Land Forces & Warfare

The SS Totenkopf (Death Head) Division even 70 years on retains its formidable and ruthless reputation as a superbly efficient yet murderous format...

Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918, Railton ...

George Patton is renowned for his daring tank thrusts and rapid movement, but the many rivers and obstacles his Third Army encountered crossing Eur...

Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularised in medieval European literat...

So great was the reputation of Scottish combat troops in the trench warfare of World War I that an unnamed commentator told Haldane, author of theH...

Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to advance beyond Caen after D-Day, so the US First Army laboured to advance throu...

Newly revised and updated, 'Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles' records the titles worn throughout the British Army by units of the Regular, Militia,...

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...

The Third Armored Division, famously known as the Spearhead Division, had an illustrious combat career in WW2. One of only two heavy armored divisi...

In World War I the 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division. In World War II it spent more consecutive ...

Albert Schwenn was called up by the SS Cavalry Replacement Battalion in Warsaw in October 1942, and in March 1943, was seconded to the SS Cavalry D...

Sieges played a key role in the crusades, but they tend to be overshadowed by the famous battles fought between the Franks and the Muslims, and no ...

Irish Guardsmen have been involved in all aspects of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq from in Kabul in 2001, through the invasion of Iraq in ...

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody battle for survival in Afghanistan in 2...

Panzersoldaten! is a history of the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (MVSN), commonly referred to as the Blackshirts due to their wart...

Following World War I, horse cavalry entered a period during which it fought for its very existence against mechanized vehicles. On the Western Fro...

In the early morning hours of 16 December 1944, the 28th Division received a message from higher headquarters telling them to hold at all costs. Fr...

General Erwin Rommels death and cremation is recorded as taking place in Germany. This book is about his death and burial actually happening in the...

Here the author describes his experiences as a Luftwaffe Anti-Aircraft Assistant from 1944-1945: It was simply a question of us fifteen to sixteen...

Here is the remarkable story of the foreigners who volunteered to join the guerrilla war against Germans and Fascists in Second World War Italy. Th...

This book explores the mechanical details and military use of the M911 C-HET and M1070/M1070A1 HETS and their associated trailers. These vehicles a...

As a Royal Marine Commando, H. Collins served in Afghanistan in 2001 on combat operations. He took part in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and return...

Col. Wesley Fox is a Medal of Honor recipient who wrote two widely-admired accounts of his wartime experiences in the Marine Corps. His Marine Rifl...