War & Defence Operations

The Wehrmacht won a quick victory in the West in 1940, the Netherlands and Belgium capitulated in May, and France signed an armistice on June 22. ...

In this new short biography of Ulysses S. Grant, leading scholars provide an accessible introduction to Grant and his legacy. Grant led Federal for...

This is a comprehensive account of the epic struggle between Henry III and Simon de Montfort, a culmination of the tensions between crown and arist...

A dynamic history of the Battle of Sitka that recognizes the vital importance of the Tlingit people, their fight against Imperial Russia, and how i...

Toward the end of the American Civil War, the Confederacy faced manpower shortages, and the Confederate Army, following practices the Union had alr...

To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it--and to have listened through it. L...

The successive battles of The Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House opened Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grants 1864 Overland Campaign. As the first confro...

The Battle of Gettysburg has inspired scrutiny from virtually every angle, but until the first publication of Matt Spruills Decisions at Gettysburg...

The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time John Le CarréMichael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returne...

From December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, the Army of the Cumberland and Army of Tennessee fought a bloody battle along Stones River. Led by Majo...

Stalins Niños examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly three thousand child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. An analysis of the a...

This first volume of three discusses the tactical decisions made on day one and the ensuing combat, while also including a brief summary of the gra...

A highly illustrated, authoritative exploration of Operation Apache Snow, including the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill (Ap Bia Mountain), one of...

A fascinating study of one of the often overlooked World War II campaigns as British/Commonwealth, Indigenous and Italian forces battled for contro...

When the United States goes to war, the nation's attention focuses on the president. As commander in chief, a president reaches the zenith of power...

From the perspective of conflict theory, this book offers a comprehensive, multi-causal, and multi-level analysis of the Nubian issue in Egypt. Uti...

The 'twin' volume to that covering the French army north of the Somme before 1 July 1916, this book covers an almost unknown period to the average ...

Many books have been written about the Jacobite rebellions - the armed attempts made by the Stuarts to regain the British throne between 1689 and 1...