Battles & Campaigns

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 ...

It was 2am on the 16th June 1915 and dawn was slowly breaking over Bellewaarde. It was exceptionally quiet, the troops of 3rd Division were situate...

Both Sides of the Wire is the first in a new series of battlefield guides that looks at the fighting on the Western Front, chiefly in the sectors i...

Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once aga...

The remarkable memoir of a U.S. fighter pilot, who after his escapades of shooting down German aircraft in France began an even greater adventure a...

On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster aircraft from the RAFs 617 Squadron set off to attack the great dams in the industrial heart of Germany. Flying ...

The 2nd SS Division, Das Reich, was a battlefront mainstay for Nazi Germany throughout WWIIfrom the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the final surrend...

In September 1943, shortly after the conquest of Sicily, the Allied armies made amphibious assaults on the Italian Mainland at Calabria, Taranto an...

The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 17...

The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the K...

The operation to free Mussolini, who was being held prisoner in a high mountain hotel on the summit of Gran Sasso, Italy in September 1943, is with...

After the Allies broke out from Normandy in July 1944, they drove quickly through the rest of France and were threatening the German border by the ...

The defeat of Napoleon's French army by the combined forces of Wellington and Blucher at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 was a turning point in world hist...

The story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry is arguably the most widely-known in the entire panoply...

Inherent in A Navy Flyers Creed is the power of inspiration: My country built the best airplane in the world and entrusted it to me. They trained m...

Possibly the most famous fighting formations of the Burma campaign during the Second World War were the Long Range Penetration Groups, more commonl...

Blitzkrieg. Lightning war. We are all familiar with the rapid thrusts the Germans made in the early days of the Second World War that saw the demis...

The Japanese offensive in the Far East in 1941-2 was extraordinary in its ambition for their aim was to advance across the entire region. They clas...