Battles & Campaigns

If you like Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell, you will love this exciting, action-packed maritime adventure from bestselling author James Nelso...

The Sunday Times bestselling author Allan Mallinson, brings us another enthralling Matthew Hervey adventure. If you like Patrick O'Brian, Bernard C...

The Japanese Army's invasion of China in 1937 was the first step toward a hemispheric war that would last until the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and...

Agincourt was an astonishing clash of arms, a pivotal moment in the Hundred Years War and the history of warfare in general.King Henry V’s exhauste...

In this, the fourth book of Spellmount's Campaign in Context series, Rupert Matthews looks to the ill-fated invasion of England by King Philip II o...

During the Second World War, Britain's top secret Special Operations Executive plotted to assassinate Hitler. A small department of SOE known as Se...

The Zeebrugge Raid was a daring mission to attempt to block the German submarines at Bruges. These submarines were responsible for sinking a third ...

The purpose of this raid was to attempt to block the submarines at Bruges. These submarines were responsible for sinking a third of all Allied merc...

The struggle between Germany and the Allies along the Western Front is for many the most familiar element of World War I. However, many less well-k...

In 1882 the British invaded Egypt in an audacious war that gave them control of the country, and the Suez Canal, for more than seventy years. Willi...

On 8 August 1918, the Allied forces launched the surprise attack that heralded the end of the First World War. With skill and daring, 21 divisions ...

Following the greatest failure of Allied intelligence since Pearl Harbor, on the morning of December 16, 1944, a huge German army of 600,000 men sm...

The Battle of Arnhem in September 1944 has been much publicised, with its extraordinary parachute drop and gallant defence by Frost's few men of th...

For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea. It was the...

Presents the portrait of George S. Patton, the "most flamboyant American soldier of World War II" and his commanding role in the Allied victory in ...

The Battle for Crete was unique. Not only does it represent the first large-scale airborne invasion but it was also the first major defence against...

Fought with obsolete and discarded equipment by an army mostly made up of untrained Filipinos, the Battle of Bataan has become one of the "forgo...

From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, describe...

A book about a battle, about the events that took place amidst the showers of sleet on that grim day Wednesday 16 April 1746, the last pitched batt...

'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in ...

This book tells the devastating story of the terror and chaos of battle, of men who fought until they died and others who quickly surrendered, of o...

In this riveting book, political journalist Peter Snow and military historian Dan Snow bring to life the most intense and bitterly fought battles o...

On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theatre. The war against the Soviet Union would leave tens...

Since Vietnam, both the way we fight and our reasons for going to war have become much more complex.The importance of a conflict is determined not ...