For sale in CIS only! "The Will to Survive" describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequent tragedies of its even...

For sale in CIS only! Political violence has become the scourge of our world and terrorism is routinely described as a uniquely modern evil. Yet however unprecedented in scope the new terrorist organisations might appear, Matthew Carr argues in this...

In this beautifully illustrated book, Eduardo Cea goes into fascinating detail of each of the units of the Imperial Japanese Navy in turn, from the Dai 1 Kaigun Kokutai, which trained in torpedo attack techniques and participated in the attacks on ta...

The Pacific War, as part of the Second World War, was a conflict involving Japan against the British, Dutch and mainly the Americans. It lasted from the 7th December 1941 until the Japanese signed the surrender on the 15th September 1945 aboard the b...

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization – home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code o...

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world's two largest oceans – the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remain...

The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America's imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward...

This is the fourth fully revised edition of a book first published in 1970. This longevity is testimony to its enduring value as a reference work – indeed, "Colledge" (as it is universally known) is still the first stop for anyone wanting more inform...

For sale in CIS only! Prisoners of war have featured in virtually every conflict that the US has engaged in since its revolutionary beginnings. Today visitors to Washington will frequently see a black POW flag flying high on government buildings or...

For sale in CIS only! This is not a book about philosophy and war. It is a book on contemporary conflict in which the author invokes philosophy to help understand the problems that we face in fighting war today. "Barbarous Philosophers" sets out to...