Battles & Campaigns

The Normandy landings commenced on D-Day, Tuesday, 6 June 1944, in two phases: an air assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian and Fre...

June 6, 1944. In the gray light of dawn the landing craft carrying the assault wave of two US divisions as well as the Engineers and the Rangers, ...

In May 1940, during the Battle of France, the British Expeditionary Force in France aiding the French, was cut off from the rest of the French Army...

The Romans had been at odds with the Gauls for a very long time indeed. Somewhere between 390 and 386 BC, a Senoni warchief called Brennus managed ...

May-June 1940 - the breakthrough of the Panzers - is the focus of this new battlefield guide by specialist historian, Jean-Yves Mary. Supplementi...

Since 1944, the word Omaha has been synonymous with the heavy price paid by the American Armed Forces to break through the wall of the Nazis Fortre...

For almost 100 years, analysis of the Gettysburg Campaign has been centered around a set of commonly held beliefs, among them an oversimplified vie...

A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II. In April 1942, the Combined Flee...

Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem James HollandSuperb... A military historian of originality and insig...

This book is not another battle chronicle. It is an examination of how the motivations of individual soldiers to fight and win can make the differe...

During the American War of Independence (177583), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval ...

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' ...

Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem. James HollandSuperb... A military historian of originality and insi...

One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the people...

A detailed, fully illustrated overview of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, one of the most important conflicts of the ancient world. Julius Caesar was...

The 1962 War was indeed a traumatic experience for the Indian arms. The story from the Indian side is generally well known but very little is known...

The Gettysburg Campaign has been examined in minute detail from nearly every aspect but one; the key role played by Richard Ewells Second Corps dur...

England is my home, and if someone asks me what I am German, Norwegian, Jewish or British I answer, Im an Englishman.In 1934, aged just 16, Louis...

The Napier family are famous for their military exploits in the Peninsular War. Charles served in the 50th and 102nd Foot, George in the 52nd and 7...

The bloodstains are gone, but the worn floorboards remain. The doctors, nurses, and patients who toiled and suffered and ached for home at the Army...

Roman and Hunnic fighting men are assessed and compared in this fully illustrated study of Attilas bid to conquer Europe in the 5th century AD. Th...

This book provides a comprehensive study of the complex impacts of the war in Ukraine on Russo-Iranian relations, and the resulting consequences fo...

A new history of the most crucial few months of the Arctic Convoys, when Germany's air power forced the Allies to retreat to the cover of winter. ...

When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Fr...

Published to coincide with the centenary of the campaign, this highly illustrated book from Steven Zaloga explores a David and Goliath conflict whi...

Michael K. Jones's new history of Stalingrad offers a radical reinterpretation of the most famous battle of the WW2. Combining eyewitness testimo...

Barbarossa was the biggest German invasion of World War II. Comprehensively illustrated, this study explores the air campaign that spearheaded it, ...

This illustrated study pits the Kaisers troops against their British opponents during the climactic year of 1918 on the Western Front. Launched o...

An authoritative and superbly illustrated exploration of the events of July 3, 1863, incorporating new interpretations that have arisen in the past...

This illustrated study assesses the British Crusader and the Italian M13/40, two medium tanks that played crucial roles in World War IIs Desert War...