The Art of War
Sun- tzu
Written over 2,500 years ago, The Art of War remains the most famous military treatise of all time. Sun-tzu’s collection of precepts on strategic warfare has yet to be surpassed.
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World War and Military History
The Campaigns of Napoleon
David G. Chandler
This best-selling Folio Society edition of David Chandler’s epic military history charts Napoleon’s remarkable progress through the major campaigns of his career and shows that his downfall, when it came, was as dramatic and heroic as his rise.
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The Cretan Runner
George Psychoundakis
An immediate and exhilarating account of wartime resistance written by one of the runners who risked his life to carry messages, smuggle arms and guide Allied soldiers across Crete’s treacherous mountain terrain.
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Crusader Castles
T. E. Lawrence
Before he became famous throughout the world as Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence travelled through Britain, France, Syria and Palestine to research his undergraduate thesis on ‘The Influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture to the End of the Twelfth Century’. Lawrence’s brilliant observations have since been confirmed by modern research.
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The Desert War Trilogy
Alan Moorehead
Writing for ten to twelve hours a day in the lulls between battlefield sorties, Alan Moorehead gathered material for the three books of The Desert War Trilogy, which he published during the war itself. Together they form an electrifying contemporary account of one of the most thrilling and decisive arenas of the Second World War.
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The Double-Cross System
J. C. Masterman
The true story of the daring double agents who helped win the war, this secret report was never intended to go beyond a very select audience within the government and security services. Now published in its entirety, it is impossible to get closer to the desperate world of war-time espionage than this first-hand account written by a key player of the game.
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The Face of Battle
John Keegan
By concentrating on the actions and experiences of soldiers rather than on the strategies of generals, The Face of Battle revolutionised our understanding of the nature of combat. At its heart are reconstructions of the battles of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme.
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The First World War
Martin Gilbert
In his engrossing account, Martin Gilbert traces each step of the war’s progression, from the tensions and alliances leading up to it and the first skirmishes on the French and Belgian borders, to the final peacemaking and remembrance. His geographical scope is equally broad, from Mesopotamia and East Africa to the ‘forgotten war’ waged in the Atlantic.
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Five Days in London, May 1940
John Lukacs
A ‘political turncoat, a dangerous adventurer’; a ‘delightful rogue who lacked political judgement’ – today few people would guess that these were descriptions of one of the most admired statesmen of the 20th century – Winston Churchill. Yet as historian John Lukacs points out, when Churchill took over as Prime Minister in May 1940, he was not well-liked.
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The Great Game
Peter Hopkirk
Peter Hopkirk's immensely readable account of the epic stand-off between the two superpowers of the nineteenth century--Victorian Britain and Czarist Russia -- reveals the history at the core of today's geopolitics.
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The Meaning of Hitler
Sebastian Haffner
Sebastian Haffner’s penetrating study helps us understand Hitler’s rise from obscure failure to powerful dictator, examining his motives and his ultimate downfall. Mark Roseman, prize-winning author of books on Nazism, introduces the Folio edition.
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Napoleon
Georges Lefebvre
Whether viewed as an inspired leader or obsessed tyrant, few individuals have left such a mark on history as Napoleon. Georges Lefebvre’s classic work, published here in a single volume in English for the first time, is a definitive portrait of the Napoleonic era.
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No Cloak, No Dagger
Benjamin Cowburn
Benjamin Cowburn parachuted into France in 1941 as an SOE. This is his story – a magnificent, spirited portrait of life as a secret agent. In his introduction to ‘this astonishing story of secrets, lies and big bangs’ novelist Giles Foden praises the skill that made Cowburn’s memoir a classic.
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On War
Carl von Clausewitz
Clausewitz’s magnum opus is one of the most influential studies of warfare, military strategy and philosophy ever written. Our edition contains a foreword by Joanna Bourke.
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Redcoats and Rebels: The War for America 1770-1781
Christopher Hibbert
The story of the American revolution, from the Boston Tea Party to Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, is often celebrated as the triumph of heroic American patriots over tyrannical imperialists. Yet, as this gripping and detailed account reveals, it hardly seemed like that to those who lived through it.
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