Battles & Campaigns

Grenadier Guards, An Account of Operations 1996-2015, covers Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. It provides a detailed narrati...

Despite over 20,000 published books on the Spanish civil war, it remains the case that the social and cultural dimensions of the conflict have been...

Vietnam War Army Helicopter Nose Art brings to light over 250 recently recovered Vietnam War photographs from Army aviation veterans. The vast majo...

For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretchi...

American States of Nature transforms our understanding of the American Revolution and the early makings of the Constitution. The journey to an inde...

A highly illustrated study of the battle at Dien Bien Phu, the 56-day siege that eventually led to the surrender of the remaining French-led forces...

The Battle of Hattin, Saladins greatest victory, and the conquest of Jerusalem that followed, represents the end of the first period of Frankish oc...

'We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back.' Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushi...

This persuasive study attacks the key myths surrounding the Battle of Britain to revise the relative status of maritime and aviation factors in the...

The siege of Constantinople in AD 71718 was the supreme crisis of Western civilization. The Byzantine Empire had been reeling under the onslaught o...

The greatest airborne operation in history commenced on 17 September 1944. Nine days later nearly four out five of the British 1st Airborne Divisio...

The British Beach Groups were a combined force of men stationed on the Normandy Beaches from the initial landing until the last unit was disbanded ...

Lieutenant Knowles served in the 7th (Royal) Fusiliers 1811-1813, seeing action in several battles, being wounded at the storming of Badajoz and at...

52 BC is the key year of the Gallic Revolt, with the near-disastrous Roman defeat at Gergovia followed by the climactic victory over the Gallic chi...

The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea f...

Step into the violent world of the 13th century, where the European states of the Levant battled with Muslim powers for control of Jerusalem. At th...

Downfall of the Crusader Kingdom tells the story of the reason for Richard the Lionhearts infamous Third Crusade, culminating in the disastrous bat...

The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First W...

On 22 January 1879 a 20,000-strong Zulu army decimated the British camp at Isandlwana. On the back of this victory 3,0004,000 Zulu warriors swept t...

On 22 January 1879 a 20,000-strong Zulu army attacked 1,700 British and colonial forces. The engagement saw primitive weapons of spears and shields...

The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. El Alamein saw two of the grea...

The Battle of Flodden in 1513 was the largest battle ever to take place between England and Scotland. James IV himself led an army of 30,000 men ov...

Spoken from the Front is the story of the Afghan Campaign, told for the first time in the words of the servicemen and women who have been fighting ...

The Battle of Kohima was the turning point in the Japanese invasion of India and known as 'the Stalingrad of the East'. It was a bitter battle foug...

The siege of Kut is a story of blunders, sacrifice, imprisonment and escape. The allied campaign in Mesopotamia began in 1914 as a relatively simpl...

The Battle of Goose Green was the first and longest land conflict of the Falklands War, which was fought between British and Argentine forces in 19...