Battles and campaigns

A gripping collection of true stories that capture the bravery of American pilots who helped win WWII.

Did Hitler-code name "e;Grey Wolf"e;-really die in 1945?

A revised and updated single-source reference book accurately detailing the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and their losses.

In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat.

Historiographically groundbreaking transnational history of the Mexican-American War.

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2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD BOOK OF THE YEARIn this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justiceFor more than a century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, and exposed Nazi war criminals, tracking them down in places as far-flung as South America and the Middle East.

A history of the battle from Germany’s perspective: “An interesting account of a campaign that was decisive, but not as decisive as it could have been.

A valuable addition to the military and literary analysis of the archaeology of warfare from the Boudiccan uprising to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

In this second of Tim Saunders' volumes on the opening stage of the 1945 Rhineland Campaign, the focus is to the north of the Reichswald, on the flood plain of the River Rhine and a narrow strip of slightly higher ground.

On 21 May 1980, under the codename Operation Tiro-Tiro, 32 Battalion attacked and routed a FAPLA brigade at Savate, a small Angolan town 75 kilometres north of the border with South West Africa.

Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II.

With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war.

Rare photographs from both official and unofficial SS sources illustrate the role of the individual in this epic struggle.

An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units against the approaching Allied fleets.

Ordered by Hitler 'to hold, or to die' and to fight 'to the last grenade and round', the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign.

On the tenth anniversary of Canada's involvement, a leading journalist offers a fascinating assessment of Canada's past and present role in the Afghan war Of the 33,000 troops under NATO command in Afghanistan in October 2006, 12,000 were Americans and 2,500 were Canadians.

This classic account is a dynamic and vivid record of what it was like to fight with Britain's Commandos across wartime.

This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the Imperial German Army at Ypres from 1914-15.

The desperate struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for Budapest in 1944 and 1945 was as lethal and destructive as any of the urban battles fought during the Second World War.

As the events of the Second World War fade into the distance it is important that the activities of a small band of brothers are not overlooked.

A detailed history of one week during the Civil War in which the American president assumed control of the nation’s military.

Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights.

This is the latest book in the Battleground Europe series focusing on the Somme sector.

This important new book is one of few available eyewitness tales about the often overlooked role of the Air / Sea Rescue teams during World War II.

This is a biography of my time in the United States Marine Corps from 1966 to 1969.

Major and Mrs Holt's Concise, Illustrated Battlefield Guide to the Western Front - South contains many fascinating but little-visited areas by travelers and is hoped that they will be tempted further afield than the 'showcase' and sophisticatedly presented battlefields like the Somme to discover some marvelous sites.

Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War.

The entire trilogy book is designed to show that true faith can accomplish just about anything in a person's life.

The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English histories of the conflict.

Action-packed memoir by an American pilot and squadron commander in the Korean War.

‘The Great War’ involved the mobilisation of 70 million soldiers worldwide.

In 1918, the Germans launched the Spring Offensive.

"e;The essays offer an unvarnished look at not only the severe fighting that characterized these months, but also the simple attempt to survive the rampant disease, malnourishment, and harsh winter on the steppe and in the ruins of Stalingrad.

*; More than 150 firsthand accounts of the American Civil War, many of them long forgotten and previously unpublished *; Includes accounts from Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Meade, and Hancock *; Maps pinpoint each writers location on the battlefield At Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, Confederate soldiers launched one of historys most famous infantry assaults: Picketts Charge.

During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax.

Never previously seen reports and plans marked restricted and classified have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College's Archive.

"I have not always been wrong.

The British campaign in the Low Countries in 1813-14 in support of the Dutch revolt against the French is one of the lesser-known campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, but one, which the great historian of the British Army Sir John Fortescue wrote that it was impossible to understand the Waterloo campaign without a knowledge of.

Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights.

On the tenth anniversary of Canada's involvement, a leading journalist offers a fascinating assessment of Canada's past and present role in the Afghan war Of the 33,000 troops under NATO command in Afghanistan in October 2006, 12,000 were Americans and 2,500 were Canadians.

The personal memoir of a Nazi soldier, from joining the German Army in 1941 through his time as a Panzer on the Eastern Front.

Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II.

Josef was a young German male who had recently finished school, but he was uncertain of his direction in life.

Reinhard ‘Teddy’ Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander.

Captain C Shore's enthusiasm for firearms led him to take every possible opportunity to try out different weapons, ammunition and methods of shooting.

Landmark study of the Canadians' first major operation in Normandy New revelations on the death of German panzer ace Michael Wittmann Handsomely illustrated with maps, photos, and diagrams On August 8, 1944, the Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize, a massive armored and mechanized infantry attack that aimed to break through enemy defenses south of Caen and trap the German Army in Normandy by linking up with Patton's Third Army.

Comprehensive look into the dangerous world of glider warfare.