Campaigns & Commanders seeks works that cover the world’s battles, campaigns, and military commanders, all framed within the political, institutional, sociological, and cultural aspects of war. Works from all time periods and all geographical locations are welcome. The series seeks to blend traditional operational history and military biography with the new military history.
Gregory J. Urwin, Series Editor
Gregory J. W. Urwin is a professor of history at Temple University, the immediate president of the Society for Military History, a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, and an Academic Fellow of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Urwin is a military historian with an interest in the armed forces of the United States and Great Britain. His research has emphasized the American Revolution, American Civil War, America’s Indian Wars, and World War II in the Pacific. His publications have won the General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and the Harold L. Peterson Award from the Eastern National Park and Monument Association.
The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808–1814
by Joshua Moon
In Wellington's Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington's command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington fought in England—with an archaic military command structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion.
Examining the naval and land campaign in strategic, political, and military terms, from planning to execution to outcome, The Battle of Lake Champlain offers the most thorough account written of this pivotal moment in American history.
A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union
by Holly A. Mayer
Interweaving insights from borderlands and community studies with military history, Mayer tracks key battles and traces debates that raged within the Revolution’s military and political borderlands wherein subjects became rebels, soldiers, and citizens.
Housing Washington's Army during the American Revolution
by Steven Elliott
Documenting the growth of Washington and his subordinates as military administrators, Surviving the Winters offers a telling new perspective on the commander’s generalship during the Revolutionary War. At the same time, the book demonstrates that these winter encampments stand alongside more famous battlefields as sites where American independence was won.
Whether offering a clearer picture of the performance of the state militia, providing a more accurate account of the conflict’s impact on the state’s diverse population, or newly detailing New York’s decisive contribution, this deeply researched, closely observed work revises our view of the nation’s perhaps least understood war.
Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797
by Nathaniel Jarrett
The Lion at Dawn opens a new, critical perspective on the emergence of modern Britain and its empire, and on its early effort to create a stable and peaceful international system, an ideal debated to this day.
In this first comprehensive analysis of Bradstreet’s raid, Ian McCulloch uses never-before-seen materials and a new interpretive approach to dispel many of the myths that have grown up around the operation. The result is a closely observed, deeply researched revisionist microhistory—the first unvarnished, balanced account of a critical moment in early American military history.
In this first full account of the regiment, Fitzharris brings to light the true story long obscured by the official histories illustrating aspects of a nineteenth-century soldier’s life—enlisted and commissioned alike—from recruitment and training to the rigors of active duty.
It is this reality, and this period of quasi-war and semiconflict, that Jonathan M. House plumbs in A Military History of the Cold War, 1962–1991, a complex case study in the Clausewitzian relationship of policy and military force during a time of global upheaval and political realignment.
The Campaigns of Sargon II demonstrates how Sargon changed the geopolitical dynamics in the Near East, inspired a period of cultural florescence, established long-lasting Assyrian supremacy, and became one of the most influential kings of the ancient world.
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