Battles & Campaigns

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of th...

Lasting sixteen weeks during the momentous year of 1940, the Battle of Britain ended with the Luftwaffe having failed to achieve the decisive victo...

Massacres, invasions, plots. An Emperor on the edge. An Empire in peril.Caracalla is on the warpath. Time, he has decided, to put his enemies in th...

Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges. Silent parachutes do...

An American general in Wellingtons army? At the age of fourteen, Frederick Robinson fought for the Loyalists in the War of Independence. With thei...

Explore the Eastern Front battle that resulted in one of the greatest defeats of World War I, in which an entire Russian army was annihilated by Ge...

This book provides a fascinating exploration of the Japanese conquest of Burma, as the Allied forces were forced back in disarray to India and Chin...

A superbly illustrated narrative of how Napoleon skilfully extracted his Grande Armee from the clutches of the pursuing Russian armies. Much has b...

During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leader...

The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery. In late 19...

During 1940 the German army swept with devastating speed across the Low Countries and into northern France and drove Allied forces back into a smal...

Cannon to the left of them; cannon to the right of them The legend of an extraordinary defeat brought vividly to lifeThe cavalry charge of the Ligh...

In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the Spanish-descended monarchy of the Two S...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain earned the sobriquet Lion of the Round Top for his tactical brilliance leading his 20th Maine Infantry on the rocky woo...

During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan. Few areas of the world experienced domination by more tha...

Steve Smith tells the story of the five Battalions of the Norfolk Regiment who served on the Western Front using previously unseen photographs, di...

One of the most popular areas of ancient history is war in the Greek world. The number of books, articles, web pages and blogs on every conceivable...

After the initial anticipation of great results for the Allied offensive that opened on 1 July, the French and the British had to consider their ne...

Colbeck recalls his every advance and battle in careful detail.' **Publishers Weekly** This book should be read by any soldier who wants to underst...

In the early hours of 26th June 1942, six airmen from 102 Squadron return from Bremen in their Halifax, Q for Queenie, having taken part in the thi...

Between February and March 1943 Ukraines second town, Kharkov, was the scene of a fierce struggle between the Red Army and Axis troops. Feeling opt...

The Archduke Charles was the most formidable of Napoleon's continental foes but only once came into direct conflict with him: this was in the 1809 ...