Analyses the performance of two key parties engaged in fighting during World War II.

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Many of their functions are b[...]

A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy, Martin van Creveld argues in "The Culture of War" that there is much more to war than just soldiers killing one another. War has always been a deeply fascinating subject. Fighting itself can be a source of great, perhaps even the gre[...]

Explores the history and development of wargames, and how they relate to real war and society in general.[...]

"The definitive one-volume history of Israel by its most distinguished historian "From its Zionist beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century through the past sixty, tumultuous years, the state of Israel has been, as van Creveld argues, "the greatest success story in the entire twentieth centur[...]

In this title, a renowned military historian tells the story of airpower's rise in the twentieth century - and argues that its great days are over. Airpower is the most glamorous offensive and defensive instrument of war in military history. The knights of the sky duelled thrillingly above the trenc[...]

At a time when uprecedented change in international affairs is forcing governments, citizens, and armed forces everywhere to re-assess the question of whether military solutions to political problems are possible any longer. Martin van Creveld has written an audacious searching examination of the na[...]

Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only two of the many questions that form the subject-matter of this meticulously researched, lively book. Drawing on a very wide range of unpublished sources, van Creveld exa[...]