Specific wars and campaigns

The Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, was founded in 1942 by William 'Wild Bill' Donovan under the direction of President Roosevelt.

From the earliest planning stages of the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, Hitler was convinced of the importance of taking the Meuse bridges.

A fascinating insight into the dangers and difficulties of operating within the desert terrain From 1940 to 1943 North Africa saw the first major desert campaign by modern mechanised armies.

The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day.

This highly detailed study provides a clear account of how the British Army was organised, who commanded it, and how it functioned in the field during the Peninsular War.

Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY Catalina was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force.

In this book, aviation expert Chris Thomas - inspired to research Typhoons by his own father, who flew numerous raids in a Typhoon during World War 2 - extols the great importance of the Typhoon wings in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe.

The most produced Japanese bomber of the war, the G4M saw action on every front from the first day of the Pacific conflict through to VJ-Day.

The 50 years before the American Civil War saw a boom in the construction of coastal forts in the United States of America.

From the earliest planning stages of the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, Hitler was convinced of the importance of taking the Meuse bridges.

A fascinating insight into the dangers and difficulties of operating within the desert terrain From 1940 to 1943 North Africa saw the first major desert campaign by modern mechanised armies.

Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY Catalina was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the military importance of the Hawaiian Islands became clear.

The war fought between the United Kingdom and Argentina in 1982, for the possession of the Falkland Islands, was probably the last 'colonial' war that will ever be undertaken by the British.

The most produced Japanese bomber of the war, the G4M saw action on every front from the first day of the Pacific conflict through to VJ-Day.

A fascinating and action-packed look at the highest scoring unit within the CBI theatre telling the story of the colourful characters who fought a difficult guerrilla war against the Japanese.

The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day.

Essays by Christian G.

Designed to combine the bombing capability of the B-26 Marauder with the versatility of the ground-attack A-20 Havoc, the A-26 Invader would become the USAAF's attack bomber par excellence.

A detailed, illustrated combat history of an aircraft described as a legend in its own time.

An illustrated combat history of the A-4 Skyhawk, which flew numerous attack missions in Israeli service and initiated the Israeli Air Force's transition from French to US aircraft.

The armored divisions were the shock force of the US Army's combat formations during the fighting in Northwest Europe in the final year of the war.

The design development and combat history of some of the most technologically advanced fortress networks in Germany and France.

An in-depth examination of the United States' invasion of two Pacific islands, featuring a variety of illustrations throughout.

Gordon Rottman details the bitter 26-day struggle for this key Pacific island during World War II.

A highly illustrated, compact volume on a significant win for the Confederacy.

Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma.

Monuments and Memory-Making immerses students in the conversations and controversies that emerged as the nation grappled with how best to memorialize what was at the time the longest military conflict in US history.

These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South.

His life.

In this revised version of a ground-breaking global history of women and the First World War, Susan Grayzel shows the multiple ways in which women faced the enormous challenges the war presented, both the losses as well as the opportunities that the war provided.

As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond.

Fifty years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords signaled the final withdrawal of U.

Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of wars significance to the history of the Great War.

Monuments and Memory-Making immerses students in the conversations and controversies that emerged as the nation grappled with how best to memorialize what was at the time the longest military conflict in US history.

As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond.

Valrie Andr is one of the great military aviators of the twentieth century.

How was it possible that almost all of the nearly 300,000 British and American troops who fell into German hands during World War II survived captivity in German POW camps and returned home almost as soon as the war ended?

For Professors: Free E-Exam Copies

During World War II, the civilian Office of Censorship supervised a huge and surprisingly successful program of news management: the voluntary self-censorship of the American press.

In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines.

Essays by Christian G.

Fifty years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords signaled the final withdrawal of U.

After Japans attack on Pearl Harbor, leaders in China and the United States had high hopes of a lasting partnership between the two countries.

Originally published in 1924 and available here in English for the first time, The Enemys House Divided is Charles de Gaulles analysis of the major errors that led the Germans to disaster in World War I.

Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of wars significance to the history of the Great War.

These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South.

After Japans attack on Pearl Harbor, leaders in China and the United States had high hopes of a lasting partnership between the two countries.

Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes experienced by (post-) Habsburg Central Europe during and immediately after the Great War.

Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes experienced by (post-) Habsburg Central Europe during and immediately after the Great War.