Battles and campaigns

The Tricolor and the Scimitar is the first historical novel in a brilliant and compelling four-part series that recounts Napoleon Bonaparte and l'Armee d'Orient's invasion and occupation of Egypt and the Holy Land between 1798-1801.

On 21 May 1980, under the codename Operation Tiro-Tiro, 32 Battalion attacked and routed a FAPLA brigade at Savate, a small Angolan town 75 kilometres north of the border with South West Africa.

This important new book is one of few available eyewitness tales about the often overlooked role of the Air / Sea Rescue teams during World War II.

In their second Visitor’s Guide to the 1916 Battle of the Somme Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland focus on the series of secondary battles that were key stages in the five-month struggle that followed the start of the offensive on 1 July.

The personal memoir of a Nazi soldier, from joining the German Army in 1941 through his time as a Panzer on the Eastern Front.

Never previously seen reports and plans marked restricted and classified have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College's Archive.

The Battle of Britain was fought between two airborne military elites and was a classic example of pure attack against pure defence.

Through letters and other writings, this historical study chronicles an Irish Catholic family's influence on mid-nineteenth-century South Carolina.

"e;A tremendous account of the 1936 Olympics: the athletes, the atmosphere, and most important the politics behind those infamous games.

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"e;The definitive account of Union Maj.

The literature of the Peninsular War is rich with vivid source material – letters, diaries, memoirs, and dispatches – but most of it was written by British soldiers or by the French and their allies.

Never previously seen reports and plans marked restricted and classified have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College's Archive.

A concise, gripping history of the resource-rich yet poverty-wracked nation's instability and military conflict in the 1960s.

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

Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or operate submarines.

The author of Shot Down in the Drink shares photos and anecdotes detailing the history of the World War II fighter plane and its crews across the globe.

With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war.

Russia played a decisive role in the Napoleonic wars and the success in the struggle against France allowed Russian leaders to profoundly influence the course of European history.

This is a biography of my time in the United States Marine Corps from 1966 to 1969.

The 1810 French invasion of Portugal, commanded by the veteran marshal André Masséna, who was known to Napoleon as the ‘Spoilt Child of Victory’ has been well covered by historians.

46 Years"e;It's been forty-six years since I left Vietnam.

Through letters and other writings, this historical study chronicles an Irish Catholic family's influence on mid-nineteenth-century South Carolina.

This classic account is a dynamic and vivid record of what it was like to fight with Britain's Commandos across wartime.

The entire trilogy book is designed to show that true faith can accomplish just about anything in a person's life.

My First Year in the Army is Clyde W.

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

More than an account of Churchill's momentous meetings with Roosevelt, Stalin and other leaders at the height of the Second World War, this book illuminates the practicalities of transporting a prime minister through dangerous skies and across hostile oceans in a time of global war.

Clara Krauss, since birth, was entrusted with a unique gift that made her special, almost mystical, a gift that would define her fate and the fate of everyone around her, a fate that would guide her, and her family through the time of turmoil that defined their world, a world tainted by evil, a world with the stench of death.

As the events of the Second World War fade into the distance it is important that the activities of a small band of brothers are not overlooked.

Josef was a young German male who had recently finished school, but he was uncertain of his direction in life.

While artillery has been described as the queen of the Napoleonic battlefield, this was an era when cavalry could still play a decisive role in battle, as well as being vital on campaign.

"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.

The events of Sunday, 18 June, stand as the defining moment of the year 1815, if not of an entire era.

This is the story of how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice at the end of the Second World War by fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports, and the role played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers in smuggling them away from prosecution in Europe to a new life in South America.