Battles and campaigns

On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War’s most bloody and desperate battles.

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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.

An illustrated history of World War II's largest tank battle that went down near the Russian city.

Grippingfilled withdramatic escapes, moments of surprising humanity, and acts of bravery.

General Erhard Raus was one of the German Army's finest panzer generals and a leading exponent of blitzkrieg in the east.

When it comes to sheer savagery endured by the American fighting man, few combat theaters could match the Pacific in WorldWar II: the sodden malarial and Japanese infested jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal, the kamikaze pilots for whom death was no deterrent, and the blood-soaked beaches taken by island-hopping Marines.

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

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It was the Greatest Generation's greatest moment: when heroes at home and abroad, united in common purpose as soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marinesunder the leadership of generals like Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradleyrescued Europe from the tyranny and genocide of Adolf Hitler.

Henry V's stunning victory at Agincourt was a pivotal battle of the Hundred Years War, reviving England's military fortunes and changing forever the course of European warfare.

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

Experience the history of the Maryland Campaign with this Civil War chronicle and guide featuring battlefield information and day-trip itineraries.

Während des Ersten Weltkriegs kämpften Bulgaren und Deutsche jahrelang an der Saloniki-Front Seite an Seite gegen die Entente.

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.

With a foreword by Senator John McCain.

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.

The British archives of the Napoleonic wars are unique, brimming with personal letters to family and friends or journals that record their innermost thoughts.

The stories of the doctors, nurses and patients at the Union Army's hospital in Gettysburg come to life in this unique Civil War history.

"e;This epic account is as thrilling and fast-paced as the raid itself and will quickly rival, if not surpass, Dee Brown's Grierson's Raid as the standard.

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

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the six Abdiel-class fast minelayers, the fastest and most versatile ships to serve in the Royal Navy in the Second World War.

In the summer and autumn of 1918, the British Expeditionary Force, under Field Marshal Haig, fought a series of victorious battles on the Western Front that contributed mightily to the German Army's final defeat.

Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion by Peter F.

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.

Americans have long debated the cause of the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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

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

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Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion by Peter F.

In 1918, the Germans launched the Spring Offensive.

It is June 1815 and an Anglo-led Allied army under the Duke of Wellington’s command and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher is set to face Napoleon Boneparte near Waterloo in present-day Belgium.

Confronting the critics who say George Washington's victories were due to luck, not skill, Palmer proves why the father of our country also deserves the title of America's pre-eminent military strategist.

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.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Everything you've been taught about the World War II "e;internment camps"e; in America is wrong:They were not created primarily because of racism or wartime hysteriaThey did not target only those of Japanese descentThey were not Nazi-style death campsIn her latest investigative tour-de-force, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin sets the historical record straight-and debunks radical ethnic alarmists who distort history to undermine common-sense, national security profiling.

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

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

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

Confronting the critics who say George Washington's victories were due to luck, not skill, Palmer proves why the father of our country also deserves the title of America's pre-eminent military strategist.

With the break up of the Spanish empire in South America, the continent split into nine independent states with often ill-defined boundaries.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Known for his rousing speeches and military triumphs, General George S.

The air war over the critical Eastern Front is illustrated with 120 specially selected and informatively captioned photographs in this striking new book.

Tells the story of the thousands of enslaved African Americans who fled to British forces during the war in what became the largest emancipation of enslaved Americans until the abolition of slavery in the United States.

An exploration of one of the only two known times in the Second World War in which the Americans and Germans fought side by side.

An exploration of one of the only two known times in the Second World War in which the Americans and Germans fought side by side.

From the critically acclaimed author of D nkirchen 1940, this is a groundbreaking history of the epic three-day battle for Hill 107 that changed the course of the war in the Mediterranean.

A dramatic illustrated exploration of the infamous massacre of 1622, and the events of a pivotal conflict in colonial American history.

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