Military forces and sectors

This book examines the US Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar years from a new perspective.

This book examines the US Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar years from a new perspective.

A fast-moving account that details Even-Epstein's experiences particularly in the intense conflicts of 1967, the Six Day War, and 1973, the Yom Kippur War.

In this WWII memoir, a woman recounts her struggle to survive and serve her country in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

The first operational military jet in the world, towards the end of the Second World War the ME 262 was to be the German miracle weapon.

Archive-based historical analysis of UK military aerospace collaboration.

From Army Rangers to Green Berets to the U.

Tracing the "e;American Guerrilla"e; narrative through more than one hundred years of film and television, this book shows how the conventions and politics of this narrative influence Americans to see themselves as warriors, both on screen and in history.

Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History is well known to students of naval history and strategy, but his other writings are often overlooked when considering today's challenges.

This timely addition to Civil War history shares the stories of 25 unique military organizations, showing how past and future collided in the first modern war.

Desde el 27 de febrero de 2009, puntapié inicial de la aplicación del régimen disciplinario de las Fuerzas Armadas instaurado por la Ley 26.

Desde el 27 de febrero de 2009, puntapié inicial de la aplicación del régimen disciplinario de las Fuerzas Armadas instaurado por la Ley 26.

'[An] excellent account.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the U.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the U.

This book presents a geopolitical analysis of the upcoming human exploration of celestial bodies in the inner solar system by the major space powers.

This book presents a geopolitical analysis of the upcoming human exploration of celestial bodies in the inner solar system by the major space powers.

A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as it did.

This handbook provides a comprehensive study of India's maritime heritage.

In the early morning hours of July 29, 1967, crew members aboard the USS Forrestal had no clue that their being awakened by a "e;Man overboard"e; alarm could have served as a possible omen of events to come only a few hours later.

A frightened boy pursued by racist bullies who grew up to become a trailblazing soldier in the British Army and then the SAS, Melvyn Downes was one of the first British-born Black men to join the elite regiment.

Sulphur Springs native Frank Webster Pearce was a soldier in Texas' own 36th Infantry Division and the 111th Engineer Combat Battalion.

Sulphur Springs native Frank Webster Pearce was a soldier in Texas' own 36th Infantry Division and the 111th Engineer Combat Battalion.

This early work by Gerald Featherstone Knight was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series.

A fascinating glimpse into the history of warfare.

The Royal Navy of Nelson’s time was such a huge organisation, that it is sometimes hard to comprehend its full scope.

March 1941.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Stafford Corbett emerged as foundational thinkers on naval strategy and maritime power.

"e;A well-written yet concise history"e; of Hitler's plan to build a massive naval fleet, why it failed, and how it may have affected the outcome of WWII (Nautical Research Journal).

A pictorial history of the Nazi special forces group, their training, and the action they saw during World War II.

Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy.

A fresh and incisive examination of one of the Second World War's crucial campaigns, the battle for Normandy in the months after D-Day.

The uprising in Libya in the spring of 2011 took the world by surprise.

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's top guns.

An in-depth look at some of the 20th century's notoriously terrible aircraft.

This WWII pictorial history illustrates the wide array of armored vehicles deployed by Allied and Axis powers in Italy.

The 1st volume in this comprehensive reference series details the design and employment of British warships in the 17th and early 18th centuries.

London was a target for Zeppelins and bombers during the First World War, for bombers, V1s and rockets in the Second, and for Cold War missiles and for terrorists in more recent times, yet rarely has the history of twentieth-century attacks on the capital been studied as a whole.

"e;Relates how the American Eighth Air Force bombers helped Britain's Royal Air Force in fighting Germany during World War II.

When it was first published in 1953, opinions were sharply divided between those who deplored the apparent extolling of a vicious form of warfare, and this who found in Heinz Schaeffer’s account a revealing picture of the German Navy’s training and methods.

The Territorials 1908-1914 is a unique, comprehensive record of the part-time soldiers who made up the Territorial Force that supported the regular army in the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War.

A British World War I veteran details artillery's role in the Great War, life on the Western Front, and soldier morale in this classic memoir.

This battlefield guide is the companion work to Merville Battery & The Dives Bridges.

A guide to creating models of the World War II warship, featuring history on the ship as well as crafting tips.

"e;A first-class work detailing the work of the elite British Commandos and their American counterpart the Rangers .

The photographs are taken from five unpublished albums focussing on the German invasion of Russia in 1941 Operation Barbarossa.

Alois Siska was born in Czechoslovakia and learnt to fly.

This tribute to the life of Jerzy Dobiecki, a Polish cavalry captain with the 18-ty Pulk Ulanow Pomorskich - the 18th Polish Pomeranian Lancers, is a story based on previously archived material, originally written by the Captain in Polish, that has been translated for the first time into English.