The German 10th Infantry Division, stationed in the area of the Pozna 5th Army Corps, was quite a unique formation. The author presents the origin and fighting traditions of the Divisions specific regiments in 18661871, the organisational structure, the uniforms, the soldiers equipment and weapons. However, the narration mainly focuses on the history of the 10th Infantry Division in August 1914 the departure to the concentration area and the fighting in the first month of the war. Bartosz Kruszyski also provides the perspective of the opponent, the French (Paris) 7th Infantry Division. Of great value is the fact that the military operations have been presented from the perspectives of German and French soldiers. The text is supplemented by maps and unique iconography.

John Clarks groundbreaking work in medieval equestrian history has shaped and inspired generations of scholars, transforming our understanding of horses in the past. A pioneer of archaeological and historical research on the medieval horse, Clarks influential 1995 work, The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, set the stage for much of the academic exploration that followed. In this celebratory volume, international scholars come together to honor his legacy with new perspectives on the history, culture, and significance of horses across the medieval world. Spanning from Roman Britain to the Elizabethan court, this interdisciplinary collection covers a diverse range of topics including equestrian equipment, horse training, folklore, and the symbolic role of horses in literature. Featuring in-depth studies on archaeological finds and providing innovative approaches to equestrian practices and the gendered dynamics of horse-riding, the essays in this book reflect the profound influence of John Clarks work. This Festschrift provides a fitting tribute to a scholar whose pioneering research continues to inspire and shape the field of equestrian history. Each chapter not only reflects John Clarks enduring influence but also showcases the breadth of scholarly engagement with the historical horse, from its practical use to its deeper cultural and symbolic meanings.

When looking at the early modern period (c. 1500c. 1800), we often speak of "the military" or "the army". But what exactly do we mean when using these terms? The forms and structures of the armed forces have not only changed between 1500 and 1800, but also varied throughout different regions of the world and even within Europe. The contributors to this volume examine twelve early modern examples of armed forces in the Holy Roman Empire, Western and Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia and North America and paint a multifarious and even disparate picture during this period. The findings suggest that modern notions of the armed forces common in the early modern period should be used more prudently to avoid prevalent implications of non-existing continuity and uniformity.

The warhorse has long been emblematic of medieval chivalry and power, depicted in art, literature, and the grand narratives of knightly valor. Yet, behind these depictions lies a nuanced history that intertwines the fate of the warhorse with the social, political, and military developments of its time. This book, The Warhorse in England: 1272-1327, seeks to illuminate the warhorses essential role during the reigns of Edward I and Edward II-an era marked by almost perpetual conflict and the zenith of cavalry use in English warfare. Drawing on an extensive range of primary sources, including previously unpublished army inventories, royal stable records, and medieval veterinary texts, this study goes beyond the warhorses symbolic representation to examine its practical importance in military campaigns. It considers the full lifecycle of these animals, from breeding and training to deployment, and the toll that warfare exacted on their health. In doing so, it reveals not only the substantial investment of resources required to sustain warhorse populations but also the implications of their care on medieval administrative and logistical practices. This work also engages with a broader context, integrating perspectives from military history and animal studies to reevaluate how warhorses influenced the structure of armies and the experiences of those who relied upon them. By examining equine practices through meticulous analysis of financial records, army lists, and breeding documentation, this book provides fresh insights into medieval Englands martial landscape and the interplay between human and animal agency.

Operation OVERLORD, the opening up of an Allied second front by the invasion of the Normandy beaches in June 1944 was the largest military invasion of all time, but it was preceded by years of industrial scale intelligence collection and dangerous clandestine reconnaissance missions off the French coast.VANGUARD is the untold story of this work, the intelligence machine and covert reconnaissance missions that went into the D-Day planning, such as the signals intelligence intercepts, the agent running operations orchestrated by the 15th Flotilla, to the clandestine work of the X-Craft and COPP (Combined Operations Pilotage Parties) diver teams that scoured the Normandy coast months before the June 1944 deadline.The book pulls together previously unpublished but declassified Top Secret documents, diaries, letters and personal accounts from some of the few remaining veterans who were there.

La guerra es un fenómeno con muchas caras. La militar, desde luego, pero también tiene una vertiente geopolítica, así como una dimensión social, e incluso moral. El libro que el lector tiene ante sí surge de la conciencia del caracter poliedrico de la guerra. Las guerras de Ucrania y Gaza subyacen a esas inquietudes, si bien el lector hallara argumentos que van mas alla de esas guerras. De manera que de un modo inusualmente ameno, mediante ensayos cortos, se hara con una percepcion muy completa de las cosas que estan en juego.JOSEP BAQUES QUESADA. Doctor en Ciencias Politicas por la Universidad de Barcelona. Profesor de la Universidad de Barcelona, y del Instituto Universitario "General Gutierrez Mellado", de Madrid, e Investigador asociado de la Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (UFV). Director academico del grado en seguridad de la Universidad de Barcelona& ISPC. Director de la Revista de Estudios de Seguridad Internacional (RESI); subdirector del portal de transferencia de conocimiento Global Strategy. Colaborador habitual del Mando de Adiestramiento y Doctrina del Ejercito de Tierra (MADOC); de la Revista General de Marina y del Instituto Español de Estudios Estrategicos (IEEE). Ha sido profesor visitante de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide, de Sevilla y de la Universidad La Lumiere, de Lyon (Francia), asi como profesor invitado en la Universidad de Granada. Autor de varios libros, los ultimos de los cuales son De las guerras hibridas a la zona gris: la metamorfosis de los conflictos en el siglo XXI (UNED, 2021), La construccion de una Politica exterior y de seguridad en Europa, ¿Por que es tan problematica? (La Catarata, 2023), y¿Como funciona el mundo? Una perspectiva desde la geopolitica (Tirant, 2023); asi como de articulos en revistas indexadas, el ultimo de los cuales es "IsMoroccoOperating a Grey Zone in Ceuta and Melilla" (DefenceStudies, 2023). Esta en posesion de varios premios y reconocimientos, entre ellos el Serge Lazareff/OTAN, otorgado por el Cuartel General de las fuerzas aliadas en Europa (2022); el "Almirante Francisco Moreno", del Estado Mayor de la Armada Española; o la Cruz al Merito Militar (aeronautico) con distintivo blanco, otorgada por el Estado Mayor de la Defensa (2022). Asimismo, es embajador de la marca Ejercito.

European Holocaust Studies (EHS) publishes key international research results on the murder of the European Jews and its wider contexts.In recent years, scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendt`s "boomerang thesis" the "coming home" of European colonialism as genocide on European soil as well as Raphael Lemkin`s work around his definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions. Germany and other European states are increasingly engaging in debates on comparing the Holocaust to other genocides and cases of mass killing, memorialization, "decolonization" and attempts to come to terms with the past ("Vergangenheitsbewaltigung").

A raíz de sus ataques a las costas de España y a sus posesiones ultramarinas, el corsario inglés Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540-1596) representó una amenaza constante para el dominio político y mercantil del imperio español en las ultimas decadas del siglo XVI. Las interpretaciones narrativas de sus ataques a los territorios españoles en America trajeron consigo los argumentos desde los cuales tanto españoles como ingleses reclamaron soberania y posesion del Nuevo Mundo. Como fruto de esta rivalidad, los escritores españoles e ingleses utilizaron las mismas estrategias retoricas, y expresaron las mismas demandas para diseñar y respaldar sus respectivos imperios transatlanticos.El presente estudio examina las representaciones del corsario ingles Sir Francis Drake en la literatura española e inglesa de los siglos XVI y XVII. Se analizan ambos corpus textuales en virtud del contencioso intercambio de informacion que ocurrio entre ambos paises durante la temprana edad moderna; un topico que no ha sido explorado previamente en detalle y que da cuenta de como la pirateria se utilizo como un arma retorica en una guerra ideologica. Al analizar ambos corpus simultaneamente, Disputas de altamar demuestra que los escritores españoles reconstruyeron la historia del descubrimiento y conquista de America a la luz de lo que escribian sus adversarios, y viceversa.

From the revolutionary use of drones to staged coups, child abduction and psychological warfare, the war in Ukraine is like no other. It is a new form of total war, combining traditional military force with all the non-military tools of the Russian state. The 2022 invasion was just the next stage of a conflict that Russia has been fighting since 2005, using all the tactics at its disposal to control Ukraines politics and wreak havoc.Combining over a decade of research, astute analysis and powerful stories from the front line, and including striking photographs of the people and scenes he encountered along the way, Bob Seely has written the authoritative guide to this new form of conflict. Travelling extensively throughout Ukraine, Seely meets figures such as Panoushka, the sniper who continues to fight despite the loss of her fiance, and Ksenia, the seventeen-year-old who journeyed through Russia searching for her abducted younger brother. Above all, Seely argues that understanding Moscows new total war is critical because Russia considers itself at war with the West as well as Ukraine, directing some of the tactics used there against us.Insightful, gripping and at times moving, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the unconventional methods Russia and other authoritarian states will use to challenge the West for global supremacy and undermine our beliefs, power and influence.

Winner of the Best Non-Fiction by a Parliamentarian category at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2023With a Foreword by Lord Hague of RichmondThe Intelligence Corps is one of the smallest and most secretive elements of the British Army. It has existed in various guises since the early twentieth century, but it was only formally constituted in July 1940. In this book, Michael Ashcroft tells the astonishing stories of some of its most courageous and ingenious figures, who have operated all over the world from the First World War to the present day.Whether carrying out surveillance work on the street, monitoring and analysing communications, working on overseas stakeouts, receiving classified information from a well-placed contact or interrogating the enemy in the heat of war, a hugely diverse range of people have served in the Corps, often supplementing their individual professional skills with original thinking and leadership in the name of the Crown. This book pays tribute to them and shows why, in the words of the 1st Duke of Marlborough, No war can be conducted successfully without early and good intelligence.

The tumultuous past of the worlds most secretive nation is revealed in this unique photographic collection. North Korea has been described as the land that never changes. But its early years witnessed unimaginable turbulence, both in the devastation of the Korean War and in the postwar ferment in which military interventions by the Chinese and the Americans both played a part. Comprising more than 150 rare photos - most never before seen in print - "North Korea Caught in Time" documents the countrys destruction and painful rebirth. The accompanying text analyzes the regimes totalitarian ethos and highlights their many official distortions of history.

¿Quiere usted entender mejor las guerras?, ¿ser un maestro? No importa si es americano o ruso, joven o anciano, biólogo o geopolítico, lo único relevante es que este libro será su guía para comprender lo acontecido entre Occidente y el yihadismo en las ultimas decadas. El experto en terrorismo internacional, Jacobo S. Mico Faus, afirma que quien lo lea sera capaz de conocer lo que realmente es la GWOT y la yihad. Con este aprendera a revertir muchos tabus al respecto, concediendose el lujo de empaparse en un proceso de desenmascaramiento que le permitira descubrir como impera el mundo. Atractivo, desusado, insolito y con reflexiones de alcance general. La maestria de la guerra esta llamado a ser un libro clave para no caer en la desinformacion y abrazar nuestra manera de entender las guerras.

Você já se imaginou fardado, em serviço, com uma arma de fogo nas mãos e diante de um cidadão infrator também armado, tendo milésimos de segundo para tomar uma decisão em utilizar sua arma para defen

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Kateryna hung up her dresses, Oksana and Stanislav put down their lawyers briefs and Oksen slammed shut his philosophy textbooks. Alongside thousands of their fellow citizens, they strapped on armour, picked up weapons and chose to risk their lives for the freedom and independence of their homeland. Many would never return.Journalist Tom Mutch woke up in Kyiv on 24 February to a world changed for ever. Making a fateful choice to stay and cover the invasion, he witnessed the forging of an iron generation of young Ukrainians. With first-hand reporting from all the major battlegrounds and front lines, The Dogs of Mariupol recounts the wars notorious encounters, such as the Battle of Kyiv and the Siege of Mariupol, but also uncovers untold stories, like the 1st Tank Brigades desperate defence of Chernihiv and the civilian guerrilla army fighting overwhelming odds in Sumy.This is not a triumphalist account of Ukraines fight, however. It painstakingly documents the immense human catastrophe wrought on Ukrainian society and the divisions between those who fought and those who fled. It also delves deeper into events to answer important historical questions: could the Russian plan to capture Kyiv have succeeded? Did Ukraine make a fatal error by committing for so long to the defence of Bakhmut? And with more western support, could Ukraine have won this terrible war outright?

On 29 May 1944 General George S. Patton gave a speech in the south-east of England to the men of his Army in which he spoke of the American desire to win and of how losing was hateful to Americans. As he rose to his crescendo, he said how much he pitied those sons of bitches we are going up against - by God, I do. On that same day General Omar Bradley gave a calmer speech in Somerset to the men of his Army about how much rested on the upcoming invasion of northern France and how vital their role was in achieving victory. Apart from the very different tones of the speeches reflecting the opposite character of the two Army commanders, there was another big difference. Bradley was speaking to men who in a little over a week would be splashing ashore on the beaches of Normandy. Patton was addressing an Army that didnt exist.The Army That Never Was tells the story of the biggest deception operation of the Second World War - the plan to mislead the Germans into thinking that the invasion of Europe would come at the Pas de Calais, by inventing an entirely fake Army group in the south-east of England. Full of fascinating characters from the US, Britain and Germany, this compelling and propulsive narrative explores one of the most remarkable stories of the Second World War.

Early in World War II, fifty obsolete US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy in return for a 99-year lease on British bases in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Newfoundland. Though they were obsolete and far from ideal, they played a vital role in the Royal Navys campaign. This is their complete story. Topics covered include the background to the acquisition of the ships, the Battle of the Atlantic; their specification and design, and modifications in RN service; operations and achievements, such as the St Nazaire raid and finally, losses and accidents. This authoritative text is supported by many contemporary photographs and twenty eight detailed plans prepared specially for this book. Superbly illustrated with fifty contemporary black & white photographs and twenty-eight plans specially drawn by the author.

Royal Navy Uniforms 1930-1945 uses over 400 illustrations - both period images and new colour photographs of original items - to show the clothing of both Officers and Ratings in World War II and during the years leading up to it, when Naval uniforms underwent significant modernization. The illustrations are supported by detailed text describing the development and use of Naval clothing of the time. Its contents include Officers clothing and effects; Class 1 and III Ratings clothing and effects; seamens clothing and effects; battledress and tropical clothing; miscellaneous clothing, personal effects and substantive and non-substantive insignia. This is the first book to offer a detailed study of Royal Navy clothing in the 1930s and World War II and will be a vital resource for collectors, historians and enthusiasts. All of the major uniform types are superbly illustrated with 470 colour and black & white studio images and period photographs.

Es género poco frecuentado el de la literatura técnica romana y menos aún su rama militar, pues sobre ser por propia naturaleza una disciplina especializada y por tanto compleja, constituye además una de las manifestaciones menos prolificas del acervo literario romano. De entre su produccion sobresalen estas Estratagemas de Frontino (s. I-II d. C.) que han permanecido inaccesibles al lector hispanico durante varios siglos.Frontino

The Falklands War is a story of occupation, fierce air battles, heavy naval losses and bitter encounters between ground forces amidst an inhospitable terrain and unforgiving climate. With complex political machinations and nationalist sentiment at the centre of the conflict, even today the sovereignty of the islands is hotly contested in political circles. For the first time, renowned military historian Gregory Fremont-Barnes has compiled a definitive AZ guide to the British involvement in the Falklands conflict, including personalities, weapons, battles, ships, places, and much more. This accessible yet comprehensive companion to the Falklands War will be a welcome addition to any enthusiasts shelves.

For Britain the nineteenth century began, in military terms, with the global upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and ended with a modern conflict in which machine-guns and a scorched-earth policy were deployed against the Boers. In between there was a supposed peace, marred only by glorious, if tragic, enterprises in the Crimea, Africa and Afghanistan, against the Zulus, the Boers, the Mahdi and Indian mutineers, providing the battles whose names remain proudly emblazoned on regimental banners: Balaclava, Sevastopol, Alma, Lucknow, Kabul, Khartoum, Omdurman. These are the campaigns, it seems, that forged an Empire unparalleled in size before or since, and built the careers of such military leaders as Garnet Wolseley and Lord Kitchener. They were the source of many Boys Own stories and novels, as well as romantic cinema epics full of dramatic cavalry charges with sabres drawn against hordes of painted savages.