War and defence operations

In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture.

Every day for nine months from September 1944 to the end of the war, young British, Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff aerodrome in northern Scotland in their Mosquitoes and Beaufighters to target the German U-Boats, merchantmen and freighters plying along the coast and in the fjords and leads of southwest Norway, encountering the Luftwaffe and flakships every step of the way.

The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany.

The British-led Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that attacked the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli in 1915 was a multi-national affair, including Australian, New Zealand, Irish, French, and Indian soldiers.

In 1918, the Royal Air Force became the first major independent air force in the world.

El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, fought by armies and air forces on the cutting edge of military technology.

In 1918, the Royal Air Force became the first major independent air force in the world.

On May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day-shortened to "e;V.

In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture.

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech.

This is an untold, beautifully-written spy story set in wartime occupied France with a brilliant but ruthless British secret agent at its heart.

Many readers of Civil War history have been led to believe the battle of South Mountain (September 14, 1862) was but a trifling skirmish, a preliminary engagement of little strategic or tactical consequence overshadowed by Antietam’s horrific carnage just three days later.

The wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War.

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In this inspiring and original book, former editor of The Times, Sir Peter Stothard, re-traces the journey taken by Spartacus and his army of rebels.

Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean.

Part of the 'Making History Series' - Waterloo is an exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world - Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.

[Previously published as 'Went The Day Well']A sweeping political, social, military and cultural overview of the United Kingdom on the eve, and then the day, of the greatest battle fought by British arms.

A gripping history of the Mediterranean campaigns from the first rumblings of conflict through the Second World War and into the uneasy peace of the late 1940s.

The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause.

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.

In the war against Hitler, the Allies had to use every ounce of cunning and trickery that they possessed.

Fifteen renowned authors from widely varied backgrounds examine the Vietnam War, providing a fresh insight into this controversial conflict, even for those who have 'read it all before'.

In the war against Hitler, the Allies had to use every ounce of cunning and trickery that they possessed.

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.

National Public Radio's correspondent provides a brilliant, intimate, on-the-ground account of history in the making with Naked in Baghdad.

Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF .

The authoritative, dramatic, and previously untold story of the bloodiest battle in American history: the epic fight for the Meuse-Argonne in World War IOn September 26, 1918, more than one million American soldiers prepared to assault the German-held Meuse-Argonne region of France.

An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence"e;What do we mean by the Revolution?

Fifteen renowned authors from widely varied backgrounds examine the Vietnam War, providing a fresh insight into this controversial conflict, even for those who have 'read it all before'.

Bomb Hunters tells the story of the British army's elite bomb disposal experts in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Seventy years on, D-Day remains the greatest combined military operation of all time.

In a series of powerful accounts drawn from diaries, letters, sound archives and interviews recorded during the period of devastation, discovery and transformation that make the blitz such an outstanding event in Britain's recent past, "e;The Blitz"e; brings to life the intense experiences, as they happened all over Britain.

Foremost military historian Richard Holmes offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier.

The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller'A fabulous story, superbly told .

In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj.

In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj.

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee.

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee.