Battles & Campaigns

In the summer of 2014, Gaza was attacked by Israel for the fourth time since 2006. This attack lasted fifty-one days. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doc...

The Battle of the Somme was the most devastating engagement in which British troops fought during the First World War. The 141 days of conflict saw...

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well traine...

The Battle of Agincourt on 25 October, 1415, remains one of the most glorious victories in British history, with a legacy that endures today. A piv...

Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the Viet Cong guerrillas and ARVN were not a major factor, but where the trained profes...

6 June 1944 marked the beginning of the Allied liberation of France and Europe. But what does the D in D-Day stand for? Why were the code names Om...

This book offers a powerfully intimate account of the Battle of Britain, related by young pilots in their most unguarded moments, talking with thei...

Operation Detachment, the US invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest...

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight otherwise known as the BBMF or simply the Flight is based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. Its collection ...

The official account of the Royal Artillerys activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment...

Frank and Percy Talley of the 1st City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) were destined to leave England to take part in the last, and most costly, ...

There is little doubt that the 45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it ...

Germany''s U-boat war against Russia was as fierce and unrelenting as the land war that raged along the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945. From W...

Every General's aim is to end a war by Christmas, and Montgomery, perhaps, saw his opportunity in a bold strike across the southern portion of the ...

Based upon interviews with a wide-range of former German Army and SS soldiers, these unique personal episodes vividly depict the extraordinary circ...

The greatest airborne operation in history commenced on 17 September 1944. Nine days later nearly four out five of the British 1st Airborne Divisio...

As night fell in Picardy on Thursday 24 October 1415, Henry V and his English troops, worn down by their long march in search of a crossing of the ...

The Battle of Berlin was a conflict of unprecedented scale. The Soviets massed 1,600,000 troops for Operation Berlin, and but Marshal Zhukov's his ...

The Battle of Hastings is probably the best-known and perhaps the most significant battle in English history. Its effects were deeply felt at the t...

By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of the Japanese 15 Army crossed the inhospit...

Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories and one of the worst Allied defeats of the Second World War. The 1942 fiasco rocked the very foun...