Battles & Campaigns

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He res...

The war of 1809 between France and Habsburg Austria, culminating in the titanic battle of Wagram, has been described often as Napoleons last succes...

The remarkable story of how a handful of intrepid scientific navigators underpinned British naval dominance in the conflict with Napoleon   During ...

Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Pauluss 6th Army and...

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So much has been written about Gettysburg, goes the well-worn cliché, that there is nothing new left to write. Now in paperback, The Second Day at ...

American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seven...

American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seven...

The British Army in North America conducted two campaigns in 1777. John Burgoyne led one army south from Canada to seize control of the Lake Champl...

In early 1944, two Allied armies were ready to launch a massive assault against German forces in central Italy so they could then march northwards ...

July, 1862. General Robert E. Lee, now in command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, had driven back the massive Federal Army of the Pot...

Citizen-soldier Strong Vincent was many things: Harvard graduate, lawyer, political speaker, descendent of pilgrims and religious refugees, husband...

All of middle Tennessee held its breath when the new year dawned in 1863. On the previous day, December 31 the last day of 1862 just outside Mur...