Military History

This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta's survival in the Second World War. It was a battle...

The Second North Carolina Cavalry fought its first major battle in its home state at New Bern on March 14, 1862, and narrowly escaped with its men ...

The Varangian Guards were Viking mercenaries who operated far beyond their native shores as an elite force within the Byzantine Armies. Descendants...

Most Civil War regiments came from rural areas of the country but the 14th Brooklyn was taken from the city of Brooklyn, New York. Having been a...

This book is about previously unidentified people who became Abolitionists involved in the antislavery movement from about 1840 to 1860. Althoug...

Women took part in perilous resistance missions during World War II alongside a much larger number of male resistance agents. This book present...

This book follows the men of the 5th Corps and the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, with the army condemne...

Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Alabama in the Civil War is the tenth volume in this acclaimed series showing the human side of th...

What was life in the Red Army like for the ordinary soldier during the Great Patriotic War, the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany on the E...

In July 1944 the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me-262, the worlds first operational jet warplane. This new German figh...

The heart-warming tale of a wartime childhood.It's 1939 and little Dot May Dun is playing with her brothers in the quiet lanes of their Derbyshire ...

This is the first biography devoted to the life of a remarkable young man who, in the words of Civil War historian Ezra Warner, embarked upon a com...