War & Defence Operations

With the seeming defeat of ISIS, has jihadism disappeared from world politics? In this startling new book, Stephen Chan uncovers the ideological fo...

During the First World War the Australian Government established an official war art scheme, sending artists to the front lines to create a visual ...

Immortalised for a new generation in the graphic opening sequences of Saving Private Ryan, Bloody Omaha Beach was almost an epic failure. Among th...

The invasion has begun. In this gripping book, Jonathan Mayo gives a blow by blow account of the events of D-Day, revealing what happened to the pe...

This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s defensive battle in Flanders during April 1918. It begins with the planning for Operation G...

Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.Understand the longest battle of World War Two. This is an accessible, insightful and authoritative acco...

The First World War began in East Africa in August 1914 and did not end until 13 November 1918. In its scale and impact, it was the largest conflic...

In August 334 BC, Alexander the Great invaded the Persian Empire and systematically set about its conquest. At the core of Alexanders army were 10,...

Based on unpublished first-hand accounts of the battle, this is a dramatic retelling of the desperate Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, where the hea...

David''s father was a young man of seventeen when he joined the Merchant Navy in the early spring of 1939. He may well have been imagining a new li...

In 1940, the strategically vital island of Malta was Britains last toehold in the central Mediterranean, wreaking havoc among Axis shipping. Launch...

In November 1942, as the Battle of Stalingrad continued to rage, the Red Army launched a devastating counter-attack from outside the city. The Sovi...

Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011 The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history fought at a majo...

Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written b...

The Crimean Peninsula was the setting for the destruction of a number of armies in World War II, both Soviet and German. When the Soviets fortifie...

In AD 66 a local disturbance in Caesarea caused by Greeks sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue exploded into a pan-Jewish revolt against...

Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad. This volume tells the other, equally important h...

SAS OPERATION STORM is the inside story - told by those who took part - of the greatest secret war in SAS history. The tipping point, Mirbat, South...

Malta in the summer of 1942, a Malta wide open to air attack from the Germans and Italians and defended by a handful of Spitfires and a few anti-ai...

Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42.Most people think that England's las...

The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern FrontAt the moment of crisis in...

'A fast-paced, thrilling account of British heroism, brave men surrounded and fighting against overwhelming odds. This is the real, sometimes shock...

* * * Special 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of Br...

Thanks to newly discovered letters and documents, A Handful of Heroes updates the history of the Defence of Rorkes Drift, which will forever be one...