Military History

Bold, brash, and full of ambition, George Brinton McClellan seemed destined for greatness when he assumed command of all the Union armies before he...

Hitler's lightning invasion of Poland in 1939 marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. This was the period when armoured warfare inscribed i...

Although the Pe-2 was widely used on the Eastern Front throughout the Great Patriotic War, only the most effective units in the Air Force and Naval...

Two historians--one American and one British--examine the ways in which rivalries and personality conflicts among Allied commanders adversely affec...

This book contains a collection of papers related to the history and historiography of Warfare, Politics and Power in the Ancient Mediterranean wor...

An untold story of love, idealism and courage in the Second World War 'A very moving account of the all-too-brief life of a warrior-poet' Antony B...

In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the First World War and its causes, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption t...

A War of Peoples, 1914-1919 provides a new perspective on the First World War, offering a concise narrative of the war from the first military acti...

The English Civil Wars tore families and friendships apart, setting father against son and brother against brother. Raging across England, Ireland,...

Comrades is a new history of the mentalities of ordinary Wehrmacht soldiers, based on recently discovered intelligence records from the American in...

The two decades between the first and second world wars saw the emergence of nuclear physics as the dominant field of experimental and theoretical ...

Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral questi...

Written as a companion volume to the author's Oxford Classical Texts edition of Livy, Books 21-25 (OUP, 2016), Liviana consists in large part of de...

THE PERFECT STOCKING FILLER for anyone who thinks they'd survive the world's most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do.--------...

We have long saved--and curated--objects from wars to commemorate the war experience. These objects appear at national museums and memorials and ar...

How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars...

Ashes, Images, and Memories argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fun...

SS Colonel Jochen Peiper was one of the most controversial figures of World War II. Himmler's personal adjutant and Hitler's favourite tank command...

A masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place: shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje PrizeIn April 1916, shor...

In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse. In a final g...

Pacific Air tells the exhilarating, inspiring story of a generation of young naval aviators who, despite initial disastrous defeats, would ultimat...

In the course of two combat tours VF-9 pilots shot down 250 Japanese aeroplanes and produced 20 aces.VF-9 was activated in March 1942 as part of Ca...

1 July 1916: the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The hot, hellish day in the fields of northern France that has dominated our perception of t...

From the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, through Japan’s surrender in September 1945, the Americans and Japanese conducted a total of t...

This rare memoir is the gripping account of a foreigner who served with the Germans on the Eastern Front and provides a vivid, firsthand descriptio...

RAF Bomber Command and its crews were probably unique in the history of warfare. During the Second World War each RAF bomber crew member was a volu...

This book describes the action in the area southeast of Malmedy during the final stage--Christmas 1944 through the end of January 1945--of the Batt...

*In depth review of Imperial Japanese Army Air Force fighter units and pilots. *Detailed study of equipment, operations from Pearl Harbor to kami...