War & Defence Operations

The US Navys 1944 Philippines raids were the first time naval aircraft had challenged and beaten a land-based air force. With artwork and rare phot...

This gripping study details the crisis point of the Korean War: the UN advance across into North Korea and the following Chinese offensive that dro...

Hitlers Third Reich and Stalins Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939 and the two autocracies proved utterly ruthless in their efforts to s...

In this comprehensive account, renowned naval historian Dr Edward Hampshire takes advantage of new sources to examine the naval campaign that saw B...

The first time Lara Marlowe interviewed Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko in Ukraine in 2023, Marlowe realized that the 28-year-old woman army officer was...

Although its crown was initially given to Joseph Bonaparte, the brief history of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples will be forever best associated w...

As night fell in Picardy on Thursday 24 October 1415, Henry V and his English troops, worn down by their long march in search of a crossing of the ...

Two decades after the end of the Civil War, former Confederate officer Riddick Gatlin bewailed the lack of a history of the famous Branch-Lane Brig...

Fully illustrated, this absorbing study assesses the Commonwealth and Italian infantrymen pitted against one another during the First and Second ba...

The first history of how the aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet shattered Japanese oilfields in Sumatra, starving Japan of oil and proving how A...

With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, a...

An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berb...

This book compares the school image of the wartime past of the Falange and the Polish Workers Party (PPR), created during the turbulent first decad...

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II. ...

A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during Worl...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WITOLD PILECKI INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD SPECIAL PRIZEA WATERSTONES BOOK OF 2023'A beautiful blend of memoir, reportage and hist...

A highly illustrated study of one of the most dramatic yet overlooked episodes on the Eastern Front in World War II, the siege of Velikye Luki by S...

A highly illustrated study of one of the most dramatic yet overlooked episodes on the Eastern Front in World War II, the siege of Velikye Luki by S...

Spain has for too long been considered peripheral to the human catastrophes of World War II and the Holocaust. This volume is the first broadly int...