War and defence operations

On 30 March 1972 the South Vietnamese positions along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated the North from South Vietnam were suddenly shelled by hundreds of heavy guns and multiple rocket launchers.

Using a combination of new perspectives and new evidence, this book presents a reinterpretation of how 21st Army Group produced a successful combined arms doctrine by late 1944 and implemented this in early 1945.

The Rout of the German-Fascist Troops in Belorussia in 1944 covers the Red Army's Belorussian strategic operation: the linchpin of the 10 major Soviet offensive efforts launched that year to clear the country of the invader.

This work is a reexamination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London.

"e;Comprehensive scholarship and convincing reasoning, enhanced by an excellent translation, place this work on a level with the best of David Glantz"e; (Dennis Showalter, award-winning author of Patton and Rommel).

The Crookenden brothers – Henry, Napier and Spencer - were born into a military dynasty.

This book focuses on the extent to which the physical terrain features across Egypt, Libya and Tunisia affected British operations throughout the campaign in North Africa during the Second World War.

On 16 October, 1944, the 3rd White Russian Front launched its massive offensive against Heeresgruppe Mitte.

The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter- Offensive, July - August 1943, offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War’s most critical events.

The V Force consisted of three four-jet bombers, the Valiant, the Vulcan and the Victor, all required as part of the nuclear deterrent in the Cold War following the end of the Second World War.

In this compelling memoir, Erich Sommer recalls his life in pre-war Germany and the adventures he had flying for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.

This unusual work offers a personal documentary and highly individual witness to the terrible events in Flanders in 1917.

This is the story of an ordinary young man, unworldly, untried and patriotic, who enlisted at 18 in 1942 and became an infantryman specialising as a machine gunner with the Middlesex Regiment and later with the Cheshire Regiment.

"e;A good synopsis of tank strategies, many of which remain pertinent to this day.

"e;A good synopsis of tank strategies, many of which remain pertinent to this day.

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.

This seminal work documents the clandestine sea borne operations undertaken by South Africa’s 4 Reconnaissance Commando Regiment.

To date there has been a paucity of books on this remarkable aircraft.

Waffen-SS Armour in Normandy presents the combat history of SS-Panzer Regiment 12 and SS-Panzerjäger Abteilung 12 in the Battle for France from June to the end of August 1944 based on transcriptions of their original unit war diaries from the Military History Archives in Prague.

When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires.

Historians consider the Battle of Rzhev "one of the bloodiest in the history of the Great Patriotic War" and "Zhukov's greatest defeat".

Nominated for the NYMAS Arthur Goodzeit Book Award 2013Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guiné-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam.

1848 was a turbulent but momentous time in Europe.

The year 2012 marks the centenary of Eva Braun's birth.

The Junkers 87 Stuka was an iconic weapon of World War Two and an aircraft name that was, and still is, instantly recognized worldwide.

The air battle for Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war.

Karl Bodenschatz was the Richthofen squadron adjutant.

In the spring of 1848, revolution threatened to sweep away the old order throughout Europe.

Before the War of 1866 the name of Helmuth Von Moltke was scarcely known outside the Prussian army.

This book investigates several controversial issues regarding the role of the Soviet Union and the performance of the Soviet government and Red Army, to which the author provides some provocative answers.

For almost 43 years three school notebooks lay in obscurity in the County Armagh home of sixty two-year old James McRoberts.

This is the captivating story of the four Raw brothers, all of whom served with the Royal Air Force.

‘I went into the cloud and went flat out for a few minutes, turned, and as I dived out my luck was in and I got him head-on.

In his monumental work Bloody Shambles, Volume Two, Christopher Shores described in detail the British retreat out of Burma, culminating at the end of May 1942.

When Canadian troops and British Commandos made their now famous ‘reconnaissance in force’ against the harbor town of Dieppe on 19th August 1942, they were supported and protected by the largest array of Royal Air Force aircraft ever seen in WWII until that time.

This book is largely an eye-witness account of the heavy bomber contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and therefore to the winning of the war in Europe.

The grandfather of the author was a pilot in a squadron made up of Britons and Canadians.

Distant Thunder details the engrossing experiences of a helicopter pilot’s tales of war told through letters that come straight from the heart.

The Gaysh tells the story of the emergence of an army following early attempts to protect the trade routes in and through Aden.

Brutally honest and devoid of hyperbole, this is Roelf van Heerden's Executive Outcomes.

Under Himmler's Command addresses two areas of World War II hitherto neglected - Heinrich Himmler as a military commander, and the German staff officer corps during the last months of the war on the Eastern Front.

The war of 1864 between Austria and Prussia on the one side and Denmark on the other was short but important for European history.

The so-called Seven Weeks' War of 1866 between Prussia and Italy and Austria was notable not only for its effect on future German history but also because it was the last time the armies of the smaller German states fought as independent contingents.

The Bavarian army, which fought the War of 1866, was not greatly distinguished for its performance, but a translation of the Bavarian general staff history of the war is a document, which should be available in English, since it gives an official analysis of the conflict.

It was close to the small southern Belgian town of Mons that the shooting war began or the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914.

This is a translation of the 1867 work by Alexander Hold, Geschichte der Feldzugs in Italien 1866, which describes in detail the campaign of the previous year, fought between the armed forces of the Austrian empire and the kingdom of Italy in the Austrian province of Venetia and the southern Tyrol and on the Adriatic Sea.

Most studies of the 1940 Western Campaign have tended to focus on a narrow range of topics, principally those relating the German forces or the epic of Dunkirk.

Translated from German, In a Raging Inferno is the first English-language book ever to recount the story of the Hitler Youth and its combat role at the end of World War II.

An in-depth account of the formation Nazi Germany's militia army as a desperate attempt to delay its defeat during the waning days of WWII.

Once I Had a Comrade is the story of the author's German father-in-law, Karl Roth, who grew up during the tumultuous 1930s in the Franconian town of Schweinfurt, located in northern Bavaria, and of his regiment, 36th Panzer Regiment.