Battles & Campaigns

Here is a fascinating record of the British Pacific Fleet during the Second World War, in particular the closing years of conflict with Japan and t...

On 16 November 1916, Lieutenant Geoffrey Dorman took off from Shoreham in a Royal Aircraft Factory FE2b with the intention of heading West along th...

A highly illustrated study of the Solomons campaign in 194344 from Guadalcanal, as the US forces advanced through the island chain, to the vital Ja...

Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dr...

Hailed as the single most effective pilot at Midway (World War II magazine), Dusty Kleiss struck and sank three Japanese warships at the Battle of ...

Following nearly two years of planning and exacting preparation, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of the Nazi-dominated European continent, ...

William Clarke of Prestonpans, Scotland, joined the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons, the Scots Greys, in 1803. Clarke had risen to the rank of ser...

What was it like as a French soldier to defend the Maginot Line when the Germans invaded in 1940, and was the line really a strategic and tactical ...

Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once aga...

In April-May 1917 the sleepy hamlet of Bullecourt in Northern France became the focus of two battles involving British and Australian troops. Given...

Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead, the 'decisiveness' of bat...

The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposin...

The battle of the Falaise Pocket, in August 1944, was the turning point in the Normandy campaign. By early August the German Army was in turmoil: w...

In late 1942 Hitler's forces advanced far into the Caucasus in the southern Soviet Union in one of the most ambitious offensives of the Second Worl...

_Bayly s War_ is the story of the Royal Navy s Coast of Ireland Command (later named Western Approaches Command) during World War One. Britain was...

During October 2016 Paul Dawson visited French archives in Paris to continue his research surrounding the events of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of th...

The concluding volume of this work provides a fresh description of the climatic battle of Waterloo placed in the context of the whole campaign. It...

The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944. It was a result of the extraordinary recovery of Hitler's panzer divisions foll...

Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little ...

More than one hundred years after the battle of Jutland, the first and largest engagement of Dreadnoughts in the twentieth century, historians are ...

The story of the German light cruiser SMS _Emden_ has been the subject of over a dozen books since her destruction at the hands of the Australian l...

With victory in North Africa complete, the Allies had a choice. The Americans wanted an early cross channel attack from Britain on North West Euro...

This is the story the British Expeditionary Force's part in the opening days of the Advance to Victory. It starts with the contribution to the Batt...

When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before ...