Military & Naval History

This edited volume comprises a series of essays about Patrick Maynard Stewart Blackett, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, as well as a prominent figure in the Royal Navy and British politics...

This analysis of British war policy considers alterations to the grand strategy during the last years of World War I...

This analysis of British war policy considers alterations to the grand strategy during the last years of World War I...

Pure Strategy is an inquiry into the fundamental truth of strategy; its purpose, place, utility, and value...

Racializing the Soldier offers an international history of the impact of racial beliefs on the formation and development of modern armed forces. Focusing mostly on colonial and post-colonial armies, it considers how the idea of race shaped military conflict in the modern world. _x000D_ This book was..

Between 1965 and 1973, thousands of ordinary Americans participated in one of the most remarkable and significant people's movements in American history. Through marches, rallies, draft resistance, teach-ins, and non-violent demonstrations at both the national and local levels, Americans vehemently ..

This book contains, in a brief form, author’s views a to the conduct of the principal strategical and tactical operations of war, and will be found to be a short and convenient introduction to a deeper study of the rules which should underlie the direction of the ever-varying incidents of modern fig..

This book presents a major re-evaluation of the standard view of revolutionary armies, the range of attitudes towards the role of heroic individuals, the formation and leadership of armies, and comparisons between such armies...

The documents in this book were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don, and appear here for the first time in print, with commentary from the author...

The documents in this book were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don, and appear here for the first time in print, with commentary from the author...

Through planning for a war against Japan the Royal Navy was able to test its readiness for a future war and many lessons learnt during this period were ultimately put to good use against a different foe in 1939...

This book provides an historical perspective on the growth of Russian military power, studying the emergence of the Russian regular army from 1700 until the end of the eighteenth century. In the process he evaluates the relative importance of Western and native influences on the creation of this for..