Land Forces & Warfare

The infantry divisions made up the bulk of the German Werhmacht forces during World War II, providing the essential critical mass needed to overwhe...

This book tells the story of the last sword ever designed by a major power for its army to use as a weapon, not as an article of a dress uniform. T...

The Desert Anzacs uncovers the dery-do exploits and achievements of the Australians, bringing to light a part of the Anzac legend that is not so mu...

''The way I look at it is this...When you''re behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you''ve got to get your bloody self out irrespective o...

An American general in Wellingtons army? At the age of fourteen, Frederick Robinson fought for the Loyalists in the War of Independence. With thei...

Explore the Eastern Front battle that resulted in one of the greatest defeats of World War I, in which an entire Russian army was annihilated by Ge...

The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has be...

Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues ...

Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zeala...

Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zeala...

At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. Yet less than a year later some of Belgiums citizens volunteere...

The violence that has ravaged Algeria has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates about political Islam, transitions to democracy, g...

Sent to France in August 1914 the North Irish Horse (NIH) were the first British reservist regiment to see action (at Le Cateau) before fighting as...

The 106th were fresh, green and right in the pathway of the 5th German Army when the Battle of the Bulge began at 05.30 hours on December 16, 1944....

The 2nd SS Division, Das Reich, was a battlefront mainstay for Nazi Germany throughout WWIIfrom the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the final surrend...

Along with thousands of his compatriots, Wladyslaw Anders was imprisoned by the Soviets when they attacked Poland with their German allies in 1939....

Formed in 1939 SS-Polizei Division were not considered initially as an SS fighting force, and this status was reflected in the quality of the equip...

Irish troops had fought for Louis XIV in the 1670s, under Irish officers who had little choice but to fight in foreign service, with the blessing o...

Of what use were the British cavalry during the years of trench warfare on the Western Front? On a static battlefield dominated by the weapons of t...

Following their defeat at Saratoga in upstate New York in 1777, the British decided to implement a Southern Strategy against the American insurgent...

It is an often overlooked fact that the SS Divisions included Cavalrymen, Paratroopers, Mountain and Ski Battalions and these rare photographs illu...

Central to the German strategy of dealing with an Allied landing in France was the availability of a strong, mobile armoured reserve. In June 1944,...