Military History

Americas involvement in WWI marked its first major entry into European politics. The final cost of that involvement required the U.S. to supply a f...

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Second World War, from the highest-rated fighter aces to the most inventive escape equipment used to b...

When you arrived at work today, what was on your to-do list? On 6 February 1944, this landed on the desk of General George C. Marshall, Chief of St...

This book provides a comprehensive look at the air war over Europe during the climactic year of World War II, combining first-hand experience with ...

When we think of Arnhem we think of a Bridge too Far and a sky full of parachutes dropping the Allies into the Netherlands. Beyond these images, th...

Fallujah Redux is the first book about the Fallujah Awakening written by Operation Iraqi Freedom military veterans who served there, providing a co...

Based on research into 2,549 servicemen and women from Portsmouth who were killed during World War 2, this book uncovers stories that have never be...

Lavishly illustrated with rare photos and diagrams, this book describes in unprecedented detail the history, weapons, equipment, tactics, and unifo...

Told here is the riveting story of the 332nd U.S. Infantry Regiment in the Army in World War I. As Pershings Propaganda Regiment they were the only...

This book is a unique personal account of the war on the Russian Front, written using the diaries and photos of Erich Hager who served in the 39th ...

The men of the 449th Fighter Squadron called themselves the forgotten squadron. Despite serving to great effect as the only P-38 fighter squadron w...

The 458th Bomb Group (H) entered combat with the 8th Air Force early in 1944. Based at Horsham St. Faith in England, the combat crews participated ...

This new book is the follow-on work to the authors well-received Rations of the German Wehrmacht in World War II. Aided by the discovery of a large...

After Maos communists took control of mainland China in 1949, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency developed an uneasy partnership with the nationa...

This new book is the definitive reference on this little known subject. Starting with the first German uses of military armored trains in the early...

Following his previous Ultimate Look volumes on the B-29, B-32, B-18, and B-25, and volumes one and two in this series, Wolf continues his definiti...

This book continues with the overview of the Waffen-SS units that fought during WWII. It follows each unit as it was raised and then where it fough...

This book is a highly detailed look at World War II era Italian flight gear. Much of the information appears here for the first time in English. Co...

On the night of August 14-15, 1944, the First Airborne Task Force, which included the U.S. 509th, 517th and 551st Parachute Infantry Regiments, jum...

British militaria, in particular officer's peak caps, have been largely overshadowed by the interest surrounding Third Reich military collectibles....

Among the many controversies of World War II, prominent is the debate over Germany''s strategy in the north of the Soviet Union, as the tide of war...

This is the first full-length biography of the Civil War general who saved the Union army from catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, an...

The United States is embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan - wars that seem as far from our understanding as they are distant from our sho...

Aristocrats and itinerants, unionists and nationalists, Catholics and Protestants the Great War united thousands of Clare men and women to a cause...

Following on from the success of the War Dead series in counties Tipperary, Wexford, Wicklow, and Offaly, Tom Burnell now turns his attention to Co...

Through thoughtfully constructed research, Bradham vividly presents the battle for Normandy's Cotentin Peninsula - one of the most important and ye...

He was one of the last great foreign correspondents Larry Meredith, United Press The story of how Guard gate-crashed journalism is in itself an e...

The Spanish Civil War, 193639, was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. It was the first great clash...

Internationally renowned samurai expert Dr Stephen Turnbull delves into a pivotal era of Japanese history in this highly illustrated account of The...

On the evening of the 5th of June, following a day's postponement due to poor weather conditions, Commodore Oliver's J Force cast off from ports in...

Mametz marks the centenary of this Great War battle with thought-provoking new photographs of the battlefield, which even today bears the scars an...

As 1914 ends, the war which was supposed to be over by Christmas, had settled down to an entrenched stalemate. Trapped behind enemy lines are many ...

In the Batailles & Témoignages collection, here's a new album dedicated to the story of a German Romanian born in Kronstadt in the Carpathians,...

Take a photographic journey around picturesque Chester County, Pennsylvania a place famous for its history and beauty. Over 220 colorful images of...

The Spanish Civil War is one of the most studied events in modern European history. Its origins, that is to say the politics of the Second Republic...