Military forces and sectors

Diocletian and Constantine were the greatest of the Late Roman emperors, and their era marks the climax of the legionary system.

In 1943, small teams of elite British soldiers began parachuting into the mountains of Axis-occupied Albania.

This reference text explains what modern piracy is, where and why it happens, and what measures are being taken to combat it.

A look at the RAF service of the two most recognizable American-built fighters.

Translated from German, In a Raging Inferno is the first English-language book ever to recount the story of the Hitler Youth and its combat role at the end of World War II.

How, for just over a century, Britain ensured it would not face another Napoleon Bonaparte-manipulating European powers while building a global maritime empire At the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, a fragile peace emerged in Europe.

Using rare first-hand accounts from Me 262 pilots, Robert Forsyth examines what it was like to fly the world's most advanced interceptor in the deadly skies over Germany in 1944 45.

Whilst maritime studies tend to reflect the dominance of large navies, history shows how relatively small naval forces can have a disproportionately large impact on global events.

The 2025 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships.

The bombardment by Confederate artillery of Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861 was the spark that finally ignited the American Civil War, quickly bringing thousands of eager volunteers for the Union cause.

In Resisting Rebellion, Anthony James Joes's discussion of insurgencies ranges across five continents and spans more than two centuries.

Fighting Ships of the Far East (1) adds enormously to the hitherto small corpus of knowledge about a fascinating and little known subject.

Historian and systems engineer Lars Celander surveys the different types of drones, detailing their navigation, communication, sensor systems and weaponry.

Examines the slogan ''free trade and sailors rights'', tracing its sources to eighteenth-century thought and Americans'' experience with impressment into the British navy.

This book analyses the evolving geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region and explains how Djibouti fits in the global strategies of four major powers-the US, China, Japan, and France.

The first in a three-book series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich.

This book is largely an eye-witness account of the heavy bomber contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and therefore to the winning of the war in Europe.

Popularly known as the Douglas Dauntless, the U.

Heart-gripping accounts from family, friends, and military brethren show that the battle seldom ends when veterans come home.

Illustrated by contemporary photos and specially commissioned maps, this book is a fascinating account of Rommel's greatest victory.

"e;Mission Iran is a must-have for any military library of the Cold War and special operators.

The first ever illustrated study of the largest and most significant clash between the Royal Navy and the Italian Regia Marina.

Developed from a 1938 design by Messerschmitt the Me 262 Schwalbe (Swallow) was the world's first operational turbojet aircraft.

The realities of WWII underwater warfare come to life in this chronicle of a submarine sunk in the Philippines-and the remarkable sailors who survived.

Much like Carol Reardon's Launch the Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron in The Vietnam War, 1972, this book will look at the War in the Pacific from August 1942 through January 1945 and demonstrate that one unit's example was indicative of a wider whole.

This book is about the applicability of the high seas regime in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

While the US Marine Corps was one of the smallest of American armed services in World War II, its contribution to the final victory cannot be overstated.

The first monoplane aircraft ordered by the US Navy for carrier operations, the Douglas TBD Devastator was designed to fulfil a requirement for a new torpedo bomber.

So many histories of the War in the Pacific focus on the Allied experience.

In this book, Ariel Ahram offers a new perspective on a growing threat to international and human security-the reliance of 'weak states' on quasi-official militias, paramilitaries, and warlords.

This new history of the Royal Navy, published to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of the White Ensign Association, is a full and exciting account of all the many campaigns, operations and deployments conducted around the world from the Cold War and the Cod Wars to the Falklands War and the Gulf Wars.

This is the inside story of an Army Ranger, surrounded and outnumbered, fighting a desperate action on the ground during the Black Hawk Down raid in Somalia in 1993.

Initially flying Italian-supplied Fiat G.

The Gurkhas have fought on behalf of Britain and India for nearly two hundred years.

From the mid-19th century to the early Cold War, the United States has a long history with China, and that interaction has not always been positive or productive.

The Limits of Air Power analyzes the American bombing campaigns in Vietnam and shows why the use of air power, so effective in previous wars, proved unsuccessful in a limited war.

In this, the first of a five volume series covering the capital ships of the German Navy of World War II, Gordon Williamson examines the design, development and operational use of the battleships used by the Kriegsmarine.

Although the war in the Pacific is usually considered a carrier war, it was the cruisers that dominated the early fighting.

This collection of documents - official communications from high ranking officers together with extracts from diaries and memoirs of lesser figures - records one of the more bizarre episodes during, but only distantly related to, the Napoleonic wars.

A military history of the Spanish Civil War focussing on the challenges faced by the Republican Army.

The United States Navy has evolved in the last century and a half from humble and often frustrating beginnings during and after the Revolutionary War to become the strongest navy in the world with responsibilities that span the globe.

The mechanized infantry is one of the least-studied components of the U.

In 2001, while vacationing on Panama's Pacific coast, maritime archaeologist James P.

A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about "e;strategic"e; bombing were formed and implemented.

Written by the US Army's Urban Warfare Specialist, this book is the definitive look at how urban warfare tactics have evolved providing invaluable lessons for the US and British Armies of the future.

Overshadowed by the United States Army's armored divisions, the separate tank and tank destroyer battalions had the difficult mission of providing armored support for US infantry divisions in the 1944 45 campaigns.

"e;An inherently fascinating, impressively well written, exceptionally informative, and meticulously detailed history"e; of Japanese overseas mercenaries (Midwest Book Review).

The First Blitz tells the story of Germany's strategic air offensive against Britain, and how it came to be neutralized.