Military History

The first part of a detailed study of one of the longest, and most brutal, tactical operations of World War II.

This fully illustrated book assesses the trial of strength between US Navy PT boats and Japanese destroyers operating in the Solomon Islands during 1942-43.

This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate group's historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries.

Factionalism and Dissent in an English City makes a significant contribution to the historiography of late Restoration England.

This is the almost incredible but well-documented story of the author's 40-year-long hard-fought battle with naval authorities and government.

This book presents 'homecoming' as an analytical lens to better understand veterans' return and reintegration after conflict. Looking across times, places, and disciplines, the collection centres both historical and representational approaches to veterancy.

The Land and the Cross establishes a foundation for future scholarship and stimulates interdisciplinary collaboration to recover and protect a heritage that is today neglected, hidden or abandoned.

This book offers a systematic analysis of recent maritime disputes in the East and South China Seas, and introduces new perspectives on recent developments in notable disputes in the region.

Both accessible and authoritative, Understanding Hamas provides much-needed insight into a widely misunderstood movement whose involvement in a just resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict will be critical.Across Western mainstream discourse, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has been subjected to intense vilification. Branding it as “terrorist” or worse, this demonization intensified after the events in Southern Israel on October 7, 2023.This book does not advocate for or against Hamas. Rather, in a series of rich and probing conversations with leading experts, it aims to deepen understanding of a movement that is a key player in the current crisis. It looks at, among other things, Hamas’s critical shift from social and religious activism to national political engagement; the delicate balance between Hamas's political and military wings; and its transformation from early anti-Jewish tendencies to a stance that differentiates between Judaism and Zionism.

Khalid Abdalla's surprising solo show about his own history and involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011.

This is the story of Charles Hare and his audacious escape from the fortress of Sarre-Libre (Sarre-Louis), then part of France, aft er six years as a prisoner of war. Hare was a midshipman in the Royal Navy who had been captured by the French in 1803 at the age of just thirteen. He escaped by impersonating an off icer in the Douanes, the French customs service. Remarkably, the uniform that he wore as a disguise survives and has recently entered the collection of Royal Museums Greenwich, along with a copy of Hare's autobiographical account of his adventures. Having undergone extensive conservation, the uniform will be on display from October 2024 in the National Maritime Museum's 'Nelson, Navy, Nation' gallery. Through detailed photography and a range of complementary objects, curator Dr Katherine Gazzard tells the deeply personal and unique story of Hare, tracking his dangerous journey across Europe. She also examines the materials and insignia of the uniform and traces the history of the Douanes from their foundation in the French Revolution to their role as an imperial directorate under Napoleon. The book concludes with a consideration of Hare's experiences within the context of prisoners of war more broadly.

With an apparently unremarkable eighteenth-century glass bott le as its starting point, Sea Sick: Lime Juice and Scurvy explores the history of scurvy, its symptoms, causes and the fi ght against it. Conservative estimates indicate that the disease took the lives of more than two million seafarers between 1500 and 1800, and it has been suggested that scurvy was responsible for more deaths at sea than storms, shipwreck and all other diseases combined during the eighteenth century alone. Curator Lucy Dale breaks the story of scurvy into four parts, considering fi rst the symptoms of the disease and its psychological and physical manifestations, before exploring it in a specifi cally maritime context through notable voyages and individuals who were aff licted. Dale then looks at the oft en haphazard and ineff ective interventions and eff orts to fi nd a cure. She highlights the pioneering experiment by James Lind, Captain Cook's apparent promotion of malt wort, the provisioning of lime juice to the fl eet of the Royal Navy and fi nally the resurgence of scurvy in the Arctic and Antarctic expeditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The concluding chapter outlines the discovery of vitamin C in the 1930s by Hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Györgi, who received the Nobel Prize in recognition of his work.

As a result of a 20-year international military campaign, Afghanistan has been at the centre of global academic and policy debates on intervention and statebuilding. Yet these debates have often been piecemeal, ahistorical and centred in western logics, interests and concerns. This volume provides a new, critical compilation of scholarly contributions from emerging and established Afghan and international scholars that defy these trends. The volume targets a new generation of students and scholars of Afghanistan- a generation looking critically and retrospectively at the longest military intervention in US history. This is a readership well-attuned to the complexities of the Afghan context and the dilemmas of international engagement more broadly. Beyond criticism of a failed intervention and the often reductive analytical tools that have been used to assess it, the chapters in this collection provide novel epistemological approaches to conceptions of power and authority in Afghanistan. Breaking new ground, Power and Authority gives voice to and consolidates in one volume the first generation of influential Afghan scholars to emerge after forty years and offers them the opportunity to speak with (and back to) those who have come before.

This book explores the lives of left-wing Soviet refugees who fled the Cold War to settle in Australia, and uncovers how they adjusted to life under surveillance in the West. As Cold War tensions built in the postwar years, many of these refugees happily resettled in the West as model refugees, proof of capitalist countries' superiority. But for a few, this was not the case. Displaced Comrades provides an account of these Cold War misfits, those refugees who fled East for West, but remained left-wing or pro-Soviet. Drawing on interviews, government records and surveillance dossiers from multiple continents this book explores how these refugees' ideas took root in new ways. As these radical ideas drew suspicion from western intelligence these everyday lives were put under surveillance, shadowed by the persistent threat of espionage. With unprecented access to intelligence records, Nilsson focuses on how a number of these left-wing refugees adjusted to life in Australia, opening up a previously invisible segment of postwar migration history, and offering a new exploration of life as a Soviet 'enemy alien' in the West.

Originally published in 1987, in this new approach to the case of William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Francis Selwyn looks both at the career of Joyce, the Irish-American-cum-Fascist bully-boy, and the changing nature of treason, altered by the events of the Second World War.