War and defence operations

The Falklands War of 1982 was a small war, but one with large resonances.

Introducing students to the full range of critical approaches to the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18.

Britain's budding airborne forces saw their first prolonged combat in the battles for North Africa and Sicily in 1942 43, while their German counterparts - reinforced and expanded since their costly victory in Crete - proved their value as veteran 'fire fighters', able to counter emergencies.

In fascinating detail, Dr Stephen Bull describes the slow and painful learning curve of the Allies in the mid-war years, trying to end the Japanese stranglehold on Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

A unique account of the fastest British fighter plane of World War 2.

"e;Dispels several of the misconceptions that still so often appear in the more popular accounts of the crusades and the Latin East .

Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that "e;words become things.

Die verlorene Luftschlacht gegen England bedeutete das Ende von Hitlers Wahn, englischen Boden zu erobern.

A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.

The first part of a detailed study of one of the longest, and most brutal, tactical operations of World War II.

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Internationale Friedensoperationen werden meist mit militärischen Einsätzen und den sogenannten "Blauhelmen", den Friedenssoldaten der Vereinten Nationen, verbunden.

The gripping story of the men of 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the comrades of the Band of Brothers, from their formation through the D-Day landings and beyond, in their own words.

With the break up of the Spanish empire in South America, the continent split into nine independent states with often ill-defined boundaries.

In the early summer of 1914, the headmaster of Brighton College, Canon W.

A highly illustrated account of the Chatanooga campaign that opened the road to Atlanta, and marked Grant's first experience as a theater commander.

Escaping Hell is the compelling and true story of a heroic young Polish officer who survived the terror of five years in the prisons of Auschwitz and Buchenwald - where violence was meaningless because human life had lost all value.

Winner of the 2016 Vine Award for NonfictionThe Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation.

Author Stephen Young was a seaman first class assigned to gunnery duty in turret no.

The first biography of the man who served as the U.

Why do human beings fight one another?

A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.

Fireforce 'Writ Large' - Airborne Assault in Mozambique.

Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of war's significance to the history of the Great War.

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How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict?

A gripping account of how and why the legendary 'scourge of God' was able to inscribe his legacy into the annals of military history.

According to the Bush administration, the war in Iraq ended in May 2003 when the president pronounced mission accomplished from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War.

One of the most intriguing and storied episodes of the Civil War, the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign has heretofore been related only from the Confederate point of view.

The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes.

The Saljuq Turks' defeat of the Byzantines at Manzikert opened the way for their conquest of Anatolia and domination of the Near East.

Auslandseinsätze prägen immer mehr das Erscheinungsbild der Bundeswehr.

Bayonne and Toulouse 1813 14 describes Wellington's invasion of France culminating in the battle of Toulouse in 1814.

A thorough history of the aces that took on enemy observation balloons and won.

A guide detailing the training and operations for the British pilots, ground crew, and anti-aircraft gunners during the World War II battle.

An illustrated guide to the development and operational history of the Tibetan-style fortified monasteries throughout the Himalayas.

"e;"e;If a historian were allowed but one book on the American involvement in Vietnam, this would be it.

On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of Cougar Squadron, the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraqs Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South grid line of a military map referred to as the 73 Easting.

Published to coincide with the centenary of the campaign, this highly illustrated book from Steven Zaloga explores a David and Goliath conflict which saw the survival of the newly independent Poland in the face of the Soviet Red Army.

The Spanish Civil War, 1936 39, was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s.

Ibn Jubayr's account of his journey from his home in then Islamic Spain to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Syria, the Crusader Kingdoms and ultimately Egypt is a landmark text for the study and understanding of the Medieval Islamic World.

Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of war's significance to the history of the Great War.

The Greco-Persian Wars (499 449 BCE) convulsed Greece, Asia Minor and the Near East for half a century.

More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created.

To be a successful commander requires experience, character, tenacity and boldness: the ability to establish a good rapport with both your staff and your men is also vital.

A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War.

When Hitler's forces poured into France and the Low Countries in 1940, the uneasy peace of the 'Phoney War' was shattered, and Europe was ripped apart by another Blitzkrieg.

'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL'One of my favourite reads of 2021' GARETH RUSSELLPoignant and inspiring, Women in the War tells the first-hand stories of ten of the last surviving female members of Britain's 'Greatest Generation'.