Military history

This study of the importance of the little-known Civil War battle is "e;a well written, thoroughly researched, amply illustrated, and engaging story"e; (Civil War Courier).

In 1918, the Germans launched the Spring Offensive.

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In the spring of 1940, Stalin‘s NKVD executed 22,000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other places.

"e;The definitive account of Union Maj.

This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the development and importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), its role in international relations and its influence on history.

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 has traditionally been seen as a limited conflict between French and German forces.

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Was Pope Pius XII secretly in league with Adolf Hitler?

John Fremantle was on Wellington's personal staff through the later years of the Peninsular War and Waterloo campaigns.

This thrilling WWII biography tells the incredible true story of one of the Royal Air Force's greatest flying aces.

The acclaimed chronicler of RAF history has compiled ninety-one obituaries of outstanding aviators covering the period from 2007 to the end of 2017.

In Between the Alps and a Hard Place, Professor Angelo M.

“We waited in silence, each man occupied with his own secret thoughts and no doubt wrestling with his own secret fears.

A fictionalized World War I memoir by RAF pilot John Everard Gurdon, “an evocative picture of the daily life of the squadron and its characters” (Western Front Association).

An insider's account of the South Vietnamese elites who strove to carry on the war against the Communists during the U.

A concise history of Custer's Last Stand with maps, facts, historical significance, and more.

An examination of an important campaign between these two generals that set the scene for the pending war.

This World War II memoir by a Nazi soldier details his unimaginable experience as a German prisoner-of-war in the Soviet Union.

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The authors of Bloody April 1917 present a new volume of facts, photos, and analysis covering aerial combat in the last days of the Great War.

Post-conflict scenarios are often proposed for Arab countries that have witnessed significant changes and civil wars.

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Mit Empathie für Insekten die Welt retten!

The author of Shot Down in the Drink shares photos and anecdotes detailing the history of the World War II fighter plane and its crews across the globe.

Reinhard ‘Teddy’ Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander.

Following his first book in the TankCraft series on the British army’s Shermans during the battle for Normandy, Dennis Oliver has compiled a companion volume on those used by the US Army throughout the campaign in Western Europe.

'This is a well-researched, detailed and compelling story.

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This WWII history examines Nazi air force operations in Egypt and Libya with more than 100 rare wartime photographs.

A history of 1805’s Battle of Trafalgar between the British Royal Navy and the joint forces of the French and Spanish navies.

This book is a historical study of the events of October 1941 in the Viaz’ma pocket, based on documents found in the Russian Federation’s Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, the German Bundesarchiv, and the US National Archives.

NOW AN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY, Winter JourneySet amid the growing tyranny of Germany's Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of Gunther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courageous Jewish musicians who struggled to perform under unimaginable circumstances and found themselves falling in love in a country bent on destroying them.

The award-winning Civil War historian examines the actions of Union Cavalry on the first day of the Battle of Chickamauga in this history and tour guide.

The forces of the independent Zulu kingdom inflicted a crushing defeat on British imperial forces at Isandlwana in January 1879.

During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax.

Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II.

The last of the nine Frontier Wars fought between 1799–1877 was in many ways a ‘prequel’ to the more famous Zulu War of 1879, featuring as it did many of the British regiments and personalities who were to fight at Isandlwana, as well as being the final defeat of the Xhosa people and their reduction to lowly workers for the colonists.

A study of how doctors and surgeons treated the brutal injuries and illnesses suffered by medieval combatants.

"e;As combat veterans and high commanders know, logic is often a stranger in wartime.

Reveals fundamental continuities between the contemporary War on Terror and earlier U.

This study of the importance of the little-known Civil War battle is "e;a well written, thoroughly researched, amply illustrated, and engaging story"e; (Civil War Courier).

Between 1945 and 1970, Canada's Department of National Defence sponsored scientific research into the myriad challenges of military operations in cold regions.

In December 1922, the distinguished foreign correspondent Leonard Spray warned Britain to 'keep your eye on Hitler'.

Excerpt: "e;The task of the American Navy in the great conflict was performed exceedingly well, but so very quietly that even now the merits of the achievement are realized only by those who knew how near the German submarine campaign came to winning the war.

The First World War is widely conceived as a pointless conflict that destroyed a generation.

An overview of generations of Italians in the Big Apple, weaving together numerous stories from different epochs and different backgrounds.