Battles & Campaigns

Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Because the battle was fought at...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times______________This is the closest you will ever get to war...

In late 1971, the People's Army of Vietnam launched Campaign Z into northern Laos, escalating the war in Laos with the aim of defeating the last Ro...

Now available in paperback, The Last Battle of Winchester is the first serious study to chronicle the largest, longest, and bloodiest battle fought...

John C. Reed fought through the war in General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as an officer in the 8th Georgia Infantry. A graduate of Princeton U...

He has been accused of studied and ingenious cruelty. By turns he has been called a savior and a barbarian, a hero and a villain, a genius and a ma...

The first shot of the American Civil War was not fired on April 12, 1861, in Charleston, South Carolina, but instead came on October 16, 1859, in H...

Throughout the late summer and fall of 1786, farmers in central and western Massachusetts organized themselves into armed groups to protest against...

Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number o...

George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, the biggest battle of the American Civil War, Meade was the l...

In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, a vital piece of ground just north of the French industrial town of Lens. The Canadians suffer...

Illustrated with detailed artworks of combat aircraft and their markings, Aircraft of World War I: The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide is a...

On 6 June the greatest landing force ever assembled began the Allied Liberation of France and Europe. In this classic Pitkin Guide, enhanced with m...

When the leaders of the French Revolution executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, they sent a chilling message to the hereditary ruling or...

In 1940, Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting form the Spanish Civil War. The ...

'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The TimesCharles Edwa...

For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) was one of America's most illustrious figures - most notably as an officer in the United States Arm...

By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army go...

Russia and Central Asia provides an overview of the relationship between two dynamic regions, highlighting the ways in which Russia and Central Asi...

Lt. Benjamin Loring (18241902) lived the life of an everyman Civil War sailor. He commanded no armies and devised no grand strategies. Loring was a...

This is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most important poets of the ...

To discover how war can affect the status of women in industrial countries, Leila Rupp examines mobilization propaganda directed at women in Nazi G...

A very substantial, comprehensive dictionary containing entries on all the battles fought at sea by British fleets and ships since Anglo-Saxon time...

This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up ...

Seventy-five years after the Battle of Britain, the Few's role in preventing invasion continues to enjoy a revered place in popular memory. The Air...

Comrades is a first-hand account of the War of Independence told through previously unavailable reports from the protagonists, with unpublished and...

A richly detailed account of the hard-fought campaign that led to Antietam Creek and changed the course of the Civil War.In early September 1862 th...

In a world of conflicting nationalist claims, mass displacements and asylum-seeking, a great many people are looking for 'home' or struggling to es...