War and defence operations

A highly illustrated study of the T-90, the backbone of the armoured units of Putin's Russia.

Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War.

A gripping examination of the Battle of the Barents Sea, fought in the near darkness and icy cold of the northern winter, in which the Kriegsmarine sought to sever the crucial Allied Arctic Convoy route once and for all.

Karl Bodenschatz was the Richthofen squadron adjutant.

Vietnam was the US Special Forces most complex and controversial mission, one that began in 1957 and ended in 1973.

The Mosquito developed into one of the most versatile aircraft of World War 2, entering service with Fighter Command in early 1942.

Civil wars have caused tremendous human suffering in the last century, and the United Nations is often asked to send peacekeepers to stop ongoing violence.

The US Army's development of the 37mm anti-tank gun began in response to needs identified during the Spanish Civil War.

This wide-ranging collection of articles by some of the most renowned names in the subject explores the tumultuous events of the final year of the First World War.

Having been a part of the Fifteenth Air Force in 1944, author Bill Hess has written the definitive account on 'his air force', featuring photographs and illustrations throughout.

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy.

A fully-illustrated account of the British Q ship, a heavily armed small craft disguised as a merchant vessel, and its tactics against the Kaiser's formidable U-boat fleet during World War I.

AWARDED THE ANDERSON MEDAL 2021This fascinating title offers a new study of the loss of six British ships and an Argentinian cruiser during the Falklands War of 1982.

In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, igniting the flames of war across the Iberian Peninsula.

The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign is the third and final volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.

The Second World War was Britain's last conflict as a world power.

A comprehensive and detailed account of the US Army's infantry battalions and support units during the long struggle in Vietnam.

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

Few branches of the German armed forces were represented on so many fronts as the mountain infantrymen, or Gebirgstruppen.

The Royal Hungarian Army was Germany's largest ally on the Eastern Front, but information about the Hungarian Army in English is rare.

The battle of Ligny saw the Prussians pushed back by the French Army in what was to be Napoleon's last battlefield victory.

The army commanded by the Duke of Wellington at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo included two infantry divisions and three cavalry brigades of the newly-unified Netherlands (or 'Dutch-Belgian') army.

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.

A new illustrated history of one of the key air campaigns of late World War II the American effort to cripple Germany's oil production, and grind its armed forces to a halt.

This book details the uniforms and weapons of the American, Spanish, Cuban and Filipino forces involved in the United States Army's first overseas war.

A detailed, illustrated study of the Ukrainian armed forces, their weapons, dress and equipment from the First to the Second World War and beyond.

The Allied victory at Omaha Beach was a costly one.

A fascinating study of one of the often overlooked World War II campaigns as British/Commonwealth, Indigenous and Italian forces battled for control of the Horn of Africa.

A thorough study of significant wars throughout history and their influence on world affairs-from the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmore III's Campaigns during 479-459 BCE through the Iraq War of 2003-2011.

A compact volume on a key, early battle in US American history.

The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of the Soviet Red Army.

Spain has for too long been considered peripheral to the human catastrophes of World War II and the Holocaust.

A highly illustrated study of the Japanese conquest and American reconquest of the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska, one of the most inhospitable theatres of World War II.

The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare.

This title, the second of two looking at US commanders of World War II, examines the combat careers, personalities, uniforms, dress and appearance of the key US naval and Marine commanders.

Five months after the election of Abraham Lincoln, which had revealed the fracturing state of the nation, Confederates fired on Fort Sumter and the fight for the Union began in earnest.

Perilous Memories makes a groundbreaking and critical intervention into debates about war memory in the Asia-Pacific region.

From the Somme to Gallipoli to the home front, First World War For Dummies provides an authoritative, accessible, and engaging introduction to the War to End All Wars.

Finalist, 2018, Reference, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardThe Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 - January 22, 1863 continues Bradley M.

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

Details a critical period in the Red Army's advance along the southwest strategic direction during the general offensive that followed the fighting in the area of the Kursk salient in July-August 1943.

In his Army Reforms of 1906/07, the Secretary of State for War, Richard Burdon Haldane, provided for an expeditionary force: the Regular Army supplemented by the old Militia and a new organisation intended for home defence, the Territorial Force.

This latest German Army book by Jack Sheldon covers a shorter (three week) timeframe than his earlier works.

The little-known story of how the RAF and USAAF saved London from destruction at the hands of Hitler's V-1 flying bombs and V-2 missiles by finding and bombing the hardened, heavily defended fortresses that launched them into England.

In terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain.

A slim, yet detailed volume on the downfall of the Teutonic Knights, featuring battlescene maps and illustrations throughout.

“An outstanding read for anyone interested in the Civil War and Gettysburg in particular .

Highlights the threats posed by nuclear weapons and shows a way to denuclearization through the application of international law.