2018 Military History & War Studies

2018 CATALOGUE

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HIGHLIGHT HIGHLIGHT

JUST WAR THE DECLINE
RECONSIDERED OF EUROPEAN
NAVAL FORCES
Strategy, Ethics,
and Theory Challenges to Sea
James M. Dubik Power in an Age
of Fiscal Austerity
Battles and Campaigns and Political
James M. Dubik applies Uncertainty
moral philosophy, political philosophy, and strategic Jeremy Stöhs
studies to historical and contemporary case studies
to reveal the inaccuracies and moral bankruptcy Provides insight into the development of Europe’s
that inform some of the literature on military ethics. naval forces since the end of the Cold War. In order
Dubik argues that political and military leadership to comprehend the drastic changes the majority
should be held accountable for the planning and of European navies have undergone over the last
execution of war in addition to the decision to twenty five years, the defence policies and naval
initiate conflict. strategies of eleven European states as well as the
The University Press of Kentucky evolution, deployment, and capabilities of their
respective naval forces are analysed.
HIGHLIGHT Naval Institute Press

THE SECRET HIGHLIGHT
HISTORY
OF RDX AT WAR

The Super- The Military and
Explosive that American Culture
Helped Win in the Twentieth
World War II Century and
Colin F. Baxter Beyond
Edited by David Kieran
Documents the journey of the super-explosive RDX & Edwin A. Martini
from conceptualization at Woolwich Arsenal in
England to mass production at Holston Ordnance War Culture
Works in east Tennessee. The author examines Offers short, accessible essays addressing the central
the debates between RDX advocates and their issues in the new military history - ranging from
opponents and explores the use of the explosive diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the
in the bomber war over Germany, in the naval war environmental issues that war raises and the ways
in the Atlantic, and as a key element in the trigger that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of
device of the atomic bomb. identity, to questions of who serves in the US military
The University Press of Kentucky and why and how US wars have been represented in
the media and in popular culture.
Rutgers University Press

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The University of Alabama Press OPERATION DON’S MAIN ATTACK

ENGINES OF REBELLION The Soviet Southern Front’s Advance on
Rostov, January-February 1943
Confederate Ironclads and Steam David M. Glantz
Engineering in the American Civil War
Saxon Bisbee Mar 2018 912pp
9780700625260 Hardback £39.95 / €45.00
Aug 2018 272pp, 45 b&w figures
9780817319861 Hardback £57.50 / €64.00 With the defeat of German Sixth Army at Stalingrad all but
certain at the end of 1942, the war on the Eastern Front took
Historians have paid little attention to the engineering of a definitive turn as the Germans struggled to erect a new
Confederate ironclads, although the Confederacy was often defensive front to halt the Soviet juggernaut. Operation Don’s
quite creative in building and obtaining marine power Main Attack is the first detailed study of the dramatic clash
plants. Engines of Rebellion focuses exclusively on ships with of armies that followed, unfolding over the course of two
American built machinery, offering a detailed look at marine months across more than 1,600 kilometres.
steam-engineering.
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR FOR
University Press of Kansas VIETNAM, 1960-1968

FIGHTING MEANS KILLING Mervyn Edwin Roberts III
Feb 2018 432pp
Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat 9780700625833 Hardback £38.50 / €43.00
Jonathan M. Steplyk
Fully explores the most sustained, intensive use of
May 2018 336pp psychological operations in American history. Informed
9780700626281 Hardback £28.50 / €32.00 by the author’s first-hand experience of such operations
elsewhere, this account of the battle for “hearts and minds”
The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans in Vietnam offers rare insight into the art and science of
killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan propaganda as a military tool in the twentieth century.
Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first book-
length study of Union and Confederate soldiers’attitudes THE TURN OF THE TIDE IN THE
toward, and experiences of, killing in the Civil War. PACIFIC WAR

MACARTHUR’S COALITION Strategic Initiative, Intelligence, and
Command, 1941-1943
US and Australian Military Operations in Sean M. Judge
the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942-1945 Edited by Jonathan M. House
Peter J. Dean
Mar 2018 296pp
Mar 2018 464pp 9780700625987 Hardback £33.50 / €38.00
9780700626045 Hardback £38.50 / €43.00
Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found
From 1942-1945 the Allies’war in the Southwest Pacific themselves fighting on two fronts - in New Guinea and the
was effectively a bilateral coalition between the United Solomon Islands. These concurrent campaigns proved a
States and Australia under the command of General critical turning point in the war being waged in the Pacific.
Douglas MacArthur. By charting the evolution of the military Key to this shift was the Allies seizing of the strategic
effectiveness of the US-Australian alliance, MacArthur’s initiative - a concept that Sean Judge examines in this book,
Coalition puts the relationship between the US and Australia particularly in the context of the Pacific War.
at the centre of the war against Japan.
The University Press of Kentucky

JUST WAR RECONSIDERED

Strategy, Ethics, and Theory
James M. Dubik

Feb 2018 236pp
9780813175010 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00
Battles and Campaigns

For full details of this title, see page 1.

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LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP THE AMERICAN SOLDIER, 1866-1916

My Life in the US Army from World War II The Enlisted Man and the Transformation of
to Vietnam the United States Army
John R. Deane Jr. John A. Haymond
Edited by Jack C. Mason
Mar 2018 245pp
May 2018 296pp, 30 b&w photos 9781476667256 Paperback £47.50 / €54.00
9780813174945 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00
American Warriors Series Drawing on a wealth of soldiers’narratives and personal
letters augmented with official records and contemporary
John R. Deane Jr. was born with all the advantages a sources, John Haymond examines what life was like for the
man needs to succeed in a career in the US Army, and he ordinary American soldier during the years when the US
capitalized on his many opportunities in spectacular fashion. Army experienced some of its toughest challenges while also
In Lessons in Leadership, this exceptional soldier not only undergoing the greatest transformation in its history.
discusses working with some of the army’s most influential
and colourful leaders but also the many junior officers who EAGLE AND IRON CROSS
helped him develop his leadership skills.
American and German Combat Effectiveness
THE SECRET HISTORY OF RDX in World War II
Thomas E. Nutter
The Super-Explosive that Helped Win
World War II Feb 2018 304pp
Colin F. Baxter 9780786493913 Paperback £42.95 / €49.00

Apr 2018 180pp, 25 b&w photos Objectivity is a virtue admired and expected in both judges
9780813175287 Hardback £42.95 / €49.00 and historians. Regrettably, however, in the writing of
history it is sometimes neither desired nor sought. Eagle and
For full details of this title, see page 1. Iron Cross presents a nuanced analysis of the comparative
combat effectiveness of the US and German armed forces
THUNDER IN THE ARGONNE in the Second World War, relying on a balanced and detailed
consideration of new evidence.
A New History of America’s Greatest Battle
Douglas V. Mastriano THE EARLY AIR WAR IN THE PACIFIC

May 2018 430pp, 85 b&w photos, 28 maps Ten Months That Changed the Course of
9780813175553 Hardback £33.50 / €38.00 World War II
Battles and Campaigns Ralph F. Wetterhahn

Offers the most comprehensive account of the legendary Feb 2018 275pp
Argonne campaign to date. Not only does the author 9781476669977 Paperback £38.50 / €43.00
provide American, French, and British perspectives on the
offensive, but he also offers - for the first time in English - the During the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan
German view. Mastriano presents a balanced analysis of achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces.
successes and failures at all levels of command, while also After major setbacks at Midway and at Guadalcanal, the
illuminating acts of heroism. empire’s expansion stalled, in part due to flaws in aircraft
design, strategy and command. This book offers a fresh
McFarland analysis of the air war in the Pacific during the early phases of
World War II.
THE 31ST INFANTRY REGIMENT
FIREBASE TAN TRU
A History of “America’s Foreign Legion”
in Peace and War Memoir of an Artilleryman in the Mekong
31st Infantry Regiment Association Delta, 1969-1970
Walter F. McDermott
May 2018 293pp
9781476669090 Paperback £42.95 / €49.00 Apr 2018 164pp
9781476668529 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00
Formed in 1916, the US Army 31st Infantry Regiment -
known as the Polar Bears - has fought in virtually every war What was it like to live through the only war America lost
in modern American history. This richly illustrated chronicle in the twentieth century? Firebase Tan Tru answers that
of the regiment’s century of combat service covers their question by describing one man’s adventures fighting in
exploits on battlefields from Manila to Siberia, along with Vietnam’s Mekong Delta during the peak of the war in 1969.
their survival during the Bataan Death March and the years of A unique feature of this story is that it focuses upon that rare
brutal captivity that followed. enlisted man who was already a college graduate.

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THE LAST DAYS OF THE UNITED Naval Institute Press
STATES ASIATIC FLEET
21ST CENTURY POWER
The Fates of the Ships and Those Aboard,
December 8, 1941-February 5, 1942 Strategic Superiority for the Modern Era
Greg H. Williams Edited by Brent D. Ziarnick

Apr 2018 272pp Apr 2018 192pp
9781476672489 Paperback £47.50 / €54.00 9781682473139 Paperback £19.50 / €22.00
21st Century Foundations Series
After Pearl Harbor, the American sailors of the fabled Asiatic
Fleet were abandoned by Washington and left to conduct Uses the 21st Century Foundations Series format to re-
a war solely on their own, isolated from the rest of the fleet. introduce to the military community the writings of General
This is the first book that looks behind the scenes through Thomas S. Power, the third Commander in-Chief of the
the writings of war correspondents and concentrates on the Strategic Air Command. His unappreciated works contain
sailors who were on the ships. many insights into military topics such as technology and
arms races, the nature of deterrence, the military utility of
THE TRUTH FINDERS OF DACHAU space, and others.

The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group, ALWAYS AT WAR
1945–1947
John J. Dunphy Organizational Culture in Strategic Air
Command, 1946–62
Jul 2018 146pp Melvin G. Deaile
9781476674742 Paperback £33.50 / €38.00
Apr 2018 320pp
The US Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities 9781682472484 Hardback £30.50 / €35.00
committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during Transforming War
World War II. These young Americans - many barely out
of their teens - gathered evidence, interviewed witnesses, Tells the story of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during
apprehended suspects and prosecuted defendants at trials the early decades of the Cold War. This is more than a
held at Dachau. This book tells the story of the WCG. simple history; the book describes how an organisation
dominated by World War II experienced airmen developed a
University Press of Mississippi unique culture.

THE 10 CENT WAR AMERICAN SEA POWER IN THE
OLD WORLD
Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II
Edited by Trischa Goodnow & James J. Kimble The United States Navy in European and
Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917
Apr 2018 240pp William N. Still Jr
9781496818485 Paperback £26.50 / €30.00
May 2018 304pp
One of the most overlooked aspects of the Allied war effort 9781591146186 Paperback £21.95 / €25.00
involved a surprising initiative - comic book propaganda.
The 10 Cent War presents a riveting analysis of how different Studies the deployment of US naval vessels in European and
types of comic books and comic book characters supplied Near Eastern waters from the end of the American Civil War
reasons and means to support the war. until the United States declared war in April 1917.

BEYOND THE BEACH

The Allied War Against France
Stephen Alan Bourque

Apr 2018 352pp
9781612518732 Hardback £30.50 / €35.00
History of Military Aviation

Examines the Allied air war against France, especially from
April through June 1944. During this period, General Dwight
David Eisenhower, as Allied Supreme Commander, took
control of all American, British, and Canadian air units,
including the heavy bombers of RAF Bomber Command and
the United States Army Strategic Air Forces

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BRITISH WARSHIP THE DECLINE OF EUROPEAN
RECOGNITION: THE PERKINS NAVAL FORCES
IDENTIFICATION ALBUMS
Challenges to Sea Power in an Age of Fiscal
Richard Perkins & Andrew Choong Austerity and Political Uncertainty
Volume V: Destroyers, Torpedo Boats and Jeremy Stöhs
Coastal Forces, 1876-1939
Feb 2018 312pp, 500 colour illustrations Mar 2018 320pp
9781526711120 Hardback £73.95 / €83.00 9781682473085 Hardback £32.50 / €36.00

Volume VI: Submarines, Gunboats, For full details of this title, see page 1.
Sloops and Minesweepers, 1860-1939
THE FREE SEA
Mar 2018 368pp, 500 colour illustrations
9781526711168 Hardback £73.95 / €83.00 The American Fight for Freedom
of Navigation
The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form James Kraska & Raul Pedrozo
one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of
the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. As Jun 2018 432pp
a result of collaboration with the National Maritime 9781682471166 Hardback £34.95 / €39.00
Museum, the publication of this monumental work in
a superbly produced multi-volume edition captures all Explores the major episodes in American history affecting
the qualities of the original. US freedom of navigation. Beginning with the Quasi-War
with France in 1798, the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812
COMBAT AT CLOSE QUARTERS in the early 19th century, the struggle for freedom of the
seas was the first major foreign policy challenge facing the
An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy in United States.
the Vietnam War
Edward J. Marolda LEARNING WAR

Apr 2018 336pp The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the
9781682471951 Hardback £34.95 / €39.00 U.S. Navy, 1898-1945
Trent Hone
Presents the work of five renowned historians who describe
and interpret the US Navy’s major combat operations Jun 2018 400pp
in Southeast Asia, including the Rolling Thunder and 9781682472934 Hardback £30.50 / €35.00
Linebacker strikes against North Vietnam, the river war
in South Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, and the intelligence Examines the US Navy’s doctrinal development throughout
campaign. This concise, eminently readable test is the 1898-1945 period and explains why it was so successful
complemented with over 200 images. at embracing change. The book draws profoundly important
conclusions that give new insight, not only into how the
Navy succeeded in becoming the best, but also into how
modern organisations can exploit today’s rapid technological
and social changes in their pursuit of success.

OTTO KRETSCHMER

The Life of Germany’s Highest Scoring
U-Boat Commander
Lawrence Patterson

May 2018 288pp
9781784381929 Hardback £34.95 / €39.00

Otto Kretschmer was only in combat from September 1939
until March 1941 but was Germany’s highest-scoring U-boat
commander sinking 47 ships totaling 274,333 tons. This
definitive work details his personal story and the political
backdrop from his earliest days.

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PROGRESSIVES IN NAVY BLUE The University of North Carolina Press

Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and DENG XIAOPING’S LONG WAR
the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity,
1873-1898 The Military Conflict Between China and
Scott Mobley Vietnam, 1979-1991
Xiaoming Zhang
May 2018 432pp
9781682471937 Hardback £30.50 / €35.00 Feb 2018 296pp, 16 halftones, 5 maps
9781469642345 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00
Examines how intellectual and institutional developments The New Cold War History
transformed the US Navy from 1873 to 1898. These dates The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked
bracket a dynamic quarter-century during which Americans the international community. In this groundbreaking
witnessed their navy transform from a modest imperial book, Xiaoming Zhang traces the roots of the conflict to
constabulary into a powerful mechanized force designed the historic relationship between the peoples of China and
principally for national defence. Vietnam, the ongoing Sino-Soviet dispute, and Chinese
leader Deng Xiaoping’s desire to modernize his country.
RED STAR OVER THE PACIFIC
TO MASTER THE BOUNDLESS SEA
China’s Rise and the Challenge to
U.S. Maritime Strategy The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and
Toshi Yoshihara & James R. Holmes the Cartography of Empire
Jason W. Smith
Sep 2018 320pp
9781682472187 Hardback £32.50 / €36.00 Apr 2018 272pp, 20 halftones
9781469640440 Hardback £33.50 / €38.00
Combining a close knowledge of Asia and an ability to tap Tells the story of the rise of the US Navy and the emergence
Chinese-language sources with naval combat experience and of American ocean empire through its struggle to control
expertise in sea-power theory, the authors assess how the nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers,
rise of Chinese sea power will affect U.S. maritime strategy war, and the ocean environment, Jason Smith draws
in Asia. together insights from environmental, maritime, military,
and naval history, and the history of science and cartography.
U.S. SUBMARINES SINCE 1945
Rutgers University Press
An Illustrated Design History,
Revised Edition AT WAR
Norman Friedman
The Military and American Culture in the
Aug 2018 320pp Twentieth Century and Beyond
9781591145998 Hardback £73.95 / €83.00 Edited by David Kieran & Edwin A. Martini

Offers detailed descriptions of the evolution of all classes Feb 2018 256pp, 19 colour images,12 b&w photos
of the principal US combatant types. The book is fully 9780813584300 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00
illustrated with deck plans, outboard profiles, sketches from 9780813584317 Hardback £71.95 / €82.00
major design studies, and numerous detailed photographs. War Culture
The appendixes contain a wealth of information on ship For full details of this title, see page 1.
characteristics and equipment.

WOMEN AT WAR

Subhas Chandra Bose and the Rani of
Jhansi Regiment
Vera Hildebrand

Mar 2018 340pp
9781682473153 Hardback £26.50 / €30.00

Among the more improbable events of the Asia-Pacific
Theater in World War II was the creation in Singapore in
1943 of a corps of female Indian combat soldiers, the Rani
of Jhansi Regiment. Until now the history of these brave
women soldiers is little known, their extraordinary service
largely unexplored.

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CULTURES OF WAR IN Southern Illinois University Press
GRAPHIC NOVELS
THE DECISION WAS ALWAYS MY OWN
Violence, Trauma, and Memory
Edited by Tatiana Prorokova & Nimrod Tal Ulysses S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign
Timothy B. Smith
Mar 2018 230pp, 33 colour photos
9780813590950 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 Jul 2018 272pp, 28 illustrations
9780813590967 Hardback £71.95 / €82.00 9780809336661 Hardback £32.95 / €37.00
The Vicksburg Campaign, argues Timothy B. Smith, is the
Examines the representation of small-scale and often showcase of Ulysses S. Grant’s military genius. Showing how
less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and and why Grant became such a successful general, Smith
throughout history. The book explores the multi-layered presents a fast-paced reexamination of the commander
relation between the graphic novel as a popular medium and and the campaign. His analysis of Grant’s decision-making
war as a pivotal recurring experience in human history. process details the process of campaigning on military,
political, administrative, and personal levels.
DESTRUCTIVE SUBLIME
University of Virginia Press
World War II in American Film and Media
Tanine Allison THOMAS JEFFERSON’S
MILITARY ACADEMY
May 2018 250pp, 11 colour, 30 b&w illustrations
9780813597485 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 Founding West Point
9780813597492 Hardback £71.95 / €82.00 Edited by Robert M. S. McDonald
War Culture
Dec 2017 272pp, 2 b&w illustrations
Traces a new aesthetic history of the World War II combat 9780813941011 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00
genre by looking back at it through the lens of contemporary Jeffersonian America
video games. Tanine Allison locates some of video games’ Why did Thomas Jefferson, who claimed to abhor war and
glorification of violence, disruptive audiovisual style, and fear standing armies, in 1802 establish the United States
bodily sensation in even the most canonical and seemingly Military Academy? Thomas Jefferson’s Military Academy is
conservative films of the genre. the most comprehensive treatment to date of the origins,
purposes, and legacies of Jefferson’s school on the cliffs
THROUGH THE CROSSHAIRS above the Hudson River.

War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze
Roger Stahl

Apr 2018 277pp
9780813585253 Paperback £21.50 / €25.00
9780813585260 Hardback £71.95 / €82.00
War Culture

Now that it has become so commonplace, we rarely blink an
eye at camera footage framed by the crosshairs of a sniper’s
gun or from the perspective of a descending smart bomb.
But how did this weaponized gaze become the norm for
depicting war, and how has it influenced public perceptions?
Through the Crosshairs traces the genealogy of this weapon’s-
eye view across a wide range of genres.

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BESTSELLERS

University Press of Kansas

TO THE GATES OF STALINGRAD ENDGAME AT STALINGRAD

Volume 1, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3, The Stalingrad Trilogy,
Soviet-German Combat Operations, Book One: November 1942
April-August 1942 David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House
David M. Glantz
Mar 2014 800pp, 30 photos
Apr 2009 736pp, 80 photos, 87 maps 9780700619542 Hardback £39.95 / €45.00
9780700616305 Hardback £39.95 / €45.00 Modern War Studies
Modern War Studies
Offers the definitive account - the “ground truth”
Provides an account of the opening phase of this iconic to counter a half-century’s worth of myth and
Eastern Front campaign. misinformation - of the beginning of the end of one of the
most infamous battles of the Second World War.
ARMAGEDDON IN STALINGRAD
Volume 3, The Stalingrad Trilogy,
Volume 2, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Book Two: December 1942-January 1943
September-November 1942 David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House
David M. Glantz
2014 800pp, 30 photos
2009 864pp, 123 photos, 49 tables, 97 maps 9780700619559 Hardback £39.95 / €45.00
9780700616640 Hardback £38.50 / €43.00 Modern War Studies
Modern War Studies
Drawing on materials previously unavailable or believed
This title looks at this most iconic military campaign of lost, David Glantz gives a closely observed account of the
the Eastern Front and Hitler’s first great strategic defeat. final ten weeks of Germany’s ill-fated Stalingrad campaign.

COMPANION TO ENDGAME
AT STALINGRAD

David M. Glantz
Apr 2014 840pp, 54 maps
9780700619566 Hardback £64.95 / €80.00
Modern War Studies

Contains extensive records from the combat journal of the
German Sixth Army, which were only recently rediscovered
and published, and a vast amount of newly released Soviet
and Russian archival material.

THE BATTLE FOR BELORUSSIA THE ROOTS OF BLITZKRIEG

The Red Army’s Forgotten Campaign of Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform
October 1943 - April 1944 James S. Corum
David M. Glantz
1992 276pp, 32 photos
2016 936pp, 34 photos, 170 maps 9780700606283 Paperback £19.50 / €22.00
9780700623297 Hardback £38.50 / €43.00 Modern War Studies
Modern War Studies
Traces the crucial transformations in military tactical doctrine,
Continuing his magisterial account of the Eastern Front organisation and training that laid the foundations for the
campaigns, David M. Glantz focuses here on the Red Army’s Nazi Blitzkrieg.
operations from the fall of 1943 to April 1944.

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FROM VICTORY TO STALEMATE STOPPING THE PANZERS

The Western Front, Summer 1944 The Untold Story of D-Day
Decisive and Indecisive Military Marc Milner
Operations, Volume 1
Charles J. Dick 2014 400pp, 56 photos, 9 maps
9780700620036 Hardback £39.50 / €46.00
2016 456pp, 14 maps Modern War Studies
9780700622931 Hardback £39.95 / €45.00 In the narrative of D-Day the Canadians figure chiefly - if at all
Modern War Studies - as an ineffective force bungling their part in the early phase
of Operation Overlord. The reality is quite another story. The
FROM DEFEAT TO VICTORY Canadians’job was to stop the Panzers - which, as this book
finally makes clear, is precisely what they did.
The Eastern Front, Summer 1944 Decisive
and Indecisive Military Operations, McFarland
Volume 2
Charles J. Dick SURVIVAL AT STALAG IVB

2016 416pp, 8 maps Soldiers and Airmen Remember Germany’s
9780700622955 Hardback £39.95 / €45.00 Largest POW Camp of World War II
Modern War Studies Tony Vercoe

Writing a study of operations on first the Western then 2006 212pp, 60 photos, glossary
Eastern Front, military analyst C.J. Dick offers rare insight 9780786424047 Paperback £33.50 / €38.00
into the strengths and weaknesses of generalship on This historical chronicle evokes the heartbreaking reality of
both fronts. day-to-day life in Stalag IVB, with firsthand accounts by the
author and other veterans of the camp.
THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN THE
GREAT WAR VAUBAN AND THE FRENCH MILITARY
UNDER LOUIS XIV
The Eastern Front, 1914-1917
David R. Stone An Illustrated History of Fortifications
and Strategies
2015 368pp, 20 photos, 15 maps Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
9780700620951 Hardback £33.50 / €38.00
Modern War Studies 2009 300pp, 324 photos
9780786444014 Paperback £38.50 / €43.00
A thorough history of the Russian front during the First A man of genuine inventiveness, versatility and reformist
World War, this book corrects widespread misperceptions of ideas, Marshal Sebastien Le Preste de Vauban built a
the Russian Army and the war in the east even as it extends formidable ring of fortresses to protect Franc’s national
our understanding of the broader conflict. frontiers. This book tells the story of Vauban’s career,
revealing his influences in France and other nations.
STOPPED AT
STALINGRAD Naval Institute Press

Luftwaffe and Hitler’s AIRPOWER APPLIED
Defeat in the East,
1942-1943 U.S., NATO, and Israeli Combat Experience
Joel Hayward Edited by John Andreas Olsen

1998 398pp, 35 photos, 7 maps 2017 416pp
9780700611461 Paperback 9781682470756 Hardback £43.50 / €49.00
£23.95 / €27.00 History of Military Aviation
Modern War Studies Through a critical examination of twenty-nine case studies,
the book offers perspectives on the political purpose,
Chronicles Luftwaffe operations strategic meaning, and military importance of airpower.
during Operation Blau, a campaign designed to protect Nazi
oilfields in Romania while securing new ones in the Caucasus.

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AIRPOWER REBORN Pentagon Press

The Strategic Concepts of John Warden and EISENHOWER
John Boyd
Edited by John Andreas Olsen Soldier-Statesman of the American Century
Douglas Kinnard
2015 288pp, 12 b&w illustrations
9781612518046 Hardback £43.50 / €49.00 2009 145pp
History of Military Aviation
9788182744233 Hardback  £17.50 / €21.00
Offers a conceptual approach to warfare that emphasizes Describes Eisenhower’s rise through the ranks of the
airpower’s unique capability to achieve strategic effects. peacetime Army of the 1920s and 1930s, recognition of his
abilities by such leaders as Douglas MacArthur and George
THE BLITZKRIEG LEGEND C. Marshall, his ‘great Crusade’in Europe during World War II,
and his two terms in the Oval Office.
The 1940 Campaign in the West
Karl-Heinz Frieser HINDENBURG

2013 536pp Icon of German Militarism
9781591142959 Paperback £33.95 / €38.00 William J. Astore & Dennis E. Showalter

Karl-Heinz Frieser’s account provides the definitive 2009 133pp
explanation for Germany’s startling success and the equally 9788182744295 Hardback £17.50 / €21.00
surprising and rapid military collapse of France and Britain on
the European continent. With his victory over the Russian army at the battle of
Tannenberg in August 1914, Paul von Hindenburg became a
NAVAL OPERATIONS ANALYSIS German national hero. By 1916, however, his reputation for
decisive victory had translated into near dictatorial powers.
Third Edition This book examines his life and career
Edited by Daniel R. Wagner, W. Charles Mylander &
Thomas J. Sanders MONTGOMERY

2002 421pp D-Day Commander
9781591149507 Paperback £36.50 / €41.00 Nigel Hamilton

Covers the basic analytical developments in naval search and 2009 160pp
detection theory over the last fifty years. This book covers 9788182744271 Hardback £17.50 / €21.00
analytical decision-making, simulation techniques, and
models used in determining the probability of detection. Follows Montgomery’s military career from his cadet days
and service in World War I to his great victories of World War
ON TACTICS II to his time as chief of the Imperial General Staff and his
outspoken and controversial views later in life on apartheid
A Theory of Victory in Battle and communism.
B.A. Friedman
The University of North Carolina Press
2017 256pp
9781682471630 Hardback £26.50 / €30.00 ARC OF EMPIRE

This book is intended to be the remedy to the chaotic America’s Wars in Asia from the Philippines
and thus far unformed realm of tactical theory. Part one to Vietnam
establishes a tactical system meant to replace the Principles Michael H. Hunt & Steven I. Levine
of War checklist. Part two explores concepts with which the
tactician must be familiar. Part three examines implications 2014 352pp
of the presented tactical systems to other issues in 9781469613925 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00
strategic studies.
Follows the long arc of conflict across seventy-five years
PRINCIPLES OF NAVAL from the Philippines through Japan and Korea to Vietnam,
WEAPON SYSTEMS tracing along the way American ambition, ascendance, and
ultimate defeat.
Edited by Craig M. Payne
2010 412pp
9781591146674 Hardback £62.50 / €71.00

Provides an introduction to the underlying science and
engineering of weapons used in the naval service. The
philosophy used in the material is that individual weapons
come and go, but the principles of their operation largely
remain the same.

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