War & Defence Operations

Fourth in a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on...

Erwin Rommel is the arguably the most well-known German general of the Second World War. Revered by his troops and applauded by his enemies, the so...

During the Summer of 1940, Hitler's Germany appeared unstoppable. The Nazis were masters of mainland Europe, in alliance with Stalin's Russia and ...

Hitler's War directives from 1939-1944 with a new introduction and commentary.

Since the mid-1950s, successive Canadian governments have grappled with the issue of Canadas role in US ballistic missile defence programs. Until P...

From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in the study of the ...

The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour by the man who himself served in the Special Boat...

In The Normality of Civil War, Teresa Koloma Beck uses theories of the everyday to analyze the social processes of civil war, specifically the type...

This new edition of Frank Ledwidges eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of mi...

This is a revelatory account of three un-tabulated special forces operations, Plum Duff, Mikado and Kettledrum, that failed to destroy Argentina's ...

Detailed, comprehensive survey of the siege, looking at its development across three continents. Medieval warfare was dominated by the attack and ...

The British Expeditionary Force - The 1915 Campaign is a thorough account of the BEF's actions during the battles of 1915 and early 1916, starting ...

Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing down on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October...

Far from the battlefields of Europe and North Africa, Allied forces fought a very different war against another foe, from the jungles of Burma to t...

In September 1944 Hitler ordered an attack on Gen. George Patton's Third Army, which was deep inside France making for the Rhine and threatening th...

A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first ce...

The shocking, true story of a soldier gone rogue, and the court martial case that divided America. This is the full story of Eddie Gallagher, a US...

One of our very best writers on France. Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Pat...

The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies...

In The African Wars Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of...

When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 the Red Army had four times as many tanks as the Wehrmacht and their tanks were seemingly superio...