Military forces and sectors

Despite all the works on airborne forces published since 1945, the full story of Britain's 'airborne armour' has remained untold.

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.

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A concise history of the Royal Navy's air arm during World War II, from their Arctic convoys, to the battle of Malta, and the last raids on Japan.

A comprehensive history of the legendary armoured vehicles of the Panzerwaffe, Germany's most famous fighting force.

Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976 and now available in paperback for the first time, continues to be considered the best book ever written about Adm.

This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention.

The world entered the atomic age in August 1945, when the B-29 Superfortress nicknamed Enola Gay flew some 1,500 miles from the island of Tinian and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

Their stories needed to be told.

Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty HMS Hood, the largest warship of her day.

The Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 pitted Nazi Germany and her allies against Stalin's forces in a mighty struggle for survival.

A comprehensive examination of the tactics, leadership and organization of Samurai armies during the Sengoku Jidai.

The P-47 Thunderbolt, originally designed as a high-altitude interceptor, became the principal US fighter bomber of World War II.

A book by the specialist for the specialist, this is a must-have history of the most powerful German tank destroyer of World War II the Ferdinand/Elefant.

Since the limited Desert Fox campaign against Iraq in December 1998, the Tomcat has been integral to virtually all combat operations involving the US Navy in the Arabian Gulf.

This book covers the fierce night naval battles fought between the US Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during late 1943 as the Allies advanced slowly up the Solomons Islands toward the major Japanese naval base at Rabaul.

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The final instalment in Osprey's trilogy on Operation Market-Garden, this is a fascinating account of the British XXX Corps assault towards the Rhine at Arnhem.

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

The British Isles have a long, rich and celebrated seafaring history stretching from the earliest times through the victories of Drake and Nelson, the voyages of discovery of Cabot and Cook and the defence of the realm by vessels of all types in the present century.

This book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire's long spiral of decline.

HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War.

A new history of Rolling Thunder, the Vietnam War's first, most intense, and biggest US air campaign, by one of the most eminent names in air power studies.

The South African and Vietnam Wars provoked dramatically different reactions in Australians, from pro-British jingoism on the eve of Federation, to the anti-war protest movements of the 1960s.

Following the Revolution in 1789, members of the aristocracy were increasingly persecuted, and many of them fled abroad.

A compelling narrative of the largest land battle of its time, and the decisive engagement of the Russo-Japanese War.

Like its World War II namesake of Leyte Gulf fame, USS Samuel B.

Before William Stanley Lambert became a cadet in 1883, he had already sailed 44,890 miles round the world in a childhood voyage that took him two years to complete.

After Prussia's dismemberment a drastic re-organisation of the entire army was necessary, and the cavalry underwent this process with the rest.

From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy - now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary - has been an expression of Canadian nationhood and a catalyst in the complex process of national unity.

The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history.

Manfred, Freiherr von Richthofen, was the top ace of the First World War, with eighty confirmed victories.

A complete guide to trench warfare on the Western Front from an authority on the subject.

This title, a prequel to Warrior 57 French Napoleonic Infantryman 1803-15, concentrates on the period from the storming of the Bastille in 1789 until Bonaparte's election as Consul for Life in 1802.

While President James Madison was a brilliant scholar, author of much of this country's early documents, organizer of the executive branch of government, and an astute politician, he was no commander-in-chief.

A superbly illustrated account of one of the key milestones in the development of modern US Special Operations Forces, the hugely complex POW rescue at Son Tay.

In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders.

Author Mike Green provides new insights into the creation and ultimate failure of the German Panther tank.

From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the air war over Korea.

The story of the aces who flew the MS.

Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s.

This text examines the history of the Japanese army in the 1920s.

Sergeant Major Devaney's They Were Heroes presents moving portraits of warriors who have not been fully celebrated.

Hitler's Eagles charts the turbulent history of the Luftwaffe from its earliest days to its downfall.

This book concentrates on the dramatic experiences of Napoleon's Army of the Orient in Egypt and the Holy Land.

'Like The Long Reach, Down to Earth is a message from the battle at its height, told in their own words by the men who fight' - this is how Brig-Gen Francis Griswold, VIII Fighter Command, ends his introduction to this book.

Beyond the Beach examines the Allied air war against France in 1944.

How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sustain themselves, in concert with the British Army and with each other, during the era of the two world wars?