Battles and campaigns

America's Few delves into the history of US Marine Corps aviation in World War II, following the feats of the Corps' top-scoring aces in the skies over Guadalcanal.

From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this is the engrossing story of the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stalingrad, and how it prevented the whole Axis front line from collapsing.

The Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, was founded in 1942 by William 'Wild Bill' Donovan under the direction of President Roosevelt.

This history, based on an exhaustive study of German records, explores The Battle of Britain through the eyes of the Luftwaffe.

The meticulously researched story of one of the greatest regiments in Napoleonic history, the French 9th Light Infantry.

A privileged, hell-raising youth who had greatly embarrassed his familyand especially his war-hero fatherby being dismissed from West Point, Michael J.

At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily life of the entire nation.

This fascinating title from renowned World War II historian Robert Forczyk tells the story of Case White.

"e;The Battle of Moscow, 1941-1942: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counteroffensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction"e; is a detailed examination of one of the major turning points of World War II, as seen from the Soviet side.

While historians of medieval Spain have been unanimous in acknowledging the significance of Infante Manuel's impact on the reign of his brother, Alfonso X, the Wise, and the rise to power of his nephew, Sancho IV, none have attempted a biography of his life, convinced there was insufficient material to justify the endeavour.

On 1 January 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a 'Declaration by United Nations' with 24 other states, forging a military alliance based on human rights principles that included China, India and the Soviet Union.

The revisionist work about Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion.

The respected British military historian H.

A brutal and “fascinating” novel of an American held captive in an asylum in Afghanistan (Stewart O’Nan).

Updated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War.

Here, for the first time in English, is an illuminating new German perspective on the decisive Blitzkrieg campaign of 1940.

A highly illustrated guide to some of the most impressive fortifications of World War II the defences of the Atlantic Wall from Belgium to Norway.

On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese ttack on Pearl Harbor, a crack team of U.

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin's 1946 autobiography The Making of a Southerner is considered a classic testament of a white southerner's commitment to racial justice in a culture where little was to be found.

A highly illustrated account of the battle for the Demyansk Pocket on the Eastern Front in World War II.

A revised edition of this highly illustrated account of the day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, that would "e;live in infamy"e;.

The story of the British Forces who reclaimed the Falklands territory from the Argentines.

The battle of Khe Sanh was won and the Vietnam war was lost at the same time.

American States of Nature transforms our understanding of the American Revolution and the early makings of the Constitution.

Waterloo is one of the most famous battles in history.

'Like Cr cy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.

A compact traveler’s guide to the French region’s World War II historical sites, featuring planned itineraries of places to see and where to go.

This book examines the US infantry against the Chinese Army amid the unforgiving terrain of Korea during the first real clash of the Cold War.

Das Kriegsgeschehen im Heiligen Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation reißt nicht ab.

Three times during the 17th century, England and Holland went to war as part of an ongoing struggle for economic and naval supremacy.

In the midst of World War II, a German-American family finds themselves stranded in Japan in this inspiring tale of an extraordinary family adapting to the hazards of fate, and finding salvation in each other.

The Peninsular War (1807-1814) was a military conflict for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic War, where the French were opposed by British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces.

The raid on St Nazaire has gone down in history as one of the most daring commando raids of all time.

In the first of a two-volume study, the author presents an extremely detailed record of the Organisation, doctrine and equipment of US Army infantry divisions during the latter part of World War II.

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The Second World War was Britain's last conflict as a world power.

A fascinating insight into the dangers and difficulties of operating within the desert terrain From 1940 to 1943 North Africa saw the first major desert campaign by modern mechanised armies.

A concise and thorough account of two important actions from the opening round of the Franco-Prussian War, August 1870.

At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903.

This illustrated study explains how Japan's all-conquering air forces spearheaded the invasions of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies and stunned the defending British, Dutch, and American forces.

Here is a dramatic, first-person account of how the United States won the war in Iraq, only to see the peace lost by an unengaged administration, with Iraqis terrorized and the new "e;caliph"e; of ISIS promising , "e;I'll see you in New York.

Choice Outstanding TitleWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: Im an American, and I never retreat.

Noted aviation historian Robin Higham has written this comparative study of the evolution of the French and British air arms from 1918 to 1940 to determine why the Armee de l'Air was defeated in June 1940 but the Royal Air Force was able to win the battle over Britain in September.

Following Elite 115 which described the composition of Napoleon's military and civil 'households', and Marshal Berthier's army general headquarters this title offers an intimate glimpse of the Emperor's entourage in the field.

The Maginot Line, the massive series of fortifications built by France in the 1930s to defend its borders with Germany and Italy, is perhaps the most maligned collection of fortifications ever built.

The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter- Offensive, July - August 1943, offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War’s most critical events.

In 1941 the US Navy had 17 battleships - of which eight would be knocked out on the first day of the war - four aircraft carriers, and about 340,000 men including reservists.