Battles and campaigns

Zimmerman traces the early development of the mission from Britain's initial attempts at technical cooperation in World War I and unsuccessful efforts to restart it in the late 1930s.

The follow-up to Finland at War: The Winter War, this is the astonishing David and Goliath story of Finland's military history during World War II as, heavily outnumbered, they held off the Soviet invadersIn the aftermath of the Winter War, Finland found itself drawing ever closer to Nazi Germany and eventually took part in Operation Barbarossa in 1941.

From a decorated officer, an extremely rare account of a World War II Soviet military unit comprised of prisoners of war.

A stirring biography of the fiery marshal who led Napoleon’s forces—from his swift rise to fame to his tragic fall from grace and death by firing squad.

The Ardennes, 1944.

The F-105D Thunderchief was originally designed as a low-altitude nuclear strike aircraft, but the outbreak of the Vietnam War led to it being used instead as the USAF's primary conventional striker against the exceptionally well-defended targets in North Vietnam and Laos.

In 1099, the soldiers of the First Crusade took Jerusalem.

Russia's Turkish Wars examines the changing place of the Balkan population in Russian military thought, strategic planning, and occupation policies.

The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats.

In August 1836, Alexander Pushkin wrote a poem now popularly known simply as "e;Monument.

This history of the Royal Flying Corps during the Battle of Somme offers a comprehensive firsthand look at WWI military aviation.

Why did the USA become involved in Vietnam?

The air battle for Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war.

After 2005, the United States and coalition partners led an air advisory campaign to rebuild the Afghan Air Force (AAF).

Jonathan Wright explores the events, discusses rival interpretations and places the policies of Hitler in the context of Germany as a whole.

A highly illustrated study of the T-10 Heavy Tank that served from the 1950s through to the end of the Soviet Union.

"e;The combination of past and contemporary pictures regarding battle locations is of a great service for those of us with a passion for history.

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.

Naval historian Vincent O Hara recounts here the dramatic story of the U.

This is the first of a two volume series covering early twentieth century colonial campaigns in Africa, Asia and the Americas, ranging from Mexico and the Philippines to Africa and the North West Frontier.

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era.

This is the story of the 17-pdr Achilles and the Jagdpanther, two formidable tracked anti-tank guns that clashed in North-West Europe during 1944 45.

Land of the Free is the new set of wargaming rules from Osprey that allow players to recreate the various conflicts that broke out in North America shortly prior to and just after Independence, including the French and Indian Wars, the Revolution and the War of 1812.

Covering Sparta's full classical history, The Bronze Lie examines the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy.

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.

In late January 1968, some 84,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launched a country-wide general offensive in South Vietnam.

This wide-ranging collection of articles by some of the most renowned names in the subject explores the tumultuous events of the final year of the First World War.

Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS pioneering founders of modern special forces.

This ';lively and action-packed account' of the infamous Gran Sasso raid chronicles the Nazi paratrooper operation that freed Mussolini (WWII History).

The Mosin-Nagant is the world's longest-surviving and most widely distributed military rifle, having armed the forces of Russia and many other countries for more than five decades.

No war has tested the resolve of the American people and her fighting men as did the battles in the Pacific.

Shot down by Germans over occupied France, Harvie was the only member of his Bomber Command crew to survive the crash.

A highly illustrated account of the First Anglo-Sikh War of 1845 56, a dramatic, hard-fought and colourful conflict during Britain's rule of India.

Crete, 20 May 1941: the first campaign-sized airborne assault is launched.

Just weeks after Pearl Harbor, Darwin was mauled by a massive Japanese attack.

Take someone with superior intelligence, unusual strength, perfect vision, catlike reflexes, exceptional marksmanship, and nerves of steel and you just might have what it takes.

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

This is a comprehensive account of the epic struggle between Henry III and Simon de Montfort, a culmination of the tensions between crown and aristocracy that was so typical of high medieval England.

While artillery has been described as the queen of the Napoleonic battlefield, this was an era when cavalry could still play a decisive role in battle, as well as being vital on campaign.

This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary critics looks at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and considers the place of these two men in American culture.

Case Red tells the often overlooked story of the fall of Metropolitan France from the evacuation of the BEF at Dunkirk through to the eventual collapse and armistice in June 1940.

Immortalised in Churchill's often quoted assertion that never before "e;was so much owed by so many to so few"e;, the top-down narrative of the Battle of Britain has been firmly established in British legend.