Traces and explains how various national and international powers have risen and fallen, relative to one another, over the course of five centuries since the Renaissance, focusing on the interaction between economics and military strategy.

"A overview of warriors throughout history--from Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages--the equipment they used, and the most famous warriors in history"

A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities The West and Islam--the sword and the scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Byzantine emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a centuries-long jihad on Christendom. Sword and Scimitar chronicles the significant...

From Publisher: The authors allow medieval man and woman to speak for themselves through selections from past journals, songs, even account books --Time.

A fascinating history of the most secretive and unsung branch of the US military's Special Forces, from World War II through Desert Storm Very little is known about USAF Special Operations-yet their exploits have been as daring and their achievements as remarkable as anything accomplished by their brother warriors. Since World War II, these ultra-secretive "air commandos" have routinely performed the near-impossible, undertaking missions that typically...

Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction.--

This chronicle of warfare includes nearly six hundred articles contributed by more than one hundred fifty distinguished military historians, biographers, and journalists.

"A young readers edition of Rick Atkinson's The British Are Coming"--