Land Forces & Warfare

Sir John Moore is perhaps the second most famous British soldier of the Napoleonic Wars after the Duke of Wellington, yet his remarkable career has...

The Korean War, which began with an unprovoked attack by North Korea in 1950, went on for three long years. Over 100,000 soldiers of the United Na...

Winifred Phillips was born in Ilford, Essex, in 1926, one of four children. Sent to a convent boarding school, which she loathed, she trained as a ...

Beneath the Killing Fields of the Western Front still lies a hidden landscape of industrialised conflict virtually untouched since 1918. This subte...

The Territorial Force is the forgotten army of the First World War. Between the pre-war Regular Army, which attempted to stem the German advance in...

The 51st Highland Division was the most famous infantry division that fought with the British Army in WW2. It was the only infantry division in the...

The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks like the Tiger and Panther, b...

The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English ...

A full and authoritative illustrated history of Russias army since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, including Air Assault and Navy ground forc...

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...