War & Defence Operations

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So much has been written about Gettysburg, goes the well-worn cliché, that there is nothing new left to write. Now in paperback, The Second Day at ...

They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives and mothers and teenage girls who clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, he...

This publication examines the key role of parliamentary diplomacy in foreign affairs, focusing specifically on its influence in the field of disarm...

American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seven...

American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seven...

Codenamed Operation Telic, the British component of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the largest gathering of British troops since the Second World...

The British Army in North America conducted two campaigns in 1777. John Burgoyne led one army south from Canada to seize control of the Lake Champl...

In early 1944, two Allied armies were ready to launch a massive assault against German forces in central Italy so they could then march northwards ...

Today's vision of world order is founded upon the concept of strong, well-functioning states, in contrast to the destabilizing potential of failed ...

July, 1862. General Robert E. Lee, now in command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, had driven back the massive Federal Army of the Pot...

Citizen-soldier Strong Vincent was many things: Harvard graduate, lawyer, political speaker, descendent of pilgrims and religious refugees, husband...

All of middle Tennessee held its breath when the new year dawned in 1863. On the previous day, December 31 the last day of 1862 just outside Mur...

When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in late 1939, what transpired was a true David and Goliath conflict. When Finland refused a number of Soviet ...

In late 1971, the People's Army of Vietnam launched Campaign 'Z' into northern Laos, escalating the war in Laos with the aim of defeating the last ...

To prevent German occupying forces in Norway from reinforcing their defences during the final months of World War II, the Office of Strategic Servi...

Perhaps one of the most dramatic events of the late Victorian period was the death of General Charles 'Chinese' Gordon at the hands of the Mahdi's ...

In December 1943, among rising realisation that the Allies are planning to invade, Field Marshal Rommel was assigned the title of General Inspector...

The Battle of Pinkie, fought between the English and the Scots in 1547, was the last great clash between the two as independent nations. It is a we...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings...