War and defence operations

The Battle of Britain was one of the crucial conflicts in the history of civilisation.

In 1939 Dick Gorle was already a professional soldier but stationed in India.

This WWI military history presents a close examination of the costly but victorious Attack on High Wood during the Battle of the Somme.

This WWI military history presents a close examination of the costly but victorious Attack on High Wood during the Battle of the Somme.

"e;Had it not been for the vital contributions of the four men and their inventions described in this book the Battle of Britain could not have been won by the Royal Air Force.

"e;Had it not been for the vital contributions of the four men and their inventions described in this book the Battle of Britain could not have been won by the Royal Air Force.

In this compelling new study of the disastrous 1940 campaign in France and Flanders, Matthew Richardson reconstructs in vivid detail the British armys defeat as it was experienced by the soldiers of a single battalion, the 2nd/5th Leicesters.

Napoleonic War scholar Martin R.

Napoleonic War scholar Martin R.

Three centuries of war.

Three centuries of war.

"e;Serves to illustrate the carnage of battle throughout the three critical months of 1918: March, April and May .

This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Commands pilots and aircrew throughout WWII.

Bosworth stands alongside Naseby and Hastings as one of the three most iconic battles ever fought on English soil.

Bosworth stands alongside Naseby and Hastings as one of the three most iconic battles ever fought on English soil.

A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution, a second collaboration between Dr.

Every day for nine months from September 1944 to the end of the war, young British, Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff aerodrome in northern Scotland in their Mosquitoes and Beaufighters to target the German U-Boats, merchantmen and freighters plying along the coast and in the fjords and leads of southwest Norway, encountering the Luftwaffe and flakships every step of the way.

The Other Side of the Wire' brings to life a period long forgotten in the decades that have passed since the Great War ended in 1918.

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

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.

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.

Since the publication of The Rifles Are There in 2005, which dealt with the 1st and 2nd Battalions Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War, it was felt by many that a follow up volume dealing with the Korean conflict was overdue.

The year of 1914 had been a difficult one for the British Expeditionary Force, the war that had started in August had not been over by the expected time of Christmas.

In the first of a two-volume study, the author presents an extremely detailed record of the Organisation, doctrine and equipment of US Army infantry divisions during the latter part of World War II.

Based on the written testimonies and personal archives of two veterans of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment attached to the famous US 82nd Airborne Division, this book tells the story of two young Americans who unwittingly became actors in one of the greatest crusades against tyranny the world has ever known.

In the wake of the Red Army's signal victory at Stalingrad, which began when its surprise counteroffensive encircled German Sixth Army in Stalingrad region in mid-November 1942 and ended when its forces liquidated beleaguered Sixth Army in early February 1943, the Soviet High Command (Stavka) expanded its counteroffensive into a full-fledged winter offensive which nearly collapsed German defenses in southern Russia.

Told largely in the words of people who lived through this extraordinary time, The Forties: Good Times Just Around the Corner is a vividly remembered account of the most important decade of the twentieth century.

December 13, 2007 marks the 70th anniversary of the fall of the Chinese city of Nanking to the Japanese army.

World War II was the greatest conflict in human history, involving over 100 million people serving in the forces of the Axis and the Allies and resulting in 50 to 70 million deaths.

"e;Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"e; - Churchill on the RAF.

When Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, nothing like it had ever been seen before.

Perhaps it was Adolf Hitler's implacable hatred of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin that compelled the Fu*hrer to order the taking, whatever the cost, of the city that bore his enemy's name.

On the night of 28 March 1942 the Royal Navy and British commandos assaulted the German-held French Atlantic port of Saint-Nazaire in one of the most audacious raids of the Second World War.

In the new year of 1944 the French Resistance in northern France was on its knees.

So many histories of the War in the Pacific focus on the Allied experience.

So many histories of the War in the Pacific focus on the Allied experience.

A comprehensive, highly illustrated study of US tanks and other armoured vehicles used in World War II.

Written by veteran game designers Alessio Cavatore and Rick Priestley, Bolt Action provides all the rules needed to bring the great battles of World War II to your tabletop.

Michael Walling has honored the American men and women who served in Operation Enduring Freedom by helping them tell their own stories.

Michael Walling has honored the American men and women who served in Operation Enduring Freedom by helping them tell their own stories.

The Crimean Peninsula was the setting for the destruction of a number of armies in World War II, both Soviet and German.

The Crimean Peninsula was the setting for the destruction of a number of armies in World War II, both Soviet and German.

Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s.

Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s.

This book provides Bolt Action players with all of the information they need to field the military forces of Germany.

Fifteen renowned authors from widely varied backgrounds examine the Vietnam War, providing a fresh insight into this controversial conflict, even for those who have 'read it all before'.