War & Defence Operations

They came to fight for freedom and their country, they came to fight Germans. Men of the Polish Air Force, who had escaped first to France and then...

This history, based on an exhaustive study of German records, explores The Battle of Britain through the eyes of the Luftwaffe. Over the past 80 y...

A highly illustrated study of the Japanese conquest and American reconquest of the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska, one of the most inhosp...

A highly illustrated history of Operation Suvorov, the Soviet assault against German positions around Smolensk in late 1943. With the German defea...

While the heroic exploits of The Few of Fighter Command are rightly lauded, those of The Many of Bomber Command often remain overlooked. Night afte...

Today, throughout Vermont, it is possible to identify hundreds and hundreds of Civil Warrelated sites. Throughout Vermont are soldier homes, halls ...

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...

There is a widespread belief that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are in many respects synonymous, that their ideology and objectives are closely intertwi...

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...

What influences have shaped air power since human flight became a reality more than a hundred years ago? Global Air Power provides insight into the...

During the Second World War, in the mountains and jungles of Timor, Bougainville and New Guinea, Australian commando units fought arduous campaigns...

From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day comes the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.'Rich in detail and drama. Enthra...

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...

We are at a time when international law and the law of war are particularly important. The testing of nuclear weapons that is being used in the rhe...

In Hertfordshire Soldiers of The First World War the authors explore a series of individual case studies of Hertfordshire men who served in various...

Executive Outcomes was already well known to several governments and private corporations before it exploded into controversy in 1993 after enterin...

Hitler''s Defeat on the Western Front 1944-1945 is a compelling account of the Nazis'' ten month struggle against the overwhelming Allied military ...

Peter Crichton seized the outbreak of the Second World War to escape his journalistic job in London. Ever adventurous and somewhat impetuous he qui...

The Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now it has been recorded from the at...

As long ago as 1961 a young Terry Parsons, then still in his twenties, began his long search for lost aircraft and memories of the Battle of Britai...

On the third day of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee launched a magnificent attack. For pure pageantry it was unsurpassed, and it also marked the centerpi...

Did a German invasion or invasions take place along the shores of East Anglia in 1940? Though Operation ''Sealion'', the intended invasion of south...

In recent years the public has become aware of the Filthy Thirteen, the most notorious squad of fighting men in the 101st Airborne Division, and th...