Land forces and warfare

The Iosef Stalin tanks were the ultimate heavy tanks developed by the Soviet Union and were popularly called 'Victory tanks' due to their close association with the defeat of Germany in 1945.

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The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community.

Few weapons developed a more deadly reputation than the German '88' in the role of anti-tank gun, its long reach and lethal hitting power making it a significant problem for every type of British and later American armour.

In fascinating detail, Dr Stephen Bull describes the slow and painful learning curve of the Allies in the mid-war years, trying to end the Japanese stranglehold on Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

The last volume of Prit Buttar's best-selling series on the Eastern Front in World War I in paperback.

Civil wars are among the most difficult problems in world politics.

This book focuses on Von Leeb's Army Group North, tasked with seizing the Baltic States and Leningrad.

A detailed analysis of the Soviet armed forces during the final days of the war, covering the soldiers that successfully turned the tide against the Nazi onslaught and pushed it back into Germany itself.

Compiled by an acclaimed Civil War historian, this beautiful volume illustrated with stunning photography examines America's deadliest conflict through the camera's lens.

From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, US Marines formed the tip of the spear as Allied forces sought to push the Japanese back to their Home Islands.

The importance of the Australian contribution to the Allied war effort during World War I should never be underestimated.

From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this paperback edition of his detailed and engrossing account of the World War II's Eastern Front as German forces were driven back following the Battle of Kursk.

A fully illustrated new assessment of the German tank force that won its greatest victory in France during 1940.

Strategic Survey 2022: The Annual Assessment of Geopolitics provides objective, in-depth analysis of the events that have shaped relations between major powers, region by region, over the past year, and highlights the pressing geopolitical and geo-economic challenges that will shape the international agenda in 2023.

A comprehensive new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War.

This is the first serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War.

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and their antecedents have been involved in every major British campaign since the 17th century.

In many ways the end of the Vietnam War left the US army a spent force.

In the second half of World War II the German Army faced numerically superior armoured forces on the Eastern and Western Fronts.

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the Roman and Dacian fighting men who clashed in three bloody encounters during the Dacian Wars of AD 85 106.

Captain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, firsthand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’s commentary provides the historical background to the formation of the Patrols and follows their activities from the British raid on Siwa Oasis to desert exploration and survey work and the Kufra Reconnaissance Scheme.

Badajoz 1812 analyses the storming of Badajoz, which involved Wellington's infantry in some of the most savage hand-to hand fighting of the whole Peninsular War.

Expert author and tactician Gordon L Rottman & Akira Takizawa provide the first English-language study of Japanese Army and Navy tank units, their tactics and how they were deployed in action.

In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controversial actions in recent history.

Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943.

The tank revolutionized the battlefield in World War II.

Kaufman examines the training and status of British military surgeons during the late 18th and 19th centuries.

The Ardennes, 1944.

A comprehensive overview of the troops involved in the First World War campaigns in Southeastern Europe.

Fully illustrated study of the race to the Breton ports and the struggle to take them by Patton's Third Army in the months after D-Day.

This “excellent biography” of one of the US Army’s unsung heroes “provides a much-needed re-examination of the early post-Vietnam Army" (Bowling Green Daily News).

The Matilda was the principal British infantry tank in the early years of World War II.

During the Napoleonic era, Russia possessed a vast force of cavalry, forming a greater percentage than that of most European armies.

This volume examines how the Ottoman Army was able to evolve and maintain a high level of overall combat effectiveness despite the primitive nature of the Ottoman State during the First World War.

A highly illustrated account of the battle for Blanc Mont Ridge in 1918, where the US attackers broke the German line and sent them into headlong retreat in one of the major US victories of World War I.

A highly illustrated account of the decisive battle of Imphal during World War II, where the attempted Japanese invasion of India was turned back in its largest land defeat of the war so far.

No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book.

In 1939 more than 140,000 New Zealanders enlisted to fight overseas during World War II.

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and their antecedents have been involved in every major British campaign since the 17th century.

A comprehensive illustrated study of the RPG The RPG-series of weapons is the most widely used family of lightweight antitank weapons in the world today.

In 1961 - two years after a revolution in Cuba overran the government of Fulgencio Batista - a group of Cuban exiles (backed by the CIA) landed on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro from the new government.

The second instalment in a remarkable three-part study that transformed the research material available to the English-speaking student of the Peninsular War.

A detailed, fully illustrated study of the most recognizable assault rifle ever produced.

Sergeant Major Devaney's They Were Heroes presents moving portraits of warriors who have not been fully celebrated.

In June 1942 the Indian Army suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Japanese Army and subsequently endured its longest retreat ever.

Upon the entry of the United States into World War I, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were created by the War Department on short notice from existing units, filled up with men from the training camps and deployed with only their personal weapons and equipment.

For the first time in English, a concise but fact-packed account of the organization, equipment, and all operations of Japan's small but elite wartime parachute forces.

In the summer of 1642 the First Civil War between king and parliament had broken out in England.