Specific wars and campaigns

This book is a collection of essays arising out of the 'Zealandia's Great War' conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003.

Francis Pegahmagabow was a remarkable aboriginal leader who served his nation in time of war and his people in time of peace.

Following the Civil War of 1994, Yemen experienced few years of relative peace.

Ion Idriess was a spotter for the famous Australian sniper, Billy Sing, and this book draws on his own experiences in the Gallipoli trenches during World War One.

Albert Speer was one of the most brilliant and controversial men of the Twentieth Century.

This book written by James Madison Page, a Northern soldier, represents an important narrative of Andersonville prison in Georgia.

Throughout all the game of war, in every Age, there has been no task so fascinating, so alive with thrills, as that of the scout.

Abdul the Sniper was the pride of the Turkish Army.

'To attack and ambush, to snipe and raid is the job of the Australian Guerrilla.

Idriess was a trooper with the Light Horse at Gallipoli, all the way to Beersheba, and his diary was published as The Desert Column.

Idriess was a trooper with the Light Horse at Gallipoli, all the way to Beersheba, and his diary was published as The Desert Column.

From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear .

In the 2010 federal election, independent candidate Andrew Wilkie grabbed headlines after winning the seat of Denison, and with it a key role in deciding who would form the next government of Australia.

Few travellers through the relentless expanse of the Karoo take in much beyond the band of tar stretching arrow-straight ahead of them through the endlessness.

Few travellers through the relentless expanse of the Karoo take in much beyond the band of tar stretching arrow-straight ahead of them through the endlessness.

Following the publication of Al Venter’s successful Portugal’s Guerrilla Wars in Africa - shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium’s 'Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013' - his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled history of this former Portuguese African colony.

An extraordinary life in the shadows of war and a Century in the making.

In "e;Treat 'em Rough, Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer,"e; Ring Lardner masterfully captures the raw, unfiltered voice of Jack, a spirited American soldier during World War I, through a series of candid and humorous letters to his friend Al.

Finalist, 2016, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardThe Maps of the Wilderness: An Atlas of the Wilderness Campaign, May 2-7, 1864 continues Bradley M.

***'If you only read one book about the Falklands make sure it's this one.

Charlie Squadron – the iron fist of the South African Defense Force’s 61 Mechanised Battalion Group – led the way on 3 October 1987 during the climactic battle on the Lomba River in Southern Angola.

During the 13-year insurgency (1961–74) in Portuguese Africa, more than 800,000 men and women served in the Portuguese armed forces.

Panzers in Defence of Festung Poznan 1945 by Maciej Karalus and Jarosław Jerzak is the first book published in English to describe the bitter battle for Festung Poznań in 1945.

Following the publication of Al Venter’s successful Portugal’s Guerrilla Wars in Africa - shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium’s 'Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013' - his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled history of this former Portuguese African colony.

Best known in the USA as a former colony and exotic tourist location, the Republic of the Philippines has seen civil unrest, insurgencies and separatism movements ever since independence in 1946.

A wide-eyed South African conscript relates his small share of the war in Angola and Namibia in the 1980s.

When released into independence from Great Britain in 1948, the stunningly beautiful island of Ceylon, renamed Sri Lanka in 1972, was expected to become a sort of ‘South Asian Singapore.

Of Islands, Ports, and Sea Lanes,/i> explains the operational and strategic importance of the ports and sea lanes of Africa and the Indian Ocean during the Second World War.

Since September 1962, hardly a week passed without a major armed confrontation or an outright war in Yemen.

Following the Civil War of 1994, Yemen experienced few years of relative peace.

Details a critical period in the Red Army's advance along the southwest strategic direction during the general offensive that followed the fighting in the area of the Kursk salient in July-August 1943.

Crete, 20 May 1941: the first campaign-sized airborne assault is launched.

Ethiopia, a country of ancient origins in eastern Africa, remains a military powerhouse of that continent until our days.

Sixty years since the tripartite aggression of France, Great Britain and Israel against Egypt, this is the first account about Egyptian military operations during the Suez War of 1956 (or ‘Suez Crisis’, as it is known in the West).

Designed by Sydney Camm as a swept wing, daytime interceptor with excellent maneuverability, the Hunter became the first jet aircraft manufactured by Hawker for the Royal Air Force.

While the first volume in this mini-series spanned the first decade of confrontations between Libya and several of its neighbors, but foremost the USA and France, between 1973 and 1985, the second is to cover the period of less than a year – between mid-1985 and March 1986, when this confrontation reached its first climax.

Using the Russian Ministry of Defense’s archives and Western sources, the author has produced a companion work to his masterful study of II SS Panzer Corps’ offensive and the culminating clash at Prokhorovka.

The development of the F-5 lightweight supersonic fighter in the mid 1950s was almost a gamble for the Northrop Corporation, but ultimately resulted in one of most commercially successful combat aircraft in modern history.

In December of 1914, veteran Boer commander General Louis Botha landed his forces on the coast of German South West Africa to finish off the colony’s Schutztruppe defenders.

Portuguese paratroopers or “paras” began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955.

For years before the outbreak of the First World War, it was the expectation of most officers of the Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy that very shortly thereafter; a decisive fleet action would be fought.

In the summer of 1943, the United Nations began Operation HUSKY, the invasion of Sicily.

The author, Igor’ Sdvizhkov, takes a close look at the attempt by the Briansk Front’s Operational Group Chibisov to collapse the northern shoulder of the German drive to the Caucasus - north-west of Voronezh - in July 1942.

The Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 was one of the greatest battles in military history involving more than 3 million soldiers, 10,000 tanks and 8,000 aircraft.

After a brief overview of the origins and development of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea Coast, author Nikolai Ovcharenko turns to its citizens’ ordeal during the Second World War.

The North African campaign was one of the hardest fought episodes of the Second World War, yet the vital part played by the Italian Army - and in particular, its Folgore Parachute Division on behalf of the Axis Alliance - is frequently overlooked.

In June 1941 - during the first week of the Nazi invasion in the Soviet Union - the quiet cornfields and towns of Western Ukraine were awakened by the clanking of steel and thunder of explosions; this was the greatest tank battle of the Second World War.

Dive into the daring deeds of wartime pilots in the throes of World War II.

Ever wondered what it truly felt like to be in the heart of the Battle of Britain?

Roland J.