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MILITARY HISTORY & WAR STUDIES
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BEIRUT 1958
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How America’s Wars in the Middle East Began
Bruce Riedel
Brookings Institution Press
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THE RAF AND TRIBAL CONTROL
Airpower and Irregular Warfare between the World Wars
Richard D. Newton
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STALINGRAD
David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House
University Press of Kansas
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THE BRITISH MILITARY REVOLUTION OF THE 19TH CENTURY
“The Great Gun Question” and the Modernization of Ordnance and Administration
Daniel R. LeClair
McFarland
University Press of Kansas
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CHURCHILL’S PHONEY WAR
A Study in Folly and Frustration
Graham T. Clews
Studies in Naval History and Sea Power
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A RECKONING
Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals
Sharon W. Chamberlain
New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies
Naval Institute Press
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AMERICA AND THE JUST WAR TRADITION
A History of U.S. Conflicts
Edited by Mark David Hall & J. Daryl Charles
University of Notre Dame Press The University of Wisconsin Press
The University of Alabama Press
PARTISANS, GUERILLAS, AND IRREGULARS
Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare
Edited by Steven D. Smith & Clarence R. Geier Jun 2019 272pp, 24 b&w figures, 10 maps 9780817320201 Hardback £53.50 / €60.00 Within the last twenty years, the archaeology of conflict has emerged as a valuable sub-discipline within anthropology, contributing greatly to our knowledge and understanding of human conflict on a global scale. This volume presents essays that explore this growing field.
SEND THE ALABAMIANS
World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division
Nimrod Thompson Frazer Jun 2019 366pp, 26 b&w figures, 12 maps, 1 table 9780817359799 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I.
STANDING WATCH
American Submarine Veterans Remember the Cold War Era
Jonathan Li-Chung Leung Jun 2019 224pp, 34 b&w figures 9780817359577 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 9780817320126 Hardback £74.95 / €84.00 Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War. Featuring interviews from seventeen veteran submariners, Standing Watch offers the perspective of the submariners themselves - lending them a voice and paying homage to their service.
WOLFHOUNDS AND POLAR BEARS
John M. House Apr 2019 264pp, 18 b&w figures, 9 maps, 10 tables 9780817359492 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 Details the military aspects of the American Expeditionary Force’s deployment to Siberia following World War I to protect the Trans-Siberian Railroad. This book is the most detailed study of the military aspects of the American intervention in Siberia ever undertaken, offering a multitude of details not available in any other book-length history.
Brookings Institution Press
BEIRUT 1958
How America’s Wars in the Middle East Began
Bruce Riedel Oct 2019 128pp 9780815737292 Hardback £21.50 / €24.00 For more information on this title, see page 13.
FALKLANDS AND MALVINAS
Edited by Guillermo Mira Delli Zotti Jun 2019 200pp 9781908857569 Paperback £25.50 / €29.00 Examines the Falklands/Malvinas conflict and its consequences, but from an oblique perspective that brings together English, Spanish and Argentine specialists and researchers. The book is novel in that different social scientists analyse the conflict from the perspective of their own disciplines.
Institute of Latin American Studies University Press of Florida
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR ENCAMPMENTS OF WASHINGTON’S ARMY
Edited by Cosimo A. Sgarlata, David G. Orr & Bethany A. Morrison May 2019 288pp, 21 maps, 49 figures 9780813056401 Hardback £106.00 / €120.00 Presents recent archaeological and ethno-historical research on the encampments, trails, and support structures of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
UNCOMMONLY SAVAGE
Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States
Paul D. Escott Jan 2019 278pp 9780813064338 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Spain and the United States both experienced extremely bloody and divisive civil wars that left social and emotional wounds, many of which still endure today. Award-winning historian Paul Escott considers the impact of internecine violence on memory and ideology, politics, and process of reconciliation.
The University of Georgia Press
BODIES IN BLUE
Disability in the Civil War North
Sarah E. Handley-Cousins Apr 2019 208pp, 10 b&w images 9780820355184 Hardback £33.95 / €39.00 UnCivil Wars An innovative look at all of the disabling experiences to which northern soldiers were subjected - physical and mental, in camp and on the battlefield
CAPTURED
The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945
Frances B. Cogan Jan 2019 384pp, 10 b&w photos 9780820355405 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00 More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps. Captured tells the story of daily life in five different camps - the crowded housing, mounting familial and international tensions, heavy labour, and increasingly severe malnourishment.
VISIONS OF GLORY
The Civil War in Word and Image
Edited by Kathleen Diffley & Benjamin Fagan Nov 2019 280pp, 22 b&w images 9780820355931 Hardback £29.95 / €34.00 UnCivil Wars Series Brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War.
University of Hawai’i Press
DEFAMILIARIZING JAPAN’S ASIA-PACIFIC WAR
Edited by W. Puck Brecher & Michael W. Myers Oct 2019 288pp, 8 b&w illustrations 9780824879679 Hardback £72.50 / €82.00 Provides a reassessment of conventional understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. The nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured historicity about the conflict by either introducing new areas of knowledge or reinterpreting existing ones.
HIDEO OKAMOTO
Exchange Prisoner and War Plan Orange
Claude Morita Apr 2019 224pp, 12 b&w illustrations 9780824881689 Paperback £21.50 / €24.00 The US is generally considered to have entered the war against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet, did this conflict actually originate decades earlier? Author Claude Morita’s research of declassified materials in the National Archives in Washington, DC, has convinced him that US planning of a war against Japan began in about 1898.
Japanese Cultural Center
Hoover Institution Press
NATO IN THE CRUCIBLE
Coalition Warfare in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
Deborah L. Hanagan Sep 2019 288pp 9780817922955 Paperback £21.95 / €25.00 Analyses the challenges NATO faced in the war in Afghanistan, and explains how the alliance maintained cohesion despite them. The author examines why NATO succeeded in Afghanistan when history suggests most coalitions fracture under such intense pressure.
University Press of Kansas
BEYOND PEARL HARBOR
A Pacific History
Edited by Beth Bailey & David Farber Jul 2019 224pp 9780700628131 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 9780700628124 Hardback £63.95 / €72.00 Scholars hailing from four continents and representing six nations reinterpret the meaning of the coordinated, and devastating, attacks of December 7th, 1941. Working from a variety of angles, they revise and expand, to an unprecedented extent, what we understand about these events.
GERMAN FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE FROM HITLER’S WAR TO THE COLD WAR
Flawed Assumptions and Faulty Analysis
Robert Hutchinson Feb 2019 352pp 9780700627578 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 Examining the information on enemy nations that was gathered, processed, and presented to leaders in the Nazi state, Robert Hutchinson’s study reveals the consequences of the politicisation of German intelligence during World War II - as well as the persistence of ingrained prejudices among the intelligence services’ Cold War successors.
THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ARMY IN PEACE, WAR, AND REVOLUTION, 1856-1917
Roger R. Reese Dec 2019 520pp 9780700628605 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00 In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration of the Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one of the dynasty’s prime pillars, finally fell - a collapse that, in light of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, historians often treat as inevitable. Roger Reese contests this assumption in this fascinating book.
KAZAKHSTAN IN WORLD WAR II
Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire
Roberto J. Carmack Sep 2019 272pp 9780700628254 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00 The first English-Language study of a non-Russian Soviet republic during World War II, this book explores how the war altered official policies toward the region’s ethnic groups - and accelerated Central Asia’s integration into Soviet institutions.
OPERATION DON’S LEFT WING
The Trans-Caucasus Front’s Pursuit of the First Panzer Army, November 1942-February 1943
David M. Glantz Nov 2019 960pp 9780700628438 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00 On 1st January 1943, with German Sixth Army about to be destroyed in the Stalingrad pocket, the Stavka (Soviet High Command) launched ‘Operation Don’, a strategic offensive aimed at demolishing German defences in the southern Soviet Union. This book is the first detailed study of this crucial but virtually overlooked Soviet military operation.
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The Soviet Southern Front’s Advance on Rostov, January-February 1943
David M. Glantz 2018 912pp 9780700625260 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 With the defeat of German Sixth Army at Stalingrad all but certain at the end of 1942, the war on the Eastern Front took a definitive turn as the Germans struggled to erect a new defensive front to halt the Soviet juggernaut. Operation Don’s Main Attack is the first detailed study of the dramatic clash of armies that followed, unfolding over the course of two months across more than 1,600 kilometers.
THE RAF AND TRIBAL CONTROL
Airpower and Irregular Warfare between the World Wars
Richard D. Newton Dec 2019 240pp 9780700628711 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 For more information on this title, see page 13.
STALINGRAD
David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House Oct 2019 640pp 9780700628797 Paperback £29.95 / €35.00 9780700623822 Hardback £39.50 / €43.00 For more information on this title, see page 13.
THUNDER AND FLAMES
Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918
Edward G. Lengel Jun 2019 470pp 9780700627837 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 November 1917. American troops were poorly trained, deficient in military equipment and doctrine, not remotely ready for armed conflict on a large scale - and on the Western front. The story of what happened next - the American Expeditionary Force’s trial by fire on the battlefields of France - is told in full for the first time in this book.
University of Massachusetts Press
SOLDIERS OF THE PEN
The Writers’ War Board in World War II
Thomas Howell Mar 2019 296pp 9781625343871 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 9781625343864 Hardback £96.50 / €108.00 From 1942 to 1945, a small, influential group of media figures willingly volunteered their services to form the Writers’ War Board (WWB). The WWB received federal money while retaining its status as a private organisation. Thomas Howell argues that this unique position has caused its history to fall between the cracks, since it was not recognised as an official part of the government’s war effort.
McFarland
THE BRITISH MILITARY REVOLUTION OF THE 19TH CENTURY
“The Great Gun Question” and the Modernization of Ordnance and Administration
Daniel R. LeClair Sep 2019 228pp, 50 photos 9781476674995 Paperback £47.95 / €54.00 For more information on this title, see page 13.
THE COLD WAR DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES
Strategy, Weapon Systems and Operations
John E. Bronson May 2019 228pp 9781476677200 Paperback £53.50 / €60.00 During the Cold War, the United States was forced to establish means of massive long-range attack in response to Soviet Union advancements in weaponry. This book shows how these defences evolved from fledgling stopgap measures into a complex fabric of interconnected combinations of high-tech equipment over 40 years.
DISPUTED DECISIONS OF WORLD WAR II
Decision Science and Game Theory Perspective
Mark Thompson Jan 2020 222pp 9781476680040 Paperback £84.50 / €91.00 Draws on the disciplines of decision science and game theory to review controversial strategic and tactical decisions of World War II. Allied leadership—although outstanding in many ways—sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide.
MASS SUICIDES ON SAIPAN AND TINIAN, 1944
An Examination of the Civilian Deaths in Historical Context
Alexander Astroth May 2019 141pp 9781476674568 Paperback £47.95 / €54.00 Mass suicides occurred during World War II when the Americans invaded and captured the Japanesecontrolled islands of Saipan and Tinian in 1944. Historical scholarship on this topic is almost non-existent. This book provides readers with a better understanding of what happened on the two islands and why.
A U.S. ARMY MEDICAL BASE IN WORLD WAR I FRANCE
Life and Care at Bazoilles Hospital Center, 1918-1919
Peter Wever Aug 2019 67pp 9781476676180 Paperback £47.95 / €54.00 During World War I over 63,000 American soldiers received treatment for wounds or disease at the US Army Bazoilles Hospital Center. This book describes daily life and medical care at the hospital providing the reader with a vivid picture of what conditions were like for both patients and medical personnel.
University Press of Mississippi
BEHIND THE RIFLE
Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi
Shelby Harriel Apr 2019 216pp, 30 b&w illustrations 9781496822017 Hardback £24.95 / €28.00 Mississippi’s chronicle of military involvement in the Civil War is not one of men alone. This book is a groundbreaking study that discusses women soldiers with a connection to Mississippi.
REMEMBERING DIXIE
The Battle to Control Historical Memory in Natchez, Mississippi, 1865–1941
Susan T. Falck Sep 2019 370pp, 53 b&w illustrations 9781496824417 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 9781496824400 Hardback £97.95 / €110.00 Analyses how the highly biased, white historical memories of what had been a wealthy southern hub originated from the experiences and hardships of the Civil War. These collective narratives eventually culminated in a heritage tourism enterprise still in business today.
SILENT WARRIORS, INCREDIBLE COURAGE
The Declassified Stories of Cold War Reconnaissance Flights and the Men Who Flew Them
Wolfgang W.E. Samuel Mar 2019 320pp, 128 b&w illustrations 9781496822796 Hardback £29.95 / €34.00 This book offers a history of the Cold War overflights of the Soviet Union and China, based on extensive interviews with dozens of pilots.
University of Missouri Press
THE DESPERATE DIPLOMAT
Saburo Kurusu’s Memoir of the Weeks before Pearl Harbor
Edited by J. Garry Clifford & Masako R. Okura Nov 2019 176pp 9780826222015 Paperback £23.50 / €27.00 Three weeks prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu visited Washington in an attempt to further peace talks. For more than seventy years, many have viewed Kurusu’s visit as part of the Pearl Harbor plot. Garry Clifford and Masako Okura seek to dispel this myth with this edition of Kurusu’s memoir.
LOSS AND REDEMPTION AT ST. VITH
The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge
Gregory Fontenot Nov 2019 384pp, 30 photos, 14 maps 9780826221926 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 American Military Experience Closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits of the 7th Armored Division in a way that no other study has. This narrative centres on the 7th Armored Division for the entire length of the campaign, in so doing reconsidering the story of the whole battle through the lens of a single division.
MEUSE-ARGONNE DIARY
A Division Commander in World War I
William M. Wright Edited by Robert H. Ferrell Apr 2019 192pp, 25 illustrations 9780826221919 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00 During America’s participation in World War I, 19171918, only a single commander of a division, William M. Wright, is known to have kept a diary. In it, General Wright relates his two-month experience at St. Mihiel and especially the Meuse-Argonne, the largest and costliest battle in American history.
MILITARY REALISM
The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the U.S. Army
Peter Campbell Apr 2019 376pp 9780826221841 Hardback £53.50 / €60.00 American Military Experience Advances a unique argument centring on military realism to explain the evolution of Army doctrinal thinking from 1960 to 2008. Peter Campbell demonstrates that decision makers have found themselves adapting to the geopolitical realities of preparing for and fighting so called ’low intensity’ conflicts, particularly in the twenty-first century.
Naval Institute Press
THE BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF AT 75
A Retrospective
Thomas J. Cutler Oct 2019 336pp, 6 maps, 18 b&w illustrations 9781682474617 Hardback £29.95 / €34.00 The passage of three-quarters of a century has allowed a great many insights into this important battle. While this new volume will not preclude continuing observations, evaluations, and debates, it serves as a meaningful milepost in the ongoing discussion.
BATTLE OF MIDWAY
America’s Decisive Strike in the Pacific in WWII
John Grehan Nov 2019 176pp, 150 b&w illustrations 9781526758347 Paperback £28.95 / €33.00 Images of War Recounts the events of the Battle of Midway - which, unquestionably, marked the turning point in the war against Japan. The four-day battle resulted in the loss of four Japanese aircraft carriers, the US Navy losing only one. The Japanese were never able to recover from these losses, and it was the Americans who were able to take control of the Pacific.
CHURCHILL’S PHONEY WAR
A Study in Folly and Frustration
Graham T. Clews Oct 2019 400pp, 20 b&w photos, 8 maps 9781682472798 Hardback £47.50 / €54.00 Studies in Naval History and Sea Power For more information on this title, see page 14.
Jeffery M. Dorwart Sep 2019 320pp, 40 b&w photos 9781682473917 Hardback £61.50 / €69.00 This refreshingly impartial history of the Office of Naval Intelligence outlines the role of ONI in the development of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century naval, political, and diplomatic policies.
FOR GOD AND GLORY
Lord Nelson and His Way of War
Joel S. Hayward Mar 2019 280pp 9781612517797 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00 Taking an original thematic approach to the study of Horatio Lord Nelson, Joel Hayward analyses the admiral’s unique war-fighting style, doctrine, tactics and operational art, his command and leadership abilities, and his attitudes and beliefs. Hayward reveals how these elements combined to form the man whose ethos spread through his entire force.
FOUNDATIONS OF RUSSIAN MILITARY FLIGHT 1885–1925
James Libbey Jun 2019 272pp 9781682474235 Hardback £37.50 / €43.00 Focuses on the early use by armed forces of balloons and aircraft. While France invented lighter-than-air craft, it was a French pilot who caught Russia’s attention to airplanes in 1909.
PAINTING WAR
George Plante’s Combat Art in World War II
Kathleen Broome Williams Apr 2019 304pp 9781682474266 Hardback £29.95 / €34.00 Discusses Scottish artist George Plante and how his art served an alliance. The wartime production of propaganda art provides a little-known example of one way the otherwise much studied Anglo-American relationship was built up and sustained.
SIX VICTORIES
North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean Convoy War, November 1941-March 1942
Vincent O’Hara Oct 2019 336pp, 26 b&w illustrations, 17 maps, 25 tables 9781682474600 Hardback £34.50 / €39.00 Examines one of the most interesting and instructive naval campaigns of World War II: the war on traffic in the Mediterranean during the autumn and winter of 1941-42.
NewSouth Publishing
AUSTRALIA’S VIETNAM
Myth vs History
Mark Dapin Apr 2019 272pp 9781742236360 Paperback £19.95 / €24.00 When Mark Dapin first interviewed Vietnam veterans and wrote about the war, he swallowed (and regurgitated) every misconception. He wasn’t alone. In Australia’s Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia’s commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted, and shrouded in myth.
University of Notre Dame Press
AMERICA AND THE JUST WAR TRADITION
A History of U.S. Conflicts
Edited by Mark David Hall & J. Daryl Charles Jan 2019 320pp 9780268105266 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 9780268105259 Hardback £133.00 / €149.00 For more information on this title, see page 14.
The University of North Carolina Press
CIVIL WAR MONUMENTS AND THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICA
Thomas J. Brown Dec 2019 368pp, 87 illustrations 9781469653747 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 9781469653730 Hardback £95.95 / €108.00 Civil War America Provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments that remain potent presences on the civic landscape.
CIVIL WAR PLACES
Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
Edited by Gary W. Gallagher & J. Matthew Gallman Mar 2019 192pp, 37 illustrations 9781469649535 Hardback £34.50 / €39.00 In this collection of essays, some of the most esteemed historians of the US Civil War select a single meaningful place related to war and narrate its significance. Paired with a contemporary photograph commissioned specifically for this book, each essay offers an unusual and accessible glimpse into how historians think about their subjects.
CONQUERED
Why the Army of Tennessee Failed
Larry J. Daniel Apr 2019 456pp, 19 illustrations 9781469649504 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 Civil War America Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But it won few major battles and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances as a matter of failed leadership. Military historian Larry Daniel here offers a far richer interpretation.
FRANCE AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
A Diplomatic History
Stève Sainlaude Mar 2019 304pp, 11 illustrations 9781469649948 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00 Civil War America France’s involvement in the American Civil War was critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European power’s role remain little understood. Here, Steve Sainlaude offers the first comprehensive history of French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the Confederate States of America during the conflict.
ILLUSIONS OF EMANCIPATION
The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
Joseph P. Reidy Apr 2019 480pp, 25 illustrations 9781469648361 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 Littlefield History of the Civil War Era In this sweeping reappraisal of slavery’s end during the Civil War era, Joseph P. Reidy employs the lenses of time, space, and individuals’ sense of personal and social belonging to understand how participants and witnesses coped with drastic change, its erratic pace, and its unforeseeable consequences.
THE LAST BATTLEGROUND
The Civil War Comes to North Carolina
Philip Gerard Jan 2019 336pp, 27 illustrations 9781469649566 Hardback £29.95 / €34.00 To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War. Philip Gerard presents the stories of the individuals who endured the war to capture the dreadful suspense of lives caught up in a conflict whose ending had not yet been written.
THE LOYAL REPUBLIC
Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America
Erik Mathisen Aug 2019 240pp 9781469654591 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Civil War America Tells the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic’s history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed.
RAISING THE WHITE FLAG
How Surrender Defined the American Civil War
David Silkenat May 2019 376pp 9781469649726 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 Civil War America Provides the first comprehensive study of Civil War surrender, focusing on the conflicting social, political, and cultural meanings of the action. The experience of surrender sheds valuable light on the culture of honour, the experience of combat, and the laws of war.
REBEL RICHMOND
Life and Death in the Confederate Capital
Stephen V. Ash Oct 2019 304pp, 16 illustrations 9781469650982 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 Civil War America In the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence. In Rebel Richmond, Stephen Ash vividly evokes life in Richmond as war consumed the Confederate capital.
SEARCHING FOR BLACK CONFEDERATES
The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
Kevin M. Levin Sep 2019 248pp, 18 illustrations 9781469653266 Hardback £32.50 / €36.00 Civil War America More than 150 years after the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organisations repeat claims that anywhere up to 100,000 African Americans fought in the Confederate army. Kevin Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts and poorly understood primary-source material have helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth.
THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic
Gregory P. Downs Nov 2019 240pp 9781469652733 Hardback £29.95 / €34.00 The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era Argues that we can see the US Civil War anew by understanding it as a revolution. More than a fight to preserve the Union and end slavery, the conflict refashioned a nation, in part by remaking its Constitution. More than a struggle of brother against brother, it entailed remaking an Atlantic world that centred in surprising ways on Cuba and Spain.
THE SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE
American Women and World War I
Lynn Dumenil Feb 2019 360pp, 34 illustrations 9781469652061 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American “new woman”, Lynn Dumenil examines World War I’s surprising impact on women and, in turn, women’s impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, Dumenil analyses both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced.
SEX AND THE CIVIL WAR
Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality
Judith Giesberg Feb 2019 152pp, 26 illustrations 9781469652078 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00 The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts. With this book, Judith Giesberg has written the first serious study of the erotica and pornography that nineteenth-century American soldiers read and shared and links them to the postwar reaction to pornography and to debates about the future of sex and marriage.
WITH MALICE TOWARD SOME
Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era
William A. Blair Feb 2019 432pp 9781469652092 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 Littlefield History of the Civil War Era Few issues created greater consensus among Civil Warera northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A. Blair shows in this engaging history, the way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty varied widely.
THE WOMEN’S FIGHT
The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
Thavolia Glymph Nov 2019 320pp, 10 illustrations 9781469653631 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 Littlefield History of the Civil War Era Historians of the Civil War often speak of “wars within a war” - the military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery. In this broadly conceived book, Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women’s roles and lives in the Civil War.
THE YANKEE PLAGUE
Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy
Lorien Foote Feb 2019 256pp, 10 illustrations 9781469652054 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 Civil War America In this fascinating look at Union soldiers’ flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections between the collapse of the Confederate prison system, the large-scale escape of Union soldiers, and the full unravelling of the Confederate States of America.
University of North Texas Press
BEYOND THE QUAGMIRE
New Interpretations of the Vietnam War
Edited by Geoffrey W. Jensen & Matthew M. Stith Mar 2019 432pp, 11 b&w illustrations, 4 maps 9781574417487 Hardback £31.95 / €36.00 Provides a series of provocative, important, and timely essays on the politics, combatants, and memory of the Vietnam War. These essays pose new questions, offer new answers, and establish important lines of debate regarding social, political, military, and memory studies.
FROM THE HALLS OF THE MONTEZUMAS
Mexican War Dispatches from James L. Freaner, Writing under the Pen Name “Mustang”
Edited by Alan D. Gaff & Donald H. Gaff Oct 2019 576pp, 31 b&w illustrations, 3 maps 9781574417678 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 War and the Southwest Series Provides a complete compilation of James L. Freaner’s Mexican War reporting. Editors Alan Gaff and Donald Gaff have annotated the text with footnotes identifying people, places, and events, and also have added illustrations of key figures and maps. They supplement Freaner’s dispatches with biographical information.
PHANTOM IN THE SKY
A Marine’s Back Seat View of the Vietnam War
Terry L. Thorsen Mar 2019 400pp, 31 b&w illustrations 9781574417548 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series, Vol. 15 Tells the story of a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) in the back seat of the supersonic Phantom jet during the Vietnam War - a unique, tactical perspective of the “guy in back”, or GIB, absent from other published aviation accounts.
NUS Press
ARISTOCRACY OF ARMED TALENT
The Military Elite in Singapore
Samuel Ling Wei Chan Apr 2019 528pp, 31 tables 9789813250079 Paperback £37.50 / €41.00 The story of the Singapore Armed Forces in the form of a collective portrait of its leaders. Given their prominence, and their portrayal by political leaders as an ‘aristocracy of talent’, it is no surprise that myths about the military leadership abound. This book takes on the myths directly, through 28 interviews with flag officers, and analysis of the history and structure of the Singapore Armed Forces.
Pentagon Press LLP
THE ICONIC BATTLE OF SARAGARHI
Echoes of the Frontier
Brig Kanwaljit Singh May 2019 9789386618603 Hardback £48.50 / €54.00 Provides an analysis of the Battle of Saragarhi, discussing such issues as weapons used, tactics, “last stand”, rousing war cries, psychology, why soldiers fight, and what has been done to remember the battle.
Rutgers University Press
TOXIC EXPOSURES
Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
Susan L. Smith Mar 2019 209pp 9780813586106 Paperback £14.95 / €18.00 Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Tells the story of how the US and its allies subjected thousands of their own servicemen to poison gas as part of their preparation for chemical warfare. The book also reveals the racialized dimension of these experiments, as scientists tested whether the effects of toxic exposure might vary between Asian, Hispanic, black, and white Americans.
Southern Illinois University Press
THE VICKSBURG ASSAULTS
May 19-22, 1863
Edited by Steven E. Woodworth & Charles D. Grear Mar 2019 152pp 9780809337194 Hardback £31.50 / €36.00 Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland This anthology is an in-depth examination of General Ulysses S. Grant’s unsuccessful assaults against Confederate defensive lines around the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on May 19 and May 22, 1863. Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear have assembled five captivating essays from four expert historians into a unique, in-depth volume.
Texas A&M University Press
HELL UNDER THE RISING SUN
Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway
Kelly E. Crager Dec 2018 216pp, 18 b&w photos, 2 maps 9781623497880 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series, Vol. 11 Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. This title includes personal memoirs and oral history interviews of the “Lost Battalion” members.
OVER THERE IN THE AIR
The Fightin’ Texas Aggies in World War I, 1917-1918
John A. Adams Dec 2019 145pp, 30 b&w photos, 3 maps 9781623498450 Hardback £31.95 / €36.00 C. A. Brannen Series Tells the little known story of the contribution of Texas A&M University to early aviation in World War I. Through painstaking research - using unit records, after-action reviews, alumni newsletters, and countless other university documents – John Adams Jr. paints a portrait of the Aggie aviator in the Great War.
STORMS OVER THE MEKONG
Major Battles of the Vietnam War
William Pace Head Dec 2019 464pp, 57 b&w photos, 5 maps 9781623498351 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series From the defeat of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam at Ap Bac to the battles of the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh, and more, Storms over the Mekong offers a reassessment of key turning points in the Vietnam War.
University of Virginia Press
THE ROAD TO CHARLESTON
Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution
John Buchanan Mar 2019 384pp, 13 b&w illustrations, 6 maps 9780813942247 Hardback £31.95 / €36.00 In The Road to Guilford Courthouse, one of the most acclaimed military histories of the Revolutionary War ever written, John Buchanan explored the first half of the critical Southern Campaign and introduced readers to Major General Nathanael Greene. In this long-awaited sequel, Buchanan brings this story to its dramatic conclusion.
The University of Wisconsin Press
ALL THE HOMETOWN BOYS
Wisconsin’s 150th Machine Gun Battalion in World War I
Brad Larson Apr 2019 272pp, 14 b&w illustrations 9780299322205 Hardback £28.95 / €33.00 In the summer of 1917 three Wisconsin National Guard companies came together to form the 150th Machine Gun Battalion of the now famous 42nd “Rainbow” Division. Through letters, diaries, and other recollections, Larson tells us the story of these Guardsmen’s experiences, and considers the impact of war’s trauma and tedium on their lives.
FAGEN
An African American Renegade in the Philippine-American War
Michael Morey Feb 2019 248pp, 16 b&w illustrations, 3 maps 9780299319403 Hardback £36.50 / €42.00 In 1898 the US sent troops to suppress the Filipino struggle for independence, including three regiments of the “Buffalo Soldiers”. Among them was David Fagen. The outlines of Fagen’s legend have been known for more than a century, but the details of his military achievements, his personal history, and his fate have remained a mystery - until now.
A RECKONING
Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals
Sharon W. Chamberlain Jan 2019 272pp, 9 b&w photos, 3 tables 9780299318604 Hardback £78.95 / €89.00 New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies For more information on this title, see page 14
BESTSELLERS
Brookings Institution Press
SURPRISE ATTACK
Lessons for Defense Planning
Richard K. Betts 1982 318pp 9780815709299 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00 Analyses surprise attacks during the mid-twentieth century to illustrate the author’s thesis: surprise attacks occur, not because intelligence services fail to warn, but because of the disbelief of political leaders. Richard K. Betts investigation of the historical, psychological, political, diplomatic, and military aspects of his subject heightens understanding of why surprise attacks succeed.
University Press of Kansas
THE STALINGRAD TRILOGY
TO THE GATES OF STALINGRAD: VOLUME 1
Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942
David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House 2009 736pp, 80 photos, 87 maps 9780700616305 Hardback £44.95 / €49.00 Modern War Studies The confrontation between German and Soviet forces at Stalingrad was a titanic clash of armies on an unprecedented scale - a campaign that was both a turning point in WWII and a lasting symbol of that war’s power and devastation. This book provides an account of the opening phase of this iconic Eastern Front campaign.
ARMAGEDDON IN STALINGRAD: VOLUME 2
September-November 1942
David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House 2009 864pp, 123 photos, 97 maps 9780700616640 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 Modern War Studies The German offensive on Stalingrad was originally intended to secure the Wehrmacht’s flanks, but it stalled dramatically in the face of Stalin’s order: ’Not a Step Back!’ This title looks at this most iconic military campaign of the Eastern Front and Hitler’s first great strategic defeat.
ENDGAME AT STALINGRAD: VOLUME 3
Book One: November 1942
David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House 2014 800pp, 30 photos 9780700619542 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 Modern War Studies The campaign intended to secure the Wehrmacht’s flanks had proven one front too many for the German Army. And now the offensive at Stalingrad, the epic clash that marked Germany’s failure on the Eastern Front, was entering its grim final phase. In Book One of the third volume of his acclaimed Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz offers the definitive account - the ‘ground truth’ to counter a half-century’s worth of myth and misinformation - of the beginning of the end of one of the most infamous battles of the Second World War.
ENDGAME AT STALINGRAD: VOLUME 3
Book Two: December 1942–January 1943
David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House 2014 800pp, 30 photos 9780700619559 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 Modern War Studies In Book Two of the third volume of his magisterial Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz continues and concludes his definitive history. Book Two finds the Red Army’s counteroffensive, Operation Uranus, well underway. Drawing on materials previously unavailable or believed lost, Glantz gives a closely observed account of the final ten weeks of Germany’s ill-fated Stalingrad campaign.
Also available: COMPANION TO ENDGAME AT STALINGRAD
David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House 2014 840pp, 54 maps 9780700619566 Hardback £84.50 / €91.00 Modern War Studies In addition to a wide variety of traditional sources, this volume provides two major categories of documentary materials hitherto unavailable to researchers. The first consists of extensive records from the combat journal of the German Sixth Army, which were only recently rediscovered and published, and the second is a vast amount of newly released Soviet and Russian archival material.
THE BATTLE FOR BELORUSSIA
The Red Army’s Forgotten Campaign of October 1943 - April 1944
David M. Glantz 2016 936pp, 34 photos, 170 maps 9780700623297 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 Modern War Studies Continuing his magisterial account of the Eastern Front campaigns, David M. Glantz focuses here on the Red Army’s operations from the fall of 1943 to April 1944. Glantz chronicles the Soviet Army’s efforts to further exploit their post-Kursk gains and accelerate a counteroffensive that would eventually take them all the way to Berlin.
THE BATTLE FOR LENINGRAD, 1941-1944
David M. Glantz 2002 660pp, 90 illustrations, 16 maps 9780700612086 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 Modern War Studies The German siege and Soviet defence of Leningrad in World War II was an epic struggle in an epic war, a drama of heroism and human misery unmatched in the annals of modern warfare. This work provides a military history of the conflict waged beyond the city’s borders.
NAPOLEON’S 1796 ITALIAN CAMPAIGN
Carl von Clausewitz Translated & edited by Nicholas Murray & Christopher Pringle 2018 352pp 9780700626762 Paperback £21.50 / €24.00 Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of ten volumes of his published writings. Among these historical works, perhaps the most important is Napoleon’s 1796 Italian Campaign, which covers a crucial period in the French Revolutionary Wars.
RED PHOENIX RISING
The Soviet Air Force in World War II
Von Hardesty & Ilya Grinberg 2012 448pp, 105 photos 9780700618286 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 Modern War Studies A groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, the original version of this book, Red Phoenix, was hailed by the Washington Post as both ’brilliant’ and ’monumental’. That version has now been completely overhauled in the wake of an avalanche of declassified Russian archival sources, combat documents, and statistical information made available in the past three decades. The result, Red Phoenix Rising, is nothing less than definitive.
THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN THE GREAT WAR
The Eastern Front, 1914-1917
David R. Stone 2015 368pp, 20 photos, 15 maps 9780700620951 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 Modern War Studies A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front fundamentally alters that picture. A thorough history of the Russian front during the First World War, this book corrects widespread misperceptions of the Russian Army and the war in the east even as it extends our understanding of the broader conflict.
THEY FOUGHT FOR THE MOTHERLAND
Russia’s Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution
Laurie S. Stoff 2006 320pp, 24 photos 9780700614851 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 Modern War Studies Women have participated in war throughout history, but their experience in Russia during the First World War was truly exceptional. This book draws on archival research, including many first-person accounts, to examine the roots, motivations, and legacy of these women.
DEATH OF THE WEHRMACHT
The German Campaigns of 1942
Robert M. Citino 2007 432pp, 40 photos 9780700617913 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Modern War Studies For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats. This major reevaluation of that crucial yearn shows that the German army’s emerging woes were rooted as much in its addiction to the ‘war of movement’ as they were in Hitler’s flawed management of the war.
THE WEHRMACHT RETREATS
Fighting a Lost War, 1943
Robert M. Citino 2012 428pp, 35 photos 9780700623433 Paperback £29.95 / €33.00 9780700618262 Hardback £42.95 / €48.00 Modern War Studies Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialised warfare. In his new study, prizewinning author Robert Citino chronicles this weakening Wehrmacht, now fighting desperately on the defensive but still remarkably dangerous and lethal.
THE WEHRMACHT’S LAST STAND
The German Campaigns of 1944-1945
Robert M. Citino 2017 664pp 9780700624942 Hardback £29.95 / €42.00 By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino posits a more straightforward solution: the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history.
Lynne Rienner Publishers
GREED AND GRIEVANCE
Economic Agendas in Civil Wars
Edited by Mats Berdal & David Malone 2000 250pp 9781555878689 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00 A Project of the International Peace Academy This volume identifies the economic and social factors underlying the perpetuation of civil wars, exploring as well the economic incentives and disincentives available to international actors seeking to restore peace to war-torn societies.
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ARMED CONFLICT
Beyond Greed and Grievance
Edited by Karen Ballentine & Jake Sherman 2003 320pp 9781588261724 Paperback £27.50 / €31.00 A Project of the International Peace Academy Globalization, suggest the authors of this collection, is creating new opportunities - some legal, some illicit - for armed factions to pursue their agendas in civil war. Within this context, they analyze the key dynamics of war economies and the challenges posed for conflict resolution and peace.
McFarland
ARCHITECT OF SOVIET VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II
The Life and Theories of G.S. Isserson
Richard W. Harrison 2010 411pp, 32 photos 9780786448975 Paperback £53.50 / €60.00 Drawing from an in-depth analysis of Georgii Samoilovich Isserson’s numerous published and unpublished works, this book provides the first full-length biography of a man perhaps best known as the mastermind behind the “deep operation,” which became the cornerstone of Soviet offensive operations in World War II.
Naval Institute Press
AIRPOWER APPLIED
U.S., NATO, and Israeli Combat Experience
Edited by John Andreas Olsen 2017 416pp 9781682470756 Hardback £49.50 / €56.00 History of Military Aviation Tells the story of the evolution of airpower and its impact upon the history of warfare. Through a critical examination of twenty-nine case studies in which the United States in various coalitions and Israel played significant roles, the book offers perspectives on the political purpose, strategic meaning, and military importance of airpower.
THE BLITZKRIEG LEGEND
The 1940 Campaign in the West
Karl-Heinz Frieser 2013 536pp 9781591142959 Paperback £38.50 / €44.00 Here, for the first time in English, is an illuminating new German perspective on the decisive Blitzkrieg campaign of 1940. Karl-Heinz Frieser’s account provides the definitive explanation for Germany’s startling success and the equally surprising and rapid military collapse of France and Britain on the European continent.
ON SEAS CONTESTED
The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War
Vincent P. O’Hara, W. David Dickson & Richard Worth 2014 352pp, 29 b&w photos, 7 maps 9781591146421 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00 Provides a point-by-point evaluation on the inner workings of the navies of the US, the UK and Commonwealth, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and the Soviet Union. Each navy has its own chapter, which covers such key features as weaponry, training, logistics, and doctrine.
TO CROWN THE WAVES
The Great Navies of the First World War
Edited by Vincent P. O’Hara, W. David Dickson & Richard Worth 2013 336pp 9781612510828 Hardback £37.50 / €43.00 The only comparative analysis available of the great navies of World War I, this work studies the Royal Navy of the UK, the German Kaiserliche Marine, the US Navy, the French Marine Nationale, the Italian Regia Marina, the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine, and the Imperial Russian Navy to demonstrate why the war was won on the waves.
NewSouth Publishing
KOKODA AIR STRIKES
Allied Air Forces in New Guinea, 1942
Anthony Cooper 2014 512pp, 45 illustrations 9781742233833 Paperback £22.95 / €27.00 Casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played – or failed to play – in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea. This is the story of the early battles of the South West Pacific theatre – the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal – presented as a single air campaign.
