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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Towards revolution -- 2 'Aux armes, citoyens' -- 3 The guardians of order -- 4 A decade of violence -- 5 Armies and international rivalry -- 6 The First World War -- 7 Expanded horizons -- 8 The Second World War -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Army and Empire -- 2 The Triumph of Lord Esher -- 3 Division and Debate -- 4 The Machine Constructed -- 5 The Imperial Design -- 6 Strategic Reorientation -- 7 India -- 8 Egypt -- 9 France and Germany -- 10 Democracy at War -- Bibliography -- Index.

This is a major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army during the First World War. Drawing from original, archival research, it tells the story of the army's bitter three-year struggle in the mountains of Northern Italy, including the eleven bloody battles of the Isonzo, the near-catastrophic defeat at Caporetto in 1917 and the successful, but still controversial defeat of the Austro-Hungarian army at Vittorio Veneto on the eve of the Armistice. Setting military events within a broader context, the book explores pre-war Italian military culture and the interactions between domestic politics, economics and society. In a unique study of an unjustly neglected facet of the war, John Gooch illustrates how General Luigi Cadorna, a brutal disciplinarian, drove the army to the edge of collapse, and how his successor, general Armando Diaz, rebuilt it and led the Italians to their greatest victory in modern times

Success or defeat in the Second World War turned less on winning or losing battles than on winning or losing campaigns. This volume reassesses the importance of seven major campaigns for the outcome of the war. The authors examine a wide range of factors which influence success or failure including strategic planning, logistics, combat performance, command and military intelligence. This book represents a novel contribution to the study of the Second World War.

The beginning of the fascist era, 1922-1925 -- Domestic checks and international balances, 1925-1929 -- Military constraints and diplomatic restraint, 1929-1932 -- Moving towards aggression, 1932-1934 -- The trial of force: Abyssinia, 1935 -- Wars, arms and the Axis, 1936-1937 -- The year of true 'realism', 1938 -- 'Speak of peace and prepare for war', 1939-1940

This collections of essays by leading British and South African scholars, looking at the Boer War, focuses on three aspects: how the British Military functioned; the role of the Boers, Afrikaners and Zulus; and the media presentation of the war to the public.

The nine contributors to this volume study the rapid development of airpower during the twentieth century as well as the methodological problems involved in assessing such change.