Specific wars and campaigns Books

Dorset (1910) is a book written by Arthur L. Salmon that provides a detailed account of the history, geography, and culture of the county of Dorset in England. The book is divided into several chapters, each of which focuses on a different aspect of the...

""Canada In The Great World War V3"" is a comprehensive historical account of Canada's military involvement in World War I. Written by various authorities, the book chronicles Canada's military history from its earliest days to the end of the war. The...

A Soldier of England: Memorials of Leslie Yorath Sanders is a book written by Leslie Yorath Sanders himself, which was published posthumously in 1920. The book is a collection of memorials and personal accounts of Leslie Yorath Sanders' life, from his...

""War Letters Of A Public-School Boy"" is a collection of letters written by Paul Jones, a young British soldier who fought in World War I. Jones was a student at a public school before he joined the army and his letters provide a unique perspective on...

""Five Months On A German Raider: Being The Adventures Of An Englishman Captured By The Wolf"" is a non-fiction book written by Frederic G. Trayes and published in 1919. The book chronicles the author's experiences as a prisoner of war on a German naval...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""Duty And Service: Letters From The Front (1917)"" is a collection of letters written by Lionel William Crouch during his time serving in the British Army during World War I. The letters provide a firsthand account of the experiences and emotions of a...

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War, 1914-1919, 1/8th Battalion (1920) is a historical account of the experiences of the Sherwood Foresters, a British Army regiment, during the First World War. Written by W. C. C. Weetman, the book provides a...

The Philatelic Messenger, written by Matthew Richey Knight and published in 1896, is a book that delves into the world of philately, which is the study and collection of stamps. The book is a comprehensive guide for both novice and experienced stamp...

The Battle of New Orleans, written by Zachariah F. Smith in 1904, is a historical account of the conflict between the Americans and the British in the early 19th century. The book covers the events leading up to the battle, including previous engagements...

""Causes of International War"" is a book written by G. Lowes Dickinson in 1920. The book analyzes the reasons behind the outbreak of wars between nations. It covers various topics such as the role of nationalism, economic competition, imperialism,...

The book titled ""Collated List Of Lunar Formations Named Or Lettered In The Maps Of Neison, Schmidt And Madler"" by Mary A. Blagg is a comprehensive guide to the various lunar formations that have been identified and named by astronomers over the years...

""The Battle of Mobile Bay and the Capture of Forts Powell, Gaines, and Morgan"" is a historical account of the crucial naval and land battle that took place in August 1864 during the American Civil War. The book details the combined efforts of the...

A Defense of the Hessians is a book written by Joseph G. Rosengarten that provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of Hessian soldiers during the American Revolution. The author argues that these soldiers, who were hired by the British to fight...

The Fossil Elateridae Of Florissant is a scientific book written by Henry F. Wickham, which provides a comprehensive study of the fossilized beetles of the Elateridae family found in the Florissant fossil beds in Colorado, United States. The book...

American Orders And Societies And Their Decorations: The Objects Of The Military And Naval Orders, Commemorative And Patriotic Societies Of The U.S. is a comprehensive guidebook that explores the various orders and societies in the United States and...

""Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Sydney Observatory, New South Wales, in the Years 1877-1878, Under the Direction of H. C. Russell"" is a book written by Henry C. Russell. The book details the astronomical observations made at the...

The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain's twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more people, more money and more resources than any other...

This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through extensive analysis of official military sources, religious publications and personal...

In the first part of the book, Professor Kolb provides a clear historical narrative of the political, social, economic and cultural developments of the Weimar Republic, setting it within the international context of the inter-war period. In the second...

German Disarmament After World War I examines the Allied disarmament of Germany and the challenges that such an enormous task presented to international efforts in enforcing the Treaty of Versailles. In the twenty-first century, disarmament remains a...

The book focuses on the six major European countries and states that remained officially neutral throughout the Second World War, namely Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Vatican.

Based on work conducted by scholars as part of a Summer Research Workshop organized by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. in 2007, this book takes a fresh look at how American...

The book sheds light on the critical importance of Pan-Asianism in Japanese imperialism. Pan-Asianism was a cultural as well as political ideology that promoted Asian unity and recognition. The focus of this book is on Pan-Asianism as a propeller behind...

Was Nazi wartime propaganda a 'totalitarian' mechanism that controlled the perceptions of the Germans? Did it 'win' the psychological war over the minds of the population? Was Joseph Goebbels the 'mastermind' of the Third Reich? This book analyzes the...

The first book totell the strange and fascinating story ofGeneral Zhang Xue-liang, the Chinese-Manchurian "Young Marshall" - a man who left an indelible mark on the history of modern China, but few know his story.Unlocking the mystery of this man's life,...

This vivid recreation of family life as experienced in Nazi Germany during and after the Second World War tells the stories of mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, parents and children, in their own words. From desperate last letters sent to their...

A valuable and objective reassessment of the role of Serbia and Serbs in WWII. Today, Serbian textbooks praise the Chetniks of Draža Mihailovic and make excuses forthe collaboration of Milan Nedic's regime with the Axis. However, this new evaluation...

The two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception. Now that 'Europe' is an even more contested idea than ever, this volume informs the current discourse on European identity by...

This book is an insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the Third Reich and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new...

Exploring how understandings of masculinity were constructed by British First World war servicemen through examination of their personal narratives, including letters home from the front and wartime diaries. This book presents a nuanced investigation of...

Among the greatest developments in conventional war since 1914 has been the rise of air/land power - the interaction between air forces and armies in military operations. From 1914, a great function of air power has always been its effect on ground...

This book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine a group of crucial but marginalized twentiethcentury writers who have been misread as conventional mimetic realists. Don Adams reveals how allegory, pastoral, and...

Examining Franco's relations with Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War, this book makes use of two major sources: the German Admiralty's archives, stunning in their evidence of Franco's support; and the Spanish press, operating under a...

"The one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan." --Former Congressman Charlie WilsonFrom the author of the award-winning THE LAST SEASON, the untold story of the U.S. Army...

The notorious concentration camp system was a central pillar of the Third Reich, supporting the Nazi war against political, racial and social outsiders whilst also intimidating the population at large. Established during the first months of the Nazi...

The Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and in other camps in 1940 was one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War. The truth about the massacres was long suppressed, both by the Soviet Union, and also by the United States...

The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his...

More than 800,000 Soviet women fought against Hitler's onslaught during the 'Great Patriotic War,' 1941-45. Female participation in military conflict on such a scale is historically unique. This is the first comprehensive study of the hitherto largely...

War is chaos; an occupying force must bring order out of that chaos. The Allied Occupation of Italy is studied by examining crime, law and order in Sicily and southern Italy, where all forms of Allied and liberated Italian government were used and which...

This book offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. It places the victims and Allied Medical Intelligence officers at centre stage, while providing a full...