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In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely-they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right ...
In the early 1880s Muhammad Ahmed, the self-styled Mahdi, unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. The Egyptian military ...
'This brief, provocative, and accessible book offers snapshots of seven pernicious myths in military history that have been perpetrated on unsuspecting students, readers, moviegoers, game ...
Britain has been at the forefront of weapons technology since the industrial revolution began and, with the Brennan wire-guided torpedo, pioneered guided weapons. World War ...
How German Surface-to-Air Missile technology captured by the Western Allies influenced Cold War technology. World War II saw the appearance of numerous revolutionary armaments on ...
Some of the individuals who played key roles in the success of Bletchley Park in reading the secret communications of Britain's enemies during the ...
'Written with Burleigh's characteristic brio, with pithy summaries of historical moments (he is brilliant on the Americans in Vietnam, for example) and full of ...
A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2021
'Monumental.. Authoritative and highly readable.' The Times
'A fascinating history of royal espionage.' Sunday Times
'Excellent ...
It has been claimed that around 14,500 wars have been fought since 3,500 BC. Humanity has only experienced 300 years of peace on ...
Joseph O. Chapa, with unique credentials as Air Force officer, Predator pilot, and doctorate in moral philosophy, serves as our guide to understanding this future ...
This is the first history of the legendary US Army's HAWK missile system, the world's first mobile air-defense missile system, which saw service ...
Explores the critical battle of Carrhae, a fascinating tale of treachery, tactics, and topography in which Rome experienced one of its most humiliating defeats.
The ...
A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe
At the ...
In three global conflicts and countless colonial campaigns, tens of thousands of black West Indian soldiers fought and died for Britain, first as slaves and ...
While the Red Army's arsenal at the start of the Second World War included weapons dating back to the Great War or earlier, the ...