Military & Naval History

International intervention on humanitarian grounds has been a contentious issue for decades. This volume undertakes a systematic and broadly international review of issues relating to this subject...

This volume explains the new, changing and enduring features of post-Cold War international security..

It's the summer of 1940 and the Nazis have crossed the English Channel to invade Britain. They advance North from the South coast and great swathes of Southern England come under German control.  Fiction, of course, but an invasion of Britain was planned by Hitler to take place in the summer of 1940..

It's the summer of 1940 and the Nazis have crossed the English Channel to invade Britain. They advance North from the South coast and great swathes of Southern England come under German control.  Fiction, of course, but an invasion of Britain was planned by Hitler to take place in the summer of 1940..

This book examines the material and physical environment of the British soldiers on the Western Front (1914-1918) and analyses the formation of a ‘sense of place’ within the violent, unpredictable war landscape...

Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi examines how filmmakers teach Americans about the country’s military past...

 Speaking as loudly as any first-hand account, the facts and figures laid out in this volume reveal the sheer massive destruction caused by the war. Covering all aspects of the conflict from its origins and course to the peace settlements and the crises they generated, Colin Nicolson unravels histor..

This book uses official records to show that Malta, far from being written off, was developed in the inter-war years as a British offensive base, and that the island's air and naval forces made a major contribution to Allied victory in North Africa...

This volume opens with the Chinese communists in the midst of the Long March, and threatened with defeat, and ends with the establishment, after a decade of civil war, of a new agreement between the Communists and the Guomindang to join together in resisting Japanese aggression...

This work analyses the phenomenon of revolutions based on a Maoist model, such as Thailand and Sri Lanka, in order to learn about the Maoist 'people's war' and to identify the factors which contribute to a revolution...

This volume contends that nations embroiled in Continental wars have historically had poor maritime strategies, developing the argument that navies involved in such wars have made poor contributions to politial objectives...

First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...