Akkadian, comprising the Babylonian, Assyrian and Old Akkadian dialects, is the earliest known Se...

Jeremy Black explores the relationship between purpose, force, implementation, and effectiveness ...

A concise and wonderfully readable history of Germany through the ages In A Brief History of Germ...

All commanders know that an army (or navy) cannot operate without supplies, yet most aspects of w...

A concise history of the Pacific, which emphasises the very different physical and human environm...

Jeremy Black examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as w...

A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present...

To travel round the world is to be reminded of the very public presence of history, of the past a...

In this companion volume to 'Western Warfare, 1775-1882,' Jeremy Black takes his analysis of mode...

Much of the period 1661-1815 appeared to be the age of France. France was the greatest power in W...

This timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to...

Man lives on land, but the seas of the world are crucial to his lot. Focusing on navies as instru...