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Books
The Western Way of War by Victor Davis Hanson (University of California Press, 1989)
War in the Middle Ages by Philippe Contamine, translated by Michael Jones (Basil Blackwell, 1984)
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830 by Richard Harding (Naval Institute Press, 1999)
European Armies and the Conduct of War by Hew Strachan (George Allen & Unwin, 1983)
The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front, and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918 by Tim Travers (Unwin Hyman, 1987)
The Air War, 1939-1945 by RJ Overy (Brassey's, 2004)
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy by Lawrence Freedman (St Martin's Press, 1981)
Guerrilla Warfare: A Historical and Critical Study by Walter Laqueur (Little, Brown, 1976)
The Transformation of American Air Power by Benjamin S Lambeth (Cornell University Press, 2000)
About the author
Daniel Moran is professor of international and military history in the Department of National Security Affairs at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is the author or editor of a number of works in these fields, including most recently Wars of National Liberation (Cassell, rev. ed. 2002) and The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
