Land Forces & Warfare

In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the Second World Wars most daring operations and the fir...

A compelling and in-depth history of one of the worlds greatest armoured warfare commanders, Hermann Balck (18971982).During World War II, Balck co...

Modern Artillery brings together 300 of the most important examples of artillery used or designed since 1900. Beginning with the guns that pounded ...

George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote The actual turning of the tide in the 2nd World War may be accurately determined as the firs...

Canadians consider the period between the Second World War and the unification of the armed services in 1968 as a golden age, a time when their arm...

The unputdownable and action-packed story of Ancient Rome.Correus and Flavius are half-brothers, sons of a brilliant general. One, son of a slave, ...

Military historians have often regarded the roll of the Italian military as somewhat bi-polar. During the First World War, Italy sided with the All...

Soldiers to the Last Day: Rhineland- Westphalian 6th Infantry Division, 1935-1945 recounts the history of the German 6th Infantry Division from its...

Histories of the German army on the Eastern Front generally focus on battlefield exploits on the war as it was fought in the front line. They tend ...

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...

Great Britain had introduced the tank to the world during World War I, and maintained its lead in armoured warfare with the Experimental Mechanised...

'If I'd have been a Vietcong you'd be dead.' Len OpieThrough three wars across thirty years, Len Opie carved a reputation as one of Australia's gre...

December 2011 sees the premier of Steven Spielberg''''s much anticipated film, War Horse , which is the most popular piece of fiction ever written...

The Royal Dragoon Guards, formed in 1992 from the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, has a proud history datin...

The German Panzerjäger, or Panzerjägertruppe, was one of the most innovative fighting arms of World War II and its story has never properly been to...

It is a peculiar genius of the British to be able to turn a devastating defeat into something to be celebrated. Dunkirk is but the most recent exam...

This is the story of Britain''s elite special force in Italy during the Second World War. In the summer of 1943 the SAS came out of Africa to carry...

The war had dragged on towards its fourth year. There seemed little prospect of any immediate end to the ceaseless slaughter. Field Marshal Haig sa...

The final part of the Lion and the Rose trilogy detailing the TF battalions of the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in the Great War. Establi...

The story of the Winter War between Finland and Soviet Russia is a dramatic David versus Goliath encounter. When close to half a million Soviet tr...

An indispensable guide to the British Army during the First World War covers the men who fought for Britain: from the Old Contemptibles the profes...

From the American Civil War and the introduction of the metal cartridge in the 1860s up to the present day, The Encyclopedia of Weapons is an acces...