Military & Naval History Books

New and Published Books

1. The War in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina 1991-1995

   By Branka Magas, Ivo Zanic

   Edited by Branka Magas, Ivo Zanic

   This work provides an understanding of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. These two interdependent wars were the greatest armed conflicts in Europe in the second half of the 20th century. This work provides an analysis of their successes and failures....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Captivity, Forced Labour and Forced Migration in Europe during the First World War

   Edited by Matthew Stibbe

   The notion of the First World War as 'the great seminal catastrophe' (Urkatastrophe) of the twentieth century is now firmly established in historiography. Yet astonishingly little has been written about the fate of non-combatants in occupied and non-occupied territory, including civilian...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Understanding Military Doctrine

   A multidisciplinary approach

   By Harald Hoiback

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science. Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing 'War on Terror', serious divergences over what the message of...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. The American Civil War

   A Literary and Historical Anthology, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Ian Frederick Finseth

   The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology brings together a wide variety of important writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, including short fiction, poetry, public addresses, memoirs, and essays, accompanied by detailed annotations and concise introductions. Now in...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Road to Oran

   Anglo-French Naval Relations, September 1939-July 1940

   By David Brown

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   On 3 July 1940, soon after the collapse of the French front and France's request for an armistice, a reluctant Royal Navy commander opened fire on the French Navy squadron at Mers-el-Kebir. Some 1,300 French sailors lost their lives. The late David Brown's detailed account finally conveys an...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. The Cuban Missile Crisis

   The Threshold of Nuclear War

   By Alice George

   Series: Critical Moments in American History

   For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. Launched by rash judgment and concluded through circumspect leadership, the Cuban...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521

   By Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

   Edited by Genaro Garcia

   First published in 1928.'Something more than an historical document of the first importance...his narrative is so readable that one's interest and admiration are equally divided between the stupendous events he records and the charming revelations of his own character.' Saturday Review.Four...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Seapower

   A Guide for the Twenty-First Century, 3rd Edition

   By Geoffrey Till

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This is the third, revised and fully updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the 21st Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States’ maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds us that the...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. Codebreaker in the Far East

   By Alan Stripp

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This is the first book to describe British wartime success in breaking Japanese codes of dazzling variety and great complexity which contributed to the victory in Burma three months before Hiroshima. Written for the general reader, this first-hand account describes the difficulty of decoding one of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Naval Warfare 1919–45

    An Operational History of the Volatile War at Sea

    By Malcolm H. Murfett

    Naval Warfare 1919–45 is a comprehensive history of the war at sea from the end of the Great War to the end of World War Two. Showing the bewildering nature and complexity of the war facing those charged with fighting it around the world, this book ranges far and wide: sweeping across all naval...

    Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge