Land Forces & Warfare

The savage partisan war on the Eastern Front during World War II saw a wide variety of forces deployed by both sides. On the Soviet side, civilian ...

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), founded as a small guerrilla movement in 1974, became the leading party in the Ethiopian People's Revo...

Peter Crichton seized the outbreak of the Second World War to escape his journalistic job in London. Ever adventurous and somewhat impetuous he qui...

A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea looks at the hospital's beginnings, with its Royal patronage and heritage which dates back to King Charles ...

Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen 1941 - 1945 is the 7th bo...

In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the nor...

Following the devastation resulting from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1915, the survivors of the massacres were dispers...

Throughout history, the best marksmen in any military force have been employed as marksmen or sharpshooters, and equipped with the best available w...

When war broke out in 1939, Hitler created `Strafbattalion'' (Penal Battalion) units to deal with incarcerated members of the Wehrmacht as well as ...

In 1979 the Soviet Union moved from military help to active intervention in Afghanistan. Four-fifths of the Afghan National Army deserted in the fi...

Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the worlds population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the worlds conflicts. Mou...

''''A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement'''' William Boyd''''Rick Stroud writes brilli...

This book chronicles the story of the single most daring Special Forces operation since World War Two - Operation Barras; the attempted rescue by t...

Discover the fantastic history of the saboteurs during World War II in the French resistance. Trained by the British secret service, they destroyed...

Black Ops is a skirmish wargame of tactical espionage combat that recreates the tension and excitement of modern action-thrillers such as the Bond ...

The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed a...

It was on 14 June 1944, D+8, that the tanks of the 144th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps began to disembark on Gold Beach during the Normandy landing...

Originally from west Kerry, Thomas Ashe was a schoolteacher in north County Dublin and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. During the 1916 R...

Andrew Thomson rethinks the history of US imperialism, from the Cold War to today, to reveal how paramilitaries, militias, mercenaries, private arm...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri during 1863, the middle year of the war. This work explore...

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