MARNE 1918: FRIEDENSTURM
War in the Air, 1914-45
1999
NON-FICTIONExplores how airplanes were used in World War I and World War II.
Victory 1918
2000
NON-FICTIONNow in paperback, a distinguished historian recounts the myriad tragic blunders and the unprecedented, unfathomable bloodshed that was World War I in a fresh and revealing look at the war and its impa...
50 Battles that Changed the World
2004
NON-FICTIONRather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of their relevance to th...
The Kurdish Struggle, 1920-94
1996
NON-FICTIONForming minorities in five adjacent countries for 74 years, Kurds have been fighting for independence or autonomy, against governments reluctant to accede either. The Kurdish saga is one of periodic i...
War in the Gulf, 1990-91
2001
NON-FICTIONThis study offers a complex portrait of the Iraq-Kuwait conflict, providing a wealth of background information. It explores the history of relations between the two countries, and the struggle to reso...
50 Military Leaders who Changed the World
2006
NON-FICTIONThese 50 military leaders were, the men and women who, for good or ill, entered the field of battle and left the world much changed upon their exit. Included are: Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, Joan...
Warfare in the Latin East, 1192-1291
1994
NON-FICTIONA unique examination of the precise weaknesses of the crusader states in the thirteenth century.
Belleville: 1914 and Beyond
2013
NON-FICTIONIn 1914, celebrants marked the anniversary of the founding of Belleville, Illinois, by observing the progress the city had made since it was established a hundred years before. In that time, it had be...
The Port Chicago 50
2017
NON-FICTIONPresents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the de...
The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571
1984
NON-FICTIONThis is the third of four volumes which trace the history of the later Crusades and papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V and the battle o...
The Royal Navy and Anti-submarine Warfare, 1917-49
2006
NON-FICTIONAn essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations. This new book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torped...
Catastrophe 1914
2013
NON-FICTIONFrom the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzi...
They Shall Not Pass
2002
NON-FICTIONThe story of the longest and most devastating battle of the Great War.
The Somme
2005
NON-FICTIONDefinitive modern account of the Battle of the Somme and its horrific toll.
Gallipoli
2011
NON-FICTIONComprehensive account of the doomed Gallipoli campaign using firsthand sources.
All Quiet on the Western Front
1929
FICTIONThe defining anti-war novel — a young German soldier's experience of the Western Front's industrial slaughter, told with devastating simplicity.
Storm of Steel
1920
MEMOIRUnflinching memoir of a German stormtrooper on the Western Front, written without sentimentality. One of the most controversial war memoirs ever published.