The Imperial War Museum Book of Modern Warfare

Since 1945, British and Commonwealth forces have been involved in fifteen major foreign campaigns and conflicts, and not a single year has passed in peace. Experts or first-hand witnesses have composed chapters on Java, Palestine, Malaya, Korea, Kenya, Cyprus, Canal Zone and Suez, Muscat and Oman, Brunei and Borneo, South Arabia, Aden, Northern Ireland, Dhofar, Falklands, Persian Gulf, Bosnia, and Kosovo. This is an authoritative and readable book that covers a significant and fascinating era in British military history.