War & Defence Operations

Birminghams War: Voices of the Second World War is a collection of 100 accounts by local young men and women who served in the armed forces during ...

A small English expeditionary force in Northern France battling to reach the coast before being cut off by an enemy superior in numbers and equipme...

No history of the war in Europe has ever taken into account the actions of the men of the US 23rd Special Troops. These men took part in over 22 de...

Marathon, Cannae, Hattin, Blenheim, Waterloo and The Somme - the names of some battles do not fade with the passing of time. Battles that Changed H...

'Breathtaking in its scope and riveting in its research.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALDIt was early 1942, Australia was in dire straits. The seemingly all-...

The definitive account of when Australia's famed Rats of Tobruk they took on General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox. The classic story of 1941's Bat...

In Battle Tactics of the Civil War, Paddy Griffith argues that, far from being the first 'modern' war, it was the last 'Napoleonic' war, and that n...

Ten years after the close of World War II, the U.S. Navy published achronology of its operations in the war. Long out of print, the work focused on...

Operation Detachment, the US invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest...

Shortly before the start of the Second World War, the University Air Squadron was formed to give basic training to young men selected as potential ...

By June 1953, the Korean War marked at the outset by extremely fluid advances and retreats up and down the peninsula, had settled into position war...

An illustrated account of the famous Boudiccan Revolt, which almost forced the Romans to abandon Britain.When the Romans occupied the southern half...

This book provides a unique insight into one of the most important days in World history, the World's greatest ever seaborne invasion - June 6th 19...

In the late months of 1944, seventy-one men climbed aboard a runt of a ship only one-hundred-fifty-feet long and twenty-three feet wide, and headed...

Combat helicopter pilots in the Vietnam War flew each mission in the face of imminent death. Begun as a series of letters to Department of Veterans...

As the Civil War moved into 1864, people in the North expected newly appointed general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant to roll over the Confederate ar...

A significant part of the Civil War was fought in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, especially in 1864. Books and articles have been written ab...

A privileged, hell-raising youth who had greatly embarrassed his familyand especially his war-hero fatherby being dismissed from West Point, Michae...

Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Island...

General Winfield Scott Hancock was perhaps the most influential officer in the federal lines, though he commanded only one of seven Union corps at ...