Battles and campaigns

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the Abdiel-class fast minelayers, which were considered the fastest and most versatile to serve in the Royal Navy during World War II.

A lavishly illustrated volume marking the defining point in American history.

This fully illustrated book assesses the trial of strength between US Navy PT boats and Japanese destroyers operating in the Solomon Islands during 1942 43.

This concise yet detailed overview gives a balanced account of this key Blitzkrieg campaign in the Balkans during the opening years of World War II.

The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history.

Stalin's Ninos examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly three thousand child refugees of the Spanish Civil War.

After suffering devastating losses in the early stages of the Second World War, the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force established an Operational Research Section within bomber command in order to drastically improve the efficiency of bombing missions targeting Germany.

The life and times of the greatest knight of the high middle ages, who saved England from the French.

The award-winning Civil War historian examines the actions of Union Cavalry on the first day of the Battle of Chickamauga in this history and tour guide.

The Peninsular War (1807-1814) was a military conflict for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic War, where the French were opposed by British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces.

Between June 1812 and January 1815, US and British forces, notably the regular infantrymen of both sides (including the Canadian Fencibles Regiment), fought one another on a host of North American battlefields.

The forgotten story of the major naval operations conducted in the Philippines by the US and Japanese navies after Leyte Gulf up to the US invasion of Luzon in January 1945.

The Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the German defeat in the West.

A biography of the British Army officer and his role in the Crimean War at the Charge at Balaklava.

The second in a three-part series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II, that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich.

War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy, absolute respect for authority, and subordination to seniority.

The Punic Wars (264-146BC) sprang from a mighty power struggle between two ancient civilisations - the trading empire of Carthage and the military confedoration of Rome.

From popular Pacific Theatre expert Jeffrey R.

The last Pacific campaign of World War II was the most violent on record.

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Saying that no generation of Americans has produced a finer array of combat commanders than that of World War II, a thirty-year army veteran examines combat leadership throughout the war at every level of command in the U.

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.

Thousands of British American mainland colonists rejected the War for American Independence.

This book is a comprehensive and in-depth study of a mysterious state of China''s Warring States Period (476–221 BCE): the Zhongshan.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SOCIETY FOR ARMY HISTORICAL RESEARCH'S 2025 TEMPLER MEDALA detailed new account of the British military campaign in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, based on the experiences of those who served.

Sir James Somerville (1882-1949) was one of the great influences on the 20th-century navy, both as a commander of fleets and a pioneer of radio and radar.

After 2005, the United States and coalition partners led an air advisory campaign to rebuild the Afghan Air Force (AAF).

With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union.

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific.

A roll-call and history of the ex-students of Brighton College who fell in the Second World War.

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

Without the bravery and skill of EB-66 operators, US losses would undoubtedly have been much higher during the Vietnam War, with large tactical strikes on North Vietnam and Arc Light B-52 raids only available when EB-66 support was possible.

The result of years of research in British, French and German archives, this is a new critical history of how close Germany came to winning the First World War in 1914.

An in-depth, illustrated history of Israeli Air Force operations in Western Negev toward the end of the Arab-Israeli War.

This military biography recounts the incredible story of a Green Beret who survived capture and torture in Vietnam before escaping to freedom.

From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this paperback edition of his detailed and engrossing account of the World War II's Eastern Front as German forces were driven back following the Battle of Kursk.

'An exciting, highly informative and also enjoyable read: Shepherd writes with clarity and verve this book should find its way into the hands of all schools, universities and lovers of Herodotus.

To witness war is, in large part, to hear it.

This richly detailed account reveals how Sir Ralph Abercromby's strategy restored the honour of the British army and averted disaster for the Empire.

In late 1944 the US Marine Corps prepared for the toughest battles of the war.

In 1942, Japanese forces invaded the island of New Guinea and started a bitter, three-year campaign against allied Australian and American forces.

The epic life story of a schoolteacher and preacher in Missouri, guerrilla fighter in the Civil War, Congressman, freethinking lecturer and author, and anarchist.

In an era of battlefield one-upmanship, the raid on the Nation's Capital in July 1864 was prompted by an earlier failed Union attempt to destroy Richmond and free the Union prisoners held there.

World War I was Britain's last moment as the world's naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen.

A revised and updated single-source reference book accurately detailing the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and their losses.

A highly illustrated updated study of Patton's daring attempt to bounce the river Rhine in March 1945.