Land Forces & Warfare

This work traces the history of a remarkable troop of Hoosier horsemen--the East Wing of the Third Indiana Cavalry--during the Civil War. From t...

When Joint Special Operations Command deployed Task Force 714 to Iraq in 2003, it faced an adversary unlike any it had previously encountered: al-Q...

A highly illustrated study of the T-90, the backbone of the armoured units of Putin's Russia.In the wake of the T-72 tank’s poor performance in the...

The Greek Civil War was one of the bloodiest of modern times: it cost the lives of more than 600,000 people out of a population of 7 million. It wa...

Set in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group. Paula...

This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century....

A gripping tale of three crucial battles fought at the end of 1943 as Allied forces approached the Gustav Line in Italy.After repulsing the German ...

Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFVs) are a critical element of any armoured formation, giving tactical support to the tank. This newly updated book is...

Wars are decided definitively through the occupation of an enemy’s territory. This is a task for military forces, which may have to be transported ...

This impressive, newly-updated encyclopedia is both a fascinating history of aircraft carrier development and a well-documented visual directory of...

How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sus...

Between the reigns of Augustus and Septimius Severus, the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire frequently saw brutal fighting, most notably during...

In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controver...

An examination of two of the most high-profile air and land weapons to be deployed on the Eastern Front in World War II. In late 1942, as part of ...

This book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire’s long spira...

Updated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolut...

Fully illustrated with specially commissioned artwork and mapping plus carefully chosen archive illustrations, many in color, this lively study inv...

The first dedicated examination of Alexander the Great’s final battle and acknowledged tactical masterpiece. In the years that followed Alexande...

In Service is the tale of one person's journey into manhood, ultimately finding himself in the theatre of war. It is a journey littered with colour...

With the United States producing almost 90,000 AFVs during World War II, American tanks made up the bulk of those deployed by the western Allies, a...

Highly detailed and colourful, this account illustrates the struggle of Indonesian forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, fol...

The end is in sight but the fight is long: the epic and terrifying conclusion to the greatest conflict in historyGoing into 1944, the Allies knew t...