MODERN CONFLICT

Counterinsurgency is defined as efforts to defeat and confine a rebellion against a constituted authority. While it has become a buzzword in the last twenty years, it is as old as society itself.

Between January and August 1947 the conflicting political, religious and social tensions in India culminated in independence from Britain and the creation of Pakistan.

John Campbell reveals Haldane's intensely personal side through previously unpublished private correspondence, and shows his enormous relevance in our search for just societies today

Giles Orpen-Smellie writes about his experience as a battalion intelligence officer, of how battlefield or tactical intelligence, was collected and assessed to develop a picture of the Argentine defenders.

On 19 March 2003, a combined force from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq. The British effort was codenamed Operation Telic and saw the largest gathering of British troops since the Second World War.

Andrew Hoskins and Matthew Ford discuss how digital devices have shaped the ways in which contemporary war is viewed, understood and fought.

Anthony King explores the defining characteristics of urban warfare in our times and reflects on the military and political implications of such conflicts.

Multi-award winning book, Our Boys is an unforgettable expedition through the honest experiences of the paratroopers who fought in the Falklands War.

Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium, Ukraine finally won independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Women on the Front Line explains how women went from unacknowledged participation in combat in the Second World War to the opening of all combat roles by 2018.

The astonishing true story of the Portland Spy Ring, one of the most infamous espionage cases of the Cold War.

Powerful stories drawn on the front lines of Migration by award-winning artist George Butler