War & Defence Operations

In the summer of 1944 the Red Army crushed Army Group Centre in one of the largest offensives in military history. Operation Bagration - launched a...

Transcribed for the first time from Commissary General Tupper Carey's handwritten journals, this is the second of two volumes which cover the livel...

The battle of Byland, on 14 October 1322, was a crucial battle in the Wars of Scottish Independence. This absorbing study from Harry Pearson sheds ...

'Masterful' David Price'McKinstry has done a fine job in rescuing Coastal Command from long neglect' Richard OveryThe remarkable story of the unsun...

On June 6th 1944 the largest military campaign in history began in northern France with more than 150,000 Allied troops advancing on German-occupie...

A powerful, immersive account published for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and battle for Normandy, accompanying a groundbreaking BBC2 ...

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller'Vital testimony for those who wish to understand the stark reality of running up a beach with the Wehrmacht tryin...

'The literary VC goes without doubt to Max Hastings . . . the story of a march that left behind a trail of blood and death, torture and heroism' - ...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This book is his best yet . . . Dimblebys work is in a different league, told with such skill and judgment' Do...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This book is his best yet . . . Dimblebys work is in a different league, told with such skill and judgment' Do...

Falklands War, this updated paperback edition of Memories of the Falklands pulls together the recollections of those deeply affected by the horrors...

A masterpiece. . . . Nobody has done more than John Lukacs to turn the short history book into an art form.Anthony Beevor As gripping as any novel....

D-Day was unprecedented. An invasion of this scale and magnitude had never been carried out before. The landings in North Africa, Sicily and Italy ...

This illuminating discussion of deism in the early American colonies presents an overview of its main tenets, showing how its influence rose swiftl...

The Last Citadel is a ground-breaking full-length treatment of the most extensive military operation of the Civil Warthe investment of Petersburg, ...

Days of Valor tells the story of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, a major combat unit of the US Army that served in the Vietnam War.   The brig...

In 1948 the United Nations launched the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization following the conflict that erupted between Israel and its Ar...

Seventy years after the battle of Kursk, which was probably the greatest tank battle of the Second World War and perhaps of all military history, c...

James Montgomery was a leader of the free-state movement in pre-Civil War Kansas and Missouri, associated with its direct-action military wing. He ...

A collection of 100 original, rarely seen photographs of identified Union and Confederate soldiers and other participants in the Gettysburg Campaig...

Bosworth stands alongside Naseby and Hastings as one of the three most iconic battles ever fought on English soil. The action on 22 August 1485 bro...