War & Defence Operations

In the years immediately following the 2006 "Surge" of American troops in Iraq, observers of America's counterinsurgency war there regarded the def...

Late in the morning of 27 May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was sunk by an overwhelming British armada in a fierce battle that lasted ninety...

Professor Havens analyzes the efforts of Japanese antiwar organizations to portray the war as much more than a fire across the sea" and to create n...

There is a long history of state governments providing support to nonstate armed groups fighting battles in other countries. Examples include Syria...

Gritty, but witty, description of life and death on the front line in Afghanistan, by the bestselling author of BULLET MAGNET.Now Zad, Afghanistan:...

In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched Canada...

America's victory came as a surprise to many people. How did untrained American generals, essentially military amateurs at the outbreak of war, and...

The second volume in a two-part illustrated study of the October 23-26 Battle of Leyte Gulf, which resulted in a decisive defeat for the Japanese. ...

The fall of Singapore was the worst defeat ever suffered by the British Empire this dramatic account emphasizes the initiative and tactics that ena...

Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth century, Edward S. Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World has been...

In early 1940, a battle raged to control the ice-free, iron-ore port in northern Norway – with changing fortunes until the very end. This highly ...

This in-depth survey of the greatest generals of the Napoleonic wars offers biographical information of twelve oustanding military commanders inclu...

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle and tells the...

January 1917. On the Western Front the armies of Imperial Germany, Great Britain, and France were locked in grim stalemate. Repeated attempts by bo...

A powerful account of life and loss in the Great War, as told by British soldiers in their letters home This book was inspired by the author’s disc...

In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. ...

This is a concise and authoritative account of the course of the First World War, with analysis of decisive encounters and landmark engagements. It...

Renowned historian and military commentator Albert A. Nofi brings together for the first time in paperback a series of hard-hitting essays on World...

The controversial memoir of a top British spy which finally reveals what really went on behind the scenes of the Falklands WarFor five years before...

This is the story of the Anglo-American amphibious assault and subsequent battle on the Italian west coast at Anzio which was launched in January 1...

More than 30,000 Australians visit Gallipoli every year, and the numbers are increasing each year as the centenary of the landing approaches in 201...

Taking a chronological approach, this work looks at key battles, such as the great encirclement engagements of 1941 - Minsk, Smolensk and Kiev - th...

The key battle of the First World War from the German point of viewThe Battle of the Somme has an enduring legacy, the image established by Alan Cl...