Military History: Post WW2 Conflicts

Irishman John-Paul Jordan, still only in his thirties, has led an extraordinary life from the Foreign Legion and security in Iraq to serving his ...

In the early twentieth century there was a war brewing on Britains doorstep. Northern Ireland was filled with discrimination and suspicion, a sense...

With the Middle East in a state of persistent change and upheaval, there has long been a need for a comprehensive, yet readable, study that can giv...

In 1945 the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy's history was centred on nine aircraft carriers. This book charts the post-war fortunes of this p...

As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in ...

The Ml Abrams has proved itself to be the finest main battle tank in the World since its introduction into US Army service in 1981. It combines the...

Called to action on 2 April 1982, the men of 45 Commando Royal Marines assembled from around the world to sail 8,000 miles to recover the Falkland ...

This is the story of the SAS raid on Pebble Island during the Falklands War. In atrocious weather, 48 men of 22 SAS Regiment were landed by Sea Kin...

The Phantom was developed for the US Navy as a long-range all-weather fighter and first flew in May 1958, before becoming operational in 1961. The ...

The AMX 13 was originally designed in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. It represents French ambitions for national resurgence and w...

The 1970s were an event-filled and action packed decade for the Royal Air Force. Many events are worthy of note and all are recorded here, in words...

When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before ...

Dr Paul Moorcraft''s recent controversial and prophetic book on Islamic terrorism a The Jihadist Threat: The Re-conquest of the West? a raised ...

When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last sho...

In King Leopold IIs infamous Congo Free State at the turn of the century, severed hands became a form of currency. But some in the Belgian governme...

BRIXMIS (British Commander-in-Chiefs Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most covert elite units of the Brit...

Having passed-out from Boy Entrant training in December 1959, Ray spent the following two years servicing Vampire trainers at the Central Flying Sc...

In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria - just before the Syrian civil war bro...

This book tells the story of the battle for Goose Green - the first crucial clash of the Falklands war - through the eyes of the commanders, both B...

Anti-aircraft artillery was extensively used in combat in the First World War, though such weapons had made their debut in the Franco-Prussian War ...

Michael Haygarth left home a few weeks before his seventeenth birthday to join the Royal Air Force as a Weapons Technician. At the time, everything...

In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long bee...

How 'The Troubles' in Ulster defined the Scottish and British military experience post-WW2 'Bloody Sunday' is one of the iconic moments in British ...

A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpow...

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns was commissioned at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in 1959 after completing flying training on Piston Pro...

Britain's Cold War Bombers explores the creation and development of the jet bomber, tracing the emergence of the first jet designs (the Valiant and...

Britain's Cold War Fighters explores the creation and development of the jet fighter, tracing the emergence of the first jet designs (the Meteor an...

Grub Street is proud to present Meteor Boys, the latest title in its ever-popular Boys series. As Britain''s first jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor ...

In The Mau Mau Rebellion, the author describes the background to and the course of a short but brutal late colonial campaign in Kenya. The Mau Mau...

The riveting true story of the 13 year battle for the village of Kokkina in Northern Cyprus.  The first book in English to detail this story.  Writ...

Driven by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the insecurities it provoked in Saddam Husseins Iraqi dictatorship, the IranIraq War would become the ...

Since the first English settlers landed at Jamestown with the legacy of centuries of European warfare in tow, the military has been an omnipresent ...

A comprehensive, accurate, and academically-supported reference of all of the major military and paramilitary camouflage patterns that have been in...