Routledge Focus on the History of Conflict
About the Book Series
The history of war and warfare often contains events and episodes that in themselves took place over a relatively short period of time but which have developed wider historical resonance. This series of books, part of the Routledge Focus series of short form volumes, usually somewhere between the average length of a journal article and a monograph, sheds a light on key topics within the history of conflict - taking a broadly international perspective and with all eras represented.
Routledge will welcome new proposals for books in the series of less than 50,000 words. Please address any queries to Rob Langham at [email protected]
The Memory Politics of the Cursed Soldiers in Poland: Authoritarian Nationalism, Hegemony and Emotions
1st Edition
By Krzysztof Jaskułowski, Piotr Majewski
July 31, 2025
This book analyses right-wing memory politics in Poland through the concept of "cursed soldiers" as a key memory symbol, and how it has been used to construct a narrow and exclusionary vision of Polish identity framed in terms of Catholicism, national culture, and traditional family values. ...
Resistance in Colonial and Communist China, 1950-1963: Anatomy of a Riot
1st Edition
By R. B. E. Price
September 30, 2020
The history of colonial East Asia is a human anatomy describing beneficial organs of foreign rule. Proclaiming itself a schematic diagram open to inspection, the anatomy of the late British Empire nevertheless obscured much more than it revealed. This analogy in Price’s provocative Cold War history...
German Anti-Nazi Espionage in the Second World War: The OSS and the Men of the TOOL Missions
1st Edition
By Jonathan Gould
June 30, 2020
This book tells the dramatic story of the recruitment and training of a group of German communist exiles by the London office of the Office of Strategic Services for key spy missions into Nazi Germany during the final months of World War II. The book chronicles their stand against the rise of ...