Warfare and defence Books

Volume № 7 of the Profile & Scale series details the Yakovlev Yak-7 fighter to an entirely new standard of authenticity. More than 65 Yak-7 examples are faithfully documented in full-colour profile, many appearing for the first time. Forty-four pages of...

Volume № 8 of the Profile & Scale series details the Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter to an entirely new standard of authenticity. More than 65 Yak-9 examples are faithfully documented in full-colour profile, many appearing for the first time. Forty-four pages of...

Selon le récit occidental, Vladimir Poutine est un expansionniste insatiable, semblable à Hitler, qui a envahi l'Ukraine sans provocation. Cette histoire est incorrecte. En réalité, les États-Unis et l'OTAN ont une responsabilité importante dans la...

According to the mainstream Western narrative, Vladimir Putin is an insatiable, Hitler-like expansionist who invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked land grab.That story is incorrect.In reality, the United States and NATO bear much of the responsibility for the...

Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb　takes up the question of how the world found itself in the age of nuclear weapons - and how it has since tried to find a way out of it. Albert I. Berger charts the story of nuclear weapons from their origins through the...

The compelling story of Australia's desperate fight for survival during World War II.In the dark days following the fall of Singapore in February 1942, Australia faced its toughest battle yet. It was centrestage and under direct attack from seemingly...

Since the earliest days of warfare, military operations have followed a predictable formula: after a decisive battle, an army must pursue the enemy and destroy its organization in order to achieve a victorious campaign. But by the mid-nineteenth century,...

Many books and articles have been written on wars in narrow seas. However, none deals in any comprehensive manner with the problems of strategy and conduct of naval operations. The aim of this book is to explain in some detail the characteristics of a...

The author begins with a general survey of British aircraft manufacturing in the inter-war period. Policy, production, finance and contracts are examined, and the final chapter is concerned with the mobilization of the aircraft industry in 1939, and the...

This book provides the first comparative survey of the security problems faced by the small island and enclave developing states of the two major regions in the world characterised by the presence of such states - the Caribbean and the Pacific. It both...

My father, Francis Gary Powers, was a CIA U-2 pilot who was shot down in the midst of the Cold War, on May 1, 1960, while flying in Soviet airspace. After his capture, he was tried for espionage and then served nearly two years in a Soviet prison until...

"Exceptional military history worthy of its heroic subject." --Matthew J. DavenportIn the vein of Band of Brothers and American Sniper, a riveting history of Alvin York, the World War I legend who killed two dozen Germans and captured more than 100,...

The post-Cold War is drawing to a close. For the first time since 1945 Europe is about to experience the centrifugal forces of multipolarity. It does so after two decades of intense institution with a collective presence in the shape of the European...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This is the first book to survey the evolution of the strategic basing systems of the great powers, covering an 800-year span of history, from the Mongol dynasty to the era of the US empire. Robert E. Harkavy details the progression of strategic basing...

This book offers a general theory of violent radicalization and uses case studies from a variety of different countries and groups to illustrate this.

McDermott examines the origins, development and prospects for the Australia and Japan Defence and Security Relationship.

While the scholarly study of culture as a politically contested sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, this volume highlights some particular understudied aspects of it.

Stuxnet to Sunburst: 20 Years of Digital Exploitation and Cyberwarfare takes the reader on a journey from the terrorist attacks of 9/11 onwards and the massive insatiable appetite, focus and investment by the Five Eyes agencies, in particular the U...

Introduction to Homeland Security, Third Edition provides the latest developments in the policy and operations of domestic security efforts of the agencies under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This includes the FBI, Secret Service, FEMA, the...

Responding to increasing global anxiety over the ethics education of military personnel, this volume illustrates the depth, rigour and critical acuity of Professional Military Ethics Education (PMEE) with contributions by distinguished ethical theorists...

In the endless series of United States military interventions, the 'humanitarian' bombing of Yugoslavia played a key role in gaining support of the centre left for war as an instrument of policy. Thanks to massive deception and self-deception by media...

In the last months of 1944, a group of elite Australian and British commandos was selected for the biggest Allied behind-the-scenes operation of the Pacific War. Their mission: to devastate the enemy's shipping by destroying the Japanese ships at anchor...

This engrossing and meticulously researched volume reexamines the decisions made by Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff in the crucial months leading up to the Battle of the Bulge. In late August 1944 defeat of the Wehrmacht seemed assured. On December...

There have been five central crises in America's post World War II encounter with the Middle East, and the Obama administration now faces a sixth. Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapons capability, and the prospect of Israel launching air...

Das Buch ""Das Zeitalter Der Revolution V2: Die Zeit Der Ersten Coalition, Vom Feldzuge Des Jahres 1792 Bis Zum Frieden Von Campo Formio (1847)"" von Wilhelm Wachsmuth besch�����ftigt sich mit der Zeit der ersten Koalition w�����hrend der...

Das Buch ""Das Verh�����ltnis der chemischen Verwandtschaft zur galvanischen Elektrizit�����t, in Versuchen dargestellt"" wurde 1830 von Nathaniel Wolfgang Fischer geschrieben. Das Werk besch�����ftigt sich mit der Beziehung zwischen chemischer...

Das Buch ""Das Schlachtfeld Im Teutoburger Walde"" von Th. Von Stamford wurde 1892 ver������ffentlicht und besch�����ftigt sich mit der ber�����hmten Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald im Jahr 9 n. Chr. Der Autor beschreibt detailliert die Ereignisse, die zur...

Das Buch ""Das S�����chsische Heer: Nunmehr XII Deutsches Armee Corps (1875)"" von Graf, M. ist eine historische Abhandlung �����ber das s�����chsische Heer im 19. Jahrhundert. Der Autor beschreibt detailliert die Struktur, Organisation und...

Das Buch ""Das Rathaus in N�����rnberg"" von Ernst Mummenhoff aus dem Jahr 1891 ist eine detaillierte Beschreibung des historischen Rathauses in N�����rnberg. Das Werk umfasst eine umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte, Architektur und Kunstwerke des...

""Das Preu�����ische Heer vor und nach der Reorganisation: Seine St�����rke und Zusammensetzung im Kriege 1866 (1866)"" ist ein Buch von Heinrich Beitzke, das sich mit dem preu�����ischen Heer und seiner Reorganisation im Jahr 1866 besch�����ftigt. Das...

Das Buch ""Das Papiergeld in �����sterreich seit 1848"" wurde im Jahr 1886 von Karel Kramar ver������ffentlicht. Das Werk ist eine umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte des Papiergeldes in �����sterreich seit der Revolution von 1848. Kramar beschreibt...

Das Buch ""Das K������niglich Preu�����ische Garde Husaren-Regiment: Und Seine Abstammung, 1811-1869"" von Hubert von Meyerinck beschreibt die Geschichte des K������niglich Preu�����ischen Garde Husaren-Regiments von seiner Gr�����ndung im Jahr 1811 bis...

Das Buch ""Das Hohe Haus: Parlamentsbilder Aus Oesterreich (1896)"" von Edmund Wengraf ist eine Sammlung von Portr�����ts und Beschreibungen der Mitglieder des ������sterreichischen Parlaments aus dem Jahr 1896. Es bietet einen Einblick in die politische...

Das Buch ""Das Grossherzogthum Berg: Unter Joachim Murat, Napoleon I Und Louis Napoleon, 1806-1813"" wurde von Rudolf Goecke im Jahr 1877 ver������ffentlicht. Es beschreibt die Geschichte des Gro�����herzogtums Berg w�����hrend der Herrschaft von Joachim...

Das Buch ""Das Erste Deutsche Parlament Und Die Wehrfragen: Unter Benutzung Archivalischer Quellen"" von Emil Knorr wurde im Jahr 1887 ver������ffentlicht. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit dem ersten deutschen Parlament und den Fragen der Verteidigung unter...

With the concept of 'Atomic Anxiety', this book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important and longstanding puzzles of international politics: the non-use of U.S. nuclear weapons. By focusing on the fear surrounding nuclear weapons, it...

Destructive conflicts have thwarted growth and development in South Asia for more than half a century. This collection of multi-disciplinary essays examines the economic causes and consequences of military conflict in South Asia from a variety of...