Military History

Fresh out of West Point, John Howard arrived for his first tour in Vietnam in 1965, the first full year of escalation when U.S. troop levels increa...

This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon's empire. With more than a million men under arms throughout centra...

The German Night Fighter force had its origins in the First World War to repel night raids and to fly long-range intruder sorties. They developed o...

The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier m...

The enemy must not get the Messines Ridge at any price i?1/2 So read the orders to German troops defending the vital high ground south of Ypres....

Frederick Whirlpool''s Victoria Cross is displayed near the entrance to the Hall of Valour at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. It was the fir...

The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler's ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World...

On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scape...

As in the Great War, Hull was a prime target for the bombs of the German air force when the Second World War began, particularly as it was common k...

With the SAS: Across the Rhine is the story of the latter part of Captain Ian Wellsted's military career with the Special Air Service, the first pa...

World-famous Bridgnorth town is situated on the river Severn near Kidderminster and is a very popular anglers' haunt and tourist destination. Withi...

The Mighty Warrior Kings traces the history of early Europe through the biographies of nine kings, who had the courage, determination and martial m...

Before the outbreak of the First World War, the Channel Islands were viewed as they are today; scenic, sunny and relaxing holiday destinations, whe...

The first of two ground-breaking, prize-winning volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this book is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and ne...

Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation as Cyril Joly''s classic acc...

The United States Marine Corps was one of the phenomena of the Second World War. Greatly expanded from its pre-war order of battle of scattered def...

Michel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to have appeared...

An accompaniment to the best-selling guide to the area, now sold separately.

The history of Britain has been shaped by those who have invaded this small isle: the Romans, Vikings and Norman Conquest all moulded our society a...

The invasion of Poland by German forces (quickly joined by their then-allies the Soviets) ignited the Second World War. Despite determined resistan...

Irishman John-Paul Jordan, still only in his thirties, has led an extraordinary life ... from the Foreign Legion and security in Iraq to serving hi...

Mafeking was the longest and the most controversial of the three sieges that began the South African War in 1899. Lasting 217 days, the Siege of Ma...

The area astride the Spanish/Portuguese border between the respective fortresses of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida was the focus of the Peninsular War ...

The early 1990s saw Europe's first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle ...

Hans Schaufler fought as the commander of a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945. Then, as ...

On 12 June 1922 King George V received at Windsor Castle representatives of the six disbanded Irish regiments. While five had long and distinguishe...

In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthause...

France declared war upon the British in 1793. The burden to conduct a long conflict proved heavy for that island nation. Poverty increased. Liberti...

Stackpoles Battle Briefings series offers accessible and insightful summaries of battles, commanders, and other military history topics. This inaug...

This is the story of two Sheffield men from very different social backgrounds, who both volunteered in early September 1914 and joined the new Pals...

Pat Evans parachuted into German-occupied Northern Greece in September 1943. His mission as a SOE operative was to support the Greek resistance mov...

Nearly four years of brutal Japanese occupation in WW2 has dimmed Manila's lustre. The Philippine capital, surrounding an old Spanish fortress, was...

Professional football was officially suspended at the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939. With their contracts terminated, players ...

The first volume covers contributory factors leading up to the outbreak of hostilities. Hitler's amazing success in correcting the real and perceiv...