War & Defence Operations

Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once aga...

In April-May 1917 the sleepy hamlet of Bullecourt in Northern France became the focus of two battles involving British and Australian troops. Given...

Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead, the 'decisiveness' of bat...

The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposin...

In late 1942 Hitler's forces advanced far into the Caucasus in the southern Soviet Union in one of the most ambitious offensives of the Second Worl...

During October 2016 Paul Dawson visited French archives in Paris to continue his research surrounding the events of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of th...

The concluding volume of this work provides a fresh description of the climatic battle of Waterloo placed in the context of the whole campaign. It...

Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little ...

More than one hundred years after the battle of Jutland, the first and largest engagement of Dreadnoughts in the twentieth century, historians are ...

With victory in North Africa complete, the Allies had a choice. The Americans wanted an early cross channel attack from Britain on North West Euro...

This is the story the British Expeditionary Force's part in the opening days of the Advance to Victory. It starts with the contribution to the Batt...

When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before ...

George Woodberry was commissioned into the 18th Light Dragoons (Hussars) as a cornet on 16 Jan 1812, and joined Wellington s army as a lieutenant, ...

Fought on 16 June 1815, two days before the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Quatre Bras has been described as a tactical Anglo-allied victory, bu...

Encouraged by the success of an attack on Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917, Field Marshal Haig ordered that his generals should continue their prepara...

For almost two centuries the Macedonian phalanx, created by Philip II and refined by his son, Alexander the Great, dominated the battlefields of th...

With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of t...

After a long series of crushing defeats by the apparently unstoppable Japanese air and ground forces, the eventual fightback and victory in Burma w...

On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up posi...

The relationship of England and Scotland became defined by events on 9 September 1513 in a battle of great size, bloodshed and finality - the Battl...

Raids and sieges; trench warfare and air campaigns; guerrilla warfare, naval engagements, and colonial wars; American Battles & Campaigns cover...

The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English ...

The desperate struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for Budapest in 1944 and 1945 was as lethal and destructive as any of the urban battl...

Written by the leading Danish authority on the period, this splendid work brings to life Nelson's historic victory immortalised by his so famously ...