War & Defence Operations

Iwo Jima was the United States Marine Corps' toughest ever battle and a turning point in the Pacific war. This well researched history is supported...

Dispatches from the Balkan War and Other Writings is a collection of essays on the Balkan crisis and on European reaction to it. In opposition to m...

This book brings to light many aspects of the Tet offensive of 1968, an event acknowledged as the turning-point of the Vietnam War. Using previousl...

Written by one of Japan' most popular modern authors, this is a lively, readable, and immensely entertaining fictional portrayal of one of the epoc...

This is an examination of major American and Anglo-American war plans. Rather than discuss the history of planning, Ross considers the execution of...

Written by one of Japan' most popular modern authors, this is a lively, readable, and immensely entertaining fictional portrayal of one of the epoc...

Why do soldiers fight? What keeps them going? What compels them to face death when their long-time comrades have fallen around them? Strangers in A...

As the U.S. experience in Iraq following the 2003 invasion made abundantly clear, failure to properly plan for risks associated with postconflict s...

This is an historical biography of Hannibal, the military leader of Carthage responsible for waging a dramatic onslaught on Rome during the Punic W...

Going to War? investigates the reasons why countries enter conflicts by considering the depth and complexity of issues surrounding military deploym...

As the U.S. experience in Iraq following the 2003 invasion made abundantly clear, failure to properly plan for risks associated with postconflict s...

Many of the major wars of the 20th century emerged from the ruins of previous peace settlements. French hostility to the Treaty of Frankfurt of 187...

Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS troops en route to that front surrounded the Fr...

This title concerns the life of Philip Durham and his part in the battle of Trafalgar, the most decisive sea-battle ever fought, which checked Napo...

In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near collapse as its first government struggled to cope with civil unrest and mutinous armed forces. When th...

This book covers not only the three major events on the Eastern Front, the battle of Tannenburg and the March and October Revolutions, it also disp...

The Berlin Airlift was a turning point in World History and the catalyst for the Cold War. From the end of World War Two the relationship between t...

The failure of the Gallipoli campaign was instantly blamed on a great untruth – that the War Office was unprepared. This book, incorporating inform...

48 Royal Marine Commando began its life in March 1944 and was disbanded in the UK in January 1946. In its short but active life it always seemed to...

In 480 BC, the Greek and Persian fleets met in a battle in the strait between Attica and the island of Salamis. Although outnumbered, the Greeks de...

The true story of the 'the greatest defeat and largest capitulation' in British military history. The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a mi...

The siege of Tobruk was the longest in British military history. The coastal fortress and deep-water port was of crucial importance to the battle f...

The story of the huge mobile battles of 1918, which finally ended the Great War.1918 was the critical year of battle as the Great War reached its b...

'A breakthrough has occurred near Caen the like of which we have never seen.' This stark assessment, made by a senior German officer on the evening...