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  • Imperial Defence, 1868-1887

    by Donald MacKenzie Schurman ...
    Series series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
    The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian era posed many design, tactical and operational problems for administrators from the 1830s onwards. The switch from sail to steam required the creation of a system of defended coaling stations and a greater infrastructure. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Transformation of British and American Naval Policy in the Pre-Dreadnought Era

    Ideas, Culture and Strategy

    Edited by John Beeler, Robert E. Mullins ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume examines the transformation of British and US naval policy from 1870 to 1889, which resulted in the British Naval Defence Act (1889), the construction of the first modern US battleships, and began the naval arms race which culminated in World War One. In examining the development of strategic thinking in the Royal and US Navies, it overturns conventional wisdom regarding genesis of the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • Southern Trident

    Strategy, history and the rise of Australian naval power

    by David Stevens, John Reeve ...
    The development of Australia's navy has been a vital factor in its history and evolution as a nation in the century since Federation. Australia has a maritime environment and its national interests stretch far beyond its coastline.Southern Trident examines the influences on the rise of Australian naval power and discusses current international and strategic issues in the light of history. The ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Fighting the Mau Mau

    The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency

    by Dr Huw Bennett ...
    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars. For the first time Huw Bennett examines the conduct of soldiers ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Making of the Modern Admiralty

    British Naval Policy-Making, 1805–1927

    by C. I. Hamilton ...
    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, the global balance of power and, in particular, of finance and the First World War in shaping decision-making and organisational development within the Admiralty. He shows that decision-making was found ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Armed Struggle

    The History of the IRA

    by Richard English ...
    A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current and ongoing peace process, fully updated with a new afterword for the paperback edition.‘An essential book … closely-reasoned, formidably intelligent and utterly compelling … required reading across the political spectrum … important and riveting’ Roy Foster, The Times‘An ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

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  • Pegahmagabow

    Life-Long Warrior

    by Adrian Hayes ...
    Francis Pegahmagabow was a remarkable aboriginal leader who served his nation in time of war and his people in time of peacefighting. In wartime he volunteered to be a warrior. In peacetime he had no option. His life reveals how uncaring Canada was about those to whom this land had always been home.A member of the Parry Island band (now Wasauksing First Nation) near Parry Sound, Ontario, Francis ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Direction of War

    Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Hew Strachan ...
    The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, public enquiries and defence think tanks have detected a lack of consistent direction, of effective communication, and of governmental coordination. In this important ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • John Curtin's War

    The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia

    by John Edwards ...
    John Curtin became Australia’s Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin’s struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a political epic unmatched in Australian experience. As Japan sank much of the Allied navy, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Fatal Path

    British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922

    by Ronan Fanning ...
    This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Battle of Crete

    by Albert Palazzo ...
    Series series Australian Army Campaigns Series
    Between 20 May and 1 June 1941 the Second World War came to the Greek island of Crete. The Commonwealth defenders consisted of Australian, New Zealand and British refugees from the doomed Greek Campaign who had not recovered from defeat. ... Read more

    $6.04 USD

  • The Boer War

    A History

    by Denis Judd, Keith Surridge ...
    The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military and unexpectedly exposed the corrupt underside of imperialism in the establishment of the first concentration camps, the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD