Military & Naval History

This is the second volume of the classified history of air defence in Great Britain...

Using official records, the author traces the origins and early development of strategic bombing, and examines its organs in the operations and staff planning of the First World War...

The British Army 1815-1914..

This book, originally published in 1977 examines in detail the organisation, training, and personnel of the British Army during the eighteenth century, and explains how the government policies of containing the enemy and colonial conquest were achieved. It also illustrates how the Army survived the ..

Morewood offers a comprehensive and challenging analysis of the British defence of Egypt, primarily against fascist Italy, in the critical lead-up period to the Second World War...

The essays redefine Great Britain as a world power and reinterpret the tensions that underpinned its grand strategy during its imperial heyday...

The essays redefine Great Britain as a world power and reinterpret the tensions that underpinned its grand strategy during its imperial heyday...

A concise history of events in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland during the 1640s. Gaunt explores the relationship between the kingdoms and assesses whether the wars can be seen as a single conflict or inter-related, separate conflicts...

This is the first English translation of the main contemporary accounts of the Crusade and death of the German Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (ruled 1152-90). The principal text here, the History of the Expedition of the Emperor Frederick, was written soon after the events described, and is a crucia..

Nicola Di Cosmo presents an annotated translation of the only known military diary in pre-modern Chinese history, providing fresh and extensive information on the inner workings of the Ch'ing army...

The name HMS Dreadnought is closely associated with the age of empire, the Anglo-German antagonism and the pre-First World War naval arms race. Yet it was also bound up with a range of political and cultural, national and international contexts, central to the Edwardian period. This volume investiga..

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. The volume investigates thoroughly the economic profitability of warfare in the early modern period and shows how smaller, commerc..