War and defence operations

The saga of a squadron, a plane, and the action, triumphs, and tragedies they saw during World War II-includes photos.

An extensive traveler's guide to the French region's World War II historical sites and everything else you need to know about the area.

The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC is one of the most famous battles in history.

By the spring of 1940, the phoney war suddenly became very real.

This is the first volume of a most impressive tribute and accurate four part work that uniquely presents a complete account of the air operations throughout Market-Garden in September 1944 when British, US and Polish airborne troops made a gallant attempt to seize and hold bridges across the Lower Rhine in Holland as a springboard for crossing into Germany.

This is the third volume of a comprehensive five part work, detailing every aspect of air and paratroop operations on the night of 5/6 June 1944.

For the Allies as well as Germany, it will be the longest day'.

This is the second volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day that includes a multitude of personal military accounts from both Allied and German Aviation personnel who were there.

This WWI history examines the Ottoman Army’s defense of the Dardanelle Strait during Winston Churchill’s failed Gallipoli Campaign.

By the spring of 1940, the phoney war suddenly became very real.

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The Anzac legend was born on the shores of Gallipoli during the historic morning of 25th April 1915.

This is the vivid memoir of a man who was twenty-one at the outbreak of World War II.

Major Louis Joseph Vionnets memoirs of Napoleons disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdote and vivid glimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier.

Through a series of five walks this book discovers the sights, sounds and experience of the capital at war; it details the remaining tangible evidence of the dark days via air raid shelter signs, bomb damage on buildings and memorials detailing heroic and often tragic events.

The Anzac legend was born on the shores of Gallipoli during the historic morning of 25th April 1915.

The disastrous retreat and near disintegration of Sir John Moores army on the road to Corunna in 1809 is traditionally regarded as the low point in the history of the British intervention in the Peninsular War.

This WWII history and visitor's guide explores the extensive network of Nazi fortifications built to defend Fortress Europe.

Military histories of the struggle against the French armies of the Revolution and Napoleon often focus on the exploits of elite units and famous individuals, ignoring the essential contribution made by the ordinary soldiers the bulk of the British army.

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A team of historians and archaeologists re-examine what happened at the Battle of Culloden between the Scottish Jacobites and Great Britain.

This illustrated WWII history captures the brutal conditions and bitter combat of the Battle of Stalingrad through rare wartime photographs.

A pictorial history of the Nazi retreat from the Western and Eastern Fronts, back to Germany, as World War II came to an end.

The 900-day siege of the Soviet city of Leningrad by the combined forces of the Germans and the Finns is one of the most remarkable, and terrible, events of the Second World War, yet until recently it has not received the attention it deserves it has been overshadowed by other massive confrontations on the Eastern Front, at Stalingrad and Kursk.

This authoritative history chronicles the Royal Navy's decisive yet little-known victory over the French during the Seven Years' War.

In the summer of 1944 the Red Army crushed Army Group Centre in one of the largest offensives in military history.

This WWII military study sheds light on the overlooked Allied landing in Provence and the liberation of Southern France.

A British company commander details his experience serving in the Falklands War and reflects on the 1982 conflict.

Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia were all German allies in the Second World War, unlike the other countries of Europe which had either been forcibly occupied by the Nazis or remained neutral.

The capture by the German surface raider Atlantis of the British steamer City of Baghdads secret code books in July 1940 enabled the Nazis to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with deadly effect.

The assault crossing of the River Seine by the British 43rd (Wessex) Division in August 1944 remains one of the most important operations of the closing stages of the Second World War.

A detailed history of the World War II battle, featuring experiences from over 500 participants, by the author of The First Day on the Somme.

This little known campaign against the Italian invasion of British Somalia was bravely fought by a small force of elderly RAF and Commonwealth aircraft against almost overwhelming odds.

The historian and founder of the Anglo-Zulu War Historical Society presents his groundbreaking account of the Battle of Isandlwana.

The author of A Luftwaffe General gives a detailed history of the Allied forces' brutal Operation Clipper during World War II.

A detailed history of the brief 1980s conflict between the UK and Argentina, from the author of The First Day on the Somme.

The Battle of the Somme is one of the most famous, and earliest, films of war ever made.

A memoir of how a small number of British officers led Muslim soldiers in the hard-fought anti-insurgency war that has shaped today's Gulf.

Even by SAS standards this is the story of an outstanding warrior.

A pictorial history of the German occupation of Flanders in Belgium during the early years of World War I.

The book covers the actions of the German Army in the Low Countries during 1915 and 1916.

The bestselling, award-winning author of The American Invasion of Canada "e;has given great drama and immediacy to that turning point in Canadian history"e; (Maclean's).

The Swansea Battalion was formed from local men by the Mayor of Swansea in the response to Lord Kitcheners famous appeal for volunteers.

First published to acclaim in 1985, this book is set to be a timely release, in line with the 70th Anniversary of the outset of the Raids, near approaching in November 2013.

As the fall of France took place, almost the entire coastline of Western Europe was in German hands.

The historic background and present-day battleground of a great-but often overlooked-battle fought by the British Expeditionary Force in World War I.

"e;A very detailed operational account of the highly successful German amphibious landings in October of 1917 on the Russian islands of Osel and Dago.