War and defence operations

The authors of Bloody April 1917 present a new volume of facts, photos, and analysis covering aerial combat in the last days of the Great War.

The Battle of Leipzig was the biggest battle of the Napoleonic wars, involving over 500,000 men.

In 1918, the Germans launched the Spring Offensive.

"e;The definitive account of Union Maj.

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

An insider's account of the South Vietnamese elites who strove to carry on the war against the Communists during the U.

The authors of Bloody April 1917 present a new volume of facts, photos, and analysis covering aerial combat in the last days of the Great War.

The author of Shot Down in the Drink shares photos and anecdotes detailing the history of the World War II fighter plane and its crews across the globe.

Reinhard ‘Teddy’ Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander.

A history of 1805’s Battle of Trafalgar between the British Royal Navy and the joint forces of the French and Spanish navies.

This book is a historical study of the events of October 1941 in the Viaz’ma pocket, based on documents found in the Russian Federation’s Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, the German Bundesarchiv, and the US National Archives.

The award-winning Civil War historian examines the actions of Union Cavalry on the first day of the Battle of Chickamauga in this history and tour guide.

During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax.

Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II.

The last of the nine Frontier Wars fought between 1799–1877 was in many ways a ‘prequel’ to the more famous Zulu War of 1879, featuring as it did many of the British regiments and personalities who were to fight at Isandlwana, as well as being the final defeat of the Xhosa people and their reduction to lowly workers for the colonists.

"e;As combat veterans and high commanders know, logic is often a stranger in wartime.

"e;Nothing goes wrong quite so dramatically as a disastrous military expedition.

An overview of generations of Italians in the Big Apple, weaving together numerous stories from different epochs and different backgrounds.

A history of the battle from Germany's perspective: "e;An interesting account of a campaign that was decisive, but not as decisive as it could have been.

In the middle of World War II, Nazi military intelligence discovered a seemingly easy way to win the war for Adolf Hitler.

War is the story of individuals painted into a broader tapestry of overpowering events.

Ordered by Hitler 'to hold, or to die' and to fight 'to the last grenade and round', the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign.

Reinhard ‘Teddy’ Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander.

"e;The essays offer an unvarnished look at not only the severe fighting that characterized these months, but also the simple attempt to survive the rampant disease, malnourishment, and harsh winter on the steppe and in the ruins of Stalingrad.

Just how far would you go to escape?

Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II.

It is June 1815 and an Anglo-led Allied army under the Duke of Wellington’s command and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher is set to face Napoleon Boneparte near Waterloo in present-day Belgium.

During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax.

The Venona Secretspresents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War.

The Venona Secretspresents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War.

Winston Churchill called it "e;the Beast.

A primary source account of the WWII Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy written by a Nazi commander who survived the Soviet victory.

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"e;The essays offer an unvarnished look at not only the severe fighting that characterized these months, but also the simple attempt to survive the rampant disease, malnourishment, and harsh winter on the steppe and in the ruins of Stalingrad.

November 1943May 1945The U.

An illustrated history of World War II's largest tank battle that went down near the Russian city.

An examination of how the Waffen-SS fared in Normandy in June 1944 and whether they deserve their reputation of being the ultimate fighting soldiers.

It was the Greatest Generation's greatest moment: when heroes at home and abroad, united in common purpose as soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marinesunder the leadership of generals like Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradleyrescued Europe from the tyranny and genocide of Adolf Hitler.

Americans have long debated the cause of the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor.

When it comes to sheer savagery endured by the American fighting man, few combat theaters could match the Pacific in WorldWar II: the sodden malarial and Japanese infested jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal, the kamikaze pilots for whom death was no deterrent, and the blood-soaked beaches taken by island-hopping Marines.

In the first volume in this series on the Korean War, North Korea Invades the South, North Korean ground forces, armor and artillery crossed the 38th Parallel, and, in blitzkrieg style, rolled back UN and South Korean forces down the Korean peninsula.

Um das Jahr 1622 gerieten die Täler Montafon, Paznaun, Prättigau, Unterengadin sowie der Walgau und das heutige Liechtenstein, die seit jeher nachbarschaftlich über Rätikon und Silvretta hinweg miteinander verbunden waren, ins Fadenkreuz der beiden Großmächte Habsburg und Frankreich.

General Mike DeLong deputy commander of the U.

On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this 'riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult' (Los Angeles Times).

After a gap of two years, the 1812 Salamanca Campaign saw Wellington taking the offensive in Spain against Marshal Marmont's Army of Portugal.

"e;Brings light to a little-known aspect of our War on Terror .

The Civil War historian recounts a significant yet smaller battle in the Shenandoah Valley-showing how it changed the war and the lives of those present.