Battles and campaigns

Soon after the guns in Belgium and France had signalled the commencement of what would become the world's single most destructive conflict to date, the British, Ottoman, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, French and Belgian Empires were at war.

The Mesopotamian campaign during World War I was a critical moment in Britain's position in the Middle East.

Napoleon Bonaparte dominated the public life of Europe like no other individual before him.

Adolf Hitler, writing in Mein Kampf, was scathing in his condemnation of German propaganda in World War I, declaring that Germany failed to recognise that the mobilization of public opinion was a weapon of the first order.

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution.

In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war--this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by communist forces from the North.

The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure.

Focusing on television media reporting of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, this book explores how African states directly involved in conflict, western states with geopolitical interests in Africa's Great Lakes region, militia groups, human rights activists and NGOs use gendered media narratives strategically, often engaging in politics of revisionism and denial, to change the behaviour of other actors in the international system.

The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener.

This richly detailed account reveals how Sir Ralph Abercromby's strategy restored the honour of the British army and averted disaster for the Empire.

This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors.

The Rhineland, scene of European conflict for generations, remained an intensely contentious area following the end of the hostilities of World War I.

The harrowing story based on George Herbert Hill's experience of the Battle of St Quentin during the First World War.

_Reaching for the Stars_ shows why Bomber Command, in one of the largest and bloodiest campaigns of the war, with 55,000 aircrew lost and more officer fatalities than in World War I, has received so much attention and yet remains a 'lost and black sheep' among British wartime achievements.

In the early hours of 22 June 1941 units of the Wehrmacht began to pour into the Soviet Union.

As the dreadful reality of the Coalition's defeat in Iraq begins to sink in, one question dominates Washington and London: why?

This moving and unusual story of a British engineer who becomes caught up in the horrifying events of the First World War vividly illuminates life - and death - on the Mesopotamian Front.

This title is presented with a new foreword by Istvan Deak.

Presents unique insights from key player in first Gulf War, who continues to have an extremely high profile.

A mixture of travelogue, history and war journalism, Allah's Mountains tells the story of the conflict between a nation of mountain tribes and the might of the Russian army.

'The most dangerous place in the world' - Barack ObamaThe borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan have become the arena for a global conflict with consequences that defy prediction.

From the author's introduction:

Ancient battles seize the modern imagination.

The comprehensive defeat of the Jacobite Irish in the Williamite conflict, a component within the pan-European Nine Years' War, prevented the exiled James II from regaining his English throne, ended realistic prospects of a Stuart restoration and partially secured the new regime of King William III and Queen Mary created by the Glorious Revolution.

Napoleon's soldiers marched across Europe from Lisbon to Moscow, and from Germany to Dalmatia.

From the author's introduction:

Ancient battles seize the modern imagination.

The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffleys trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction.

The definitive study of Alabama's divided path through the Civil War.

The Remarkable Story of Alabama's Soldiers in America's Great War.

"e;If a historian were allowed but one book on the American involvement in Vietnam, this would be it.

Radical Reform describes a remarkable chapter in the American pro-democracy movement.

The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through ReconstructionThis book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginias Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through ReconstructionThis book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginias Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

One of America’s most distinguished military historians offers the definitive account of the greatest tank battle of World War II—an epic clash of machines and men that matched the indomitable will of the Soviet Red Army against the awesome might of the Nazi Wehrmacht.

As a teenager ‘Tich’ Palliser became ‘hooked on this flying game’ and aspired to take to the skies.

African Americans' long campaign for "e;the right to fight"e; forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces.

African Americans' long campaign for "e;the right to fight"e; forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces.

A gripping account of the most famous convoy operation of the war, which marked a high-water mark for the German naval campaign in the Arctic.

Volume two in this "e;expert, anecdote-filled, thoroughly entertaining"e; history of WWII follows The Rise of Germany as the Allied forces turn the tides (Kirkus).

Drawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan's terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.

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

';The remarkable story of a top-secret ';black' operation behind enemy lines during the Korean War .

A Pulitzer Prizewinning international reporter elucidates the day-to-day lives of modern American mercenaries in Iraq.

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The Fighting Newfoundlander is a vivid history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment - the "e;Blue Puttees"e; - and its heroic contributions to the war effort.

In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one thousand ton troopship Edmund B.

The Fighting Newfoundlander is a vivid history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment - the "e;Blue Puttees"e; - and its heroic contributions to the war effort.

Using a wide array of sources - including long-closed court martial records, psychiatric and personnel files, unit war diaries, films, and oral histories - Paul Jackson relates the struggle of queer servicemen of all ranks and branches of the Canadian military to fit in to avoid losing their careers and reputations.

When must a current government attempt to come to terms with the wrongs of governments long past?