War & Defence Operations

The battle of iSandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonisation of South Africa. In one blood...

A rare and forgotten first-hand account of the first day of the Battle of the Somme by a British infantry soldier who went over the top and survive...

A Guide to the Beaches and Battlefields of Normandy provides an accessible background to the momentous events of 6 June 1944 as well as a complete ...

This book gives a detailed account of the Zeppelin raids on Bolton and Rossendale in late September 1916, setting them in the context of wider even...

In Book Two of the third volume of his magisterial Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz continues and concludes his definitive history of one of the mo...

From the No. 1 bestselling historian Max Hastings comes 'a masterly book, rich in insight, shrewd and weighty in judgement' Financial TimesOn June ...