Product Description: Showcasing French participation in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, this book shows the French army at the heart of revolutionary, social, and cultural change. Osman argues that efforts to transform the French army into a citizen army before 1789 prompted and helped shape the French Revolution...read more

Product Description: From the hell of Gallipoli to the deserts of the Holy Land, torpedoed in the Mediterranean before finally posted to the mud and trenches of the Western Front, the Royal Bucks Hussars had a fascinating and bloody story during World War I...read more

Product Description: In this classic study, first published over 20 years ago, Ian Beckett gives a comprehensive and scholarly overview of the development of the amateur military tradition in Britain from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day. He shows how standing armies in Britain have been viewed with distrust and how the preference for amateur and temporary soldiers has heightened the importance of the auxiliary forces in defense against both foreign invasion and domestic disorder...read more

Product Description: * The Robert Maxwell of the nineteenth century* Victorian England ’s greatest capitalist* Brought down by a shareholder ’s questionThe building of the railways in Britain in thenineteenth century was the greatest ever industrialundertaking in the world to that time...read more

Provides a concise account of the events of World War II in the Pacific, including the impact of the events and the personalities, battles, and weapons behind them

Uses photographs and paintings to trace the course of World War II and discusses aspects of the war on the land, the sea, and in the air

Discusses, in text and illustrations, the events in the various countries of Southeast Asia from 1945 to the present including the causes, events, and outcome of the war in Vietnam.

Examines life in the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact nations, China, the Middle East, and Africa and describes the expanding force of communism