War and defence operations

All about the British and American bombing raids during WWII with over 250 color images and diagrams, with supporting operational maps to provide the full breadth of these raids.

Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war.

This book describes the organization, lists the units and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the four Canadian divisions which earned an elite reputation on the Western Front in 1915-18.

Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I dialogues with the variety of texts recently published to commemorate the Great War.

Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war.

"e;Burning Horizon reminds us how British and American servicemen and women train together, learn together, and, when called upon, fight together to defeat threats to our common values.

The story of the Slovak and Bulgarian aces and how they fought alongside Germany in Messerschmitts.

Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I dialogues with the variety of texts recently published to commemorate the Great War.

The Pacific War was the greatest and bloodiest war ever fought in the Andean region, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history.

The final part in a three-book series on the Battle of Stalingrad, examining the Soviet encirclement, German relief efforts, and the final surrender of Paulus' 6.

The Baltic nations - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - enjoyed a brief independence between the World Wars before being annexed by the USSR in 1940.

The first dedicated examination of Alexander the Great's final battle and acknowledged tactical masterpiece.

The air campaign that incinerated Japan's cities was the first and only time that independent air power has won a war.

Maochun Yu tells the story of the intelligence activities of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in China during World War II.

A compact, fully-illustrated guide to a strategic British victory that forced the French troops out of occupied Spain.

Boasting pilots who had been blooded in the Spanish Civil War, Jagdgeschwader 53 (JG 53) 'Pik As' or 'Ace of Spades' achieved great success in the skies over France and Britain in 1940.

We have known for many decades that the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 "e;failed"e;, in the sense that it did not prevent the outbreak of World War II.

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

These compelling, enlightening, and often highly personal experiences tell stories of average citizens as well as historical figures who made huge sacrifices by serving in the military, giving the reader new perspectives on war, and its real costs.

Published on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, this book brings to life the experiences and memories of South Vietnamese soldiers-the forgotten combatants of this controversial conflict.

A highly illustrated account of the defeat of the English Kingdom in France at the battles of Formigny (1450) and Castillon (1453).

The Battle of Kursk in July 1943 is known for being the largest tank battle in history.

By the time Hitler declared war on the Soviet Union in 1941, he knew that his military machine was running out of fuel.

The Waffen-SS grew from a handful of obscure infantry battalions in 1939, to a force of more than 30 divisions by the end of World War II, including units of every type and every level of battlefield value.

The American Revolution was deadlocked in the north, and in 1778, the focus of the conflict shifted south.

The F-105D Thunderchief was originally designed as a low-altitude nuclear strike aircraft, but the outbreak of the Vietnam War led to it being used instead as the USAF's primary conventional striker against the exceptionally well-defended targets in North Vietnam and Laos.

This book focuses on the mass participation of women in the communist-led Yugoslav Partisan resistance during World War II.

The average American knows little or nothing of the great service rendered by Admiral de Grasse, a French admiral, to the cause of American independence in the battle off Cape Henry in 1781.

The engrossing account of one of World War II's legendary figures.

In the early hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese First Air Fleet launched a massive air-strike against the American Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

The origins of what would become the German General Staff of the late 19th and 20th centuries - probably the most professional military machine in the world - can be traced to the Prussian Army of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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An illustrated account of the DH 2, the most successful 'pusher' fighter of World War I, against the Albatros D II, part of a long family of fighters that in many ways symbolized German aerial might in the conflict.

Vividly written and well researched by a noted historian of the period, this succinct history credits the Union Navy as an essential element in the northern victory.

The East Wall was where the final battles for the stricken Third Reich were fought, amid scenes of utter carnage.

The most famous example of fortification in the world, the Great Wall of China stretches for more than 6,000km across inhospitable terrain.

In 1798, the Irish rose up against the corrupt English government run out of Dublin.

Covering the daily lives of American soldiers from their training through their arrival in France and participation in the final battles of the war, this book offers a breadth of perspectives on the experiences of doughboys in the First World War via primary documents of the time.

In the early hours of D-Day, 1944, a group from the US Army 2nd Rangers Battalion were sent on one of the legendary raids of World War II.

A fascinating, illustrated account of the betrayal of Byzantium, the clash of Western and Eastern Christian factions and the sacking of Constantinople.

Before America entered World War II, twenty-two U.

This illustrated study pits Germany's PzKpfw III against the Soviet Union's T-34 in the wake of Hitler's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union.

Hope Is Not a Plan takes the reader inside the war in Iraq courtesy of participant-observers brought there to diagnose the insurgency and develop a get-well plan.

Acclaimed author Andrew Thomas has chosen fifty fascinating cameos of individual actions or incidents across a wide variety of major and minor campaigns and scenarios ranging from the First World War to the present day.

The Luftwaffe's targetting and destruction of Coventry city remains the biggest and most destructive air raid on British soil during the Second World War.

Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War.

Story of how military photographers got their shots while storming beaches and assaulting pillboxes with combat troops.

In this novel of the American Civil War, a disgraced Union colonel races to stop Confederates fleeing Gettysburg.

The Complete American Constitutionalism is designed to be the comprehensive treatment and source for debates on the American constitutional experience.

No war has tested the resolve of the American people and her fighting men as did the battles in the Pacific.