Mussolini and his Generals

• John Gooch
• This is the first authoritative study of the Italian armed forces and the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy from Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 to the catastrophic defeat of 1940.

The Fall of Napoleon

• Michael V. Leggiere
• This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon’s empire.  This book provides the first complete, English-language study of the invasion of France along a front that extended from Holland to Switzerland.

Visions of Victory

• Gerhard L. Weinberg
• This book explores the views of eight war leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt - and compares their visions of the future assuming their side had emerged victorious.

To the Threshold of Power, 1922/33

• MacGregor Knox
• This book is the first volume of a two-part work that seeks to explain the origins and dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships. 

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Capital Cities at War

• Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert 
• This book is the second volume of a two-volume pioneering comparative history of the capital cities of Britain, France, and Germany during the Great War. 

The Great Naval Game Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire 

• Jan Rüger 
• This book examines the theatre of power and identity that unfolded in and between Britain and Germany, exploring the cult of the navy.

Arms, Economics and British Strategy

• G. C. Peden
• This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain’s decline as a great power.

The Great War and Medieval Memory

• Stefan Goebel
• Taking public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of the Great War. Survivors of the war pictured the conflict as the 'Last Crusade.'  Goebel shows that medievalism as a mode of war commemoration transcended national and cultural boundaries. 

The Great War and Urban Life in Germany

• Roger Chickering
• In deference to the principle that total war requires total history, Roger Chickering traces the all-embracing impact of the First World War on life in the German city of Freiburg.  He offers the most comprehensive history ever written of a German city at war.

The Risk Society at War

• Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen
• By outlining the history of the concept of strategy in terms of rationality, Rasmussen presents a framework for studying strategy in a time of risk and uses this framework to analyse how new technologies of war, pre-emptive doctrines, globalisation and the rise of the 'terrorist approach to warfare' can formulate a new theory of strategy.