War and defence operations

The authoritative manual on the applicable international law and best practice in the planning and conduct of peace operations.

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Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of war's significance to the history of the Great War.

This volume of WWII military studies examines significant yet neglected clashes of German-Hungarian and Soviet armor north of the river Danube.

A unique first-hand narrative of the Falklands war.

In the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence.

Beginning with the destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, The Road to Berlin is the story of how the Red Army drove the Germans from its territory, and finally invaded the Reich.

Gordon Rottman details the bitter 26-day struggle for this key Pacific island during World War II.

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The armored divisions were the shock force of the US Army's combat formations during the fighting in Northwest Europe in the final year of the war.

In the aftermath of Julius Caesar's assassination, Octavian and the forces of the late Republic battled Mark Antony in the battles of Forum Gallorum and Mutina in 43 BC.

In response to the devastating trauma of World War I, British and American authors wrote about grief.

This book will detail the history and combat experiences of these forgotten pilots who operated in every theatre and every major conflict of the war.

A history of the Red Army, Soviet Army and Russian Army in 100 years of conflict.

This is the first time that Sir Arthur Bomber' Harris's own papers covering his three and a half years at Bomber Command have been published and made available to the general public.

The ascent of the Plantagenets to the English throne in 1154 led to the beginning of a new historical phase in the British Isles, which was marked by numerous wars that were fought between the Kingdom of England and the 'Celtic nations' of Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

In Between the Alps and a Hard Place, Professor Angelo M.

A highly-illustrated examination of the controversial battle for Peleliu.

Ribbon of Honor I saw enough to sicken the heart.

A highly illustrated account of the Liberation of Paris during World War II.

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.

'What a brilliant book this is a terrific narrative of Hitler's Ardennes offensive of December 1944 superb storytelling that achieves a skilful balance between drama and detail.

Das Bundle der ersten drei Bände der Romanreihe "Geschichten des Dreißigjährigen Krieges" überzeugt mit historischen Fakten und einer spannungsgeladenen Entwicklung.

This engrossing book pits the legionaries of Imperial Rome against their Germanic and Sarmatian opponents in the 2nd century AD.

The Great War ate men, machines, and money without mercy or remission.

Recent challenges to the traditional site of the Battle of Hastings have led to a surge of interest in the events surrounding England's most famous battle.

Winston Churchill described the opening campaign of World War I as 'a drama never surpassed'.

Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers.

For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land.

In late January 1968, some 84,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launched a country-wide general offensive in South Vietnam.

The German Fleet at War relates the little-known history of the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet with a focus on the sixty-nine surface naval battles fought by Germany's major warships against the large warships of the British, French, American, Polish, Soviet, Norwegian and Greek navies.

New weapons tend to be delivered late, over budget and not meeting requirements.

A brief, yet complete history of the Allied campaign for the liberation of Europe from the Normandy invasion to the surrender of Germany, this study describes not only what happened, but why it happened.

The Syrian Civil War, (the colloquial name of the ongoing conflict in Syria), has experienced an entirely unexpected transformation during its first two years.

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Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century Britain, and one of its sharpest critics.

This book dramatically reveals the experiences of the airmen and guncrews of the rival vessels as they battled for victory in a duel of skill, tenacity and guts.

A detailed, illustrated account of The First Battle of the Marne, which saved France from defeat in the First World War and led directly the establishment of the trenches.

Bloodstained Sands tells the untold story of the men who stormed beaches around the globe during World War II, from the Sword and Juno Beaches on D-Day to the sands of Iwo Jima.

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

Explores the critical battle of Carrhae, a fascinating tale of treachery, tactics, and topography in which Rome experienced one of its most humiliating defeats.

The German historian's classic account of the Red Army's assault on East Prussia at the end of WWII, now available in English translation.

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.

In a decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created.

Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading.

From the end of the thirteenth century to the first decades of the sixteenth century, Guyart des Moulins's Bible historiale was the predominant French translation of the Bible.