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PP5572 - War in History, 1789 to present(2017-2018)
Module leader - Matthew Hughes
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam - Mark Bowden, 6 Jun. 2017Book | Recommended reading
Defending the motherland: the Soviet women who fought Hitler's aces - Luba Vinogradova,A. L. Tait, 2016
Book | Recommended reading
Of living valour: the story of the soldiers of Waterloo - Barney White-Spunner, 2016Book | Recommended reading
Take these men - Cyril Joly, 1985Book | Recommended reading
The Italian Army and the First World War (Armies of the Great War) - John GoochBook | Recommended reading
The Oxford handbook of war - 2014Book | Recommended reading
The October 1973 War: politics, diplomacy, legacy - Asaf SiniverBook | Recommended reading
Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice From Vietnam toIraq. - David Fitzgerald, 2013
Book | Recommended reading
Hanoi's road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 - Pierre Asselin, 2013Book | Recommended reading
Confronting the colonies: British intelligence and counterinsurgency - Rory Cormac, 2013Book | Recommended reading
Air Mobility - Robert C. OwenBook | Recommended reading
Monty's men: the British Army and the liberation of Europe, 1944-5 - John Buckley, 2013Book | Recommended reading
Pacific Crucible - 2011Book | Recommended reading
Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's war in the East, 1941-1945 - Christian Hartmann,c2013
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Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945 [Hardcover] - ChristianHartmann
Book | Recommended reading
Arsenal of democracy: the American automobile industry in World War II - Charles K. Hyde,2013
Book | Recommended reading
Special Operations in World War II: British and American Irregular Warfare (Campaigns andCommanders) [Hardcover] - Andrew L. Hargreaves
Book | Recommended reading
Prelude to Blitzkrieg: the 1916 Austro-German Campaign in Romania - Michael B. Barrett,2013
Book | Recommended reading
Britain against Napoleon: the organization of victory, 1793-1815 - Knight, R. J. B., 2013Book | Recommended reading
Wellington: the path to vistory, 1769-1814 - Rory Muir, 2013Book | Recommended reading
Debating war in Chinese history - 2013Book | Recommended reading
The embattled past: reflections on military history - Edward M. Coffman, 2014Book | Recommended reading
Dresden 1945: reality, history and memory - TD Biddle, 2008Article | Essential reading
Not glamorous but effective: the Canadian Corps and the set-piece attack - Ian Brown,1994
Article | Essential reading
The military collapse of the German Empire: the reality behind the stab-in-the-back myth -Wilhelm Deist, 1996
Article | Essential reading
Numbers on top of numbers: counting the Civil War dead - D.G Faust, 2005Article | Essential reading
The battle of the Atlantic, 1941 - the first turning point - J Gardner, 1994Article | Essential reading
Myth and memory: Sir Douglas Haig and the imposition of Allied Unified Command inMarch 1918 - Elizabeth Greenhalgh, 2004
Article | Essential reading
Letters to the editor (letters by Stolfi & Megargee) - R Stolfi, G Megargee, 2003
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Forum: Confederate military strategy in the US civil war - Donald Stoker, 2009Article | Essential reading
Historiographical essay: the China-Japan War, 1931-1945� - David Gordon, 2006Article | Essential reading
Women in Germany, 1925-40: family, welfare and work - T Mason, 1976Article | Essential reading
War-winning weapons: the measurement of technological determinism in military history -George Raudzens, 1990
Article | Essential reading
Of myths and men: Rommel and the Italians in North Africa, 1940-42 - James J Sadkovich,1991
Article | Essential reading
Essay and reflection: on total war and modern war - Hew Strachan, 2000-06Article | Essential reading
Sans peur et sans reproche: the retirement, death, and mourning of Sir Douglas Haig,1918-1928 - Daniel Todman, 2003
Article | Essential reading
The evolution of British strategy and tactics on the Western Front in 1918 - Travers, Tim,1990
Article | Essential reading
SET TEXTS TO BUY (all paperback) (4 items)If you want just one book, I would recommend The Pursuit of Victory but they’re all good.Use Abe Books for buying secondhand copies.
The pursuit of victory: from Napoleon to Saddam Hussein - Brian Bond, 1998Book | Essential reading
War and society in Europe, 1870-1970 - Brian Bond, 1998Book | Essential reading
Palgrave advances in modern military history - Matthew Hughes, William James Philpott,2006
Book | Essential reading
European armies and the conduct of war - Hew Strachan, c1983Book | Essential reading
Seven key texts of pre-1945 period (but all very expensive and onlyhardback except Marwick and Gat) (7 items)
Anticipating total war: the German and American experiences, 1871-1914 - Manfred F.
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Boemeke, Chickering, Roger, Stig Fèorster, 1999Book | Essential reading
Great War, total war: combat and mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 - RogerChickering, Stig Fèorster, 2000
Book | Essential reading
The shadows of total war: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939 - RogerChickering, Stig Fèorster, 2003
Book | Essential reading
A world at total war: global conflict and the politics of destruction, 1937-1945 - RogerChickering, Stig Fèorster, Bernd Greiner, German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.),2005
Book | Essential reading
War in human civilization - Gat, Azar, 2006Book | Essential reading
Total war and historical change: Europe, 1914-1955 - Arthur Marwick, Clive Emsley, WendySimpson, 2001
Book | Essential reading
On the road to total war: the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification,1861-1871 - Stig Fèorster, Jèorg Nagler, 1997
Book | Essential reading
GENERAL READING LIST (49 items)
The first total war: Napoleon's Europe and the birth of warfare as we know it - David AvromBell, 2007
Book | Recommended reading
Fighting EOKA: The British Counter-Insurgency Campaign on Cyprus, 1955-1959 - DavidFrench, 19 Mar. 2015
Book | Recommended reading
The Oxford illustrated history of World War II - 2015Book | Recommended reading
Strategy: a history - Lawrence Freedman, 2015Book | Recommended reading
The Great World War, 1914-45: Volume 1: Lightning strikes twice - Peter Liddle, Ian R.Whitehead, J. M. Bourne, 2001
Book | Recommended reading
The Great World War, 1914-45: Volume 2: The peoples' experience - Peter Liddle, Ian R.Whitehead, J. M. Bourne, 2001
Book | Recommended reading
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The Ashgate research companion to modern warfare - George Kassimeris, John Buckley,c2010
Book | Recommended reading
Moral combat: a history of World War II - Michael Burleigh, 2010Book | Recommended reading
The Oxford companion to American military history - John Whiteclay Chambers, FredAnderson, G. Kurt Piehler, c1999
Book | Recommended reading
The gun: the AK-47 and the evolution of war - C. J. Chivers, 2010Book | Recommended reading
The German way of war: from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich - Robert MichaelCitino, 2005
Book | Recommended reading
The social history of the machine gun - John Ellis, 1981Book | Recommended reading | (a very readable and intriguing account of how the
invention of the machine gun relates to wider issues of social history, providing in theprocess a good account of changes in warfare in the nineteenth century)
The pity of war - Niall Ferguson, 1999Book | Recommended reading
The Oxford companion to World War II - Ian Dear, M. R. D. Foot, 2005Book | Recommended reading
A history of military thought: from the Enlightenment to the Cold War - Azar Gat, 2001Book | Recommended reading
For a good introduction to military history literature see the book review by John Gooch in Journal of Contemporary 44 (July 2009), pp. 513-521.
On killing: the psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society - Dave Grossman,2009
Book | Recommended reading | (an excellent account by a US former soldier and nowpsychologist on how and why people kill)
Reframing the historical problematic of insurgency: how the professional military literaturecreated a new history and missed the past - Jonathan E. Gumz, 2009-08
Article | Recommended reading
Masters of war: classical strategic thought - Michael I. Handel, c2001Book | Recommended reading
Reading Clausewitz - Beatrice Heuser, 2002Book | Recommended reading
The Oxford companion to military history - Richard Holmes, 2003Book | Recommended reading
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Understanding modern warfare - David Jordan, 2008Book | Recommended reading
A history of warfare - John Keegan, 2004Book | Recommended reading
The embattled future of academic military history - John Lynn, 1997Article | Recommended reading
The Australian road to Singapore: the myth of British betrayal - Augustine Meaher, 2010Book | Recommended reading
Ivan's war: the Red Army 1939-1945 - Catherine Merridale, 2005Book | Recommended reading | (ground-breaking work looking at WW2 through the
prism of the Russian soldiers fighting it).
A war to be won: fighting the Second World War - Williamson Murray, Allan Reed Millett,2000
Book | Recommended reading
Fighting the Great War: a global history - Michael S. Neiberg, 2006Book | Recommended reading
Russia's war - R. J. Overy, 1999Book | Recommended reading
Why the Allies won - R. J. Overy, 1995Book | Recommended reading
Makers of modern strategy: from Machiavelli to the nuclear age - Peter Paret, Gordon A.Craig, Felix Gilbert, 1986
Book | Recommended reading
The Cambridge illustrated history of warfare: the triumph of the West - Geoffrey Parker,2008
Book | Recommended reading
A new introduction to American studies - C. W. E. Bigsby, Howard Temperley, 2006Book | Recommended reading
Forgotten victory: the First World War : myths and realities - G. D. Sheffield, 2002Book | Recommended reading
The First World War: Vol. I: To arms - Strachan, Hew, 2001Book | Recommended reading
The American way of war: a history of United States military strategy and policy - RussellFrank Weigley, 1977
Book | Recommended reading
A world at arms: a global history of World War II - Gerhard L. Weinberg, 2005Book | Recommended reading
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Visions of victory: the hopes of eight World War II leadersChapter | Recommended reading | •On war leadership and war aims in WW2 see G.
Weinberg, Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War Leaders (2006). See also E.May’s review of this book in the Times Literary Supplement (31 march 2006) (copyavailable from tutor’s office).
European armies and the conduct of war - Hew Strachan, c1983Book | Recommended reading
'Special Issue: Culture and Combat Motivation’ - April 2006Article | Recommended reading | ‘Special Issue: Culture and Combat Motivation’,
Journal of Contemporary History 41/2 (April 2006) (the whole issue of the journal)
HyperWar: U.S. Marine Corps in World War IIWebpage | Recommended reading
Gender and war/security studies
Sex and death in the rational world of defense intellectuals - Carol CohnArticle | Recommended reading | •See C. Cohn, ‘Sex and Death in the Rational World of
Defence Intellectuals’ 12/4, Signs (Summer 1987), pp. 687-718 (footnote 3 is useful for acritical bibliography of feminist literature on security studies). This is a good feministcritique of the language employed by men working in security studies. Scanned copyavailable from tutor.
The bombing war: Europe 1939-1945 - R. J. Overy, 2014Book | Recommended reading
Germany and the Second World War: Volume 5: Organization and mobilization of theGerman sphere of power - Bernhard Kroener, Rolf-Dieter Muller, Hans Umbreit, DerryCook-Radmore, 2003
Book | Recommended reading
Germany and the Second World War: politicization, disintegration, and the struggle forsurvival, Volume 9/1: German wartime society, 1939-1945 - Ralf Blank, Germany.Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, 2008
Book | Recommended reading
Germany and the Second World War: exploitation, interpretations, exclusions, Volume 9/2:German wartime society 1939-1945 - Bernhard Chiari, Zentrum für Militärgeschichte undSozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, 2014
Book | Recommended reading
Germany and the second world war: Volume 7: The strategic air war in Europe and the warin the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5 - Horst Boog, Gerhard Krebs, Detlef Vogel,Germany. Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, 2006
Book | Recommended reading
The Generals - Thomas E. Ricks, 2012Book | Recommended reading
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Lecture One (15 items)The French Revolution and Total War
The first total war: Napoleon's Europe and the birth of warfare as we know it - David AvromBell, 2007
Book | Recommended reading
Anticipating total war: the German and American experiences, 1871-1914 - Manfred F.Boemeke, Roger Chickering, Stig Fèorster, 1999
Book | Recommended reading | Relevant chapters in M Boemeke et al, AnticipatingTotal War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914 (1999)
Great War, total war: combat and mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 - RogerChickering, Stig Fèorster, 2000
Book | Recommended reading | Relevant chapters in Roger Chickering et al (eds), GreatWar, Total War (2000)
The shadows of total war: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939 - RogerChickering, Stig Fèorster, 2003
Book | Recommended reading | Relevant chapters in Roger Chickering et al (eds), TheShadows of Total War (2003)
On war - Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Eliot Howard, Peter Paret, 1989Book | Recommended reading
Reading Clausewitz - Beatrice Heuser, 2002Book | Recommended reading
Warfare in the nineteenth century - David Gates, 2001Book | Recommended reading
Reframing the historical problematic of insurgency: how the professional military literaturecreated a new history and missed the past - Jonathan E. Gumz, 2009-08
Article | Recommended reading
Masters of war: classical strategic thought - Michael I. Handel, c2001Book | Recommended reading
Total war - Talbot Imlay, 2007-6-1Article | Recommended reading
War in the age of technology: myriad faces of modern armed conflict - Geoffrey Jensen,Andrew A. Wiest, 2001
Book | Recommended reading
On the road to total war: the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification,1861-1871 - Stig Fèorster, Jèorg Nagler, 1997
Book | Recommended reading | Relevant chapters in J Nagler et al, On the Road to TotalWar: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871 (1997)
Essay and reflection: on total war and modern war - Hew Strachan, Jun., 2000Article | Recommended reading
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100 years of conflict, 1900-2000 - Simon Trew, G. D. Sheffield, c2000Book | Recommended reading | (copy in tutor’s office)
Warfare and society in Europe, 1792-1914 - Geoffrey Wawro, 2000Book | Recommended reading
Lecture Two (15 items)Warfare pre-1798
The first total war: Napoleon's Europe and the birth of warfare as we know it - David AvromBell, 2007
Book | Recommended reading
Anticipating total war: the German and American experiences, 1871-1914 - Manfred F.Boemeke, Roger Chickering, Stig Fèorster, 1999
Book | Recommended reading | Relevant chapters in M Boemeke et al, AnticipatingTotal War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914 (1999)
Great War, total war: combat and mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 - RogerChickering, Stig Fèorster, 2000
Book | Recommended reading | Relevant chapters in Roger Chickering et al (eds), GreatWar, Total War (2000)
The shadows of total war: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939 - RogerChickering, Stig Fèorster, 2003
Book | Recommended reading | Relevant chapters in Roger Chickering et al (eds), TheShadows of Total War (2003)
Technology and war: From 2000 B.C. to the present - Martin L. Van Creveld, 1991Book | Recommended reading
Reframing the historical problematic of insurgency: how the professional military literaturecreated a new history and missed the past - Jonathan E. Gumz, 2009-08
Article | Recommended reading
War in European history - Michael Eliot Howard, 1976Book | Recommended reading
A history of warfare - John Keegan, 2004Book | Recommended reading
On the road to total war: the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification,1861-1871 - Stig Fèorster, Jèorg Nagler, 1997
Book | Recommended reading | Relevant chapters in J Nagler et al, On the Road to TotalWar: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871 (1997)
Makers of modern strategy: from Machiavelli to the nuclear age - Peter Paret, Gordon A.Craig, Felix Gilbert, 1986
Book | Recommended reading
The Cambridge illustrated history of warfare: the triumph of the West - Geoffrey Parker,
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2008Book | Recommended reading
The army and society, 1815-1914 - Edward M. Spiers, 1980Book | Recommended reading
European armies and the conduct of war - Hew Strachan, c1983Book | Recommended reading
100 years of conflict, 1900-2000 - Simon Trew, G. D. Sheffield, c2000Book | Recommended reading | (copy in tutor’s office)
Warfare and society in Europe, 1792-1914 - Geoffrey Wawro, 2000Book | Recommended reading
Lecture Three (29 items)Warfare in the Nineteenth Century (1)
War and ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah campaign - Anne J. Bailey, 2003Book | Recommended reading
The first total war: Napoleon's Europe and the birth of warfare as we know it - David AvromBell, 2007
Book | Recommended reading
"Numbers on top of numbers": counting the Civil War dead - Drew Gilpin Faust, 2006Article | Recommended reading | (copy in tutor’s office)
Crimea: the last crusade - Orlando Figes, 2011Book | Recommended reading
The Civil War: a narrative, Vol.1: Fort Sumter to Perryville - Shelby Foote, 1992Book | Recommended reading
The Civil War: a narrative, 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian - Shelby Foote, 1992Book | Recommended reading
The Civil War: a narrative, Vol.3: Red River to Appomattox - Shelby Foote, 1992Book | Recommended reading
The collapse of the Confederacy - Grimsley, Mark, Simpson, Brooks D., 2001Book | Recommended reading
The American Civil War and the origins of modern warfare: ideas, organization, and fieldcommand - Edward Hagerman, 1992
Book | Recommended reading
Women on the Civil War battlefront - Richard Hall, c2006Book | Recommended reading
Civil War command and strategy: the process of victory and defeat - Archer Jones, c1992
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Was it more restrained than you think? - James M. McPherson, February 14, 2008Article | Recommended reading
The American Civil War, 1861-1865 - Mitchell, Reid, 2001Book | Recommended reading
On the road to total war: the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification,1861-1871
Chapter | Recommended reading | Mark Neely, ‘Was the Civil war a Total War?’ in JNagler et al, On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars ofUnification, 1861-1871 (1997)
The Civil War and the limits of destruction - Mark E. Neely, c2007Book | Recommended reading
McClellan's war: the failure of moderation in the struggle for the Union - Ethan SeppRafuse, 2005
Book | Recommended reading
The American Civil War and the wars of the Industrial Revolution - Brian Holden Reid, JohnKeegan, 1999
Book | Recommended reading
The Civil War in the United States - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Richard Enmale, (c1937)Book | Recommended reading
The American Civil War: explorations and reconsiderations - Susan-Mary Grant, BrianHolden Reid, 2000
Book | Recommended reading
America's Civil War: the operational battlefield, 1861-1863 - Brian Holden Reid, 2008Book | Recommended reading
The army and society, 1815-1914 - Edward M. Spiers, 1980Book | Recommended reading
The American way of war: a history of United States military strategy and policy - RussellFrank Weigley, 1977
Book | Recommended reading
The business of civil war: military mobilization and the state, 1861-1865 - Mark Wilson,2006
Book | Recommended reading
The art of command in the Civil War - Steven E. Woodworth, 1998Book | Recommended reading
Forum: Confederate military strategy in the US Civil War’ - 2009Article | Recommended reading
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There was no offensive-defensive Confederate strategy - Donald Stoker, April 2009Article | Recommended reading
Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy's "Offensive-Defensive" strategy in the U.S. Civil War- Joseph G. Dawson III Dawson III, April 2009
Article | Recommended reading
[Dr. Stoker's Rejoinder:The case stands:] There was no offensive-defensive Confederatestrategy - Donald Stoker, April 2009
Article | Recommended reading
Dr. Dawson's rejoinder: "Yes, Virginia, there was a Confederate offensive-defensivestrategy" - Joseph G. Dawson III, April 2009
Article | Recommended reading
Lecture Four (17 items)Warfare in the Nineteenth Century (2)
The first total war: Napoleon's Europe and the birth of warfare as we know it - David AvromBell, 2007
Book | Recommended reading
100 years of conflict, 1900-2000Chapter | Recommended reading | Stephen Badsey, ‘The Road to Stalemate,
1899-1914’ in Trew and Sheffield, 100 years of Conflict (2000) (copy in tutor’s office)
The pursuit of victory: the life and achievement of Horatio NelsonChapter | Recommended reading | Brian Bond, ‘The Quest for Victory in the Schlieffen
Era, 1890-1914 in Bond, The Pursuit of Victory (1996)
The Kaiser's army: the politics of military technology in Germany during the Machine Age,1870-1918 - Eric Dorn Brose, 2001
Book | Recommended reading
Anticipating total war: the German and American experiences, 1871-1914Chapter | Recommended reading | Stig Forster, ‘Dreams and Nightmares: German
Military Leadership and Images of Future Warfare, 1871-1914’ in M Boemeke et al,Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914 (1999)
The Franco-Prussian War: the German conquest of France in 1870-1871 - Wawro, Geoffrey,2003
Book | Recommended reading
Germany from Reich to Republic, 1871-1918: politics, hierarchy and elites - Matthew S.Seligmann, Roderick R. McLean, 2000
Book | Recommended reading | (good on the Schlieffen Plan)
The wars of German unification - Dennis E. Showalter, 2004Book | Recommended reading
Great War, total war: combat and mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918
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Chapter | Recommended reading | Hew Strachan, ‘From Cabinet War to Total War: ThePerspective of Military Doctrine, 1861-1918’ in Chickering et al, Great War, Total War(2000)
The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's war with Prussia and Italy in 1866 - Geoffrey Wawro,1996
Book | Recommended reading
The Franco-Prussian War: the German conquest of France in 1870-1871 - Geoffrey Wawro,2003
Book | Recommended reading
War in history -- archive of 2001 issuesJournal | Recommended reading | See the Holmes versus Zuber debate on the
Schlieffen Plan in War in History starting in 1999 and continuing in 2001
The Moltke myth: Prussian war planning, 1857-1871 - Terence Zuber, c2008Book | Recommended reading
On British strategy in the period, see:
The British way in warfare: power and the international system, 1856-1956 : essays inhonour of David French - David French, Keith Neilson, Greg Kennedy, c2010
Book | Recommended reading
The British way in warfare revisited - Hew Strachan, 2009-2-11Article | Recommended reading
The British way in warfare: power and the international system, 1856-1956 : essays inhonour of David French - David French, Keith Neilson, Greg Kennedy, c2010
Book | Recommended reading
Lecture Five (19 items)The First World War (1)
Trench warfare, 1914-1918: the live and let live system - Tony Ashworth, 1980Book | Recommended reading
The First World War and the birth of the modern style of warfare - Jonathan Bailey,Strategic and Combat Studies Institute (Great Britain), 1996
Book | Recommended reading | (copies available from module tutor’s office)
Field artillery and firepower - J. B. A. Bailey, c2004Book | Recommended reading
Haig's generals - I. F. W. Beckett, Steven J. Corvi, 2006Book | Recommended reading
Paths of glory: the French Army 1914-18 - Anthony Clayton, 2005
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Book | Recommended reading
Battle tactics of the Western Front: the British Army's art of attack, 1916-18 - PaddyGriffith, 1994
Book | Recommended reading
British fighting methods in the Great War - Paddy Griffith, 1996Book | Recommended reading
Doctrine under trial: American artillery employment in World War I - Mark E. Grotelueschen, 2001
Book | Recommended reading
Stormtroop tactics: innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918 - Bruce I. Gudmundsson,1989
Book | Recommended reading
Storm of steel - Ernst Jünger, Michael Hofmann, 2004Book | Recommended reading
The face of battle: a study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme - John Keegan, 2004Book | Recommended reading
Fighting the Great War: a global history - Michael S. Neiberg, 2006Book | Recommended reading
Bloody victory: the sacrifice on the Somme - William James Philpott, 2010Book | Recommended reading
Command or control?: command, training, and tactics in the British and German armies,1888-1918 - Martin Samuels, 1995
Book | Recommended reading
Doctrine and dogma: German and British infantry tactics in the First World War - MartinSamuels, 1992
Book | Recommended reading
The Somme - G. D. Sheffield, 2003Book | Recommended reading
Franz Conrad von Hèotzendorf: architect of the apocalypse - Lawrence Sondhaus, 2000Book | Recommended reading
How the war was won: command and technology in the British Army on the western front,1917-1918 - Timothy Travers, 2005
Book | Recommended reading
The killing ground: the British Army, the western front, and the emergence of modernwarfare, 1900-1918 - Timothy Travers, 2003,1987
Book | Recommended reading
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Lecture Six (19 items)The First World War (2)
The art of staying neutral: the Netherlands in the First World War, 1914-1918 - Maartje M.Abbenhuis, c2006
Book | Recommended reading | M. M. Abbenhuis-Ash, The Art of Staying Neutral:Netherlands in the First World War (2006) (A specialist study on Netherlands – worthlooking at if you’re interested in the role of a neutral country)
The great treks: the transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854 - Norman Etherington,2001
Book | Recommended reading
Britain and the Great War 1914-1918 - J. M. Bourne, c1989Book | Recommended reading
Paths of glory: the French Army 1914-18 - Anthony Clayton, 2005Book | Recommended reading
A history of the Great War, 1914-1918 - C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, 1991Book | Recommended reading
The strategy of the Lloyd George coalition, 1916-1918 - David French, 1995Book | Recommended reading
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918 - Holger H. Herwig, 1997Book | Recommended reading
The myth of the Great War: a new military history of World War I - John Mosier, 2001Book | Recommended reading
Forgotten victory: the First World War : myths and realities - G. D. Sheffield, 2002Book | Recommended reading
'Dropping the Donkey Epithet' - Gary Sheffield, John Bourne, March 2005Article | Recommended reading | (copy available from module tutor's office)
Franz Conrad von Hèotzendorf: architect of the apocalypse - Lawrence Sondhaus, 2000Book | Recommended reading
The eastern front, 1914-1917 - Norman Stone, 1975Book | Recommended reading
The First World War: Vol. I: To arms - Hew Strachan, 2001Book | Recommended reading
The Oxford illustrated history of the First World War - Hew Strachan, 2000Book | Recommended reading
The great war, 1914-18 - Spencer Tucker, 2003Book | Recommended reading
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The myriad faces of war: Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918 - Trevor Wilson, EricBoulton, 1986
Book | Recommended reading
The First World War - Review by: Hew Strachan, Sep., 2000Article | Recommended reading
Leadership and command: the Anglo-American military experience since 1861Chapter | Essential reading | Read Command, leadership and the Anglo-American
experience by G.D. Sheffield gages 1-14
Makers of modern strategy: from Machiavelli to the nuclear ageChapter | Essential reading | Read The Prusso-German shool: Moltke and the rise of the
general staff by Hajo Holborn pages 281-295
Lecture Seven (17 items)War and Technology: From Classical Times to the 21st Century
War made new: weapons, warriors, and the making of the modern world - Max Boot, 2006Book | Recommended reading
From crossbow to H-bomb - Bernard Brodie, Fawn McKay Brodie, 1973Book | Recommended reading
Technology and war: From 2000 B.C. to the present - Martin L. Van Creveld, 1991Book | Recommended reading
Warfare state: Britain, 1920-1970 - Edgerton, David E. H., 2006Book | Recommended reading
Britain's war machine: weapons, resources and experts in the Second World War - DavidEdgerton, 2011
Book | Recommended reading
The social history of the machine gun - John Ellis, 1981Book | Recommended reading | John Ellis, The Social History of the Machine Gun (1981)
(a very readable and intriguing account of how the invention of the machine gun relates towider issues of social history, providing in the process a good account of changes inwarfare in the nineteenth century)
Operational research, military judgement and the politics of technical change in the Britishinfantry, 1943–1953 - Matthew Ford, 2009-12
Article | Recommended reading
Armament and history: The influence of armament on history from the dawn of classicalwarfare to the end of the second world war - J. F. C. Fuller, 1998
Book | Recommended reading
Palgrave advances in modern military historyChapter | Recommended reading | M. Hughes, ‘Technology, Science and War’ in Hughes
and Philpott (eds), Palgrave Advances in Military History (2006).
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War in the age of technology: myriad faces of modern armed conflict - Geoffrey Jensen,Andrew A. Wiest, 2001
Book | Recommended reading
The pursuit of power: technology, armed force, and society since A.D. 1000 - William H.McNeill, 1983, c1982
Book | Recommended reading
Of arms and men: a history of war, weapons, and aggression - O'Connell, Robert L., 1989Book | Recommended reading
The knowledgeable state: diplomacy, war and technology since 1830 - Maurice Pearton,1982
Book | Recommended reading
War-winning weapons: the measurement of technological determinism in military history -George Raudzens, 1990
Article | Recommended reading
How the war was won: command and technology in the British Army on the western front,1917-1918 - Timothy Travers, 2005
Book | Recommended reading
Engines of war: how wars were won & lost on the railways - Christian Wolmar, 2010Book | Recommended reading
Conspicuous proliferation - William H. McNeill, December 21, 2006Article | Recommended reading
Lecture Eight (17 items)Germany’s collapse, 1918
Amiens to the Armistice: the BEF in the Hundred Days' Campaign, 8 August-11, November1918 - J. P. Harris, Niall Barr, 1998
Book | Recommended reading
Not glamorous but effective: The Canadian Corps and the set-piece attack - Ian Brown,1994
Article | Recommended reading
The military collapse of the German Empire: the reality behind the stab-in-the-back myth -Wilhelm Deist, 1996
Article | Recommended reading
Myth and memory: Sir Douglas Haig and the imposition of Allied Unified Command inMarch 1918 - Elizabeth Greenhalgh, 2004
Article | Recommended reading
The Kaiser's battle - Martin Middlebrook, 1978Book | Recommended reading
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The Australian victories in France in 1918 - John Monash, Imperial War Museum (GreatBritain), 1993
Book | Recommended reading
The myth of the Great War: a new military history of World War I - John Mosier, 2001Book | Recommended reading
British generalship on the Western Front 1914-18: defeat into victory - Simon Robbins,2005
Book | Recommended reading
Shock army of the British Empire: the Canadian Corps in the last 100 days of the GreatWar - Shane B. Schreiber, 2004,1997
Book | Recommended reading
Forgotten victory: the First World War : myths and realities - G. D. Sheffield, 2002Book | Recommended reading
Command and control on the Western Front: the British Army's experience, 1914-1918 - G.D. Sheffield, Daniel Todman, c2004
Book | Recommended reading
The final battle: soldiers of the western front and the German revolution of 1918 - ScottStephenson, 2009
Book | Recommended reading
With our backs to the wall: victory and defeat in 1918 - David Stevenson, 2011Book | Recommended reading
The Oxford illustrated history of the First World War - Hew Strachan, 2000Book | Recommended reading
The evolution of British strategy and tactics on the Western Front in 1918 - Tim Travers,1990
Article | Recommended reading
The killing ground: the British Army, the western front, and the emergence of modernwarfare, 1900-1918 - Timothy Travers, 2003,1987
Book | Recommended reading
The German 1918 offensives: a case study in the operational level of war - David T.Zabecki, 2006
Book | Recommended reading
Lecture Nine (24 items)Men, Ideas and tanks: new Ideas about Warfare, 1919-41
France and Belgium, 1939-1940 - Brian Bond, 1975Book | Recommended reading
The path to blitzkrieg: doctrine and training in the German Army, 1920-1939 - Robert
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Michael Citino, 1999Book | Recommended reading
Quest for decisive victory: from stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940 - RobertMichael Citino, c2002
Book | Recommended reading
On the German art of war: Truppenfèuhrung - Bruce Condell, David T. Zabecki, 2001Book | Recommended reading
The roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German military reform - James S. Corum,1992
Book | Recommended reading
The blitzkrieg legend: the 1940 campaign in the West - Frieser, Karl-Heinz, Greenwood,John T., 2005
Book | Recommended reading
Makers of modern strategy: from Machiavelli to the nuclear age - Peter Paret, Gordon A.Craig, Felix Gilbert, 1986
Book | Recommended reading | M. Geyer, ‘German Strategy in the Age of MachineWarfare 1919-45’
Storm of steel: the development of armor doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union,1919-1939 - Mary R. Habeck, 2003
Book | Recommended reading
Men, ideas, and tanks: British military thought and armoured forces, 1903-1939 - J. P.Harris, 1995
Book | Recommended reading
To lose a battle: France 1940 - Alistair Horne, 1990Book | Recommended reading
The fall of France: the Nazi invasion of 1940 - Julian Jackson, 2003Book | Recommended reading
Lightning war: Blitzkrieg in the west, 1940 - Ronald E. Powaski, c2003Book | Recommended reading
100 years of conflict, 1900-2000Chapter | Recommended reading | New Ideas about Land Warfare’ in Trew and Sheffield
Barbarossa revisited: a critical reappraisal of the opening stages of the Russo-Germancampaign (June-December 1941) - Russel H. S. Stolfi, 1982
Article | Recommended reading
European armies and the conduct of warChapter | Recommended reading | The Blitzkrieg chapter in H Strachan
The shadows of total war: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939 - RogerChickering, Stig Fèorster, 2003
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Book | Recommended reading | Relevant chapters (such as ch. 14)
A world at total war: global conflict and the politics of destruction, 1937-1945 - RogerChickering, Stig Fèorster, Bernd Greiner, German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.),2005
Book | Recommended reading | Chickering et al (eds)
Studies in British military thought: debates with Fuller and Liddell Hart - Brian Holden Reid,1998
Book | Recommended reading | For military theory in this period
Letters to the editor (letters by Stolfi & Megargee) - R Stolfi, G Megargee, 2003Article | Recommended reading
European armies and the conduct of war - Hew Strachan, c1983Book | Recommended reading
A war to be won: fighting the Second World War - Williamson Murray, Allan Reed Millett,2000
Book | Recommended reading | See the relevant chapters
Germany and the Second World War - Ralf Blank, Jèorg Echternkamp, Germany, 1990-Book | Recommended reading
Polish theatre: Blitzkrieger - 9/25/1939Article | Recommended reading | This is the original article by a US reporter that
labelled what the Germans were doing as ‘blitzkrieg’.
Barbarossa: the Russian-German conflict 1941-1945 - Alan Clark, 2005,1965Book | Recommended reading
Lecture Ten (35 items)The Second World War (1)
Berlin: the downfall, 1945 - Antony Beevor, 2002Book | Recommended reading
Stalingrad - Antony Beevor, 1999Book | Recommended reading
D-Day: the battle for Normandy - Antony Beevor, 2009Book | Recommended reading
A writer at war: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 - Vasilii SemenovichGrossman, Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova, 2006
Book | Recommended reading
Absolute war: Soviet Russia in the Second World War : a modern history - Chris Bellamy,2007
Book | Recommended reading
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The German military in the age of total war - Wilhelm Deist, 1985Book | Recommended reading
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 - Diamond, Hanna, 2007Book | Recommended reading
Stalin's keys to victory: the rebirth of the Red Army - Walter S. Dunn, 2007Book | Recommended reading
The Third Reich at war - Richard J. Evans, 2009Book | Recommended reading
The battle of the Atlantic, 1941: the first turning point - Jock Gardner, 1994Article | Recommended reading
Decisive campaigns of the Second World War - John Gooch, 1990Book | Recommended reading
Britain, the United States and the Mediterranean War, 1942-44 - Matthew Jones, St.Antony's College (University of Oxford), 1996
Book | Recommended reading
Fateful choices: ten decisions that changed the world, 1940-1941 - Ian Kershaw, 2007Book | Recommended reading
Blame It on Mussolini - R, W. JohnsonJournal | Recommended reading | See the review of the book entitled ‘Blame it on
Mussolini’ by R. W. Johnson in London Review of Books (copy in tutor’s office).
Soviet women on the frontline in the Second World War - Roger D. Markwick, EuridiceCharon Cardona, 2012
Book | Recommended reading
Review of Russia's war by Richard J. Overy - Evan Mawdsley, March 1999Article | Recommended reading
Why the Allies won - Book review - E. Mawdsley, 1997Article | Recommended reading
Thunder in the East: the Nazi-Soviet war, 1941-1945 - Evan Mawdsley, c2005Book | Recommended reading
Ivan's war: the Red Army 1939-1945 - Catherine Merridale, 2005Book | Recommended reading
Bloody Redemption review of Ivan's War by Catherine Merridale - Omer Bartov, 27 January2006
Article | Recommended reading | copy in tutor’s office
Review of 'Merridale' entitled ‘Bloody Redemption’ - - 2006-06-22Article | Recommended reading | copy in tutor’s office
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What Stalin knew: the enigma of Barbarossa - Murphy, David E., c2005Book | Recommended reading
East versus West in the defeat of Nazi Germany - Phillips P. O'Brien, 2000-06Article | Recommended reading
Russia's war - R. J. Overy, 1999Book | Recommended reading
The air war 1939-1945 - R. J. Overy, 2004Book | Recommended reading
Offensive women: women in combat in the Red Army in the Second World War - ReinaPennington, 2010
Article | Recommended reading | copy in tutor’s office
Why Stalin's soldiers fought: the Red Army's military effectiveness in World War II - RogerR. Reese, c2011
Book | Recommended reading
Stalin's reluctant soldiers: a social history of the Red Army, 1925-1941 - Roger R. Reese,c1996
Book | Recommended reading
Stalin's wars: from World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 - Geoffrey Roberts, c2006Book | Recommended reading
Understanding defeat: reappraising Italy's role in World War II - James J. Sadkovich, Jan.,1989
Article | Recommended reading
Of myths and men: Rommel and the Italians in North Africa, 1940-1942 - James J.Sadkovich, May, 1991
Article | Recommended reading
Kursk 1943: a statistical analysis - N. Zetterling, Anders Frankson, 2000Book | Recommended reading
Review of Thunder in the East: the Nazi-Soviet war, 1941-1945 - R. Overy, March 2006Article | Recommended reading | Copy in tutor’s office
A ‘miracle of deliverance’? - Niall Ferguson, November 30, 2006Article | Recommended reading
It wasn’t just morale - Robert O. Paxton, February 15, 2007Article | Recommended reading
Lecture Eleven (31 items)The Second World War (2)
Singapore: 1941-1942 - Louis Allen, c1993
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Book | Recommended reading
Burma: the longest war, 1941-1945 - Louis Allen, 2000Book | Recommended reading
Atomic diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam : the use of the atomic bomb and the Americanconfrontation with Soviet power - Gar Alperovitz, c1994
Book | Recommended reading
From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: the imperial Japanese navy and the United States - Asada,Sadao, 2006
Book | Recommended reading
China in the anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945: politics, culture and society - David P. Barrett,Lawrence N. Shyu, 2001
Book | Recommended reading
China and Japan at war, 1937-1945: the politics of collaboration - John Hunter Boyle, 1972Book | Recommended reading
American samurai: myth, imagination, and the conduct of battle in the First MarineDivision, 1941-1951 - Craig M. Cameron, 1994
Book | Recommended reading
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima: the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, 1941-1945 -Saki Dockrill, Conference on 'The Pacific War: a Reappraisal after Fifty Years', 1994
Book | Recommended reading
Japan's Imperial Army: its rise and fall, 1853-1945 - Edward J. Drea, c2009Book | Recommended reading
Modern Chinese warfare, 1795-1989 - Elleman, Bruce A., 2001Book | Recommended reading
Hell to pay: Operation Downfall and the invasion of Japan, 1945-47 - D. M. Giangreco,c2009
Book | Recommended reading
Decisive campaigns of the Second World War - John Gooch, 1990Book | Recommended reading
The China-Japan war, 1931-1945 - David Gordon, 2006-01Article | Recommended reading
Imperial Japan's World War Two, 1931-1945 - Werner Gruhl, 2007Book | Recommended reading
Soldiers of the sun: the rise and fall of the Imperial Japanese Army - Meirion Harries, SusieHarries, c1991
Book | Recommended reading
Nemesis: the battle for Japan, 1944-45 - Max Hastings, 2007
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Book | Recommended reading
Letters from Iwo Jima: the Japanese eyewitness stories that inspired Clint Eastwood's film -Kumiko Kakehashi, 2007
Book | Recommended reading
Hell in the Pacific: from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima and beyond - Jonathan Lewis, Ben Steele, 2001
Book | Recommended reading
Goodbye darkness: a memoir of the Pacific War - William Raymond Manchester, 2001Book | Recommended reading | interesting memoir from a US marine who fought in the
war
The jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth armies at war, 1941-45: fightingmethods, doctrine and training for jungle warfare - T. R. Moreman, 2005
Book | Recommended reading
The China quagmire: Japan's expansion on the Asian continent, 1933-1941 : selectedtranslations from Taiheiyåo Sensåo e no michi, kaisen gaikåo shi - James William Morley,1983
Book | Recommended reading
Sunburst: the rise of Japanese naval air power, 1909-1941 - Mark R. Peattie, 2007Book | Recommended reading
Kaigun: strategy, tactics, and technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 -David C. Evans, Mark R. Peattie, 1997
Book | Recommended reading
Kaigun: strategy, tactics, and technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 -David C. Evans, Mark R. Peattie, 1997
Book | Recommended reading
Nan'yåo: the rise and fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945 - Mark R. Peattie,University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1988
Book | Recommended reading
The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 - Ramon Hawley Myers, Mark R. Peattie, [1987?]Book | Recommended reading
The emperor's codes: Bletchley Park's role in breaking Japan's secret ciphers - MichaelSmith, 2010
Book | Recommended reading
Empires on the Pacific: World War II and the struggle for the mastery of Asia - RobertSmith Thompson, c2001
Book | Recommended reading
Singapore, 1942: Britain's greatest defeat - Alan Warren, 2005Book | Recommended reading
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The battle for Okinawa - Hiromichi Yahara, Frank Gibney, c1995Book | Recommended reading
HyperWar: U.S. Marine Corps in World War IIWebpage | Recommended reading | See this web page for WW2 histories on the Pacific
from the United States’ perspective
Lecture Twelve (41 items)Air Power and Just War
The burning blue: a new history of the Battle of Britain - Paul Addison, Jeremy A. Crang,2000
Book | Recommended reading
Rhetoric and reality in air warfare: the evolution of British and American ideas aboutstrategic bombing, 1914-1945 - Tami Davis Biddle, 2004
Book | Recommended reading
Dresden 1945: reality, history, and memory - 2008-04Article | Recommended reading
Jihad in Islamic history: doctrines and practice - Michael David Bonner, 2008, c2006Book | Recommended reading
Air power in the age of total war - John Buckley, 1999Book | Recommended reading
Palgrave advances in modern military history - Matthew Hughes, William James Philpott,2006
Book | Recommended reading | J Buckley, ‘Air Power’
The myth of the Blitz - Angus Calder, 1992,1991Book | Recommended reading
100 years of conflict, 1900-2000Chapter | Recommended reading | Lloyd Clark, ‘War in the Air, 1939-45’ in Trew and
Sheffield
copy in tutor’s office
Moral constraints on war: principles and cases - Bruno Coppieters, Nick Fotion, c2008Book | Recommended reading
The age of airpower - Martin Van Creveld, c2011Book | Recommended reading
Morality and war: can war be just in the twenty-first century? - David Fisher, 2011Book | Recommended reading
War and ethics: a new just war theory - N. Fotion, c2007Book | Recommended reading
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The fire: the bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 - Jèorg Friedrich, 2008Book | Recommended reading | Good account from the German side
Spitfire: the biography - Jonathan Glancey, 2007Book | Recommended reading
Airpower: theory and practice - John Gooch, 1995Book | Recommended reading
Among the dead cities: was the Allied bombing of civilians in WWII a necessity or a crime?- Grayling, A. C., 2006
Book | Recommended reading
Despatch on war operations, 23rd February, 1942, to 8th May, 1945 - Harris, ArthurTravers, 1995
Book | Recommended reading | Read the introduction by Seb Cox
Bomber command - Max Hastings, 1999Book | Recommended reading
The holy war idea in western and Islamic traditions - James Turner Johnson, 1997Book | Recommended reading
Morality & contemporary warfare - James Turner Johnson, 1999Book | Recommended reading
A history of bombing - Sven Lindqvist, 2002Book | Recommended reading
Masters of the air: America's bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany -Donald L. Miller, c2006
Book | Recommended reading
The bomber war: Arthur Harris and the Allied bomber offensive, 1939-1945 - RobinNeillands, 2001
Book | Recommended reading
The air war 1939-1945 - R. J. Overy, 2004Book | Recommended reading
The Battle of Britain: the myth and the reality - R. J. Overy, 2002Book | Recommended reading
The Battle: Summer 1940 - R. J. Overy, 2000Book | Recommended reading
Bombing to win: air power and coercion in war - Robert Anthony Pape, 1996Book | Recommended reading
The price of peace: just war in the twenty-first century - Charles Reed, David Ryall, 2007Book | Recommended reading
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Industry and air power: the expansion of British aircraft production, 1935-41 - SebastianRitchie, 1997
Book | Recommended reading
The rise of American air power: the creation of Armageddon - Michael S. Sherry, c1987Book | Recommended reading
Terror from the air - Peter Sloterdijk, c2009Book | Recommended reading | Slightly bonkers philosopher
Decisive campaigns of the Second World WarChapter | Recommended reading | Malcolm Smith, ‘The Allied Air Offensive’ in John
Gooch
Just and unjust wars: a moral argument with historical illustrations - Michael Walzer, 2006Book | Recommended reading
Bombing civilians: a twentieth-century history - Toshiyuki Tanaka, Marilyn Blatt Young,2009
Book | Recommended reading
The strategic air war against Germany 1939-1945: report of the British Bombing SurveyUnit - Sebastian Cox, British Bombing Survey Unit, 1998
Book | Recommended reading | good primary source
Review of A.C. Grayling, 'Among the dead cities' - Richard Overy, 2006Article | Recommended reading | Copy available from tutor’s office. This is worth
reading as it gives a good summary of the main arguments for and against bombing
Logic of war - Ian Mason, 28 April 2006Article | Recommended reading | Copy available in tutor’s office
Book review - When infernal visions of hell rained down from the night sky - BrendanSimms, 23 June 2006
Article | Recommended reading | copy available in tutor’s office
A swift agent of government: air power in British colonial Africa, 1916–1939 - DavidKillingray, 2009-1-22
Article | Recommended reading
Warfare, diplomacy and politics: essays in honour of A.J.P. TaylorChapter | Recommended reading | Charles Townshend, ‘“Civilization and Frightfulness”:
Air Control in the Middle east Between the Wars’, in Chris Wrigley (ed.)
Air Force History PublicationsWebsite | Recommended reading | See the books on air power downloadable from this
website
Lecture Thirteen (34 items)Limited War and Digital Soldiers in the Nuclear Age and Beyond
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Israel's wars: a history since 1947 - Ahron Bregman, 2010Book | Recommended reading
From crossbow to H-bomb - Fawn M. Brodie, Fawn McKay Brodie, 1973Book | Recommended reading
War since 1990 - Jeremy Black, 2009Book | Recommended reading
Technology and war: from 2000 B.C. to the present - Martin L. Van Creveld, 1991Book | Recommended reading
Digital soldiers: the evolution of high-tech weaponry and tomorrow's brave new battlefield- Dunnigan, James F., 1996
Book | Recommended reading
War stars: the superweapon and the American imagination - H. Bruce Franklin, 1988Book | Recommended reading
Armament and history: The influence of armament on history from the dawn of classicalwarfare to the end of the second world war - Fuller, J. F. C., 1998
Book | Recommended reading
War in the age of technology: myriad faces of modern armed conflictChapter | Recommended reading | Ch.2
Vietnam: a history - Stanley Karnow, c1983Book | Recommended reading
The Korean War - Peter Lowe, 2000Book | Recommended reading
The Korean War - Peter Lowe, 2000Book | Recommended reading
The pursuit of power: technology, armed force, and society since A.D. 1000 - William H.McNeill, 1983, c1982
Book | Recommended reading
In retrospect: the tragedy and lessons of Vietnam - Robert S. McNamara, Brian VanDeMark, 1996
Book | Recommended reading
Of arms and men: a history of war, weapons, and aggression - Robert L. O'Connell, 1989Book | Recommended reading
The knowledgeable state: diplomacy, war and technology since 1830 - Pearton, Maurice,1982
Book | Recommended reading
Military orientalism: Eastern war through Western eyes - Patrick Porter, 2009Book | Recommended reading
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The Korean War: no victors, no vanquished - Stanley Sandler, 1999Book | Recommended reading
A bright shining lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam - Neil Sheehan, 1989, c1988Book | Recommended reading
The iron wall: Israel and the Arab world - Avi Shlaim, 2001Book | Recommended reading
Rethinking the Korean War: a new diplomatic and strategic history - William W. Stueck,2004
Book | Recommended reading
Counter-insurgency (4 items)
Histories of the hanged: Britain's dirty war in Kenya and the end of empire - DavidAnderson, 2006
Book | Recommended reading
Imperial reckoning: the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya - Caroline Elkins, 2005Book | Recommended reading
The British way in counter-insurgency, 1945-1967 - David French, 2011Book | Recommended reading
Imperial endgame: Britain's dirty wars and the end of empire - Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon,2011
Book | Recommended reading
Peacekeeping (9 items)
UN peacekeeping in trouble: lessons learned from the former Yugoslavia : peacekeepers'views on the limits and possibilities of the United Nations in a civil war-like conflict -Wolfgang Biermann, Martin Vadset, c1998
Book | Recommended reading
Re-envisioning peacekeeping: the United Nations and the moblization of ideology - Debrix,Franðcois, 1999
Book | Recommended reading
International peacekeeping - Paul F. Diehl, 1994Book | Recommended reading
The evolution of UN peacekeeping: case studies and comparative analysis - William J.Durch, 1993
Book | Recommended reading
The evolution of UN peacekeeping: case studies and comparative analysis - William J.Durch, 1993
Book | Recommended reading
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The blue berets - Michael Harbottle, 1971Book | Recommended reading
Humanitarian assistance and peacekeeping: an uneasy alliance - Tim Laurence, 1999Book | Recommended reading
The evolution of US peacekeeping policy under Clinton: a fairweather friend? - Michael G.MacKinnon, 2000
Book | Recommended reading
Civil-military relations and peacekeeping - Michael C. Williams, International Institute forStrategic Studies, 1998
Book | Recommended reading
Films (DVDs) (1 items)
The fog of war: produced & directed by Errol Morris - Errol Morris, @Radical.media (Firm),Globe Department Store (Firm), SenArt Films, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment(Firm), Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), c2004
Audio-visual document | Recommended reading
Coalitions, politicians & generals: some aspects of command in two World WarsChapter | Essential reading | Read A coalition bedevilled by Dominic Graham pages
58-78
The Making of strategy: rulers, states, and war - Williamson Murray, MacGregor Knox, AlvinH. Bernstein, 1994
Book | Essential reading | The road to ideological war: Germany, 1918-1945 by WilhelmDeist pages 352-392
A genius for mass production: economies at warChapter | Essential reading
The wages of destruction: the making and breaking of the Nazi economy - Tooze, Adam,2006
Book | Essential reading | Read The End by Adam Tooze pages 656-676
War without mercy: race and power in the Pacific war - Dower, John W., 1986Book | Essential reading | Read Apes and others by John. W Dower pages 77-94
Targeting civilians in war - Alexander B. Downes, 2008Book | Essential reading | Read The starvation blockades of World War I: Britain and
Germany - Alexander. B Downes pages 83-114
The bombing war: Europe 1939-1945 - R. J. Overy, 2013Book | Recommended reading
Warsaw 1944: the fateful uprising - Alexandra RichieBook | Recommended reading
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany's defeat in the East - David Stahel, 2009Book | Recommended reading
The Ottoman road to war in 1914: the Ottoman Empire and the First World War - Aksakal,Mustafa, 2010
Book | Recommended reading
The Indian Army on the Western Front: India's Expeditionary Force to France and Belgiumin the First World War - George Morton-Jack, 2014
Book | Recommended reading
Indigenous peoples of the British dominions and the First World War - Timothy C. Winegard, c2012
Book | Recommended reading
The making of the modern admiralty: British naval policy-making 1805-1927 - C. I.Hamilton, 2011
Book | Recommended reading
Mussolini and his generals: the armed forces and fascist foreign policy, 1922-1940 - JohnGooch, c2007
Book | Recommended reading
The German army and the defence of the Reich: military doctrine and the conduct of thedefensive battle, 1918-1939 - Matthias Strohn, 2011
Book | Recommended reading
German strategy and the path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the development ofattrition, 1870-1916 - Robert T. Foley, 2007
Book | Recommended reading
Haig's intelligence: GHQ and the German army, 1916-1918 - Jim BeachBook | Recommended reading
Enduring the Great War: combat, morale and collapse in the German and British armies,1914-1918 - Watson, Alexander, 2008
Book | Recommended reading
The fall of Napoleon: vol 1: The allied invasion of France, 1813-1814 - Michael V. Leggiere,2007
Book | Recommended reading
Fighting the Mau Mau: the British Army and counter-insurgency in the Kenya Emergency -Huw C. Bennett, c2013
Book | Recommended reading
Bombing the people: Giulio Douhet and the foundations of air-power strategy, 1884-1939 -Thomas Hippler
Book | Recommended reading
Combat and genocide on the Eastern Front: the German infantry's war, 1941-1944 - JeffRutherford, 2014
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Book | Recommended reading
Douglas Haig and the First World War - J. P. Harris, 2008Book | Recommended reading
Arms, economics and British strategy: from dreadnoughts to hydrogen bombs - G. C.Peden, 2007
Book | Recommended reading
Thailand's secret war: the Free Thai, OSS, and SOE during World War II - E. Bruce Reynolds, 2010, c2005
Book | Recommended reading
Victory through coalition: Britain and France during the First World War - ElizabethGreenhalgh, 2005
Book | Recommended reading
Winning and losing on the Western Front: the British Third Army and the defeat ofGermany in 1918 - Jonathan Boff, 2012
Book | Recommended reading
Rommel's desert war: waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943 - Martin Kitchen,2009
Book | Recommended reading
On war - Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham, Louise Willmot, F. N. Maude, 1997Book | Recommended reading
Principles of maritime strategy - Corbett, Julian Stafford, 2004Book | Recommended reading | Freely available on Project Gutenberg
Masters of war: classical strategic thought - Michael I. Handel, c2001Book | Recommended reading
The strategy of indirect approach - Basil Henry Liddell HartBook | Recommended reading
Selected military writings of Mao Tsetung - Zedong Mao, 1972Book | Recommended reading
Makers of modern strategy: from Machiavelli to the nuclear age - Peter Paret, Gordon A.Craig, Felix Gilbert, 1986
Book | Recommended reading
Sun-tzu: the art of warfare : the first English translation incorporating the recentlydiscovered Yin-ch°èueh-shan texts - Sunzi, Roger T. Ames, 1993
Book | Recommended reading
War commentaries of Caesar - Julius Caesar, Rex Warner, 1987, c1960Book | Recommended reading
Year zero : 1945 and the aftermath of war - Ian Buruma, 2013
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Book | Recommended reading
Instructions for his generals - Frederick the Great, 2005Book | Recommended reading
The conduct of war, 1789-1961: a study of the impact of the French, industrial and Russianrevolutions on war and its conduct - Fuller, J. F. C., 1992
Book | Recommended reading
Soviet military operational art: in pursuit of deep battle - Glantz, David M., 1991Book | Recommended reading
The art of war: a.k.a. The summary of the art of war - Antoine Henri Jomini, 2008Book | Recommended reading
Elements of military strategy: an historical approach - Archer Jones, 1996Book | Recommended reading
The art of maneuver: maneuver-warfare theory and airland battle - Robert Leonhard, 1994Book | Recommended reading
Strategy - B. H. Liddell Hart, 1991], c1967Book | Recommended reading
Maneuver warfare handbook - William S. Lind, 1985Book | Recommended reading
Strategy: the logic of war and peace - Edward Luttwak, 2001Book | Recommended reading
In pursuit of military excellence: the evolution of operational theory - Naveh, Shimon, 1997Book | Recommended reading
The framework of operational warfare - Clayton R. Newell, 1991Book | Other reading
Deep Battle - Simpkin, Richard E, 1987Book | Recommended reading
American strategy in Vietnam: a critical analysis - Harry G. Summers, 2007Book | Recommended reading
Year zero : 1945 and the aftermath of war - Ian Buruma, 2013Book | Recommended reading
The art of war: a.k.a. The summary of the art of war - Antoine Henri Jomini, 2008Book | Recommended reading
Billy Mitchell's war with the Navy: the interwar rivalry over air power - Thomas Wildenberg,2013
Book | Recommended reading
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Uncle Bill: the authorised biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim - Russell Miller, 2014Book | Recommended reading
The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945: - Richard J. Overy,2014
Book | Recommended reading
Military Adaptation in Afghanistan Stanford Security Studies: - Theo Farrell, Frans Osinga,James A. Russell, 2013
Book | Recommended reading
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's last gamble - Antony Beevor, 2015Book | Recommended reading
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