War & Defence Operations

A highly illustrated study of the battle at Dien Bien Phu, the 56-day siege that eventually led to the surrender of the remaining French-led forces...

The Battle of Hattin, Saladins greatest victory, and the conquest of Jerusalem that followed, represents the end of the first period of Frankish oc...

'We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back.' Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushi...

Allied shipping was in a desperate situation in 1942, as the Germans were building U-boats faster than the British and the Americans could sink the...

The ninth volume in Admiral Morisons history takes up the story of American naval activities in the Mediterranean where Volume II left off, and cov...

The seventh volume in Admiral Morisons History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II picks up operations in the Aleutians where the...

The determining factors in the Battle for Leyte Gulf were superb skill, heroism, and aggressiveness, but confusion, surprise, and faulty assumption...

This persuasive study attacks the key myths surrounding the Battle of Britain to revise the relative status of maritime and aviation factors in the...

The siege of Constantinople in AD 71718 was the supreme crisis of Western civilization. The Byzantine Empire had been reeling under the onslaught o...

The greatest airborne operation in history commenced on 17 September 1944. Nine days later nearly four out five of the British 1st Airborne Divisio...

Lieutenant Knowles served in the 7th (Royal) Fusiliers 1811-1813, seeing action in several battles, being wounded at the storming of Badajoz and at...

52 BC is the key year of the Gallic Revolt, with the near-disastrous Roman defeat at Gergovia followed by the climactic victory over the Gallic chi...

The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea f...

Step into the violent world of the 13th century, where the European states of the Levant battled with Muslim powers for control of Jerusalem. At th...

Downfall of the Crusader Kingdom tells the story of the reason for Richard the Lionhearts infamous Third Crusade, culminating in the disastrous bat...

The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First W...