Military & Naval History Books

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1. Geopolitics, Strategy and the Transformation of Civilisations

   By Leonard Hochberg, James D. Hardy

   This new book captures how the uncertainties associated with the emergence of adversarial interstate relations transformed early civilizations. Leading authors compare the interaction of geopolitical and strategic thought in ancient Hebrew, Hindu, Chinese and Greek; and in the Muslim and...

   July 2011 | 978-0-7146-5713-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement

   By Simon Hall

   Between 1965 and 1973, thousands of ordinary Americans participated in one of the most remarkable and significant people's movements in American history. Through marches, rallies, draft resistance, teach-ins, and non-violent demonstrations at both the national and local levels, Americans vehemently...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-80084-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Yugoslav Military Industry: Past and Present

   By Amadeo Watkins

   This book provides a historic overview of military industrial development in the territories of the Former Yugoslavia. Within a period of six decades it will see this specialist and highly demanding sector advance from a rudimentary manufacturing base to an advanced producer of modern weapons and...

   April 2011 | 978-0-7146-5626-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Helmuth Von Moltke: A Modern Biography

   By Arden Bucholz

   This detailed and comprehensive book offers the first modern biography of Helmuth Von Moltke, a major progenitor of the processes modern great powers use to engage in large-scale warfare. Drawing upon the author’s own previously published works, Moltke, Schlieffen and Prussian War Planning and...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-70200-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The Eurasian Way of War: Military Practice in Seventh Century China and Byzantium

   By David A. Graff

   This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 AD. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and battlefield tactics to logistics, campaign organization, military institutions, and the grand strategy of...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-46034-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. International History of the Vietnam War

   By Ang Cheng Guan

   This book attempts to complete the groundbreaking and seminal study of the Vietnam War from an international perspective began by the late-Ralph B. Smith in the 1980s, of which only three volumes of a projected five was completed. The most recent volume was published more than a decade ago in...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-35095-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Understanding Contemporary Strategy

   By Thomas M Kane, David J. Lonsdale

   This new co-authored textbook explains and describes the key intellectual debates around military strategy in the early twenty-first century. The book emphasizes the connections between military operations and broader issues of national policy, and focuses on how current issues such as terrorism,...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-46167-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Piracy, Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at Sea: Navies Confront the 21st Century

   By Martin N. Murphy

   This is the first detailed study of irregular warfare at sea, covering such topics as piracy, asymmetric war, and terrorism....

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-55039-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Britain and World War I

   By Alan G.V. Simmonds

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-45539-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Technology and the Mid-Victorian Royal Navy: Ironclads and Naval Innovation

    By Howard J. Fuller

    A revealing new examination of Palmerstonian diplomacy during the pivotal decade of the 1860s, the evolution of the modern capital ship and the real nature of ‘empire’, ‘technology’ and ‘seapower’. In contrast to the standard image of the mid-Victorian Royal navy as all-powerful, Howard Fuller...

    March 2011 | 978-0-415-37004-2 | Hardback (Routledge)