Battles & Campaigns

Published in a new edition on the centenary of the seismic battle, this book provides the definitive account of the Somme and assigns responsibilit...

Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2017This casebook is the most extensive collection of documents ever assembled ...

This volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual impact of the war, considering how it reshaped Americans' spiritual, cultural, and intellectual ...

Until a few weeks before the fall of Rangoon, the British had not dreamt the Japanese would invade Burma. So in early 1942, British soldiers traine...

This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates an...

6 June 1944 is one of the most memorable dates of the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the end of the conflict as Allied forces invaded...

Featuring original 1: 2,500,000-scale German military maps, this is a beautifully presented atlas of the 1941 Operation Barbarossa campaign. Opera...

In the second volume of Harrier Boys, as with the first, the history of this remarkable aircraft in service with UK armed forces is illustrated thr...

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

The war of 1809 between France and Habsburg Austria, culminating in the titanic battle of Wagram, has been described often as Napoleons last succes...

The remarkable story of how a handful of intrepid scientific navigators underpinned British naval dominance in the conflict with Napoleon   During ...

Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Pauluss 6th Army and...

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So much has been written about Gettysburg, goes the well-worn cliché, that there is nothing new left to write. Now in paperback, The Second Day at ...

American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seven...

American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seven...

The British Army in North America conducted two campaigns in 1777. John Burgoyne led one army south from Canada to seize control of the Lake Champl...

In early 1944, two Allied armies were ready to launch a massive assault against German forces in central Italy so they could then march northwards ...

July, 1862. General Robert E. Lee, now in command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, had driven back the massive Federal Army of the Pot...

Citizen-soldier Strong Vincent was many things: Harvard graduate, lawyer, political speaker, descendent of pilgrims and religious refugees, husband...

All of middle Tennessee held its breath when the new year dawned in 1863. On the previous day, December 31 the last day of 1862 just outside Mur...

In late 1971, the People's Army of Vietnam launched Campaign 'Z' into northern Laos, escalating the war in Laos with the aim of defeating the last ...

Perhaps one of the most dramatic events of the late Victorian period was the death of General Charles 'Chinese' Gordon at the hands of the Mahdi's ...

The Battle of Pinkie, fought between the English and the Scots in 1547, was the last great clash between the two as independent nations. It is a we...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings...

Based on dramatic first-hand evidence, Deadly Betrayal uncovers why and how a cabal of Pentagon Advisors in the George W. Bush Administration creat...

Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of crusade throu...

Excellent Antony Beevor Saul David is a brilliant historian In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he...