War and defence operations

A compact history charting the development of this natural harbor in the Orkney Islands, Britain's most important naval base during World Wars I and II.

By the spring of 1936 an armed clash was imminent between the forces of Spain's extreme Left and extreme Right.

Largely responsible for crushing Japanese airpower wherever the American fast carrier force sailed, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was considered the most important Allied aircraft in the Pacific during 1943 and 1944.

';For those interested in the fighting on the Eastern Front in general.

By September 1944, Allied forces had broken out from the Normandy beachheads, liberated Paris, and found themselves poised on the German border.

In a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of the Army of Northern Virginia's retreat from Gettysburg in July 1863, Kent Masterson Brown draws on previously untapped sources to chronicle the massive effort of General Robert E.

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

Short-listed for the 2009 Red Maple Award for Non-Fiction, OLA Forest of Reading and commended for the 2009 OLA Best Bets This book presents the story and issues of the First World War in a clear, concise and objective manner, accompanied on every page by photographs, original sketches or maps.

Glen Williford lends new insight into the reasons for America s relatively quick comeback from the attack on Pearl Harbor.

A highly illustrated and detailed study of the Gold and Juno Beaches Landings Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the greatest sea-borne military operation in history.

The most important and dramatic carrier battle of World War II, which completely changed the fortunes of both Japan and America.

Since the end of the Cold War, crises from the Balkans to Central Asia and Africa have forced international organizations to adapt, expand, and cooperate to end civil wars, manage humanitarian challenges, and contain terrorist threats.

During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.

World War II is often seen as a confrontation of technology tanks and aircraft, artillery and engineering.

Despite the best efforts of a number of historians, many aspects of the ferocious struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War remain obscure or shrouded in myth.

When World War II broke out in September 1939 the US Army starved of resources since 1919 numbered just 174,000 men.

This book describes the organization, lists the units and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the four Canadian divisions which earned an elite reputation on the Western Front in 1915-18.

An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil.

This fascinating study details the entourage which enabled Napoleon to move hundreds of thousands of troops right across Europe.

This classic study examines the deployment of U.

Packed with illustrations and maps, this slim volume examines Wellington's comeback in Portugal, which ultimately led to the end of its French occupation.

Agincourt was an astonishing clash of arms, a pivotal moment in the Hundred Years War and the history of warfare in general.

Author Stephen Young was a seaman first class assigned to gunnery duty in turret no.

Leading scholars explore how the arguments of classical European thinkers relate to the ethics and politics of military intervention today.

A thorough investigation of the strengths and weaknesses of two of the twentieth century's most lethal combatants; the M1 Abrams and the T-72.

Major General Johnson Hagood (1873-1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the twentieth century.

Jagging across north-western Europe like a scar, the Hindenburg Line was Germany's most formidable line of defence in World War I.

When the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in January 1942, 76,000 ill and starving Filipino and American troops tried to hold out on Bataan and Corregidor.

70 years ago, on 7 June 1944, the British 7th Armored Division landed in Normandy, halfway through a wartime journey that had started in north Africa.

A revised and updated edition of Evan Mawdsley''s acclaimed global history of World War II.

This volume focuses on the little known official Army Air Force report commissioned by the Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command (FC) in May 1944.

Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830-1.

Dieses Werk untersucht die Spuren, die der Friedenprozess mit der Guerrilla FARC-EP in der kolumbianischen Fernsehfiktion hinterlassen hat.

In 1943 the U.

This book explores the aerial campaign against the British capital, and the birth of the Royal Air Force.

At the time of the Second Empire, under Napoleon III, the French army, elevated from tactful obscurity, was re-modelled on Napoleonic lines.

In this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen D.

'Like The Long Reach, Down to Earth is a message from the battle at its height, told in their own words by the men who fight' - this is how Brig-Gen Francis Griswold, VIII Fighter Command, ends his introduction to this book.

Winner: Society for Military History Distinguished Book AwardThis year begins the centennial of the Philippine War, one of the most controversial and poorly understood events in American history.

A unique comparison between the two most numerous British and German tank types from 1941 to 1943.

The military policeman must be one of the least appreciated yet most indispensable military figures in modern history.

Napoleon's line infantry was founded upon that of the Ancien R gime.

An illustrated history of the F/A-18 Hornet which, in its various guises, was the 'universal soldier' of OIF, with around 250 seeing combat.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the military importance of the Hawaiian Islands became clear.