Gathers poetry, essays, letters, memoirs, fiction, and journal entries by W.H. Auden, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and others

This collection of 22 essays analyses the Russian military in its social, political, economic, cultural and ideological contexts from 1450 to 1917.The essays are synthetic, and often based on new archival research.

This book, mainly based on primary sources from various countries, provides fascinating new insights into the origin and development of the Admiralty and maritime policy in the Low Countries before the Dutch Revolt, including government interference with maritime strategy, warfare, privateering, prize law, commerce, and fishery.

An examination of how the Netherlands combined espionage, deterrence, diplomacy, and economic policy to avoid World War I.

This is a study of war between Sung China and Kitan Liao, the treaty at Shan-yuan in 1005 that ended it, and the forms and textures of peaceful diplomatic contact between the two states that prevailed for the rest of the eleventh century."

This book offers an original approach to the study of the Scottish diaspora in Europe. It highlights the activities of a group of emigrants and exiles who served the twin-headed Habsburg dynasty during the first half of the seventeenth century.

This work presents research on the military, social, and cultural history of World War I. It explores the stresses of waging a war, whose "totalizing logic" issued formidable challenges to communities, and accounted for the pervasion of the conflict into the private sphere.

This volume deals with the entanglement of Scotland in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), discussing the diplomatic and military aspects of the conflict that were interwoven with the fate of the Scottish princess, Elizabeth of Bohemia, the famous Winter Queen.

This study consists of eight essays critical of the currently dominant guns and germs theories in the historiography of European colonial conquest causes. Other methods of conquest, notably communication control, were as vital as firepower and disease importation, and motives were often more important than methods.

A Publication of new research on different aspects of warfare in the age of the Dutch Revolt. An important survey of the state of affairs by Dutch historians, all experts in their field.

This pictorial history of the war as seen by Homer includes almost all of his works done in oils, watercolors, drawings, lithographs, and wood engravings.