Author: Chris McNab

Warfare truly entered the industrial age with the invention and adoption of the machine gun. Armed with a machine gun, one or two men could potenti...

Twice a year, 150 anxious recruits gather at SAS headquarters in the UK, their minds focused on one objective: to become SAS soldiers in one of the...

Military Vehicles is a wide-ranging guide to the world of military mobility in the twentieth century and beyond. In 300 detailed entries, it explor...

The Battle of Verdun was one of the bloodiest engagements of the First World War, resulting in 698,000 deaths, 70,000 for each of the 10 months of ...

A hotspot in the North Atlantic, Iceland is one of the worlds most unusual countries. It is Europes second largest island but its most sparsely pop...

Worlds Worst Military Disasters examines some of the worst battle defeats in military history from ancient times through to the present day, includ...

A history of the Red Army, Soviet Army and Russian Army in 100 years of conflict. From the chaos of the civil war to the political manoeuvring of ...

Fought over three torturous months in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres, or Passchendaele, was one of the most pitiless and iconic sets of battles of...

A fully illustrated and expertly researched guide to the tanks of Hitlers formidable war machine. The Panzers that rolled over Europe were Germany...

KISS Keep it simple, stupid, the US Navys acronym goes. So we have: no long, complicated instructions, no steps 18 of illustrations to follow. Jus...

The evacuation of Britains urban children to the countryside was a uniquely emotional decision by the British government during the Second World Wa...

Driven by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the insecurities it provoked in Saddam Husseins Iraqi dictatorship, the IranIraq War would become the ...

One side of me says, I'd like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder what her head would look like on a stick? Edmund Kemper...

By the end of the first week of November 1942, the German Sixth Army held about 90 per cent of Stalingrad. Yet the Soviets stubbornly held on to th...

During the Vietnam War, both the United States and the Soviet Union supplied all manner of weapon systems to the opposing sides, including tanks an...

The 1973 Yom Kippur War rewrote the textbook on the tactics of modern armored warfare. Unlike the previous major Arab-Israeli war of 1967, the Isra...

Packed with beautiful Osprey artwork, this volume offers a complete history of the Roman Army. The image of the Roman legionary is as familiar tod...

With the MG 34, the German Wehrmacht introduced an entirely new concept in automatic firepower the general-purpose machine gun (GPMG). In itself t...

On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated. This event sparked off a war that was change the lives of millions of people...

In September 1939, Hitlers Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Thus began the greatest armed struggle in history. Within days of the invasion, Germany was...

Cambrai 1917 was the battle that sowed the seeds of future combined-arms tank and infantry warfare, while remaining a battle of singular drama in i...

The mobilisation of troops and equipment has always been crucial to winning a war. During the twentieth century, the days of horse-drawn logistics ...

In September 1939, Hitler's Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Thus began the greatest armed struggle in history. Within days of the invasion, Germany wa...