War and defence operations

'The best political weapon is the weapon of terror.

'Roland's compelling account is highly readable.

'The best political weapon is the weapon of terror.

Few people alive today had direct experience of the First World War, and yet it seems embedded in the collective consciousness of the combatant nations as a warning to future generations of the futility of military conflict.

Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring as they do where cultures and ideologies clash.

The early battles of the First World War during the autumn and winter of 1914 were open, mobile affairs of the kind long familiar to professional soldiers.

This book tells the story of Operation Overlord, the largest and most meticulously planned seaborne invasion in the history of warfare.

Hundreds of Israeli soldiers, called up to take part in controversial campaigns like the 1982 invasion of Lebanon or policing duties in the Palestinian territories today, have refused orders.

Hundreds of Israeli soldiers, called up to take part in controversial campaigns like the 1982 invasion of Lebanon or policing duties in the Palestinian territories today, have refused orders.

Four months pregnant, Vera Wohlauf, wife of a serving SS officer, took sadistic pleasure in rounding up victims for Treblinka.

In 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed and the Red Army swamped Berlin.

"e;Before Alamein we never won a battle, after Alamein we never lost one.

At the outset of 1918 Germany faced certain defeat as a result of Allied technical innovation in tanks and aircraft, and the American entry into the war.

The Second World War was the final global conflict of the twentieth century.

Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world's greatest humanitarians, having dedicated her remarkable life to the liberty and equality of all people.

Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world's greatest humanitarians, having dedicated her remarkable life to the liberty and equality of all people.

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.

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 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.

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.

Formed in 1933, the Gestapo became one of the most feared state forces of the Third Reich before and during World War II.

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.

The Spanish Civil War left a legacy of destruction, resentment and deep ideological divisions in a country that was attempting to recover from economic stagnation and social inequality.

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.

This book fills a gap in Civil War literature on the strategies employed by the Union and Confederacy in the East, offering a more integrated interpretation of military operations that shows how politics, public perception, geography, and logistics shaped the course of military operations in the East.

In prose as beautiful as it is powerful, Rita Gabis follows the trail of her grandfather's collaboration with the Nazis; a trail riddled with secrets, slaughter, mystery, and discovery.

Amid a great collection of scholarship and narrative history on the Revolutionary War and the American struggle for independence, there is a gaping hole; one that John Ferling's latest book, Whirlwind, will fill.

"e;Never again!

During the European Renaissance, an age marked equally by revolutionary thought and constant warfare, it was armies, rather than philosophers, who shaped the modern European nation state.

Harry Patch, born June 17, 1898, was the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War.

Iraq in 2009 was a strange netherworld, not quite war but not yet peace.

Thieves of Baghdad is a riveting account of Colonel Matthew Bogdanos and his team's extraordinary efforts to recover over 5,000 priceless antiquities stolen from the Iraqi National Museum after the fall of Baghdad.