Battles and campaigns

On a dark night in 1804, Lt.

Archibald Wavell remains one of the great Allied commanders of the early phases of World War II.

An accessible illustrated introduction to the brutal conflict in the former Yugoslavia, one of the greatest yet least understood tragedies of the 20th century.

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was the fastest and most successful strike fighter of the Cold War.

In this fully illustrated introduction, leading Vietnam War historian Dr Andrew Wiest provides a concise overview of America's most divisive war.

An accessible illustrated introduction to the brutal conflict in the former Yugoslavia, one of the greatest yet least understood tragedies of the 20th century.

Illustrated with colour maps and images, this is an introduction to the Franco-Prussian War, a war that marked the beginning of the creation of modern Europe.

During the American War of Independence (1775 83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority.

A comprehensive guide to the armies that fought a devastating and decisive conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean between the two World Wars of the 20th century.

A comprehensive guide to the armies that fought a devastating and decisive conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean between the two World Wars of the 20th century.

A definitive technical guide to the Hawker Hurricane variants.

During World War II, Heinz Drossel saved Soviet prisoners of war and several Jews, including Marianne Hirschfeld.

The Battle of Trafalgar can claim to be one of the most known of the great human events.

Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was the defining Japanese naval commander of World War II.

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Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was the defining Japanese naval commander of World War II.

Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War?

Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War?

Was World War II necessary?

Saladin is a legendary figure in the history of the Middle East.

The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan.

The Fellers Called Him Bill is a story of the American Civil War by P.

Journal of the Indian Wars, or JIW was a quarterly publication on the study of the American Indian Wars.

A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution, a second collaboration between Dr.

'An exceptionally vivid account by a masterly writer' Max Hastings'No book depicts all the myriad aspects better than Jonathan Dimbleby's majestic overview.

Facing Armageddon is the first scholarly work on the 1914-18 War to explore, on a world-wide basis, the real nature of the participants experience.

According to historian Richard McMurry, the 1864 campaign “through the woods and across the hills, valleys, and streams of North Georgia was one of the biggest, longest, and most spellbinding of the American Civil War.

Following is a brief look into the episodes of the past, that have had an influence on the nations of the world, and eventually led to the outbreak of W.

This is the story of PFC Raymond Oblinger, an American replacement soldier in the U.

Ten young men from a small Indiana town volunteer to take up arms against the Confederates as war breaks out between North and South.

The sameness in most stories about Adolf Hitler and WW II won't be found in this work.

Thomas Percy Gleave began his RAF career in 1930, three years later becoming a member of the RAF aerobatic team.

At 18.

In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army near the small town of Halbe, south-east of Berlin.

This story is taken from notes Austin Buck Buchanan wrote in notebooks he carried in his pocket all during World War II.

A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution, a second collaboration between Dr.

Operation BARBAROSSA, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was a turning point second only to Pearl Harbor.

Howard Pierson joined the US Army Air Corps to defend America against the intended exterminators of Europes Jews.

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.

The Battle of Itter Castle was undoubtedly one of the strangest events of the Second World War, being one of only two occasions during the war in which Americans and Germans fought side by side.

SURVIVOR STORIES FROM DUNKIRK, NOW THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR FILM FROM CHRISTOPHER NOLANWhen Britain declared war against Germany in September 1939, thousands of young men sailed across the English Channel to fight for their country.

Operation Nordwind was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front.

In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army near the small town of Halbe, south-east of Berlin.

Explores the Civil War's related and enduring conflicts of ideas and principles through four centuries of a nation's history.

* * * Special 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk.

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why was the Battle of the Nile so decisive in the French Revolutionary Wars?

The true World War I story of one British town’s remarkable response to the message “Your Country Needs You.