War and defence operations

The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States.

Battles have long featured prominently in historical consciousness, as moments when the balance of power was seen to have tipped, or when aspects of collective identity were shaped.

The lives and careers of Sir Charles Stewart and his brother Lord Castlereagh take in a grand stage, from Britain and Ireland to the kingdoms and empires of western and central Europe.

The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes.

World War I was the first truly global conflict and its effects were felt across the British Empire.

The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history.

The First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey.

It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War.

Ibn Jubayr's account of his journey from his home in then Islamic Spain to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Syria, the Crusader Kingdoms and ultimately Egypt is a landmark text for the study and understanding of the Medieval Islamic World.

Battles have long featured prominently in historical consciousness, as moments when the balance of power was seen to have tipped, or when aspects of collective identity were shaped.

The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States.

During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan.

The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement.

Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of change depends more on politics than economics.

The horrors and tragedies of the First World War produced some of the finest literature of the century: including Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Goodbye to All That; the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas; and the novels of Ford Madox Ford.

*Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize*

In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island.

At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess.

The lives and careers of Sir Charles Stewart and his brother Lord Castlereagh take in a grand stage, from Britain and Ireland to the kingdoms and empires of western and central Europe.

The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes.

World War I was the first truly global conflict and its effects were felt across the British Empire.

The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history.

*Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize*In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island.

Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930) was the only one of the sons of the renowned nineteenth-century Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone to enjoy a significant political career in his own right.

In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts of the Burmese population.

In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek - the head of China's military academy and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) - began the `northern expeditions' to bring China's northern territories back under the control of the state.

A few years before he died James MacGibbon confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II.

Martyn Bennett here provides the first military biography of Cromwell in the context of the seventeenth century Military Revolution.

During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Owain Glyndwr is a towering figure in Welsh history.

It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War.

It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb.

A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war.

During 1940 the German army swept with devastating speed across the Low Countries and into northern France and drove Allied forces back into a small pocket around Dunkirk.

During 1940 the German army swept with devastating speed across the Low Countries and into northern France and drove Allied forces back into a small pocket around Dunkirk.

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

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

In the early summer of 1914, the headmaster of Brighton College, Canon W.

In the early summer of 1914, the headmaster of Brighton College, Canon W.

Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies above England.

This classic account is a dynamic and vivid record of what it was like to fight with Britain's Commandos across wartime.

In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army near the small town of Halbe, south-east of Berlin.

In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army near the small town of Halbe, south-east of Berlin.

The acclaimed Napoleonic historian sheds new light on a fascinating yet little-known battle in the Franco-Austrian War.

This history of the pivotal WWII Battle of Stalingrad reveals newly translated firsthand accounts from Russian and German soldiers as well as civilians.

The image of the innocent British soldier (or Tommy) setting off with a spring in his step in 1914 to fight the Great War would not last long.

‘A fitting tribute to Germany's clandestine warriors, and a guarantee that their extraordinary efforts have not been relegated to comparative obscurity or entirely forgotten’ - David R Higgins.

‘A fitting tribute to Germany's clandestine warriors, and a guarantee that their extraordinary efforts have not been relegated to comparative obscurity or entirely forgotten’ - David R Higgins.

This, the fourth volume in Andrew Field's highly praised study of the Waterloo campaign from the French perspective, depicts in vivid detail the often neglected final phase the rout and retreat of Napoleon's army.

In the Second World War, Malta was besieged for nearly two and a half years, during which time a decisive air war was waged between Britain, Italy and Germany.