This book traces the long history of Iran's wars, and the evolution of the Islamic Republic's military trajectory since 1979. Ahmed Hashim draws on Farsi, Arabic and European sources to explore Iran's efforts to create modern armed forces, the devast...

The end of the Cold War and the (then) receding threat of global nuclear conflagration were meant to usher in a "peace dividend": concomitantly warfare would decline as states devoted themselves to making money and providing for their respective soci...

Drawing parallels with Cold War Berlin, "Split Lives" examines the divided city of Jerusalem to show the global context of the Israeli-Arab conflict. This is the first comprehensive social history of Jerusalem between the 1948 and Six-Day wars - fro...

The compelling story of the hunt for one enigmatic foe of the British, birthing an entire colonial surveillance network and an Empire-wide intelligence strategy. Manabendra Nath Roy was the prime focus of British paranoia in the 1920s and '30s. For...

The first English translation of this revolutionary 1916 text, an unlikely collaboration between Arab intellectuals and British wartime intelligence. In December 1916, a modest Arabic-language book rolled off the presses in Cairo - one that could ch...

The first global overview that maps out Muslims' military, economic, political and logistical contributions to the Allied victory in the Second World War. The participation of Muslims in the Second World War is frequently ignored, overlooked or misc...

A compelling history, augmented by on-the- ground reporting, of the armed forces of Myanmar, explaining their enduring hold on power. The longevity of military rule in Myanmar is one of the great enigmas of Asian politics. From 1962 through to the m...

A vital history of oil and politics, showing how the struggle to control energy corridors and chokepoints shaped the modern world. For the last twenty years, Putin's Russia has weaponised its vast resources of oil and gas, trying to use them to domi...

This new history reveals that the Baltic States were as fiercely contested between the Germans and Russians as any flashpoint of the Second World War. Comparing a map of Europe from 1936 with one from 1946, all the countries are there, albeit with s...

A homage to the late, great scholar of war, exploring his considerable legacy and engaging with questions of conflict and strategy in the same spirit. From the collapse of the Soviet Union and the "end of history" to the rise of Islamist terrorism a...