Warfare & Defence

For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions. These included voyages of discovery to unknown lands, engagements in w...

This book describes Arkansas' pivotal role in America's first truly foreign war.Part military history, part social history, and part history of the...

James Stewart was already a Hollywood star when the United States went to war in December 1941. Having received an Academy Award for Best Actor in ...

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, The Bomber War is an accessible, insightful and authoritative introduction to the airborne Allied fight aga...

This unique insight into RAF Reaper operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria is based on unprecedented research access to the Reaper squadrons and...

Through colourful illustrations and accounts of actual sieges in every chapter, you'll discover how armies from medieval times up to the English Ci...

This book is dedicated to the command and observation tanks of the German Army in World War Two. It deals with their history, operational use, orga...

While the main focus in early 1945 was on the advance to The Fatherland, 15 Army Groups 5th (US) and 8th (British) Armies were achieving remarkable...

On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and...