A must-read for history fans and military buffs alike, Gunpowder brings together a rich terrain of cultures and technological innovations with authoritative research and swashbuckling style.

Brian Rappert discusses the technologies involved and the ethics of, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright.

In 1914 America was determined to stay clear of Europe's war. By 1917, the country was ready to lunge into the fray. The Path to War tells the full story of what happened.

The book is a study of Adorno's aesthetics, its philosophical background, and its account of aesthetic modernism.

The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which materiel is actually used.

First published in 1961 and now with a new introduction, The Franco-Prussian War is acknowledged as the definitive history of one of the most dramatic and decisive conflicts in the history of Europe.

The collection appraises how Scottish soldiers constructed their identities and how these were both distinct from and yet important contributing factors in the development of national Scottish and supranational British idenitites.

Fernando Martínez Laínez, coautor del exitoso volumen Tercios de España, recorre de nuevo el Camino Español para reconstruir paso a paso, con óptica de ensayista histórico y escritor viajero, un itinerario que atraviesa Europa desde ...

This text studies the Czechoslovak-German crisis and its impact from previously neglected perspectives and celebrates the post-Cold War openness by bringing in new evidence from hitherto inaccessible archives.

This book analyzes when, how, why, and to what effect China has used its armed forces in recent decades to coerce other actors in the international system.