Today’s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely co
Today’s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely co
Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. In this intelligent and readable study, the distinguished Crusade historian Norman Housley describes and analyses the principal exp
This is the only survey of feudal warfare in Europe aimed primarily for the general reader who may know little about either medieval or military history. The author discusses military feudalism as it
Thornton (Millersville U., PA) analyzes the relationship between warfare and the slave trade in precolonial Africa, the role of Europeans, and the impact of ecological and technological factors on the
* Photographic history of the Arab and Israeli armoured vehicles from 1948 to the present day * Includes dramatic photographs of the fighting in 1948, at Suez, during the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur
Historians of Eastern Europe, most of them in North America but presumably drawing on studies from the region, reveal the scale of destructiveness of wars there during the 16th-18th centuries and the
In a revision of his 2007 PhD dissertation in Byzantine studies at the University of Birmingham, Kyriakidis explores Byzantine military thought and attitudes from the time the empire was shattered int
For medieval strategy and tactics there is nothing better than this book. MILITARY HISTORY (US) La traduction integrale en anglais...est la consecration internationale, bien tardive, d'un grand c
Succinct accounts of 21 guerrilla conflicts in the twentieth century Wars covered include the Boer War, the Philippine War, World War I, the Russian Revolution, World War II, Vietnam, the Algerian War
The original version of this text was published in 1984 as a textbook on military history for officers in the U.S. Army. The revised version includes an appendix of terms and acronyms, and concepts a
Hans Delbrück’s four-volume History of the Art of War is recognized throughout the world as the definitive work on the subject. Appearing in an English-language paperback edition for the f
Capturing the times when lives and victory were in peril, this book records the exploits of the men who fought in WWII in the air and on the sea, including pilots and air crewmen of carrier squadrons,
This interdisciplinary book aims to address the historical questions of what roles have civilians played in warfare and how has civilian participation changed over time? Scholars of warfare have been
Warfare: A Visual History combines historical engravings and diagrams with an engaging modern text to create a visual study of humankind's extraordinary ingenuity in inventing new ways to wage war. A
With a focus on the Crusades, this volume contains 12 essays, most of which were first presented at the 33rd Medieval Workshop at the U. of British Columbia in 2003. While some of the papers describe
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became c
The introduction of chemical warfare during the First World War was a major event in the history of military technology. It not only posed an unusual challenge to military thinking of the day, which
Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in
