War & Defence Operations

The first wave of democratization in the United States - the removal of property and taxpaying qualifications for the right to vote - was accompani...

[Previously published as Went The Day Well] Of all the books marking the bicentenary Waterloo, this has to be the best Spectator ...

Drawing upon a new international archive of the Second World War, the support of veterans world-wide and from archives overseas, the author uses pr...

A disputed succession to the Austrian throne led to general war between the leading powers of Europe in 1740, with France, Spain and Prussia on one...

The Siege of Mafeking remains one of the most renowned actions of the Second Boer War, with the British Army defeating a Boer force of up to 8,000 ...

The Battle of New Market in the Shenandoah Valley suffers from no lack of drama, interest, or importance. The ramifications of the May 1864 engagem...

What was it like to live through the only war America lost in the twentieth century? Firebase Tan Tru answers that question by describing one mans ...

Initially stationed at the U.S. Army's counterintelligence headquarters in Saigon, David Noble was sent north to launch the army's first covert int...

A highly illustrated study of Operation Torch, the first major Allied amphibious invasion of the war. Following the raid on Pearl Harbor and the e...

The French city of Sedan, located near the Belgian border, played a key role in Germanys plans for a blitzkrieg assault on Allied forces in France....

In the autumn of 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced and improvised American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the hi...