Battles & Campaigns

This work is concerned with human migration at the turn of the twentieth century, specifically with iron workers moving from Spain to south Wales. ...

A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as ...

The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between Plantagenet...

A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign one of the most punishing and hard-fought military adventures of World War Two.The B...

The Battle of Bull Run took place in July 1861 and although when all was said and done, its impact was relatively limited, it did have a far-reachi...

The Normandy landings commenced on D-Day, Tuesday, 6 June 1944, in two phases: an air assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian and Fre...

June 6, 1944. In the gray light of dawn the landing craft carrying the assault wave of two US divisions as well as the Engineers and the Rangers, ...

In May 1940, during the Battle of France, the British Expeditionary Force in France aiding the French, was cut off from the rest of the French Army...

The Romans had been at odds with the Gauls for a very long time indeed. Somewhere between 390 and 386 BC, a Senoni warchief called Brennus managed ...

May-June 1940 - the breakthrough of the Panzers - is the focus of this new battlefield guide by specialist historian, Jean-Yves Mary. Supplementi...

Since 1944, the word Omaha has been synonymous with the heavy price paid by the American Armed Forces to break through the wall of the Nazis Fortre...

For almost 100 years, analysis of the Gettysburg Campaign has been centered around a set of commonly held beliefs, among them an oversimplified vie...

A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II. In April 1942, the Combined Flee...

Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem James HollandSuperb... A military historian of originality and insig...

This book is not another battle chronicle. It is an examination of how the motivations of individual soldiers to fight and win can make the differe...

During the American War of Independence (177583), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval ...

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' ...

Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem. James HollandSuperb... A military historian of originality and insi...

One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the people...

A detailed, fully illustrated overview of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, one of the most important conflicts of the ancient world. Julius Caesar was...

The 1962 War was indeed a traumatic experience for the Indian arms. The story from the Indian side is generally well known but very little is known...