Battles and campaigns

A roll-call and history of the ex-students of Brighton College who fell in the Second World War.

Short-listed for the 2009 Red Maple Award for Non-Fiction, OLA Forest of Reading and commended for the 2009 OLA Best Bets This book presents the story and issues of the First World War in a clear, concise and objective manner, accompanied on every page by photographs, original sketches or maps.

Glen Williford lends new insight into the reasons for America s relatively quick comeback from the attack on Pearl Harbor.

A highly illustrated and detailed study of the Gold and Juno Beaches Landings Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the greatest sea-borne military operation in history.

The most important and dramatic carrier battle of World War II, which completely changed the fortunes of both Japan and America.

During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.

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

Despite the best efforts of a number of historians, many aspects of the ferocious struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War remain obscure or shrouded in myth.

When World War II broke out in September 1939 the US Army starved of resources since 1919 numbered just 174,000 men.

This book describes the organization, lists the units and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the four Canadian divisions which earned an elite reputation on the Western Front in 1915-18.

An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil.

This fascinating study details the entourage which enabled Napoleon to move hundreds of thousands of troops right across Europe.

This classic study examines the deployment of U.

From the author's introduction:

Ancient battles seize the modern imagination.

Packed with illustrations and maps, this slim volume examines Wellington's comeback in Portugal, which ultimately led to the end of its French occupation.

Agincourt was an astonishing clash of arms, a pivotal moment in the Hundred Years War and the history of warfare in general.

A thorough investigation of the strengths and weaknesses of two of the twentieth century's most lethal combatants; the M1 Abrams and the T-72.

Major General Johnson Hagood (1873-1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the twentieth century.

Jagging across north-western Europe like a scar, the Hindenburg Line was Germany's most formidable line of defence in World War I.

70 years ago, on 7 June 1944, the British 7th Armored Division landed in Normandy, halfway through a wartime journey that had started in north Africa.

This volume focuses on the little known official Army Air Force report commissioned by the Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command (FC) in May 1944.

Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830-1.

In 1943 the U.

This book explores the aerial campaign against the British capital, and the birth of the Royal Air Force.

In this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen D.

'Like The Long Reach, Down to Earth is a message from the battle at its height, told in their own words by the men who fight' - this is how Brig-Gen Francis Griswold, VIII Fighter Command, ends his introduction to this book.

A unique comparison between the two most numerous British and German tank types from 1941 to 1943.

Napoleon's line infantry was founded upon that of the Ancien R gime.

An illustrated history of the F/A-18 Hornet which, in its various guises, was the 'universal soldier' of OIF, with around 250 seeing combat.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the military importance of the Hawaiian Islands became clear.

Step into the violent world of the 13th century, where the European states of the Levant battled with Muslim powers for control of Jerusalem.

Through his discussion of Thomas Jefferson, historian Matthew Crow offers a new perspective on constitutional transformation in early American history.

Highlights the overlooked contributions of women like Betsy Cadwaladyr and Mother M.

An enthralling history of an oft-forgotten battlefield of World War II brought to life by the recollections of the Allies, Axis and partisan forces who fought on the Gothic Line.

In this highly illustrated and detailed title, Nic Fields tells the full story of the invasion which established the Romans in Britain, explaining how and why the initial Claudian invasion succeeded and what this meant for the future of Britain.

Most mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation.

Panzers in Defence of Festung Poznan 1945 by Maciej Karalus and Jarosław Jerzak is the first book published in English to describe the bitter battle for Festung Poznań in 1945.

The Battle of New Market in the Shenandoah Valley suffers from no lack of drama, interest, or importance.

This, the first of two volumes on Germany's World War II U-boats, traces their development from the early U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy, culminating in the formation of the 1st U-boat Flotilla in 1935 with the modern Type II.

"e;A compelling and novel reassessment of World War I military history"e; (Kirkus Reviews)"e;There is much in the work I really admire, not least its brilliant recasting of the traditional military narrative.

Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg hatte viele Schauplätze.

The battle which took place on the Little Bighorn river on June 25, 1876 has passed into legend as Custer's Last Stand .

A highly illustrated study of the First Afghan War, a bitter setback for British forces in the Great Game played out in the 19th century.

The most successful commerce raider of the Civil War, the CSS Alabama almost single-handedly drove United States merchant shipping from the seas.

Four pipes and flush decks these ships were a distinctively American destroyer design.

A thorough examination of one of the most controversial operations in World War 2Operation Pointblank was the code name for the United States Army Air Force's attempt to destroy German fighter capability through the use of daylight strategic bombing in advance of the D-Day landings.