War and defence operations

The second in a three-part series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II, that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich.

This carefully researched book provides an operational level analysis of European warfare from 1792 to 1815 that includes the tactics, operations, and strategy of major conflicts of the time.

This fully illustrated study investigates the uniforms and equipment of the US regular troops and volunteers from the territories fighting for the Union during the American Civil War.

Zhukov was the dominant figure in the Red Army during World War II even though his actual job title varied from day to day.

1944 saw the largest seaborne invasion ever staged in Operation Overlord.

In the highly politicized memory space of postwar South Korea, many families have been deprived of their right to mourn loved ones lost in the Korean War.

The focus of this volume is to describe and analyse the evolution of the South China Sea Workshops.

1915, the second year of the Great War, was to see the failure of the Dardanelles landings and the sinking of the Lusitania, shown below, with the loss of 1,198 people, as well as the first bombing of mainland Britain by Zeppelin and the entry of Italy into the war.

The Imperial Japanese Navy's Special Landing Force units enjoyed a reputation out of proportion to their small size.

Russia's Turkish Wars examines the changing place of the Balkan population in Russian military thought, strategic planning, and occupation policies.

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

The first deployment of the V-1 was in June 1944 when, following two years of tests, Hitler gave the order to attack England.

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

On April 14, 1861, following the surrender of Fort Sumter, Washington was "e;put into the condition of a siege,"e; declared Abraham Lincoln.

In British Generals in the War of 1812 Wesley Turner takes a fresh look at five British Generals - Sir George Prevost, Isaac Brock, Roger Sheaffe, Baron Francis de Rottenburg, and Gordon Drummond - who held the highest civil and military command in the Canadas.

Nationwide repercussions to a bloody battle on the southern frontier.

Through the Valley is the captivating memoir of the last U.

This book chronicles the final conflict over the now almost forgotten "Schleswig-Holstein Question", once a pivotal issue for the great powers of Europe.

The submarine was the invisible but formidable weapon of the Royal Navy during World War II.

At the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Germany's armoured forces - the Panzerwaffe - were still in their infancy.

Few of the combatants of World War II have captured the imagination as compulsively as the Fallschirmj ger.

Dedicated to the life of the average US soldier during World War I, this book follows the doughboy during the course of the war: from conscription, arrival at a training facility, transportation to Europe, and finally into combat in the trenches.

A highly illustrated account of one of the major battles of Italy's 13th century wars, immortalized in the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri who was one of the combatants.

Many regard this work as the definitive account of a controversial conflict of the war in the Pacific, the June 1944 battle known as the "e;Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.

A history of the innovative German air campaign that ensured victory in the rapid conquest of Norway, and an analysis of its importance to World War II and the development of air power.

The air battle for Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war.

A superbly illustrated narrative of how Napoleon skilfully extracted his Grande Armee from the clutches of the pursuing Russian armies.

Finalist, 2021 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards As historian David W.

The complexity of the twenty-first century threat landscape contrasts markedly with the bilateral nuclear bargaining context envisioned by classical deterrence theory.

America has been at war for most of the 20th and 21st centuries and during that time has progressively moved towards a vicarious form of warfare, where key tasks are delegated to proxies, the military's exposure to danger is limited, and special forces and covert instruments are on the increase.

In his monumental work Bloody Shambles, Volume Two, Christopher Shores described in detail the British retreat out of Burma, culminating at the end of May 1942.

A detailed exploration of a significant victory for Virginia militia forces over the Shawnee and Mingo tribes in Kentucky.

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first truly global conflicts.

This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865.

Award-winning historian Mike Walling captures the essence of the Arctic Convoys of World War II.

This book details the colourful experiences of the elite pilots of the AAF's Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces in the 'forgotten' China-Burma-India theatre during WW2.

The 1810 French invasion of Portugal, commanded by the veteran marshal Andre Massena, who was known to Napoleon as the 'Spoilt Child of Victory' has been well covered by historians.

America's Few delves into the history of US Marine Corps aviation in World War II, following the feats of the Corps' top-scoring aces in the skies over Guadalcanal.

An in-depth examination of one of the most frustrating and costly efforts by the US Army in the European Theater of Operations.

The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats.

Klaus Manns vollständiges Drehbuch "Der Kaplan" wird gerahmt von Originalbeiträgen zur Entstehungsgeschichte von Film und Drehbuch, zu den verwickelten deutsch-italienischen Beziehungen und zum Zusammenspiel von Krieg und Kino.

The Mississippi River played a decisive role in the American Civil War.

The Holocaust - the murder of approximately six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in World War Two - is the gravest crime in recorded history, committed on a human and geographical scale which is almost unimaginable.

A highly illustrated account of the hunt for the Bismarck.

Explore the Eastern Front battle that resulted in one of the greatest defeats of World War I, in which an entire Russian army was annihilated by German arms.