Battles and campaigns

Sir John Palmer was at sea for virtually the entire war serving in three ships.

David James was in Motor Gunboats (with Robert Hichens of Gunboat Command.

The first heroes of the air.

The historian and founder of the Anglo-Zulu War Historical Society presents his groundbreaking account of the Battle of Isandlwana.

'The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was' Andrew Wilson, ObserverHistory is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940.

* * * 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.

The Korean War, which began with an unprovoked attack by North Korea in 1950, went on for three long years.

Set in the context of the Dieppe raid as a whole, Will Fowler studies the contribution of No.

From the Battle of Britain to D-Day, this book uncovers the history of the Channel War.

As the 1864 Overland Campaign shifted from the Wilderness toward Spotsylvania Court House, Confederate commander Robert E.

First raised by his maternal grandmother and her four youngest sisters in the harbour city of Le Havre, in the English Channel, a boy, Jean, will discover later in tragic circumstances the love of his mother.

The story of this military powerhouse of ancient Greece, and its nearly two centuries of battlefield triumphs.

“A very detailed operational account of the highly successful German amphibious landings in October of 1917 on the Russian islands of Osel and Dago.

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history.

An extensive traveler’s guide to the French region’s World War II historical sites and everything else you need to know about the area.

This WWII history presents an in-depth study of the Battle of Greece and a provocative new analysis of Nazi military tactics.

For sixty years the dramatic story of the Dunkirk evacuation and the defeat of France-the story of the German conquest of northwest Europe-has been the focus of historical study and dispute, yet myths and misconceptions about this extraordinary event persist.