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Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War presented moral dilemmas that divided the nation. This title presents the influences that shaped the media agenda of the time and identifies patterns of press coverage that continue to be discernable in the reporting of military conflicts.

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This is the story of their largely forgotten role in the history of warfare.

Generals throughout recorded history have used elephants as tanks, bulldozers, and cargo trucks long before such vehicles existed. Elephants have long fought for and served human masters, but it is now the elephants themselves that must be protected.

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War Girls shares the stories of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), a group of audacious middle- and upper-class British women volunteers who nursed and worked as driver-mechanics during the First World War. It explores the ways the women subverted traditional mythologies about gender and imagined new cultural possibilities -- .

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In this book, the author considers the influence of ideas and values on the actions of Enlightenment military personnel and how the rational spirit of the time influenced military thought, producing a military enlightenment that applied rational analysis to military tactics and to the composition of armies.

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This authoritative reference follows the history of conflicts in the Balkan Peninsula from the 19th century through the present day.

The Balkan Peninsula, which consists of Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and the former Yugoslavia, resides in the southeastern part of the European continent.

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Placing eighteenth-century warfare in a truly global context, Jeremy Black challenges conventional accounts and offers a reappraisal of debates in Western and Asian history. This concise, up-to-date survey assumes little prior knowledge and provides cutting-edge historical insights into a crucial period of world history.

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A global account of warfare in the late fifteenth and sixteenth-century that emphasises the breadth of military trajectories and connections. It offers a corrective to a narrative that has emphasised European developments and obscured the history of non-European military systems and cultures of war.

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Who were the men and women whose names are commemorated on war memorials around the country Where did they live - and how and why did they die This book unravels the story of one war memorial, in the Dartmoor village of Lydford.

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Through a series of thematic chapters, this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation to rehabilitative practices established in Britain during and immediately following the Second World War. -- .

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The history of war is inextricably bound to the history of the world. Through a detailed exploration of 'world-scale' issues of warfare, presented within a chronological framework that spans human history, the author skilfully illustrates this fact whilst providing the reader with other astute insights and compelling interpretations of war.

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Re-examines war by combining a short thematic history with a concentrated study of war throughout the ages as the cause, means and consequence of change.

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Traces the military history of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean. This book discusses the major events and important individuals in their historical and chronological context. It explains the causes behind important events, the results of various military encounters, and their significance.

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Traces the development of modern warfare in Europe during the years 1650-1715 and the extension of those military techniques worldwide. This book describes and defines important events, technologies, and individuals from this seminal period of global military history.

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A thorough study of significant wars throughout history and their influence on world affairsfrom the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmore III's Campaigns during 479459 BCE through the Iraq War of 20032011.

For hundreds of years, wars have played a determining role in history and have decided the rise and fall of civilizations.