Campaigns and Commanders Series
About the Series
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.
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The Lion at Dawn
Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797
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.
Kill Jeff Davis
The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864
The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond (February 28–March 3, 1864) was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raid’s subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point instead to a plot to capture or kill Confederate president Jefferson Davis and set Richmond ablaze. Kill Jeff Davis offers a fresh look at the failed raid and mines newly discovered documents and little-known sources to provide definitive answers.
John Bradstreet's Raid, 1758
A Riverine Operation of the French and Indian War
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.
Defender of Canada
Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812
When war broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812, Sir George Prevost, captain general and governor in chief of British North America, was responsible for defending a group of North American colonies that stretched as far as the distance from Paris to Moscow. Defender of Canada, the first book-length examination of Prevost’s career, offers a reinterpretation of the general’s military leadership in the War of 1812. Historian Tanya Grodzinski shows that Prevost deserves far greater credit for the successful defense of Canada than he has heretofore received.
Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain's Special Operations Executive
Part biography, part intellectual and organizational history, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare is the first book to explore the origins of a substantial force in the Allies’ victory in World War II.
Russia's Army
A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine
Russia’s Army reveals how the Imperial Russian Army and its successors, the Soviet Army and the army of the Russian Federation, confronted the state’s foreign policy challenges—projecting power and defending the empire—and the domestic challenge of containing internal unrest generated by nationalism, competing ethnic and religious identities, and political discontent. These twin challenges, in turn, drove defense policy and the planning and conduct of war.
The Battle of Lake Champlain
A "Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory"
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.
Wellington's Two-Front War
The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808–1814
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.
Congress's Own
A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union
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.
Surviving the Winters
Housing Washington's Army during the American Revolution
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.
The Lion at Dawn
Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797
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.
Kill Jeff Davis
The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864
The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond (February 28–March 3, 1864) was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raid’s subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point instead to a plot to capture or kill Confederate president Jefferson Davis and set Richmond ablaze. Kill Jeff Davis offers a fresh look at the failed raid and mines newly discovered documents and little-known sources to provide definitive answers.
John Bradstreet's Raid, 1758
A Riverine Operation of the French and Indian War
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.
Defender of Canada
Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812
When war broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812, Sir George Prevost, captain general and governor in chief of British North America, was responsible for defending a group of North American colonies that stretched as far as the distance from Paris to Moscow. Defender of Canada, the first book-length examination of Prevost’s career, offers a reinterpretation of the general’s military leadership in the War of 1812. Historian Tanya Grodzinski shows that Prevost deserves far greater credit for the successful defense of Canada than he has heretofore received.
Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain's Special Operations Executive
Part biography, part intellectual and organizational history, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare is the first book to explore the origins of a substantial force in the Allies’ victory in World War II.
Russia's Army
A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine
Russia’s Army reveals how the Imperial Russian Army and its successors, the Soviet Army and the army of the Russian Federation, confronted the state’s foreign policy challenges—projecting power and defending the empire—and the domestic challenge of containing internal unrest generated by nationalism, competing ethnic and religious identities, and political discontent. These twin challenges, in turn, drove defense policy and the planning and conduct of war.
The Battle of Lake Champlain
A "Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory"
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.
Wellington's Two-Front War
The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808–1814
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.
Congress's Own
A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union
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.
Surviving the Winters
Housing Washington's Army during the American Revolution
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.