Battles & Campaigns

A powerful, immersive account published for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and battle for Normandy, accompanying a groundbreaking BBC2 ...

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller'Vital testimony for those who wish to understand the stark reality of running up a beach with the Wehrmacht tryin...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This book is his best yet . . . Dimblebys work is in a different league, told with such skill and judgment' Do...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This book is his best yet . . . Dimblebys work is in a different league, told with such skill and judgment' Do...

This illuminating discussion of deism in the early American colonies presents an overview of its main tenets, showing how its influence rose swiftl...

The Last Citadel is a ground-breaking full-length treatment of the most extensive military operation of the Civil Warthe investment of Petersburg, ...

Seventy years after the battle of Kursk, which was probably the greatest tank battle of the Second World War and perhaps of all military history, c...

James Montgomery was a leader of the free-state movement in pre-Civil War Kansas and Missouri, associated with its direct-action military wing. He ...

A collection of 100 original, rarely seen photographs of identified Union and Confederate soldiers and other participants in the Gettysburg Campaig...

Bosworth stands alongside Naseby and Hastings as one of the three most iconic battles ever fought on English soil. The action on 22 August 1485 bro...

Pickett's charge has just ended, the battle of Gettysburg is over. The Confederate army is defeated and must retreat to the Potomac River forty mil...

Francis Marion is certainly the stuff of which legends are made. His nickname The Swamp Fox, bestowed upon him by one of his fiercest enemies, capt...

This is the first full-length biography of the Civil War general who saved the Union army from catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, an...

By the late summer of 1862, it appeared as though the United States would be permanently split in two, and by the beginning of September, General R...

From December 1943 to August 1944, Allied and Japanese forces fought the decisive battles of World War II in Southeast Asia. Fighting centered arou...

September 1944: With the Allies closing in on the Rhine, Adolf Hitler orders a counterattack on General Patton's Third Army in France. Near the sma...

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 Kore...

Eleven Days on the Colorado: The Standoff Between the Texian and Mexican Armies and the Pivotal Battle Unfought finds high drama between the Battle...

Andrew Field, who has published four best-selling books on the Battle of Waterloo, has established himself as one of the leading experts on the Fre...

The Battle of Bannockburn has long been recognised as one of the most influential moments in Scottish history. The fighting that took place on 23rd...

A Nation is Born Lexington, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Washington, Hamilton, Benedict Arnold. All familiar names, but how did they all fit together? Ho...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fiv...

Kampfgruppe Peiper was the spearhead of the German 6th Panzer-Army in the Ardennes, responsible for clearing the way for the German tanks towards t...

Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should...

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

The Allied Operation Mallory Major (northern Italy, July 1944) aimed at the destruction of all bridges across the Po River and its tributaries and ...

The first dedicated, illustrated study of the events of the Second Punic War in Iberia, which served as a launch pad for the Carthaginian invasion ...

With the knowledge born of firsthand experience, James H. Willbanks tells the story of the 60-day siege of An Loc. In 1972, late in the Vietnam War...

The Allied invasion of occupied France began by delivering three airborne and six infantry divisions onto a 60-mile stretch of the Normandy coast. ...