Battles & Campaigns

Warfare has been central to European history for millennia; Twenty Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe examines the strategy, military and equipmen...

In 1943, the New Brunswick Rangers were sent to Britain, converted into a heavy weapons support unit, and shipped off to Normandy. Originating as a...

Praise for Michael O. Logusz: Logusz has a flair for vivid detail, whether describing the terror Colonists felt during Indian raids on their settle...

In battle at Culloden Moor on 16 April 1746 the Jacobite cause was dealt a mortal blow. The power of the Highland clans was broken. And the image o...

Praise for Robert L. Tonsetics previous publications:takes an unflinching look at both the adventure and trauma of war while aiming to fill the gap...

The Roman conquests of Macedonia in the 2nd century BC led directly to the extension of their authority over the troublesome tribes of Thrace to th...

As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in ...

Recommended in the Foreign Office Ministerial Reading List - Summer 2014 It does what it says on the tin, introducing the reader to the nuances ...

German Army on the Eastern Front - The Advance is a highly illustrated record of the extraordinary feat of arms that saw the Nazi armies drive deep...

In December 1944 an enormous German army group crashed through the thin American line in the Ardennes forest. Caught by surprise, the Allies were i...

Conventional histories of the Battles of Mons and Le Cateau describe how, although the British were massively outnumbered, precise and rapid rifle ...

The summer of 1940 witnessed the greatest air battle in history, as the men Winston Churchill dubbed The Few fought over the skies of Britain to pr...

In December 1916 General Robert Nivelle was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French armies fighting the Germans on the Western Front. He had enj...

Attack at daylight and whip themthat was the Confederate plan on the morning of April 6, 1862. The unsuspecting Union Army of the Tennessee, comman...

Bois de Fourcaux, a luxuriant woodland covering 75 acres, set in the area of the battlefields of the Somme, dominates the surrounding landscape tod...

You probably already know the basic story of what happened on D-Day - but it is almost certain that your knowledge is based upon books written from...

The German Afrika Korps was an outstanding military organisation that experienced both the height of glory and the depth of defeat in the Western D...

The Battle of the Odon evokes the clash between the British Army and the II SS-Panzer Korps, as they attacked across the Odon Valley during Opera...

At 18.57 hours on Sunday, 26 May 1940, the Admiralty issued the directive which instigated the start of Operation Dynamo. This was the order to res...

The Second World War saw heroic efforts made by the Allied forces from its very outset, but in May 1940 disaster befell the British Expeditionary F...

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He res...

This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s battles in the summer and autumn of 1917. It begins with the Allied plan to free up the Fla...