Land Forces & Warfare

With the onset of World War II, African Americans found themselves in a struggle just to be allowed to fight for their country. Individuals like...

In the early twentieth century there was a war brewing on Britains doorstep. Northern Ireland was filled with discrimination and suspicion, a sense...

One of the greatest and most terrible years in world history.This war has now assumed the character, wrote Benito Mussolini, before 1941 was six mo...

What a brilliant book this is a terrific narrative of Hitlers Ardennes offensive of December 1944 superb storytelling that achieves a skilful bala...

Part history book and part travel guide, D-Day Gunners is aimed at anyone interested in the artillery on the D-Day beaches and landing grounds. Whi...

Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or...

Detention and confinementof both combatants and large groups of civilianshave become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last centur...

FOLLOWING years of discontent over Home Rule and the Easter Rising, the deaths of two Royal Irish Constabulary policemen in Soloheadbeg at the hand...

In defiance of the regulations, Bob Boscawen kept his daily account of his war from Normandy through to Germany where, seriously wounded, he was th...

Violence in Iraq has declined since its civil war of 200507 due to the implementation of the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy, Shi'a militia ceasefi...

Will Britain take him in... or mark him as its enemy?'A brilliantly realised world of Imperial ambition and native resistance' Simon Scarrow'Wonder...

Repair, logistics, recovery, tactics and movement of a panzer division compiled from post- war debriefs, contemporary intelligence reports and inte...

In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the margin...

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well traine...

Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflictThe most in-depth and powerful account yet published of the first crucial clash of the F...

The greatest conquest in historyGenghis Khan left an empire more than twice the size of Alexanders: his successors went on to conquer and govern an...

The British soldier of the Great War has been depicted in many books. Invariably, a pen picture paints him as stoic, joining the army in a wave of ...

In May 1940 Francis Suttill was commissioned into the East Surrey regiment of the British Army. He was later recruited by the SOE, and after being ...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Britains manpower crisis forced them to turn to a previously untapped resource: women. For years it was th...

Between 1969 and 1998, over 4,000 people lost their lives in the small country of Northern Ireland. The vast majority of these deaths were sectaria...

From 1939 to 1945 a generation of German men sacrificed their youth for the wrong cause and then rejoined a society that wanted to forget the horro...