- Above and Beyond
- Kostiantyn P. Morozov
- Sherman W. Garnett
- Morozov provides behind-the-scenes insights on Yeltsin, Kuchma, Dudaev, and other important players still active today. His book will firmly alter our perception of the USSR and its demise, the Soviet military machine, and the rise of a modern, independent Ukraine.
- Hardcover 2001
- An Instinct for War
- Roger Spiller
- Spiller combines a mastery of the primary sources with a vibrant historical imagination to locate a dozen turning points in the world's history of warfare that altered our understanding of war and its pursuit. We are conducted through profound moments by the voices of those who witnessed them and are given a graphic understanding of war, the devastating choices, the means by which battles are won and lost, and the enormous price exacted. Spiller's attention to the sights and sounds of battle enables us to feel the sting and menace of past violent conflicts as if they were today's.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- Beyond Terror and Martyrdom
- Gilles Kepel
- Kepel urges us to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a new and constructive dialogue between Islam and the West. This book sounds the alarm to the West and to Islam that both of these exhausted narratives are bankrupt—neither productive of democratic change in the Middle East nor of unity in Islam.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Chinese Army After Mao
- Ellis Joffe
- Hardcover 1987
- Command in War
- Martin Van Creveld
- Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy.
- Paperback 1987
- The Confederate War
- Gary W. Gallagher
- If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian disaffection; others point to flawed military strategy or ambivalence over slavery. But, argues distinguished historian Gary Gallagher, we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. In The Confederate War he reexamines the Confederate experience through the actions and words of the people who lived it to show how the home front responded to the war, endured great hardships, and assembled armies that fought with tremendous spirit and determination.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Coup d'État
- Edward N. Luttwak
- Hardcover 1979 / Paperback
- A Democracy at War
- William O'Neill
- As America fought to defend democracy in Europe and Asia during World War II, its own democratic politics both aided and impeded the war effort at home and the military campaigns abroad. Now, in a broad-ranging social, political, military, and diplomatic history, William O'Neill reveals how the United States won its victory despite its reluctance to enter the war, and despite proceeding by costly half-measures even after committing to battle.
- Paperback 1998
- Failing to Win
- Dominic D. P. Johnson
- Dominic Tierney
- How do people decide which country came out ahead in a war or a crisis? In Failing to Win, Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney dissect the psychological factors that predispose leaders, media, and the public to perceive outcomes as victories or defeats--often creating wide gaps between perceptions and reality.
- Hardcover 2006
- Forgotten Wars
- Christopher Bayly
- Tim Harper
- Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper show how World War II never really ended in the ravaged Asian lands but continued in bloody civil wars, anti-colonial insurrections, and inter-communal massacres.Forgotten Wars, a sequel to the authors' acclaimed Forgotten Armies, is an account of the bitter wars of the end of empire. This period became the most formative in modern Asian history, as Western imperialism vied with nascent nationalist and communist revolutionaries for political control.
- Hardcover 2007
- God's War
- Christopher Tyerman
- The Crusades are perhaps both the most familiar and most misunderstood phenomena of the medieval world, and here Christopher Tyerman explores the centuries of violence committed in the name of religious devotion Tyerman uncovers a system of belief bound by paranoia and wishful thinking, and a culture founded on war as an expression of worship, social discipline, and Christian charity. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, and told with great authority, God's War is the definitive account of a fascinating story that continues to haunt our contemporary world.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Heavenly Warriors
- William Wayne Farris
- Heavenly Warriors traces in detail the evolutionary development of weaponry, horsemanship, military organization, and tactics from Japan's early conflicts with Korea up to the full-blown system of the samurai.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
- Bernard Bailyn
- To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment," as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This detailed study of the persistence of the nation's ideological origins adds a new dimension to the book and projects its meaning forward into vital current concerns.
- Paperback 1992
- Iron Kingdom
- Christopher Clark
- Clark demonstrates how a state deemed the bane of twentieth-century Europe has played an incalculable role in Western civilization’s fortunes. Iron Kingdom is a definitive, gripping account of Prussia’s fascinating, influential, and critical role in modern times.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- King Alfred
- David Horspool
- Horspool sees Alfred as inextricably linked to the legends and stories that surround him, and rather than attempting to separate the myth from the "reality," he explores how both came together to provide a historical figure that was all things to all men.
- Hardcover 2006
- Military Culture in Imperial China
- Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo
- Contributions by Robin D. S. Yates
- Contributions by Ralph D. Sawyer
- Contributions by Michael Loewe
- Contributions by Rafe de Crespigny
- Contributions by Edward L. Dreyer
- Contributions by David A. Graff
- Contributions by Jonathan Karam Skaff
- Contributions by Don J. Wyatt
- Contributions by Kathleen Ryor
- Contributions by S. R. Gilbert
- Contributions by Grace S. Fong
- Contributions by Joanna Waley-Cohen
- Contributions by Yingcong Dai
- Contributions by Peter C. Perdue
- These original essays explore the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government, historiography, art, philosophy, literature, and politics.
- Hardcover 2009
- The Military Tradition in Ukrainian History
- Kostiantyn P. Morozov
- This booklet contains the proceedings of the first Annual Conference sponsored by the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, and the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University at Harvard University, May 12-13, 1994.
- Paperback
- Pattern and Repertoire in History
- Bertrand M. Roehner
- Tony Syme
- The aim of this book is to analyze clusters of similar "elementary" occurrences that serve as the building blocks of more global events. Making connections between seemingly unrelated case studies, Roehner and Syme apply scientific methodology to the analysis of history. Their book identifies the recurring patterns of behavior that shape the histories of different countries separated by vast stretches of time and space. Taking advantage of a broad wealth of historical evidence, the authors decipher what may be seen as a kind of genetic code of history.
- Hardcover 2002
- Politics and War
- Enlarged Edition
- David Kaiser
- David Kaiser looks at four hundred years of modern European history to find the political causes of general war in four distinct periods. He shows how war became a natural function of politics, a logical consequence of contemporary political behavior. In a provocative and original new preface and chapter, Kaiser shows which aspects of four past areas of conflict do, and do not, seem relevant to the immediate future, and he sketches out some new possibilities for Europe.
- Paperback 2000
- The Roman Triumph
- Mary Beard
- A radical reexamination of the most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman Triumph--but also its darker side. The Triumph, Beard contends, prompted the Romans to question as well as celebrate military glory. Her richly illustrated work is a testament to the profound importance of the triumph in Roman culture--and for monarchs, dynasts and generals ever since.
- Hardcover 2007
- Shook over Hell
- Eric T. Dean
- Vietnam still haunts the American conscience. Not only did nearly 58,000 Americans die there, but--by some estimates--1.5 million veterans returned with war-induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This psychological syndrome of social pathology is now placed in historical context by Eric Dean in this remarkable book on Civil War veterans.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Strategy
- Edward N. Luttwak
- In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from grand strategy down to combat tactics. In the tradition of Carl von Clausewitz, Strategy goes beyond paradox to expose the dynamics of reversal at work in the crucible of conflict.
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002
- Surprise Attack
- With a New Preface
- Ephraim Kam
- Kam observes surprise attack through the eyes of its victim in order to understand the causes of the victim's failure to anticipate the coming of war. Emphasing the psychological aspect of warfare, Kam traces the behavior of the victim at various functional levels and from several points of view in order to examine the difficulties and mistakes that permit a nation to be taken by surprise. He argues that anticipation and prediction of a coming war are more complicated than any other issue of strategic estimation.
- Paperback 2004
- The Vichy Syndrome
- Henry Rousso
- Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
- Foreword by Stanley Hoffman
- From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. In this provocative study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation--a nation where reality and myth commingle to confound understanding--has dealt with les années noires. Specifally, he studies what the French have chosen to remember and what have chosen to conceal.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- A War of Nerves
- Ben Shephard
- This is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century. Both absorbing historical narrative and intellectual detective story, it weaves literary, medical, and military lore to give us a fascinating history of war neuroses and their treatment, from the World Wars through Vietnam and up to the Gulf War.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
- Why Hitler Came into Power
- Theodore Abel
- Thomas Childers
- In 1934 Theodore Abel went to Germany and offered a prize, under the auspices of Columbia University, for autobiographies of members of the National Socialist movement. The six hundred essays he received constitute the single best source on grassroots opinion within the Nazi Party, and they form the empirical foundation for Abel's fascinating yet curiously neglected 1938 book.
- Paperback 1986
- The World within War
- Gerald F. Linderman
- Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one another, conceived of the enemy, thought of home, and reacted to battle itself.
- Paperback 1999
- Xenophon's Retreat
- Robin Waterfield
- In The Expedition of Cyrus, Xenophon told how, in 401 b.c., a band of unruly Greek mercenaries traveled east to fight for the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to wrest the throne from his brother. With this first masterpiece of Western history forming the backbone of his book, Robin Waterfield explores what remains unsaid and assumed in Xenophon's account. The result is a nuanced and dramatic perspective on a critical moment in history that may tell us as much about our present-day adventures in the Middle East.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008