Military forces and sectors

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and maps, carefully chosen illustrations and insightful analysis, this book examines the legendary Mongol warriors and their vastly different European opponents.

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and maps, carefully chosen illustrations and insightful analysis, this book examines the legendary Mongol warriors and their vastly different European opponents.

A rare look inside the British Army's elite special forces unit and its counter-terrorism surveillance operations-from one of its own.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

A fully objective, balanced description and appraisal of the air battles over the hotly-contested airspace above the North Korea-China border, with enlightening discussion of the relative merits of each type.

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 launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 ushered in one of the most rapid periods of warship development in history; and only ten years after this all-big-gun, turbine-powered battleship was completed, two entire fleets of Dreadnoughts would meet at Jutland and put the work of the prewar designers to the ultimate test.

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 book delves into the intertwined narratives of Poland and Germany's post-war experiences, shedding light on their shared trauma from World War II and subsequent confrontations with communism.

Fünf Fallstudien untersuchen die Schweizer Rüstungsgüter in der Zeit des Kalten Krieges in ihren vielfältigen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Militär, Industrie, Politik und Öffentlichkeit.

A new narrative and analytic history of the twenty U.

Mucho se ha escrito sobre el "tiroteo en Miami" que tuvo lugar el 11 de abril de 1986: dos sanguinarios atracadores de bancos, ocho agentes del FBI y ciento cincuenta disparos.

The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and composed of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro.

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USS Intrepid's Fighting Squadron 18 (VF-18) was one of the U.

This book investigates the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and politicized debates held there.

La Flomar avanzaba decidida hacia el que era su objetivo militar, «la ocupación territorial de las islas para, por su parte, otras fuerzas atacar a lo largo de la frontera».

South African Mirages and Cuban MiG-21s dogfighting over Cuito Cuanavale, the largest tank battle on African soil since El Alamein; Puma troopships shot out of the skies by Strela missiles and RPG-7 rockets; Alouette III gunships hovering menacingly above Koevoet tracker-combat teams as they close in for the kill; Hercules and Transall transports disgorging their loads of Parabats over Cassinga; suicidal helicopter hot extractions of Recce operators deep in enemy territory; and a lone Alouette pilot who disobeyed orders and under intense ground fire evacuated a critically wounded soldier … such is the story of the South African Air Force, the SAAF, over the 23-year period 1966-1989, the period of conflict that became known as the 'Border War'.

A fully illustrated study of the Nakajima Ki49 'Helen', the twin-engined bomber of the Pacific War, from Japanese aviation expert George Eleftheriou.

The full visual history of the special forces combat diver from World War II to the present day.

In 1915 18, ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields, from Gallipoli to Jerusalem.

A fully illustrated study of the Nakajima Ki49 'Helen', the twin-engined bomber of the Pacific War, from Japanese aviation expert George Eleftheriou.

Noted authority Steven J.

In 1915 18, ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields, from Gallipoli to Jerusalem.

Noted authority Steven J.

This book examines the role of maritime power in the 'Chinese Dream' of becoming the pre-eminent global power by 2049, a century after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

The only Confederate ship to circumnavigate the globe The Confederate cruiser Shenandoah was the last of a group of commerce raiders deployed to prey on Union merchant ships.

From a WWII veteran, an illustrated military history of the German tank division that fought exclusively on the Eastern front.

Gripping firsthand accounts.