Rejecting the...
Translated from Russian. About sovetskoy voyennoy nauke. Vtoroye, pererabotannoye i dopolnennoye izdaniye. Kozlov Svyatoslav, Smirnov Mikhail, Baz Ivan, Sidorov Petr. About Soviet military science Military Publishing House, 1964. This book will acquaint the reader with the fundamental questions of Soviet military science. In it there is a report on the history of nascence and...
Brill, 2011. — 272 p. — (History of Warfare 67). This book examines Byzantine attitudes towards warfare at a time of crisis when the empire ceased to be a first rate power in the Mediterranean. It investigates the correspondence between official rhetoric and propaganda, on the one hand, and military realities, on the other. It explores the military ethos of the late Byzantine...
Kangaroo Press Ltd.,1993. - 108 p. Digging Up a War. The Inspiration. The Western Front. Where to Search. Today's Evidence of Yesterday's Battle. The Practice of War Archaeology. Battlefields in their 'Natural' State. Clues from Letters and Records. Bones and Poems of War. Digging Up Diggers. Illustrations. Images of War. Battle Debris. Military Memorabilia. Personal Equipment....
Burzaco, Ricardo Buenos Aires: Da Vinci, 1995. Editorial Da Vinci, 1995. Spanish Language Within a particular global geopolitical framework, the government (Argentine) General Juan Domingo Peron decides from 1946, hiring technicians and scientists abroad, especially German scientists to develop the aviation industry and nuclear research. Thus, in a few years, with the...
Washington: Brassey’s, 1999. — 296 p. Origins of the Modern Military Working Dog A Historical Perspective Early American Ideas The World War I Experience The Mercy Dogs 1914-1918 Fleet-footed Messengers Final Participant Stubby: American Mascot Hero Aftermath Between the Wars Starting from Scratch Another War and Still No Dogs The Volunteer Effort Establishment of War Dog...
Basic Books, 2009. — 459 p. Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the conduct of warfare. Drawing its examples from Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and America, John A. Lynn challenges the belief that technology has been the dominant influence on combat from ancient times to the present day. In...
Amber Books Ltd., 2013. — 265 p. — (Encyclopedia of Warfare Series). — ASIN B00HAS4TCA The Encyclopedia of Warfare Series is an authoritative compendium of almost five millennia of conflict, from the ancient world to the Arab Spring. Written in a style accessible to both the student and the general enthusiast, it reflects the latest thinking among military historians and will...
In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein ’t Hart assesses the success of the Dutch in establishing their independence through their eighty years’ struggle with Spain – one of the most remarkable achievements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other rebellions troubled the major powers of this epoch, but none resulted in the establishment of an independent,...
Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 1999. — 83 p. — (History of Warfare). The History of Warfare series relates the story of conflict from earlist times to the present. Much more than a blow-by-blow account of wars, it explores all of the world’s major conflicts through the centuries. The series also deseribes the great commanders, key weapons, and decisive battles on lan, at...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 304 p. Through history armies of occupation and civil power have been repeatedly faced with the challenges of insurgency. US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has highlighted this form of conflict in the modern world. Armies, sometimes reluctantly, have had to adopt new doctrines and tactics to deal with the problems of insurgency and diverse...
Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute Press,US Army Combined Arms Center, 2011. — 77 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9841901-9-5 Over the course of the last eight years, a plethora of new primary research material related to the Soviet war in Afghanistan has emerged. With Lester W. Grau and Michael A Gress’s important translation and editing of the Russian General Staff history, titled...
Chartwell books, 1976. — 255 p. — ISBN-10 0725403322, ISBN-13 978-0890090817. The story of the Japanese War Machine is the tragic and noble history of a gallant people led into a misguided war. The millions who suffered in Asia and the Pacific in the wake of the Japanese War Machine bear silent tribute to its folly.
Squadron/Signal Publications, 1998. — 74 p. — ISBN: 0897473930. Reflecting the P-47's use by the 8th, 9th, 12th and 15th Air Forces and misc. Allied units, McDowell's book offers an operator-by-operator summary of the Jug-equipped fighter groups in each. The 12th AF listing, for example, includes the 27th, 57th 79th, 86th, 324th and 350th FGs. The accompanying group histories,...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 1999. — 66 p. — ISBN: 0897473981. P-47s were flown by fighter groups in the 5th, 7th, 10th, 14th and 20th Air Forces as well as the RAF, Mexican Air Force, etc. Twentieth AF fighter groups included the 413th, 414th and 507th FGs, each group's combat exploits - and markings - being summarized in a 1/2- to full-page history. Naturally there's photos...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. — 335 pgs. In a comprehensive institutional and operational history of the Imperial Russian Army during the crucial period of its modernization, Bruce W. Menning surveys the development of organization, doctrine, and strategy from the aftermath of Russia's defeat in the Crimean War through the wars against Turkey in 1877-1878 and...
Montagu J.D. reenhill Books, 2006. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1853676853. — ISBN13: 978-1853676857 Greek and Roman Warfare: Battles, Tactics and Trickery is a uniquely detailed work which explores the tactics and battle strategies of the Graeco-Roman period. This incisive study goes beyond the arms and armour to reveal the psychology behind history's most emblematic battles. The...
Cambridge: CUP, 2006. - 299 p. Military history and the history of war. The influence of history on the military profession. The relevance of history to the military profession: a British view. The relevance of history to the military profession: an American Marine’s view. post–world war ii professional military education. an early interest in military history. finding a wider...
Leiden: Brill, 2011. - 285 p. These essays honor Dennis Showalter, a pioneer in the field of military history and a mentor to an entire generation of scholars. The essays themselves are written by some of the best-known and most highly-respected scholars in the field. They span the globe and cover a wide range of military history topics from the ancient world to the present...
Oakville: David Brown Book Co., Oxbow Books, 2012. - 144 p. Wearing the Cloak contains nine stimulating chapters on Roman military textiles and equipment that take textile research to a new level. Hear the sounds of the Roman soldiers' clacking belts and get a view on their purchase orders with Egyptian weavers. Could armour be built of linen? Who had access to what kinds of...
New York: Hippocrene, 1990. — 395 p. This is an exhaustive study of how warfare was conducted on the 18th century European battlefield. It is a scholarly yet readable book, very probably the best ever on this particular subject. The main parts are on French theory and practice, and then Frederick the Great's development of a Prussian system. The time period covers the...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 296 p. The Practice of Strategy focuses on grand strategy and military strategy as practiced over an extended period of time and under very different circumstances, from the campaigns of Alexander the Great to insurgencies and counter-insurgencies in present-day Afghanistan and Iraq. It presents strategy as it pertained not only to wars,...
Illustrator: Harry Dempsey. — Osprey Publishing, 2008 — 128 p. Starting operations in the relatively quiet Toul sector in March 1918, the 1st Pursuit Group initially flew Nieuport 28s, given to the Americans because the French did not want them. Expanded by the arrival of additional squadrons, the 1st Pursuit Group went to war in earnest over Château Thierry in July, initially...
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 96 p. Born amid immense suffering and bloodshed, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remained a battlefield for almost 200 years. The Crusades gave rise to the Military Orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, and were a backdrop to the careers of some of history's most famous leaders including Richard 'The Lionheart' and Saladin. On occasion the savagery of the...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2014. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-0007452507. From Alexander the Great's 331 BC rout of Darius III to Great Britain's 1982 re-conquest of the Falkland Islands, the author of the Second World War Experience series examines some of history's pivotal battles to determine the human factors that decided their outcomes. Stressing the importance of leadership,...
Cambridge University Press, 1972. — 309 p. — ISBN: 0521084628, 0521099072. Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History The publication of The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road in 1972 marked the birth of the "new military history", which emphasized military organization--mobilization, pay, supply, morale and, above all, logistics--rather than military "events" such as...
London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta: Longmans, Green, And Co. 1907. – 46 p. Since my recent book on mediæval archery and ancient weapons was issued, I have obtained a considerable amount of information concerning the projectile engines of the Greeks and Romans. I now print a concise account of the history, construction, and effects in warfare of these engines. In this summary...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 352 p. — (General Military Series). From the American War of Independence to World War II, the history of the military combat marksman is one of indifference and cost cutting. Despite the proven effectiveness of the rifleman in battle, for most of the 20th century snipers were regarded as little more than paid assassins. It was not until the Vietnam...
Brill, 2013. — 851 p. — (History of Warfare, 91). Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States is the first study to comprehensively treat an aspect of Byzantine, Western, early Islamic, Slavic and Steppe military history within the framework of common descent from Roman military organization to 800 AD. This not only encompassed the army proper, but also a...
The Crowood Press Ltd., 1998. — 96 p. — (The Europa-Militaria Special № 2). — ISBN: 1-86126-264-7. The accurate reconstruction and wearing of military costume of an earlier age is a tradition at least as old as ancient Rome itself.
4th edition. — New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. — 449 pgs. An overview of the development of war in Western society from its beginnings to classical times to the present. Shows the social and technical changes that caused war to evolve, and the social, economic, political, and technical consequences that stemmed from it. Now in its fourth edition since first...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 568 p. Medieval warfare was dominated by the attack and defence of fortified places, and siege methods and technology developed alongside improvements in defences. This book uses both original historical sources and evidence from archaeology to analyze this relationship as part of a comprehensive view of the whole subject, tracing links across three...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 550 p. The siege dominated warfare during the medieval period. Contemporary evidence - from both accounts of sieges, and records of government - survives in relatively large quantites for the later medieval period; together with archaeological evidence, it is used here to offer a full and comprehensive picture of siege warfare. The book shows how similar...
New York: State University of New York Press, 2017. — viii, 233 p. — ISBN: 9781438465180 (eBook). The present study partakes of this impetus, and also adopts the view — now widely held among specialists — that military thought in early China, like other intellectual strands of that era, should not be described as the output of a discrete school of military philosophers（bingjia...
Harward: Harvard University Press, 1999. — 309 p. In this impressive study, David Rich demonstrates how the modernization of Russia's general staff during the second half of the nineteenth century reshaped its intellectual and strategic outlook and equipped the staff to play a strong, and at times dominant, role in shaping Russian foreign policy. Rich weaves together several...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 288 p. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries — panic, exhaustion, heat, noise — and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion...
The History Press Ltd., 2013. — 192 p. According to Napoleon, an army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too. Yet, have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed under fire or in the trench lines? During the Great War troops were trained to make meals out of the bare minimum of ingredients, to feed a company of men from only a mess tin and...
Routledge, 2020. — 294 p. Military Thought of Asia challenges the assertion that the generation of rational secular ideas about the conduct of warfare is the preserve of the West, by analysing the history of ideas of warfare in Asia from the ancient period to the present. The volume takes a transcontinental and comparative approach to provide a broad overview of the evolution...
Casemate, 2016. — 192 p. Simo Hayha (1905 - 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 - 1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers all over the world and paved the way for them by demonstrating their significance on the battlefield....
Nation Books, 2007. — 241 p. This book dedicated to fenomen of mercenary private armies and in particular - Blackwater, the most famous and bloodiest. Author deals with its origin,organisation, contingent and conflicts, which this "soldiers of fortune" took part in.
Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. — 397 p. This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Technology, Arms Race and Disarmament which took place at Castiglioncello, Italy, in September 1987. The papers examine strategic defence policies, nuclear weapons proliferation and arms control among many other topics.
Routledge Group, 2009. — 173 p. — (Cass Military Studies). The intervention of the military in national politics and the everyday lives of citizens is a key question in civil-military relations. This book explains how concordance theory can provide a model for predicting such domestic intervention. Models dealing with the relationship between the military and society are...
Brassey, 1997. — 144 p. — (Brassey's History of Uniforms). A guide to the arms and armour of the barbarian armies. From the disintigration of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th century to the 11th century. With 150 illustrations & photographs.
Grub Street, 1990 - 456 p. Above the Trenches remains the foremost work ever published on the subject of the British Air Forces during WWI. ISBN10: 0948817194 (eng)
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 166 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Greek and Roman warfare was unlike that of any other culture before or since. The key difference is often held to be that the Greeks and Romans practiced a "Western Way of War," in which the aim is an open, decisive battle - won by courage instilled, in part, by discipline. Here, Harry Sidebottom looks at how...
Author P. W. Singer. Language English. Publisher Penguin. Publication date 2009. Pages 400 p. In Wired for War, P. W. Singer explores the greatest revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb: the dawn of robotic warfare. We are on the cusp of a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make real the stuff of I, Robot and The Terminator. Blending historical...
Manuscript from Lessing J. Rosenwald collection. — Ca. 17th century. — 275 p. In Italian. Subjects: Military topography, military engineering. Manuscript on paper. Leaves 4-81 so numbered. Mainly pen and ink diagrs. and drawings, some painted with water colors. The text accompanying part of the illus. is in Italian, a few pages are in Spanish. Francesco Tensini, whose work La...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 316 p. Clausewitz is often quoted but more often misunderstood. On Clausewitz presents his central ideas about war and politics-such as war as an instrument of policy, the concept of Absolute War, friction and the fog of war-in a clear and systematic fashion. On Clausewitz is a thorough survey of all of Clausewitz's most important insights, drawn not...
Greenhill Books, 1999 - 72 p. ISBN10: 1853673765 (eng) This exciting on-going series covers every aspect of the Luftwaffe in World War II and charts the rise and fall of this mighty force. Each volume makes use of over a hundred rare and valuable photographs, many of them taken by Luftwaffe personnel, to bring history to life and record both the men and the aircraft they flew....
Knopf, 2007. — 448 p. General Smith draws on his vast experience as a commander in the 1991 Gulf War, in Bosnia, Kosovo and Northern Ireland, to give us a probing analysis of modern war and to call for radically new military thinking. Why, he asks, do we use armed force to solve our political problems? And how is it that our armies can win battles but fail to solve the...
U.S. Department of Defense, 1987. — 160 p. Soviet Policies and Global Ambitions. Forces for Nuclear Attack. Strategic Defense and Space Operations. Forces for Theater Operations. Readiness, Mobility, and Sustainability. Research, Development, and Production. Political-Military and Regional Policies. The US Response.
Zenith Press, 1990. — 382 p. Profound research about military`s best combat squads in Southeast Asia, their organization, tactics, equipment and so force.
Novato: Presidio Press, 1985. — 411 p. — ISBN: 0-89141-232-8 This battlefield history concentrates on how the United States Army and Marine Corps raised combat units and deployed them to Vietnam, and then how these units were employed and fought during the war. The book highlights significant military factors which affected unit performance in Vietnam. To provide continuity...
Routledge Group, 2008. — 265 p. — (Cass Military Studies). This volume presents a number of case studies of military advisors and missions in order to provide clear historical examples of the evolution, functioning and motives of foreign military advising in the modern era. Containing essays by US contributors covering a wide range of countries and spanning nearly 200 years of...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 334 p. Hew Strachan and Andreas Herberg-Rothe have produced an important - no, an essential - volume of articles that illuminate and explore the core ideas of Carl von Clausewitz. The results of an Oxford Conference on Clausewitz in 2006, the articles both engage current thinking on Clausewitzian theory and open up new areas of relevance of that...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 334 p. Hew Strachan and Andreas Herberg-Rothe have produced an important - no, an essential - volume of articles that illuminate and explore the core ideas of Carl von Clausewitz. The results of an Oxford Conference on Clausewitz in 2006, the articles both engage current thinking on Clausewitzian theory and open up new areas of relevance of that...
Brassey's History of Uniforms, Brassey's(UK) Ltd, London, 1997. - 146 p. The Ancient Roman Army is often looked upon as a model of order and uniformity, but this book reveals that this classical ideal is a myth and that Ancient Roman warriors served in a wide variety of armour and equipment, ranging from coats of mail to the exotic garb of crocodile skin. Sometimes they clad...
Shenzhen: 2007. — 180 str. Sun Wu oraz Sun Bin obaj znani jako Sun Tzu. Przekład z języka chińskiego Jarek Zawadzki. 孫子兩位兵法。 Sztuka wojny Sun Tzu i Metody wojskowe Sun Pina to kanon literatury militarystycznej. Liczące około 2500 lat traktaty zadziwiają swoją ponadczasowością i walorami poznawczymi. Z każdego odtworzonego i przetłumaczonego przez współczesnych badaczy zdania...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. — 145 p. A delightfully illustrated version of Sunzi's classicThe Art of Warby bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai C. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty languages. This volume presents Tsai's delightful graphic adaptation of...
Ed. by Colonel Carl W. Reddel. — Washington, D.C.: United States Air Force Academy, Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, 1990. — xxii, 405 p. — ISBN: 0-912799-57-9. The Twenty-Ninth Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History Introduction, Colonel Carl W. Reddel, USAF Soldiering in Tsarist Russia, John L. H. Keep The Military Legacy of Imperial Russia: History...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1781591659. The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of Dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the American and British armed forces in a lightning campaign of just two weeks....
Part One: The development of samurai warfare. 1. Early Samurai Warfare. The Ancestors of the Samurai. The Conscript Armies. The Rise of the Mounted Warrior. The First Samurai. Early Samurai Battles. 2. Military Gentlemen. The Way of Horse and Bow. The Archery Duel. Single Combat and the Samurai Sword. Single Combat and the Dagger. The Samurai in Group Combat. 3. The Warrior...
Air University Press, 1994. — 285 p. Maxwell Air force base Alabama 36112-6428. An essential part of the Air War College curriculum consists of the study of military history and specific campaigns. Part 1 of this manuscript presents an attempt to clarify the relationship between air power and maneuver warfare since 1939, a subject that derives its importance from the fact that...
Delhi: Foundation Books, 2012. — 556 p. n the history of mankind, armies fought at the behest of a ruler to conquer and expand territories. In due course, war crafts were devised and war logistics were developed. However, armies' food remained much the same as ever for a very long time. Eventually science and technology played a crucial role in bringing army foods and...
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo 69, 1995. — 228 s. Ta bogato ilustrowana książka przedstawia ewolucję sztuki wojennej oraz armii świata greckiego i rzymskiego od 1600 r. p.n.e. do 800 r. Tekst ilustruje 125 zdjęć, większość kolorowych, oraz ponad 250 wspaniałych rysunków, w tym 50 planów słynnych bitew toczonych na lądzie i morzu.
Man-at-Arms First published in Great Britain in 2002 by Osprey Publishing Ems Cout, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9LP, United Kingdom ISBN: 1-84176-405-1
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