War and defence operations

A highly illustrated account of The North African campaign of November 1942-May 1943 during World War II.

Although US and Japanese tank forces first clashed in 1941, it was on in 1944 that tank-vs-tank action became more common as both sides poured larger numbers of tanks into the combat zone.

The clash between the American Bonhomme Richard and the British HMS Serapis during the American Revolutionary War is perhaps the most famous single-ship duel in history.

The two privileged regiments of Carabiniers survived the French Revolution with their elite status intact.

A detailed, slim volume on the Duke of Marlborough's masterstroke that saw the capture of the vital cities of Brussels, Bruges, Louvain and Antwerp.

Each of Germany's World War II armed services could claim one unit which earned a unique combat reputation, and which consequently was enlarged and developed far beyond the size originally planned.

Although ultimately unsuccessful, Operation Agreement was one of the most dramatic raids of the war in North Africa.

The Tiger tank is probably the most famous tank of World War II.

This book takes us into the fascinating and sometimes tragic world of the boy sailors of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, fighting and dying for their country across the oceans of the world.

Drawing on extensive State Department files, declassified Navy policy papers, interviews with both former top officials and individuals who were involved in incidents, David F.

The Wars of the Roses (c.

The definitive illustrated history of German World War II fortifications, covering the Atlantikwall, Westwall, and myriad other defensive works.

This book will detail the history and combat experiences of these forgotten pilots who operated in every theatre and every major conflict of the war.

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States.

This book concentrates on the dramatic experiences of Napoleon's Army of the Orient in Egypt and the Holy Land.

An authoritative military history of the U.

In a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of the Army of Northern Virginia's retreat from Gettysburg in July 1863, Kent Masterson Brown draws on previously untapped sources to chronicle the massive effort of General Robert E.

The forgotten story of the major naval operations conducted in the Philippines by the US and Japanese navies after Leyte Gulf up to the US invasion of Luzon in January 1945.

Stuart Goldman convincingly argues that a little-known, but intense Soviet-Japanese conflict along the Manchurian-Mongolian frontier at Nomonhan influenced the outbreak of World War II and shaped the course of the war.

For American children raised exclusively in wartime-that is, a Cold War containing monolithic communism turned hot in the jungles of Southeast Asia-and the first to grow up with televised combat, Vietnam was predominately a mediated experience.

Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War?

In this companion to his celebrated earlier book, Gettysburg - The Second Day, Harry Pfanz provides the first definitive account of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E.

Few branches of the German armed forces were represented on so many fronts as the mountain infantrymen, or Gebirgstruppen.

The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through ReconstructionThis book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginias Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

African Americans' long campaign for "e;the right to fight"e; forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces.

Upon the entry of the United States into World War I, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were created by the War Department on short notice from existing units, filled up with men from the training camps and deployed with only their personal weapons and equipment.

Disenfranchising Democracy examines the exclusions that accompany democratization and provides a theory of the expansion and restriction of voting rights.

An illustrated description of the famous US Nightfighter aces and their planes.

In April 2003, after brief combat, Baghdad fell under US control and the Coalition Provisional Authority was formed to maintain order until a new Iraqi government became a reality.

During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military.

Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943.

The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron.

A South African national serviceman recounts becoming a soldier and an ensuing David-and-Goliath face-off against Angolan armed forces in 1987.

After the success of the D-Day landings, the Allied forces were bogged down in a bloody stalemate in Normandy.

While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts.

In 1981 the Organization of African Unity (OAU) mandated and fielded the first regional peacekeeping operation since the Arab League's mission in Kuwait 20 years earlier.

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin's 1946 autobiography The Making of a Southerner is considered a classic testament of a white southerner's commitment to racial justice in a culture where little was to be found.

Despite his lack of formal military training, George Washington may be one of history's must underrated commanders.

An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.

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

A detailed account of the bloody capture of Shanghai and Nanjing by Japan in the early days of World War II in the East.

Winchester lever-action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West.

Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith shaped struggles over the place of religion in politics.

Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this study presents up-to-date research on the armies of Rome's most dangerous rival.

The Vietnamese knew the Long-Range Patrol Scouts as the men with green faces, a reference to the camouflage paint that they used.

For most of World War II, British tank development remained faithful to the design philosophy inaugurated during World War I.

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.