War and defence operations

A fascinating, beautifully illustrated study of the daring war in East Africa waged by German colonial forces against the wide array of Allied Powers.

As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (18171876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles.

The first history of how the aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet shattered Japanese oilfields in Sumatra, starving Japan of oil and proving how Anglo-American navies could fight together.

The 50 years before the American Civil War saw a boom in the construction of coastal forts in the United States of America.

This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler's war machine running.

Mit Beiträgen von Hans Thirring (Abdruck seines Friedensplans); Erwin Bader, Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic, Leo Gabriel, Heinz Gärtner, Erik Gornik, Günther Greindl, Andreas Gross, Marko Hren, Karin Liebhart, Rosa Logar, Christoph Matznetter, Gerhard Oberkofler, Christine Schweitzer und Werner Wintersteiner.

A new history of Rolling Thunder, the Vietnam War's first, most intense, and biggest US air campaign, by one of the most eminent names in air power studies.

"e;Jowett has amassed an impressive amount of detail, yet the writing never bogs down.

This account, penned by a noted British military historian of the late nineteenth century, remains one of the best narratives of a nineteenth century battle yet published.

Ferdinand Foch is the prototype of the twentieth-century general.

Still segregated in World War I, the U.

The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery.

A highly illustrated and detailed study of the Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings.

One of the key objectives of British forces on D-Day was the capture of the strategically vital city of Caen.

The ferocity of the Pacific war almost defied the available military technology.

How can peace be brokered between warring sides in conflicts over self-determination and what roles do external third parties play?

'I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely told .

In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions - strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat - which contributed to escalating disease and diminished morale.

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

"e;Classic and timeless.

A proud Newfoundland soldier's memoir gives unprecedented details of life as a German POW during the First World War.

In the Gray Area builds on Seth Folsoms earlier award-winning memoir, The Highway War, which described his 2003 command of one of the first Marine light armored reconnaissance battalion companies to march on Baghdad.

China's maritime "e;gray zone"e; operations represent a new challenge for the U.

In surprise attacks on Israel in October 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, igniting what became known as the Yom Kippur War.

A new understanding of US policy toward Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War based on fresh archival discoveries.

This book provides a new way to think about long-run economic and political development that speaks to several fundamental debates.

'Outstanding .

In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain.

In August 1914 the mobilization of Imperial Germany's 800,000-strong army ushered in the first great war of the modern age - a war which still stands as the greatest slaughter of soldiers in history.

Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the war in Europe after D-Day.

A critical overview of the French infantry tactics which made them masters of Europe but eventually resulted in their defeat at Waterloo.

A vivid history, packed with first-hand accounts, of the US Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command from its foundation in 1942 through to its victory in the skies over Nazi Germany.

A highly illustrated account of the series of naval battles around the embattled island of Guadalcanal in late 1942.

When conscription was eliminated in the early 1970s, the US Army found itself with a very different kind of soldier.

In Sicily, Normandy, and in the frozen hills of the Ardennes, America's airborne warriors proved themselves some of the toughest and most determined soldiers of World War 2.

German defenses along the Normandy beaches were part of the larger Atlantic Wall fortifications designed to defend Fortress Europe.

This description of Allied contingency plans for military operations in the Middle East - in the event of conflict with the Soviet Union - argues that diplomatic events and crises in the Middle East in 1945-55 are understandable only in the context of assets sought by the Allies in that region.

An illustrated account of the epic clash that marked the end of the Second Punic War and saw two of History's greatest generals face off against each other, ideal for anyone with an interest in the minds of the military greats.

With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed.

Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents.

The Royal Aircraft Factory SE 5/5a was, along with the Sopwith Camel, the major British fighting scout of the last 18 months of the war in France.

Main Selection of the History Book ClubThe Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil Wars turning point, produced over 57,000 casualties, the largest number from the entire war that was itself Americas bloodiest conflict.

When re-armament came after World War I, the German Navy was forced to build anew, so the Reichsmarine and its successor, the Kriegsmarine, found itself in possession of some of the most modern, powerful and technically advanced vessels in the world.

Fully illustrated with colour maps and images, this is an accessible introduction to Julius Caesar's Civil War.

A detailed account of the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862, which saw Confederate forces under Stonewall Jackson overwhelm a series of superior Union forces in a 48-day campaign.

Examines Eighth Army's 1,000-strong tank force rebuilt, reorganized, and equipped with brand-new Sherman and Churchill tanks that secured victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein.

1942 was the turning point of the war.

The tank battles in the Soviet Union during the summer of 1941 were the largest in World War II, exceeding even the more famous Prokhorovka encounter during the Kursk campaign.