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Security and Defence Policy in the European Union

By Jolyon Howorth

Private Armies and Military Intervention

By David Shearer

We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age

By Laurie Calhoun

The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War

By Malcolm Gladwell

Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

By Paul Kennedy

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War

By Simon Parkin

Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the 21st Century

By Rod Thornton (King's College, London)

The Lost Battle: Crete, 1941

By C. A. MacDonald

Strategy: A History

By Sir Lawrence Freedman (Professor of War Studies, Professor of War Studies, King's College London, London)

The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II

By John Mosier

Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine

By Sir Lawrence Freedman

Security: A New Framework for Analysis

By Barry Buzan

Invasion! D-Day & Operation Overlord in One Hundred Moments

By Scott Addington

I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict

By Kenneth Payne

Close Combat

By United States Marine Corps

Permanent Emergency: Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security

By Kip Hawley, Nathan Means

International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects

By Michael E. Smith

The Banzai Hunters: The Forgotten Armada of Little Ships That Defeated the Japanese, 1944-45

By Peter Haining

International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects

By Michael E. Smith

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings

The American Civil War

By John Keegan

Hitler's Enforcers: Leaders of the German War Machine, 1939-45

By James Lucas

The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age

By David E. Sanger

The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results

By Stephen Bungay

Gallipoli

By Alan moorehead

The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost

By Patrick Marnham

Carl von Clausewitz's On War: A Biography (A Book that Shook the World)

By Hew Strachan

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

European Security in the Nuclear Age

By James H. Wyllie

Strategic Defence and the Future of the Arms Race

By John P. Holdren, Joseph Rotblat