History & Politics

The end of the Peloponnesian War saw Sparta emerge as the dominant power in the Greek world. Had she used this position wisely her hegemony might h...

Many books have been written about Second World War special forces operations in Europe and the Middle East. Much less has been said about such ope...

The definitive translation of the seminal treatise on the code of the samurai. Living and dying with bravery and honor is at the heart of Hagakure,...

This illustrated series presents the uniforms and equipment of the United States Army from the nineteenth century to the present day. Each volume...

This book presents a selection of eighteen land battles and sieges that span the Classical Greek period, from the Persian invasions to the eclips...

In the years since 9/11 Special Forces of many nations have been in almost constant action in covert, high risk operations around the globe. These ...

J. P. CROSS has spent 67 years among the Gurkhas, first as a serving officer and then as a resident of Nepal, being the only foreigner in the his...

The campaign fought by the Ottomans against the British in Palestine is often neglected in accounts of the Great War, yet it is fascinating from ...

Marcellus' military exploits were largely unmatched by any other aristocrat of Roman Middle Republic. As a young soldier in the First Punic War, ...

Within weeks of 9/11, United States Special Operations Forces were dropping into Afghanistan to lead the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Fo...

On June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode towards the banks of the Little Bighorn where three thousand Indians stood waiti...

The story of the most famous revolt of the ancient world, and its legendary leader, Spartacus the Gladiator.Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who ...

Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Juda...

From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New...

An epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of history's most venerated military and religious hero...

A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The bat...

Who Was Alexander the Great? Full of adventure that will keep young children reading, Who Was Alexander the Great tells the story of the boy with ...

This title provides a complete introduction to the First World War for children, published in association with the Imperial War Museums. Four small...

Can the demise of a government 1,500 years ago have repercussions felt around the globe centuries later? If that government is the powerful Roman E...

From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Tr...

Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a ...

In this compelling study of leadership, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty leaders in the nineteenth and early twenti...

The Author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that ha...

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries ...