The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it prevailed against the German army because of its professionalism and tactical skill, strengths developed through hard lessons learned a doze[...]

"War Dance at Fort Marion" tells the powerful story of Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Arapaho chiefs and warriors detained as prisoners of war by the U.S. Army. Held from 1875 until 1878 at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, they participated in an educational experiment, initiated by Captain [...]

"For readers addicted to histories or novels about the Civil War, a common challenge is the lack of adequate maps. This excellent volume satisfies that need, once and for all: It's the clearest, fullest collection of strategic and tactical maps available, a fine volume on its own and an indispensabl[...]

In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the courageous last years of the modernist writer's life, from 1929 until Woolf's suicide in 1941. Woolf turned more to her diary-and to the diaries of others-for support in these years as she en[...]

2014 marks 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War - an event which had an undeniable impact on world history. This calendar includes some of the most iconic and patriotic posters of the war years which evoke the feeling of the period, including the famous sight of Lord Kitchener encoura[...]

A brilliant, concise history of The War to End All Wars. In the decade leading up to 1914, Europe had never known such prosperity. But the times were not good enough for the continent's most powerful nations: Germany wanted a navy that matched England's; Russia wanted an army as large and as discipl[...]

America's hegemonic project in the post 9/11 era is the Globalization of War whereby the U.S.-NATO military machine --coupled with covert intelligence operations, economic sanctions and the thrust of regime change- is deployed in all major regions of the world. The threat of pre-emptive nuclear war [...]

This book describes the evolution and impact from 1980 to 2005 of corporate practices and government policies that have radically restructured the U. S. economy. With 45 tables and 540 references, it describes the fundamental reordering of jobs, wages, taxes, trade, healthcare, pensions, social secu[...]

Explores the individual and complex experiences of captors and prisoners, and the practice of ransoming, in the Hundred Years War.[...]

First in-depth, comparative study of the treatment of prisoners of war during the First World War.