Battles and campaigns

The year is 1940, and the German invasion of Britain has begun.

World War II is often seen as a confrontation of technology tanks and aircraft, artillery and engineering.

Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of war's significance to the history of the Great War.

Notions of democracy and nationhood constitute the pivotal legacy of the American Revolution, but to understand their development one must move beyond a purely American context.

The final part in a three-book series on the Battle of Stalingrad, examining the Soviet encirclement, German relief efforts, and the final surrender of Paulus' 6.

In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Carl Benn examines the War of 1812 and its significance in US history.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022'This is a superb book.

Focusing on the war on the Western and Southern fronts and inclusive of material from all sides of the conflict, this book explores the novels and poems of significant soldier-writers alongside important contemporary historical documents.

This book provides a comprehensive study of the complex impacts of the war in Ukraine on Russo-Iranian relations, and the resulting consequences for the international relations of the Middle East.

This book, first published in 2006, explores the memory of the Great War through the historical experience of pilgrimage.

A remarkable book.

As the columns of French infantry marched up the slopes of the Mont St Jean at Waterloo, the British heavy cavalry, the Royal Scots Greys to the fore, crashed into the packed ranks of the enemy.

A highly illustrated, compact volume on a significant win for the Confederacy.

The year of 1914 had been a difficult one for the British Expeditionary Force, the war that had started in August had not been over by the expected time of Christmas.

There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as "e;natural"e; as during wartime: men go off to the "e;war front,"e; while women stay behind on the "e;home front.

The Battle of Kursk in July 1943 is known for being the largest tank battle in history.

Examining refugees of Civil War-era North Carolina, Driven from Home reveals the complexity and diversity of the war's displaced populations and the inadequate responses of governmental and charitable organizations as refugees scrambled to secure the necessities of daily life.

As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases.

Dilip Sarkar has studied the Battle of Britain period for a lifetime and is renowned for his meticulous research and evidence-based approach, setting events within the broadest possible context.

Simon de Montfort, the leader of the English barons, was the first leader of a political movement to seize power from a reigning monarch.

Every General's aim is to end a war by Christmas, and Montgomery, perhaps, saw his opportunity in a bold strike across the southern portion of the Netherlands close to the borders of an embattled Reich.

An extensively illustrated look at what daily life was like for a regular American soldier fighting in this major World War II battle.

A compact, illustrated account of the first major battle in the Western theatre of the American Civil War.

Anarchism 1914-18 is the first systematic analysis of anarchist responses to the First World War.

In this companion to his celebrated earlier book, Gettysburg - The Second Day, Harry Pfanz provides the first definitive account of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E.

';I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream.

The battle of Bentonville, the only major Civil War battle fought in North Carolina, was the Confederacys last attempt to stop the devastating march of William Tecumseh Shermans army north through the Carolinas.

In Margin of Victory Douglas Macgregor tells the riveting stories of five military battles of the twentieth century, each one a turning point in history.

Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany provides an in-depth transnational study of power politics, daily life, and social interactions in the Western Zones of occupied Germany during the aftermath of the Second World War.

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the origins, equipment, and fighting styles of the irregular warfare specialists fighting on both sides during the American Revolutionary War.

A riveting and applicable study of how Francis Marion delivered the leadership and strategy to defeat the British in the South Carolina lowcountry campaigns.

The authors were with the Japanese Naval Special Attack Force (Kamikaze Corps) from its inception in late 1944.

The second instalment of Simon Dunstan's Yom Kippur War 1973, this book charts how Israel's victory in the 1967 'Six Day War' sowed the seeds of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, the original version of this book, Red Phoenix, was hailed by the Washington Post as both brilliant and monumental.

The Panzer Lehr Division was one of the most élite German armoured formations in existence in early 1944.

The Battle of the Somme is the most famous battle of World War I in the English-speaking world.

There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as "e;natural"e; as during wartime: men go off to the "e;war front,"e; while women stay behind on the "e;home front.

The scope of Britain's wartime Middle East Command stretched far beyond the Libyan desert where the 8th Army's most famous battles were fought.

An enlisted radioman recalls his years of action in the Pacific with candor and humor.

This study explores an exemplary instance of the close interaction between private and official interests in planning and executing the programs of the Nazi government, namely the acquisition in 1941 of the Rombach steel works by the German industrialist Friedrich Flick.

War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy, absolute respect for authority, and subordination to seniority.

“A memoir and more .

Ferdinand Foch is the prototype of the twentieth-century general.

'A devastating new account.

This work provides an authoritative illustrated examination of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, analyzing both grand strategy, and the tactical decisions of Day Two and the ensuing combat.

Compiles firsthand accounts of Polish resistance, exile, and wartime struggles during WWII.

The siege of Constantinople in AD 717 18 was the supreme crisis of Western civilization.

The German destroyer fleet of World War II consisted of nine classes: the Diether Von Roeder Class, the Leberecht Maas Class and the wartime classes Z23, Z35, Z37, Z40, Z43, Z46 and Z52.

This book examines the organizational development, mobilization, deployment and combat actions of World War II US Army infantry divisions up until the end of 1943.