Military History

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...

With First World War casualties mounting, there was an appeal for volunteers to train as front-line medical staff. Many women heeded the call: some...

Steve who had to be the first one to cross(exceed) the door of C-47 felt(smelt) his(her) heart pounding. This time, it was not any more necessary q...

Gunner of the Somme is a remarkable memoir detailing the life of a gunner on the Western Front as observed by a gentleman scientist who served in t...

In this eighth Militaria Guide, combat infantry WWII models are illustrated in colour, showing outfits and equipment. These are authentic pieces fr...

This fascinating look at the life of a modern-day professional soldier gives the reader an inside view of the deadly global war on terror. Herd ...

Among the many German immigrants to the United States over the years, one group is unusual: former prisoners of war who had spent between one an...

During the American Civil War, British-crewed warships harassed Union merchantmen, sinking a total value of more than $15,000,000 in ships and c...

World War I plays a central role in many of the theoretical debates among scholars of international politics. Taking advantage of recent advances i...

Long before the overt war in Afghanistan and the covert war against al-Qaida,U.S. forces struck at one of the worlds hotbeds of terrorism. On 15 Ap...

Formed in 1851 by Irish immigrants, the Fighting Sixty-Ninth has served with distinction since the Civil War. This is a complete, illustrated hi...

During the summer and fall of 1864, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley was one of the most contested regions of the South. Federal armies invaded the ...

Responding to President Lincoln's initial call for troops, the 18th New York Infantry emerged as one of the Excelsior State's first regiments an...

The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism.The story of our navy is nothing less than the ...

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh - later Lord - Dowding was one of the greatest Englishmen of the 20th century. He created Fighter Command with its uniq...

The B-26 Marauder was a formidable weapon in the campaign to defeat Hitler's armies, and, in the words of his first copilot, Louis Rehr was the ...

The complicated and dramatic course of the Civil War in Greece had, for lack of parties interested in reconstructing the truth of its events, never...

Inept leadership, inefficient campaigning, and enormous losses would seem to spell military disaster. Yet despite these factors, the Soviet Union w...

This book contains the transcribed journals and reports of a war correspondent for the Boston Journal covering the campaign that captured New Or...

As mid-19th century America erupted in violence with the invasion of Mexico and the outbreak of the Civil War, Irish immigrants enthusiastically jo...

In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial in the border sta...

As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new wea...

American naval hero and Confederate secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch was widely considered the Confederacy's most dangerous man in Europe. As he...

Captured by the Japanese on Corregidor in 1942, the author, a Navy medic, found himself aiding many of his fellow captives who had been wounded in ...

The beginning of World War I saw thousands of army and navy aviators who needed specialized clothing that could not be purchased off-the-shelf. ...

As an iconic symbol of the American GI, the dog tag has gained considerable cultural recognition. This book returns to the origins of the dog ta...

This is the first Pocket Manual to be dedicated to the German Army in the First World War, with chapters comprising of complete documents or extrac...

Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. ...

'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times'A first-rate popular history of a fascinating and neglected battle... a veritable page-turner' BBC His...

  A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the grippin...

A Sunday Times and FT Book of the Year When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, the most likely outcome is war. In this razor-shar...

A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Secon...

Patented in 1898 and produced from 1900, Georg Lugers iconic semi-automatic pistol became synonymous with Germanys armed forces throughout both wor...

This first book to reassess the myth and the realities of Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favourite commando. SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny became ...

A fascinating, illustrated history of forts and castles from their earliest origins to the 20th century. Ever since humans began to live together ...

September 1938. Spain's Civil War has been raging for two years, the outcome still in the balance. But rebel General Franco is so confident of winn...

This is beautifully slipcased  presented collector s edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, ...

In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was 'a geographical expression' not a country, but a patchwork of states, divided between the Austrian-occupie...

In the early days of flight, no one imagined the aeroplane as a weapon of war. Inevitably, the First World War proved the catalyst that was to chan...

Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-H...

In August 1940, the Luftwaffe began an operation to destroy or neutralize RAF Fighter Command, and enable Hitler to invade Britain that autumn. It ...