Battles & Campaigns

The battle of iSandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonisation of South Africa. In one blood...

A rare and forgotten first-hand account of the first day of the Battle of the Somme by a British infantry soldier who went over the top and survive...

The Second World War was a watershed in world history: the seizing of power by Hitler and the Nazis, the slowly building crescendo of annexations t...

By the end of January 1968 the American people thought their armed forces were winning in South Vietnam after three years of escalating conflict. T...

From Marathon in 490 BC or Hastings in 1066 to Trafalgar and Austerlitz in 1805; from Midway, Stalingrad or Leyte Gulf during the Second World War ...

In the midst of the Philippine-American War, twenty-two-year-old Robert Dexter Carter served in Manila as a civilian quartermaster clerk. Through h...

A Guide to the Beaches and Battlefields of Normandy provides an accessible background to the momentous events of 6 June 1944 as well as a complete ...

As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home sta...

This book gives a detailed account of the Zeppelin raids on Bolton and Rossendale in late September 1916, setting them in the context of wider even...

In Book Two of the third volume of his magisterial Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz continues and concludes his definitive history of one of the mo...

This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil Wars critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguished...

This book examines the technology and strategy that defined the outcome of the battles between the King Tiger and the IS-2. The Soviets had been qu...

From the No. 1 bestselling historian Max Hastings comes 'a masterly book, rich in insight, shrewd and weighty in judgement' Financial TimesOn June ...

Seven of history's greatest battles are given the Battlefield Detectives treatment in this fantastic companion to the TV series. David Wason brings...

On a late November morning in 1864, Col. Kit Carson and his U.S. troops, under orders from the commander of the New Mexico Military Department, att...

The failure of the Gallipoli campaign was instantly blamed on a great untruth that the War Office was unprepared for Dardanelles operations and ga...

The British-led Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that attacked the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli in 1915 was a multi-national affair, including Aust...

A G.I. In the Ardennes focuses on the human experience during wartime. What was life like for a regular American soldier who gave his life to comba...

An Army of skeletons appeared before our eyes naked, starved, sick and discouraged. Gouverneur Morris recorded these words in his report to the C...

Alarmstart South completes Patrick Erikssons Alarmstart trilogy on Second World War German fighter pilots, detailing their experiences in the Medit...

By January 1945, Nazi Germany's defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained. The shortest way home for American troops was towards Berli...

''Excellent'' Antony Beevor ''Saul David is a brilliant historian ... In shocking and jaw-droppi...

Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the rousing (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the liberation of Paris during W...

Just after its seventieth anniversary, the Battle of the Bulge has lost none of its impact. The largest battle fought by US troops on the continent...

The incredible details of the bold, near-disastrous first Allied airborne commando raid. Audacious to the extreme, Operation Colossus was a raid i...

The Battle of Hastings is one of the key events in the history of the British Isles. This book is not merely another attempt to describe what happe...

'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all.During the third week of February 1944, the comb...

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