War & Defence Operations

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver expertly threads together US and Russian sources to reveal the complete story of this bitter struggle in the Eastern skies....

In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the coun...

The archetype of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', India's political and economic presence in Afghanistan is often viewed as a Machiavellian ploy ai...

In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. N...

In terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain. Chocolate: How a ...

The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller A fabulous story, superbly told cannot be bettered Max Hastings ...

Histories of the Light Division have tended to be incomplete, being based on memoirs of a few well known diarists, principally from the 95th Rifles...

The American Military: A Narrative History presents a comprehensive introduction to more than four centuries of American military history. Present...

This volume provides a holistic overview of the long peace process in Nepal following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 200...

The American Military: A Narrative History presents a comprehensive introduction to more than four centuries of American military history. Present...

The Normandy Landings were the first operations of the Allied Powers' invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord,...

The Atlantikwall (Atlantic wall) was an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by the German Third Reich in 1942 until 1944 during World ...

June 6, 1944: a date forever etched in history. With the landing of allied troops on the Normandy coast, so began one of the major confrontations o...

This book aims to provide for a path-breaking cross-regional comparison of the capabilities and readiness of Asia-Pacific countries to contribute t...

From training for the operation to the evacuations after D-Day, this is the story of the Glider Pilot Regiment's role in the first stage of the air...

Since World War II, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight--they have lost many wars that by all rights they should have wo...

A dramatic illustrated exploration of the infamous massacre of 1622, and the events of a pivotal conflict in colonial American history. From the e...

A focused, illustrated history of NATO's war against Serbian forces over Kosovo. [THE CORRECT VERSION OF THIS EBOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD.] ...

This illustrated study pits Germanys PzKpfw III against the Soviet Unions T-34 in the wake of Hitlers 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. This boo...

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific. In Jun...

Operation NEPTUNE was the codeword for the naval side of the OVERLORD plan for the historic June 1944 landings in Normandy. Massive in its scale, i...