War and defence operations

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.

The idea that we should 'do something' to help those suffering in far-off places is the main impulse driving those who care about human rights.

Logistics, the movement of forces to battlefields, their supply, and on-going support, is critical to military success.

A highly illustrated account of the fourth major carrier battle of the war in the Pacific.

The fate of the American Revolution had yet to be decided when a remarkable 21-year-old Frenchman arrived in America.

This work provides an understanding of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In March 1945 the German Wehrmacht undertook its final attempt to change the course of the war by launching a counteroffensive in the area of Lake Balaton, Hungary.

Although Austrians comprised only 8 percent of the population of Hitler's Reich, they made up 14 percent of SS members and 40 percent of those involved in the Nazis' killing operations.

An illustrated study of the history of the Moscow Kremlin, a metaphor for Russia, a symbol for its government and an enduring icon of the country.

An illustrated overview of the Hundred Years War, the longest-running and the most significant conflict in western Europe in the later Middle Ages.

The first comprehensive history of the campaign that determined control of Germany following Napoleon''s catastrophic defeat in Russia.

General Fritz von Lossberg (1868-1942) directed virtually all the major German defensive battles on the Western Front during the First World War.

Following on from his award-winning book on the history of ancient Persia, Kaveh Farrokh goes on to examine Iran's wartime history from the Safavid dynasty of the 16th and 17th century through to the 1979 Revolution and beyond.

A highly illustrated account of the naval battles of Coronel and the Falklands in 1914, which saw the destruction of both British and German squadrons.

As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-boat menace.