Battles and campaigns

Detailed and fully illustrated account of the Philadelphia campaign 1777, with over 150 photographs, maps and contemporary artwork.

The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English histories of the conflict.

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.

"e;The essays offer an unvarnished look at not only the severe fighting that characterized these months, but also the simple attempt to survive the rampant disease, malnourishment, and harsh winter on the steppe and in the ruins of Stalingrad.

The British campaign in the Low Countries in 1813-14 in support of the Dutch revolt against the French is one of the lesser-known campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, but one, which the great historian of the British Army Sir John Fortescue wrote that it was impossible to understand the Waterloo campaign without a knowledge of.

Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II.

General Erhard Raus was one of the German Army's finest panzer generals and a leading exponent of blitzkrieg in the east.

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.

This new collection of studies presents fresh insights into a war fought over unusually difficult terrain and with exceptional supply demands.

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

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.

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

In 1918, the Germans launched the Spring Offensive.

"e;As combat veterans and high commanders know, logic is often a stranger in wartime.

Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights.

"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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In 1918, the Germans launched the Spring Offensive.

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the six Abdiel-class fast minelayers, the fastest and most versatile ships to serve in the Royal Navy in the Second World War.

"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.

During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax.

An overview of generations of Italians in the Big Apple, weaving together numerous stories from different epochs and different backgrounds.

"e;The essays offer an unvarnished look at not only the severe fighting that characterized these months, but also the simple attempt to survive the rampant disease, malnourishment, and harsh winter on the steppe and in the ruins of Stalingrad.

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

Captain Robert Semrau s military trial made international headlines a Canadian soldier serving in Afghanistan arrested for allegedly killing a grievously wounded Taliban soldier in the field.

It is June 1815 and an Anglo-led Allied army under the Duke of Wellington’s command and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher is set to face Napoleon Boneparte near Waterloo in present-day Belgium.

The Civil War historian recounts a significant yet smaller battle in the Shenandoah Valley-showing how it changed the war and the lives of those present.

‘The Great War’ involved the mobilisation of 70 million soldiers worldwide.

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.

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

Captain C Shore's enthusiasm for firearms led him to take every possible opportunity to try out different weapons, ammunition and methods of shooting.

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.

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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.

Praise for War Beneath the Sea"e;I am truly filled with awe and admiration.

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.

Ordered by Hitler 'to hold, or to die' and to fight 'to the last grenade and round', the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign.

The experiences of the Irish in France during the war were overshadowed by the threat of internment or destitution.

The German Afrika Korps was an outstanding military organisation that experienced both the height of glory and the depth of defeat in the Western Desert campaign.

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

Henry V's stunning victory at Agincourt was a pivotal battle of the Hundred Years War, reviving England's military fortunes and changing forever the course of European warfare.