Specific wars and campaigns

This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme.

Tyrant, psychopath, and implementer of a ruthless programme of racial extermination, Adolf Hitler was also the charismatic Fuhrer of millions of dedicated followers.

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Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers.

Following Argentina's military operation to take possession of the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government launched a major naval operation to return them to British rule.

A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.

Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents.

Hitlers regime was notorious for its many experiments and its various secret ploys, weapons, and technological developments.

A true account of a unique event in naval history from “a superb storyteller” (Northern Mariner).

A riveting combination of war memoir and analysis providing “valuable insights” into the role of military intelligence in Vietnam (International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence).

As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-boat menace.

New edition: The classic illustrated history of the special ops unit—“an unprecedented look into this little-known aspect of the Vietnam conflict” (American Rifleman).

Winner of the Seaborg Award A History Book Club SelectionOn October 8, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed near Perryville, Kentucky, in what would be the largest battle ever fought on Kentucky soil.

The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany.

When rifleman Tom Guttridge returned from war in the early summer of 1945, he brought home not only vivid memories of the battlefield and his five years in prisoner-of-war camps, but a unique collection of photographs obtained from his German captors by trading items from Red Cross parcels.

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This book challenges the widely held view which condemns as weak and half-hearted Anglo-Jewish efforts on behalf of European Jews during the Nazi period.

Major General Maurice Rose (1899-1945), commander of 3rd Amored, First Army's legendary "e;Spearhead"e; division, was the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle, and the only individual casualty to spark a War Crimes Investigation.

At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903.

How to persuade citizens to enlist?

First full-length study of the use and perception of deceit in medieval warfare.

In 1795 the Russian army was as vast as the territory from which it was drawn.

This book focuses on the mass participation of women in the communist-led Yugoslav Partisan resistance during World War II.

The war years 1939 - 1945 were the most perilous in the long history of the British Merchant Navy.

“An important contribution to Civil War scholarship, offering an engrossing portrait of these important campaigns .

This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police.

In 1915 a machine christened Little Willie changed the way that wars were fought.

In Endgame at Stalingrad, the final volume of his acclaimed Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz completes his definitive account of one of World War IIs most infamous confrontations, the campaign that marked Germanys failure on the Eastern Front and proved to be a turning point in the war.

Despite efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations.

A dramatic account of Ulysses S Grant's epic victory on the Mississippi, featuring maps and illustrations throughout.

This is a story written by a young man who trained as a pilot, and then flew with the Royal Flying Corps in France during the First World War, eventually to become an ace.

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In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship.

A young Iraqi shares the true story of his wartime experiences after he was recruited by the US Army as an interpreter.

A dramatic account of Ulysses S Grant's epic victory on the Mississippi, featuring maps and illustrations throughout.

The Marine Corps began World War II with less than 66,000 officers and men.

The 3nd volume in this history of Confederate Virginia examines the effects of war on struggling families, the Hatfield-McCoy feud, and more.

This is the compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini.

The sniper is a battlefield threat second to none.

Brothers in War is the immensely powerful and deeply tragic story of the Beechey brothers, and how they paid the ultimate price for King and country.

Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options.

Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers.

This revised and updated guide to the Vietnam War charts the unforgettable story of America's longest and most controversial conflict, 50 years on from its end.

In 1945, with her fleet destroyed and her armies beaten, the only thing that stood between Japan and an Allied invasion was the numerous coastal defence positions that surrounded the islands.

In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P.

This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.