United States History: Books - World Wars

Filled with surprising anecdotes, little-known facts, and rare illustrations, this resource covers major events and battles, commanders and theorists, weaponry and technological advances, and strategy and tactics.

Covers the world's best known and most significant vessels of every size and type. Each ship is described in a vivid short essay that captures its personality as well as its physical characteristics, construction, and history, from the drawing board to the scrap yard or museum.

A chronology of world history through 2009.

The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern.

Details how, between 1910 and 1945, the United States transformed itself from being a great power into a super power.

Covers the transformation of the Edwardian world in Britain, through war, technological progress and social change, into the Nuclear Age.

Covers Russian history of the period 1914 to the modern day, taking in the twilight years of Tsarist Russia, communist Russia and new Russia.

Provides a comprehensive study of important strategic, cultural, ethical and philosophical aspects of modern warfare.

A Companion to American Military History presents a comprehensive analysis of the historiography of United States military history from the colonial era to the present.

The Encyclopedia of War and American Society is a comprehensive, highly-credentialed multidisciplinary historical work that examines the numerous ways wars affect societies.

Featuring a wealth of new information and the work of acclaimed scholars from around the world, this monumental resource is the new standard reference on the 20th century’s most influential conflict.