Land Forces & Warfare

A fully illustrated account of the large-scale reformation of the Roman Army from the reign of Diocletian to the fall of the Western Empire in AD 4...

This new handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of academic analysis and debate on insurgency and counterinsurgency, as wel...

The Samurai warrior is one of the most famous types of soldier, with his intricate armour, longbow and distinctive katana sword, as well as his str...

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...