An Analysis of John W. Dower's War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Sanchez Vincent)(Paperback)

Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Pike Francis)(Paperback)

In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles,

A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific (Hong Christine)(Paperback)

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 (Toll Ian W.)(Paperback)

This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide,' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Toll Ian W.)(Paperback)

On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that

South Pacific Air War, Volume 1: The Fall of Rabaul December 1941 - March 1942 (Claringbould Michael John)(Paperback)

South Pacific Air War Volume 1 is the first book in a trilogy chronicling the early months of the Pacific War in the lead up to the Battle of the Coral

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 (Toll Ian W.)(Pevná vazba)

This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a 'conquering tide,' concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic

The Irish War of Independence and Civil War (Gibney John)(Paperback)

In the aftermath of the First World War, a political revolution took place in what was then the United Kingdom. Such upheavals were common in postwar Europe, as new states came into being and new borders were forged. What made the revolution in the UK distinctive is that it took place within one of

An Analysis of John Lewis Gaddis's We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Gilfillan Scott)(Paperback)

John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know - so the main thrust of his new work was not so much to present new arguments as to re-examine old ones in the light of new evidence that began emerging from behind the Iron Curtain after 1990. In

The Early Air War in the Pacific: Ten Months That Changed the Course of World War II (Wetterhahn Ralph F.)(Paperback)

 During the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. But after major setbacks at Midway and Guadalcanal, the empire's expansion stalled, in part due to flaws in aircraft design, strategy and command. This book offers a fresh

Intelligence In War (Keegan John)(Paperback / softback)

'No war can be conducted successfully without early and good intelligence,' wrote Marlborough, and from the earliest times commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and

The Oxford Handbook of War (Lindley-French Julian)(Paperback)

The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental

A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (McCoy Alfred W.)(Paperback)

'An indispensable and riveting account' of the CIA's development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The Nation)In this revelatory account of the CIA's fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy locates the deep roots of

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Toll Ian W.)(Pevná vazba)

On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss. Pacific Crucible

Valor (Gwynne John)(Paperback)

War has erupted in the Banished Lands as the race for power intensifies. Corban flees his homeland searching for peace, but he soon discovers that there is no haven in the west as the agents of Rhin and roaming bands of giants hound his every step. Veradis leaves the battleground and rushes to his

Home (Morrison Toni)(Paperback / softback)

A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. As Frank

Future War and the Defence of Europe (Allen John R.)(Pevná vazba)

Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global

I Embarked for France - The War Diaries and Letters of an English Family in the Great War(Paperback / softback)

World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories (Shirley John)(Paperback)

The world is at war against things that slink and gibber in the darkness, and titans that stride from world to world, sewing madness and death. War has existed in one form or another since the dawn of human civilization, and before then, Elder terrors battled it out across this planet and this

Second World War (Keegan John)(Paperback / softback)

In this history of World War II, the author explores both the technical and the human impact of the conflict. The text concentrates on five crucial battles with the aim of illuminating the war as a whole: Crete, Midway, Falaise, Berlin and

World War Z - An Oral History of the Zombie War (Brooks Max)(Paperback / softback)

Based on extensive interviews with survivors and key players in the ten-year fight against the horde, World War Z brings the finest traditions of journalism to bear on what is surely the most incredible story in the history of human

Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15 (McKelvey Cleaver Thomas)(Paperback)

The astonishing saga of Air Group's momentous six-month combat tour in the Pacific War.The record of Carrier Air Group 15 in World War II is astonishing by any measure: it scored 312 enemy aircraft destroyed, 33 probably destroyed, and 65 damaged in aerial combat, plus 348 destroyed, 161 probably

Crash Boat: Rescue and Peril in the Pacific During World War II (Jepson George D.)(Pevná vazba)

The compelling story of an American crash boat crewed by unknown heroes during World War II in the South Pacific, whose dramatic rescues of downed pilots and clandestine missions off Japanese-held islands were done at great peril and with little fanfare. It chronicles ordinary young men doing

People Without Power - the war on populism and the fight for democracy (Frank Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

American Civil War (Keegan John)(Paperback / softback)

The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. In this magisterial history of the first modern war, the distinguished military historian John Keegan unpicks the geography, leadership and strategic logic of the war and takes us to the heart of the