War & Defence Operations

The First World War demanded one of the most sustained and extraordinary efforts ever made by the British people. It was made possible by a multitu...

The four years between the military defeat of France by Nazi Germany and D-Day were vital, dramatic and eventful years in Anglo-French relations. T...

Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction'Spellbinding ... a magisterial account of the great tragedy of our age ... it...

Inspired by a collection of letters received by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle during the First World War, Philip Abbott sets out to explore the inspiratio...

Published in the 200th Anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of...

The 49th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2017 in: - Security and conflicts - Military spending and armaments - Non-prolife...

On the night of 20 November 1914, everything pointed to the likelihood of invasion by a German army, whisked across the North Sea on a fleet of fas...

SOEs Belgian and Dutch operations in the Second World War have always been considered highly controversial because of the notorious Englandspiel (t...

The most original of First World War centenary books; it is a travel narrative of rare resonance and insight Sunday Times On a summer morning in 19...

The battle of Rorke's Drift is established in history as one of Britain's most incredible actions where approximately 155 defenders held off a Zulu...

By the fall of 1944 the Western Allies appeared to be having it all their own way. The summers Normandy invasion had finally succeeded and the Germ...

It wasnt rockets or artillery that came through the skies one week during the war. It was the horrific force of nature that suddenly put both sides...

The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchills literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churc...

The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory...

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

The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchills literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churc...

They called it the slaughter of the innocents. The barely trained and poorly equipped men of the Labour Divisions were never meant to fight, but wh...

The Walking the Western Front series started in 2012 with the release of two films on the Ypres Salient. Directed by acclaimed film maker Ed Skeldi...

Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pikes Hirohitos War offers an...

From 25th April 1915 to 9th January 1916, troops from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Turkey engaged in a bitter struggle for the Gallipoli peni...

The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodiest conflict...

Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever foug...

Exercise Tiger was a series of operations off the South Devon coast in the spring of 1944, rehearsing for the forthcoming D-Day landings. Shrouded ...

It has taken seventy years for the accounts of ordinary German soldiers during the Second World War to be made widely available to an English-speak...