War & Defence Operations

In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa ...

_Happy Days in France and Flanders_ was written by Benedict Williamson within three years of the end of the First World War. It is a viivid account...

The British Empire at its height stretched around the globe. From Asia to the Americas, scores of countries were conquered or assimilated into the ...

In May 1940, a group of Auckland yachtsmen who were members of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve left for the war. Leonard Hill, a young Maori sailo...

The 7th Waffen SS Mountain Division was raised for war in the rugged terrain of Yugoslavia. The unit included a huge number of Volksdeutsche, ethni...

During the first half of the 20th Century, the former Czarist Russia and then the former Soviet Union, and the Empire of Japan fought a series of u...

This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps...

In early 1942, while most of the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single...

This book chronicles the story of the single most daring Special Forces operation since World War Two - Operation Barras; the attempted rescue by t...

This book tells of the wartime experiences of Bertram, Stanley and Roy George, based on their hitherto largely unpublished writings. Volunteers wit...

The second edition of this well received handbook provides a comprehensive overview and annotated commentary of those areas of international law mo...

The history of the often-overlooked chewa Ethiopian warriors and their crucial role in defending their homeland against invasion, as well as their ...

A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The...

We March Against England tells the thrilling tale of Operation Sea Lion, Hitler's plan to invade Britain and end its involvement in World War II. ...

April 1945. As Alliedbombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped offthe face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizza...

Armchair General brings British history to the reader by making a battle the focal point of an easy read 700 word per day narrative. Each day of th...

If states are not to go to war, what should they do instead? In The Alternatives to War, James Pattison considers the case for the alternatives to...

Kandahar. An ancient desert crossroads and, as of fall of 2001, ground zero for the Taliban and al-Qaida in southern Afghanistan. In the northern p...

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 Palestine campaign of 1917 saw Britains armed forces rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory. After two failed attempts in the spring, at ...

Front Line Bloggers Afghanistan and Helmand Blog Afghanistan (now combined as UK Forces Afghanistan) were established by the MoD to allow UK arme...

War and Collapse is the third volume in a series that covers the last years of the Ottoman Empire. It stems from a three-day international conferen...

Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers duri...

Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable...