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The Gulf Conflict, 1990-1991
The Gulf Conflict provides the most authoritative and comprehensive account to date of Iraq's occupation of Kuwait, its expulsion by a coalition of Western and Arab forces seven months later, and the aftermath of the war. Blending compelling narrative history with objective analysis, Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh inquire into the fundamental issues underlying the dispute and probe the strategic calculations of all the participants.
The Battle of Prokhorovka
The Battle of Kursk was one of the defining moments of World War II. In July 1943, German forces under Erich von Manstein--one of Germany’s best generals--launched a massive attack in an offensive code-named Citadel. A week later, the Soviets counterattacked, sparking a huge clash of tanks at Prokhorovka, the largest armor battle in history, pitting more than 600 Soviet tanks against some 300 German panzers. Though the Germans gained a tactical victory, destroying huge numbers of Soviet tanks, they failed to achieve their objectives, and in the end the battle marked a turning point on the Eastern Front. The Red Army gained the strategic initiative and would not lose it.
Surviving Bataan and Beyond
Colonel Irvin Alexander was one of the few captured at Bataan to survive the nightmarish experience of imprisonment in Japanese prison camps. His account is a harrowing description of one of the most notorious incidents in World War Two. Originally published: 1999.
The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography
This comprehensive reference lists every major military leader the world has ever known. From pre-Julius Caesar to General Schwarzkopf, this in-depth book has biographies and accurate profiles of each leaderʼs triumphs and failures. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography from Trevor N. Dupuy, Curt Johnson and David L. Bongard contains more than 3,000 entries of militarists and thinkers. Arranged alphabetically, the annotations include a brief overview of the subject, important dates and the major battles and campaigns they participated in. There is also an evaluation of each leaderʼs character, abilities and contribution, as well as a brief bibliography of the books written on the subject.
The Guns of Independence
In early 1781, after his victories in the Southern Colonies, Lord Cornwallis marched his army north into Virginia. He believed the Americans could be decisively defeated in Virginia and the war brought to an end. George Washington believed Cornwallis's move was a strategic blunder, and he moved vigorously to exploit it. Feinting against General Clinton and the British stronghold of New York, Washington marched his army quickly south. With the assistance of Rochambeau's infantry and a key French naval victory at the Battle off the Capes in September, Washington trapped Cornwallis on the tip of a narrow Virginia peninsula at a place called Yorktown. And so it began. Operating on the belief tha...
Fortress Fiji
Fiji was a strategic outpost on the northern approaches to New Zealand and a vital stepping stone across the Pacific. Tells the story of why Fiji was important to the Japanese and how and why the Allies developed its defences to repel a possible invasion.
World Military Leaders
Articles profiling important military leaders are arranged in A to Z format.
War by Numbers
War by Numbers assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence establishes what we know about conventional combat and why we know it. By demonstrating the impact a variety of factors have on combat he moves such analysis beyond the work of Carl von Clausewitz and into modern data and interpretation. Using vast data sets, Lawrence examines force ratios, the human factor in case studies from World War II and beyond, the combat value of superior situational awareness, and the effects of dispersion, among other elements. Lawrence challenges existing interpretations of conventional warfare and shows how such combat should be conducted in the future, simultaneously broadening our understanding of what it means to fight wars by the numbers.
With Musket & Tomahawk Volume I
A comprehensive history of the brutal wilderness war that secured America’s independence in 1777—by an author with “a flair for vivid detail” (Library Journal). With Musket and Tomahawk is a vivid account of the American and British struggles in the sprawling wilderness region of the American northeast during the Revolutionary War. Combining strategic, tactical, and personal detail, historian Michael Logusz describes how the patriots of the newly organized Northern Army defeated England’s massive onslaught of 1777, all but ensuring America’s independence. Britain’s three-pronged thrust was meant to separate New England from the rest of the young nation. Yet, despite its superior resources, Britain’s campaign was a disaster. Gen. John Burgoyne emerged from a woodline with six thousand soldiers to surrender to the Patriots at Saratoga in October 1777. Within the Saratoga campaign, countless battles and skirmishes were waged from the borders of Canada to Ticonderoga, Bennington, and West Point. Heroes on both sides were created by the score amid the madness, cruelty, and hardship of what can rightfully be called the terrible Wilderness War of 1777.
