Battles and campaigns

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.

John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the turbulent events of mid-nineteenth-century America.

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

Christopher McIlwain's Civil War Alabama is a landmark book that sheds invigorating new light on the causes, the course, and the outcomes in Alabama of the nation's greatest drama and trauma.

Send the Alabamians recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I.

"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.

This unique Civil War history chronicles the hard-fought battles and divided loyalties of a pro-Southern county in Union Kentucky.

"e;The essential reappraisal of this seminal event in twentieth-century naval history .

"e;From Pearl Harbor to Leyte Gulf and Okinawa to Iwo Jima, the stories are presented as the individual soldiers, sailors, and marines lived them.

"e;Told by a 'been there, done that' combat commander, McLaughlin gives us precise accounts of such air battles as the devastating bombing of Schweinfurt.

"e;A tribute to human resilience under extreme stress, both in response to the terror from the sky and to the sacrifices the Nazis imposed on their people.

An intelligence officer stationed in Southeast Asia offers a "e;detailed, insightful, documented, and authentic account"e; of US policy failure in the region (Lewis Sorley, author of Westmoreland).

"e;An equally meticulous and lucid account"e; of the controversy that preceded the United States' declaration of war in April 1917 (Historynet).

"e;Some of this book is heartrending; some of it is as gripping as a thriller; and all of it will add to our understanding of the war"e; (Booklist).

This WWII naval history chronicles the prolific combat career of one of the most important US ships to fight in the Pacific War.

"e;A detailed day-by-day account of the war's events, emphasizing the military dimensions but also touching on politics and diplomacy.

Winner of the Seaborg Civil War Prize: "e;Impressively researched .

This book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, showing how enslaved and free African Americans resisted slavery and supported the Union war effort in a borderland that changed hands frequently during the Civil War.

This book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, showing how enslaved and free African Americans resisted slavery and supported the Union war effort in a borderland that changed hands frequently during the Civil War.

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.

This powerful work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

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.

The years of the Spanish Civil War filled twentieth-century Spain with hope, frustration and drama.

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 .