Battles & Campaigns

History's harsh indictment of Walter C. Short as commander of the Army's Hawaiian department is the result of a series of investigations that place...

From Storm to Freedom analyses and assesses the strategic interaction between Iraq and the United States from 1990 to 2009, from the perspective of...

In this ground-breaking book, bestselling author and former U.S. Navy SEAL Dick Couch reports on the actions of the SEAL Task Unit during the Battl...

One of the bloodiest conflicts in military history, the Battle of the Somme raged from 1 July to 18 November 1916. It has come to signify for many ...

They called it the slaughter of the innocents. The barely trained and poorly equipped men of the Labour Divisions were never meant to fight, but wh...

The Battle of Maiwand was a key clash in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and one of the most serious defeats of the British Army during the Great Game....

General William Howe was the commander-in-chief of the British forces during the early campaigns of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). How...

A highly illustrated account of the battle of Borodino, the most crucial action in Napoleon's 1812 campaign in Russia. The battle of Borodino was ...

Winchester lever-action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West. Introduced after the American Civil War, the fi...

They called it the slaughter of the innocents. The barely trained and poorly equipped men of the Labour Divisions were never meant to fight, but wh...

The third explosive account written in the same novelistic style as Zulu Zulu Golf and Zulu Zulu Foxtrot. More experiences with the deadly counter ...

The first wave of democratization in the United States - the removal of property and taxpaying qualifications for the right to vote - was accompani...

[Previously published as Went The Day Well] Of all the books marking the bicentenary Waterloo, this has to be the best Spectator ...

Drawing upon a new international archive of the Second World War, the support of veterans world-wide and from archives overseas, the author uses pr...

A disputed succession to the Austrian throne led to general war between the leading powers of Europe in 1740, with France, Spain and Prussia on one...

The Siege of Mafeking remains one of the most renowned actions of the Second Boer War, with the British Army defeating a Boer force of up to 8,000 ...

The Battle of New Market in the Shenandoah Valley suffers from no lack of drama, interest, or importance. The ramifications of the May 1864 engagem...

Published in the 200th Anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of...

What was it like to live through the only war America lost in the twentieth century? Firebase Tan Tru answers that question by describing one mans ...

Initially stationed at the U.S. Army's counterintelligence headquarters in Saigon, David Noble was sent north to launch the army's first covert int...

A highly illustrated study of Operation Torch, the first major Allied amphibious invasion of the war. Following the raid on Pearl Harbor and the e...

The French city of Sedan, located near the Belgian border, played a key role in Germanys plans for a blitzkrieg assault on Allied forces in France....

In the autumn of 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced and improvised American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the hi...