Military History

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...

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...