Battles & Campaigns

With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of t...

The fighting in Europe during the Seven Years War hung in the balance. After initial successes the Austro-French forces had been driven back across...

After a long series of crushing defeats by the apparently unstoppable Japanese air and ground forces, the eventual fightback and victory in Burma w...

In just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese ...

On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up posi...

The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English ...

The desperate struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for Budapest in 1944 and 1945 was as lethal and destructive as any of the urban battl...

Written by the leading Danish authority on the period, this splendid work brings to life Nelson's historic victory immortalised by his so famously ...

Captain Jean-Roch Coignet was born a month after the American Declaration of Independence, and lived through three French Revolutions, two Republic...

Hitler's Ardennes Offensive - known to the Germans as Wacht am Rhein and to the Allies as the Battle of the Bulge - was intended to turn the course...

This book will provide an entirely fresh way of looking at the Battle of the Somme 1916. It will not be a rehashed narrative history of the battle....

Being the son of the Duke of Westminster, whose family traces its lineage back to 1066, Lord Hugh Grosvenor was destined to become a cavalry office...

What was the soldier's experience of the Battle of the Somme? How did the men who were there record their part in the fighting or remember it after...

In 1945 a joint committee of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives was appointed to investigate and hear testimony from a variety of mili...

A one of a kind blend of maps and aerial photographs explaining the bloody battles of Normandy in new, exquisite detail.

Everyone is familiar with the story of D-Day and the triumphal liberation of France by the Allies: a barbaric enemy was defeated by Allied ingenuit...

D-Day was the pivotal turning point of the Second World War. The assault on the beaches of Normandy was an astounding feat of logistical prowess, t...

Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and British Eighth Armies drove...