Military forces and sectors

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the Abdiel-class fast minelayers, which were considered the fastest and most versatile to serve in the Royal Navy during World War II.

During World War II, Germany, Japan, and Italy built approximately 2,000 small, inherently stealthy, naval craft to perform special operations and conventional naval missions.

Filled with recently declassified material, first hand accounts, and unique photographs, this book offers a rare look at the largest mobilisation of Special Forces in recent history.

With its authoritative reference entries, multiple introductory and perspective essays, primary source documents, detailed chronology, and bibliography, this single-volume reference provides all the key information readers need to understand this monumental conflict.

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

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps' early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment.

The Junkers 87 Stuka was an iconic weapon of World War Two and an aircraft name that was, and still is, instantly recognized worldwide.

The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare.

Through two victorious world conflicts and a Cold War, the U.

This is the first-ever publication detailing the Navys role in manned spacecraft recovery from 1961 to 1975, from Alan Shepherds initial suborbital mission to the Apollo-Soyuz flight, which inaugurated the first space collaboration between the U.

A history of the legendary extraction of the Fifth and Seventh Marines from a Chinese trap, told for the first time using Chinese sources.

Warship 2015 is devoted to the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships.

Highly detailed and colourful, this account illustrates the struggle of Indonesian forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, following the surrender of occupying Japanese forces in 1945.

A concise, illustrated study of the Netherlands troops that fought at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo.

A visually stunning account of how naval conflict was recorded and planned, using contemporary mapping.

This new study lifts the veil on the high-profile but often misunderstood gladiators of ancient Rome, from their origins to the dawn of the Principate.

Originally contracted by wealthy Italian city states to protect their assets during a time of ceaseless warring, many condottieri of the Italian peninsula became famous for their wealth, venality and amorality during the 14th and 15th centuries.

A biography chronicling one man’s service during World War II as a Royal Navy commander and his career before & after in the tea business.

Prelude to Berlin: The Red Army’s Offensive Operations in Poland and Eastern Germany, 1945, offers a panoramic view of the Soviet strategic offensives north of the Carpathians in the winter of 1945.

"e;Roesler's work emphasizes three interesting individuals with some discussion on technical details and mission parameters.

In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers on a remote base in the Mojave Desert developed a weapon no one had asked for but everyone in the weapons industry desired.

Using 250 photographs, this addition to the Images of War series examines Hitler's elite armored infantry: the Panzergrenadiers.

The idea of a heavy cruiser emerged in the aftermath of World War I, and was closely linked to the limits set by the inter-war Washington Naval Treaty.

The evolution of the Rangers' missions in Panama, the first Gulf War, Somalia and the post 9/11 invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, written by an expert on modern Special Forces units.

Always at War is the story of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the early decades of the Cold War.

Marine archaeologist Dr Innes McCartney reveals for the first time the location and state of the wrecks of all 25 warships sunk in the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow.

Ein Blick auf deren koloniale Vorgeschichte gibt neue Antworten auf das rätselhafte Motiv britischer Flächenbombardierungen deutscher Städte 1945.

Between June 1812 and January 1815, US and British forces, notably the regular infantrymen of both sides (including the Canadian Fencibles Regiment), fought one another on a host of North American battlefields.

"e;Deserve[s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.

The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations.

The most critical naval fighting during the War of 1812 took place, not on the high seas, but on the inland lakes of North America: the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.

In Desperate Victories, professional historian Harry Bennett provides first-hand accounts and commentary on the British reaction to one of the greatest shocks in military history - the German blitzkrieg in the west.

Michael J.

This lavishly illustrated volume details the design, development and operational history of the British-made tanks in World War II.

A definitive technical guide to the USAF and foreign variants of the McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom.

A highly illustrated account of the Panzer offensive in Lorraine.

During the First World War, rumors of heavily-armed German raiders led to the building of the first modern heavy cruisers by the Royal Navy.

A detailed, illustrated combat history of an aircraft described as a legend in its own time.

Now in its final resting place at the bottom of the Potomac River in Maryland, the U-Boat U-1105 is unique among German World War II submarines.

Since the dawn of aerial combat in the First World War, the heroism of the men who put their lives at risk in the air has known no bounds.

The Petty Officer's Guide is written and edited by petty officers for petty officers.

The MiG-21 (NATO reporting name Fishbed) firmly holds the title of the world's most widely built and used jet fighter, with more than 10,000 units rolling off the lines of three plants in the former Soviet Union.

This biography of Field Marshal Lord Roberts charts a remarkable life that spanned the apogee of the British Empire.

Clive 'Killer' Caldwell was a natural and brilliant pilot, a superb shot, and a born leader.

Investigates the history and evolving appearance of the 'Grossdeutschland' Division, the German Army's premier combat unit during World War II.

This book focuses on Von Leeb's Army Group North, tasked with seizing the Baltic States and Leningrad.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, destroyers have been all-purpose ships, indispensable in roles large and small from delivering the mail at sea to screening other vessels and, where larger ships were not present, forming the front line in battle.

During the past century, U.

No one could doubt that Frederick Warren Merriam was one of the earliest and most important of Britain's aviation pioneers.