World Military History Books

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1. The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, 1620-44

   By Kenneth Swope

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-44927-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. War, Peace and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History, 2nd Edition

   By Colin S. Gray

   This new edition of Colin Gray's textbook explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context. War, Peace and International Relations serves as an excellent introduction to the international history of the past two hundred years, showing how those ...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-59487-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. 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)

4. The Palestinian Military: Between Militias and Armies

   By Hillel Frisch

   This book analyzes Palestinian attempts to create an organized military force from the period of the Mandate up to the present day. Beginning with a comparative overview of the relationship between insurgent movements and the quest to build up a standard military, the book looks, first, at how...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-60942-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia: Trial by Army

   By Louise Barnett

   This book is an examination of American army legal proceedings that resulted from a series of moments when soldiers in a war zone crossed a line between performing their legitimate functions and committing crimes against civilians, or atrocities. Using individual judicial proceedings held within...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-55640-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Military Legacies: A World Made By War

   By James A. Tyner

   Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage to the environment long after the guns have fallen silent. From the jungles of Vietnam to the arctic tundra of Russia, no region has escaped the legacy of warfare. To understand...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-99594-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan: The Phantom Samurai

   By Stewart Lone

   In contrast to the enduring stereotype of a ‘nation of samurai’, this book uses provincial newspapers and local records to hear the voices of ordinary people living in imperial Japan through several decades of war and peace. These voices reveal the authentic experiences, opinions and emotions of...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-49751-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Military and the State in Central Asia: From Red Army to Independence

   By Erica Marat

   The military played a pivotal role in the political development, state functions, foreign policy and the daily lives of the people in the Central Asian states from the early twentieth century until the present. This book is the first major, in-depth study of the military institutions in Central...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-49347-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   North Korea's Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008

   By Narushige Michishita

   This book examines North Korea’s nuclear diplomacy over a long time period from the early 1960s, setting its dangerous brinkmanship in the wider context of North Korea’s military and diplomatic campaigns to achieve its political goals. It argues that the last four decades of military adventurism...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-44943-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    The Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War, 1945–49: An Analysis of Communist Strategy and Leadership

    By Christopher R. Lew

    This book examines the Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War of 1945–1949, which resulted in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over Chiang Kaishek and the Guomindang (GMD) and the founding of The People’s Republic of China in 1949. It provides a military and strategic history of...

    April 2009 | 978-0-415-77730-8 | Hardback (Routledge)