Military forces and sectors

A Times History Book of the Year 2022From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last.

With a Foreword by John ';Lofty' Wiseman, author of The SAS Survival Handbook!

The Blackburn, later Hawker Siddeley, Buccaneer enjoyed an incredible service career that lasted over four decades.

In the first of a series of books, naval expert Phil Carradice takes us through the war at sea in 1939, using previously unpublished and rare images of the battles, the ships and the people involved.

This second volume about Japan's samurai commanders covers the generals of the later years of the Age of the Warring States, a period when only the most able leaders survived.

This is the David-and-Goliath story of how RAF Coastal Command battled with outdated aircraft against the deadly U-boat fleet during the crucial first years of World War II.

A concise history of the unique integrated commando-style brigade of US and Canadian volunteers formed in 1942.

Hampered by lack of materials, shipyards and experienced shipbuilders, even so the South managed to construct 34 iron-armored warships during the Civil War, of which the Confederate Navy put 25 into service.

World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era.

A fascinating look at the realities of day-to-day life as a Napoleonic Infantryman.

Known as "e;the Great War,"e; the world's first truly global conflict is remarkable in what might now be termed modern espionage.

In this volume author James Donnell explores the entire Atlanta campaign, from Sherman's initial clashes with Joseph E.

While the United States sought to remain neutral in the early years of World War II, some Americans did not.

This book provides Bolt Action players with all of the information they need to field the military forces of Germany.

Sun Tzu in Space provides a novel way of thinking about the future, connecting international relations, history, and science fiction to better understand some of the various paths for future human activities in space.

Drawing on difficult-to-access wartime documents and other contemporary sources, this is the first compact, illustrated study of the tactics and techniques of the US fast carriers of Task Forces 50, 58 and 38 during the naval war against Japan in 1943 45.

Unlike the relative uniformity of conventional warfare, the peculiarities of small wars prevent a clear definition of rules and roles for military forces to follow.

A ground-breaking narrative history, which examines the never-before-told story of one of the most devastating battles of American involvement in World War I the battle of Montfaucon.

A paratrooper’s memoir of survival and close-quarters combat in WWII: “Well worth reading” (Flight Journal).

The Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 is considered by many to be the most important naval confrontation of the War of 1812.

The result of years of research in British, French and German archives, this is a new critical history of how close Germany came to winning the First World War in 1914.

Allied fighter pilots began encountering German jets principally the outstanding Me 262 fighter from the autumn of 1944.

This superbly researched book gives a complete account of the war in the Mediterranean on, above and beneath the sea up until Italy's armistice in September 1943.

In 1941, as the Battle of the Atlantic raged and ship losses mounted, the British Admiralty desperately tried to find ways to defeat the U-Boat threat to Britain's maritime lifeline.

This is the history of how the mighty Gothic Line was defeated by American air power, in one of the most pivotal but least-known air campaigns of World War II.

A history of the World War II clandestine special operations group that linked German-occupied Norway with Scotland’s Shetland Islands.

Revised and expanded for Bolt Action 2nd Edition, this book provides players with all of the information they need to command Germany's military might.

The complete story of A-6 combat operations during the Vietnam War, illustrated throughout.

For 5 days in May 1980, the world watched as the SAS performed a daring raid on the Iranian Embassy in London.

A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

Despite being relatively unknown compared to famous ships like Graf Spee or Bismarke, or the more famous U-boats, the Auxiliary Cruisers were immensely successful, not only in the number of enemy ships they sank, but in the resources which were tied up trying to track them down.

This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off the Vietnamese coast, was given the tongue-in-cheek nickname 'The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'.

Explores the fundamental role of the British state in facilitating the nation''s global expansion and ascendancy in the eighteenth century.

This book presents a theory to account for the different strategies pursued by rebel groups in civil war.

This book examines the recent shift in US space policy and the forces that continually draw the US back into a space-technology security dilemma.

This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict.

In 1965, soon after the first US combat troops had arrived in Vietnam, it was realized that in some areas the Viet Cong had developed vast tunnel complexes in which to hide from the enemy.

Using four warship-centered examples, this book shows how naval battles are won or lost-and how technological advantage is rarely as decisive in defeat or victory as is often claimed.

The Imperial Japanese Navy went to war with 17 light cruisers and another three cruiser-sized training ships.

Using archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, Istv n Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and 1968.

Major General Johnson Hagood (1873-1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the twentieth century.

This title follows from New Vanguard 51: Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939 45 (1) and charts the continuing development of the U-boat in German service, including the evolution of the Type IX as a long range 'cruiser' intended for solo operations in distant waters.

1943 saw the tide of war change fully in the Allies' favour.

Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century.

A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.

Guerrilla insurgencies continue to rage across the globe, fueled by ethnic and religious conflict and the easy availability of weapons.

Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War.

There has been a shift in the way that we understand the forces behind imperialism.

A critical survey of the vocabulary of Viking ships and their crews, of fleets and sailing and battles at sea, based on the runic and skaldic evidence from c.

Violence at Sea is an overview of maritime piracy, examining threats that piracy poses to global security and commerce, as well as measures and policies to mitigate the threat.