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Maritime Unmanned recounts the promising beginning, demoralizing setbacks, and ultimate success of the visionaries who championed unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology for the U.S. Navy.  Ernest …

Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-c …

Where was the first major battle fought after the Romans invaded Britain? What’s the difference between 'Kentish Men’ and 'Men of Kent’? Why did a Medway castle store more gunpowder than the Tower of …

The Home Guard, familiar to us all from the antics of Dads Army on the TV, in fact performed a deadly serious role – guarding infrastructure and communications, and releasing the regular Army for mor …

Another in the series of booklets written by Col. G. A.Wade and published in the dangerous year of 1940 intended for the instruction of the newly recruited Home Guard. Colonel Wades clear writing and …

This second volume in German Great War flyer Haupt Heydemarcks trilogy of aerial memoirs gives us all the hazards and hopes of his job as an aerial observer written with humour and panache. The book …

This book documents and tells the history of the establishment and growth of the Coastal Surveillance Force, Task Force 71. This grew to Task Forces 115, 116 and 117. My research for this history cam …

When President Kennedy appointed Robert Mc Namara Secretary of Defense in January, 1961 and Mc Namara called on Charles Hitch to join him, a new era of defense policy leadership was clearly at hand.& …

The history and lore of the United States Marine Corps are likely unmatched. Steeped in the rich history and tradition of the Corps since its founding in 1775, this book focuses on more recent histor …