Sometimes the best intentions can have the worst results. In 1908, British reformers banned the export of Indian opium to China. As a result, the world price of opium soared to a new high and a centur
From the Battle of the Somme (1916) through to American Sniper (2014), war and military history has been a staple of the film industry. This new study details fifty of the greatest war films, includin
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
Acclaimed historian Tim Newark tells the story of the Highlanders through the words of the soldiers themselves, from diaries, letters, and journals uncovered from archives in Scotland and around the w
Camouflage is a cult in fashion and design world. This book tells a story of an interplay between modern military developments on the one hand, and the worlds of art, design and popular culture on the
The Naval and Military Club--or the 'In & Out' as it is affectionately known--is one of Britain's greatest and oldest service clubs and this book tells its rich and entertaining history for th
Covering the origins of camo patterning, from Wehrmacht field gray, to US Army green, and Commonwealth khaki, to its use in combat today, The Little Book of Camouflage tells the history of camouflage
"Tells the story of the Irish fighting man with wit, clarity, and scholarship." —Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of WarFor hundreds of years, Irish soldiers have sought their destiny abroad. Where
Drawing on a wealth of eyewitness accounts, contemporary reports, and declassifiedintelligence documents, some never published before, The Mafia at War reconstructsthe relationships between the Mafia
For the first twenty-five years of his career, Lucky Luciano was a vicious mobster who became the king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five, he was a fake, his reputation maintained by
An extraordinary biography that has never been told beforein which the mobster best known for helping the Allies invade Sicily in WWII is revealed as a fraud For the first twenty-five years of
Acclaimed historian Tim Newark tells the story of the Highlanders through the words of the soldiers themselves, from diaries, letters, and journals uncovered from archives in Scotland and around the
Evaluates the role of camouflage in the natural world as well as in the military, art, and design, in a visual survey that covers a broad range of topics, from the development of the art of disguise d
Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no conflict of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature.Approaching the canon of Wor
Travel back in time with this visual guide to the history of human conflict, tracing the evolution of technology and tactics from the ancient world to the American Civil War!Combining beautiful ninete
