Military forces and sectors

On 1 September 1939, when Germany attacked Poland, the Wehrmacht numbered 3,180,000 men.

A highly illustrated study of the last great campaign in the Pacific Theatre in World War II: the US Navy and Royal Navy's air, surface, and submarine attacks on the Japanese Home Islands.

The Late Roman Empire was a period of significant change in the designs of standards and in the costumes of standard-bearers.

In October 2001 the most militarily advanced nation on earth came into conflict with one of the least developed nations as American forces poured into Afghanistan.

Having honed their piloting skills on the subsonic MiG-17 and transonic MiG-19, the Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (VPAF) received their first examples of the legendary MiG-21 supersonic fighter in 1966.

The samurai were the military elite of medieval and early modern Japan, and the men who led them were hailed as the very greatest, most heroic and most honourable of all samurai warriors.

Memoirs of SOE agents have always been rare - so many were either killed in action or executed - and today they are almost unheard of.

Based on extensive archival research, Sterling Michael Pavelec recounts the adventures of the handful of aviators and their aircraft during the Gallipoli Campaign.

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

The forgotten story of the major naval operations conducted in the Philippines by the US and Japanese navies after Leyte Gulf up to the US invasion of Luzon in January 1945.

A gripping account of the fighting between cavalry of the Union and Confederate armies at small-unit level.

The elliptical shape and mighty roar of the Supermarine Spitfire continues to inspire people all over the world.

The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War.

NATO's Northern members are increasingly concerned about Russia's military activities.

The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was the first global conflict and became the key factor in creating the British Empire.

The perfect companion to Masters of the Air on Apple TV+, this is a superbly illustrated examination of the aircraft, pilots, crews and operations of the US Eighth Air Force.

The complete story of the pilots who 'made ace' while flying the original MiG fighters.

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A compact history charting the development of this natural harbor in the Orkney Islands, Britain's most important naval base during World Wars I and II.

At the time of publication, no single volume in English had ever appeared in the West dealing with this intriguing subject area.

This book offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-national approach to defining key elements required to define power within the maritime domain.

The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, having commissioned the world's first built-from-the-keel-up carrier, the Hosho.

The American Revolution was a decisive conflict, which saw the birth of a new nation.

This early work by Richard Hillary was originally published in 1942 and we are now republishing it.

Covering the history of the U.

More than half a century after his death, Lt Col.

The US armed forces pioneered amphibious warfare in the Pacific and by the time of the D-day landings they had perfected the special equipment and tactics necessary for this extraordinarily difficult and risky form of warfare.

This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles ('hunter-killer drones') in contemporary conflicts.

This revised edition of Mike Chappell's original Men-at-Arms 138 represents nearly 20 years' new research.

Research on The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is a valuable addition to understanding the political situation in the potentially volatile South China Sea region.

In this book, aviation expert Chris Thomas - inspired to research Typhoons by his own father, who flew numerous raids in a Typhoon during World War 2 - extols the great importance of the Typhoon wings in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe.

A comprehensive and dramatic re-telling of the Guadalcanal and Solomons naval campaign the daring Allied offensive to protect Australia and the South Pacific from Japanese invasion.

The Routledge Handbook of Air Power offers a comprehensive overview of the political purposes and military importance of air power.

The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the First World War.

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Drawing upon Soviet sources, this book assesses the evolving organization, uniforms, insignia, weaponry and personal equipment of Soviet naval infantry units from 1917 to 1991.

In the decades before the American Civil War various political, social, and religious groups agitated for reforms in American society that would be in keeping with its professed democratic and national principles.

“The compelling story of the squadron of adventurous young American pilots who were among the first to engage in air combat.

Published to coincide with the 80th birthday of the Spitfire, this is the combat history of one of the most iconic planes ever built as it pushed on from the successes of the Battle of Britain and took the fight to the Germans over the Channel between 1941 43.

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

An illustrated technical history of the Gobbi Maledetti ('damned hunchbacks'), Italy's most recognisable combat aircraft.

When Robert Haddick wrote Fire on the Water, first published in 2014, most policy experts and the public underestimated the threat China's military modernization posed to the U.

The British Centurion and the American M48 Patton, two leading tanks of the Cold War era, clashed in the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War.

A gripping account of the final period of the war in the Asia Pacific during WWII.

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific.

Kill Chain is the essential history of drone warfare, a development in military technology that, as Andrew Cockburn demonstrates, has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia.

This collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century.

Six Victories examines one of the most interesting and instructive naval campaigns of World War II: the war on traffic in the Mediterranean during the fall and winter of 1941-42.