Military History

The Indian Rebellion 1857-1859 focuses on the military dimensions of this conflict, in which Indian rebels waged both conventional and unconvention...

In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or ace of aces -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fig...

The last great battle of World War II began on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, when more than 184,000 began landing on the only Japanese home soil in...

At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy nothing could penetrate the defences of this b...

Designed with little more than a passing nod to the international naval treaties of the inter-war period, the Imperial Japanese Navy's heavy cruise...

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war....

A few of the fortifications and fortified lines of the world wars are well known and have often been written about, illustrated and studied. But th...

In a time of great need for Britain, a small coterie of influential businessmen gained access to secret information on industrial mobilisation as a...

The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sa...

On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs landed ashore at Gallipoli. At the exact same moment, leading figures of Armenian...

Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the Briti...

Germany's changing historical memory of World War II and its aftermath, as reflected in the official and public remembrance of the German war dead,...

A ground-breaking approach to history where YOU choose the fate of WWII - perfect for readers of Bletchley Park Brainteasers and The GCHQ Puzzle Bo...

Gideon Welless 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful...

In a beautifully crafted narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-...

Over the last few decades, as the United States has become embroiled in foreign war after foreign war, some of the most vocal activists for peace h...

The Sword of Monmouth tells the extraordinary story of King Charles I Prince of Wales sword and how it was handed down to King Charles II and then ...

As turbulent events including war, civil war, armed intervention, humanitarian crises and civil unrest unfold around the globe, the actions of va...