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The Planning and Preparations for the Battle of Kursk
Volume 2 is devoted to the preparation by Moscow of hostilities near Kursk in the spring and early summer of 1943 and consists of two parts. Part I analyzes the activities of the …
Forgotten Battle of the Kursk Salient
Using the Russian Ministry of Defense’s archives and Western sources, the author has produced a companion work to his masterful study of II SS Panzer Corps’ offensive and the …
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe "riveting" (National Post) tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of …
The Origins and Rise of Dissident Irish Republicanism
Throughout its history the Irish Republican Movement has been beset by splits. The former paramilitary and author Brendan Behan famously quipped that, 'The first thing on the …
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who--against fierce resistance from within their own ranks--changed the way the Pentagon …
Himmler’s Nazi Concentration Camp Guards
This book is the most thorough study yet of the whole process of recruitment, indoctrination and performance of those responsible for the guarding of concentration camp inmates. …
Intelligence, Security and the State
The modern-day UK intelligence and security community is the product of over a century of reviews going back to Edwardian spy scares, through two World Wars, and a Cold War. …
Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945
Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air …
Naval Mine Warfare
Sea mines have been important in naval warfare throughout history and continue to be so today. They have caused major damage to naval forces, slowed or stopped naval actions and …
Ticking Clock: Memoirs of a Naval Bomb and Mine Officer
Ticking Clock is the story of a young man from Kent who joined the Navy at 171/2 and had some exciting and dangerous adventures during his six years, as he has recounted in his …
Strategy and Grand Strategy
Wartime leaders should understand the link between violent means and political ends. They should also have a sense of how strategic decisions will affect the post-war peace. Yet …
The Tokyo Trial and Beyond
This book provides a unique insider's view of the International Military Tribunal at the end of the Second World War and reflects on the nature and limits of international law in …