Land Forces & Warfare

Regimental histories abound, but few can be as stirring as this story of the fortunes of the famous Yorkshire-based Green Howards. Raised in 1688 i...

Marshal Foch, the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies during the last stages of the First World War, commenting on the victories won during the Hund...

Cataphracts were the most heavily armoured form of cavalry in the ancient world, with riders and mounts both clad in heavy armour. Originating amon...

The British army reached the apogee of its success in the war against Napoleon, and in particular in the famous campaigns in the Peninsula, while u...

'In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken ...

In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the indu...

The M24 Chaffee was the finest light tank developed by the US during WWII. Utilizing the M24 chassisdeveloped by Cadillacthe US Army procured a fam...

The M18 was developed in an era when the United States fought tanks not with other tanks, but with specialized tank destroyers. With a powerful air...

The Panzerkampfwagen III, or Panzer III as it is more commonly known, was a fixture in German armor formations during WWII. Initially developed to ...

Since the mid-1980s, the American High Mobility Military Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV, or Humvee) has become synonymous with the US military.  In service...

The Hummel (bumblebee) and Nashorn (rhinoceros) are two of Nazi Germany's most widely recognized self-propelled artillery pieces. The Hummel, with ...

This book describes the wartime experiences of Reverend David Railton, MC, who was a chaplain on the Western Front during WWI. As a chaplain, Railt...

Primus in armis, ''first in arms'', is the motto of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Britain''s senior Regiment of volunteer cavalry raised in 1794 ag...

Forward My Brave Boys tells the story of the 11th Tennessee Infantry, a unit comprised of ten companies of men raised from five Middle Tennessee co...

The M113 is the most widely used and versatile armoured vehicle in the world. Fielded in 1960 as a simple 'battlefield taxi', over 80,000 M113s wou...

Featuring many previously unpublished images and first-hand accounts, this is a detailed analysis of Germany's Panzerartillerie in World War II. T...

Following the successful landings in Normandy on D-Day and consolidation during Operation Cobra, the Wehrmacht was ordered to begin a counter-offen...

By the end of the first week of November 1942, the German Sixth Army held about 90 per cent of Stalingrad. Yet the Soviets stubbornly held on to th...

Do You Know... - Which British war leader was shot at by guerrillas in Cuba on his twenty-first birthday?- Which intelligence officer turned the ti...

A comprehensive history of the legendary armoured vehicles of the Panzerwaffe, Germany's most famous fighting force.The final years of World War II...

World War II marked the zenith of railway gun development. Although many of the railway guns deployed at the start of the conflict were of World Wa...

A highly detailed illustrated history of one of the most famous tanks of World War II the German Panther. Often considered the most elegant tank ...