Land Forces & Warfare

Sanders Marble's The Infantry Cannot Do with a Gun Less: The Place of the Artillery in the BEF, 1914-1918 breaks new ground by documenting the role...

Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues ...

Frequently surprising, sometimes bloody, and always absorbing, Behind Enemy Lines offers up tales of espionage, hit-and-run raids, and guerrilla wa...

I was a guest of Adolf! This was how Ernest Focht responded when asked about his wartime experience. Ernest Virgil Focht was born and brought up ...

The Peloponnesian War (431404 BC), waged between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies, involved some of the most important developments in...

One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the people...

A detailed, fully illustrated overview of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, one of the most important conflicts of the ancient world. Julius Caesar was...

After the first few months of World War I, the Western Front consisted of a relatively static line of trench systems which stretched from the coast...

In late January 1968, some 84,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launched a country-wide general offensive in South Vietnam. The bitter figh...

Sturmgeschutz III was originally designed as an assault weapon, but as war progressed it was increasingly used in a defensive role and evolved into...

This illustrated study pits the Kaisers troops against their British opponents during the climactic year of 1918 on the Western Front. Launched o...

A beautifully illustrated pocket guide to 40 of the most iconic World War II tanks. From the rapid blitzkrieg assaults to the great battles in Nor...

The Russo-Ukraine War is a vital learning opportunity for military strategists across the globe. The first and clearest lesson to be gleaned from i...

Over two separate twelve-year periods, two opposing states governed in parallel in Angola (19791991) and Sudan (19902002), each with competing conc...

Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites figh...

It Had to Be Tough tells the fascinating story of the origins of the Commandos (Britain's first Special Service troops and the forerunners of today...

Roger Day sets the historical background of the Peninsula War with admirable clarity and shows how and why the British Army owes so much to this re...

In this absorbing new history of the Galicia Division, David McCormack debunks many of the myths that have resulted in enduring controversies among...

'I know every single one of these grenadiers. The oldest is barely eighteen. These boys have not yet learned how to live, but by God they know how ...