Warfare & Defence

On September 15, 1944, the U.S. First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation...

Reviews for Hardback Edition: In order to produce this fine book, the author has conducted extensive interviews with participants and consulted arc...

The Marine Corps Way of War examines the evolving doctrine, weapons, and capability of the United States Marine Corps during the four decades since...

Berthed today at NAUTICUS, the National Maritime Center, the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was the last authorized of the four Iowa-class battleships, the ...

Sergeant Albert Simpkin MMs Great War diary is of unusual scope and exceptional interest. Albert was a First World War motorcycle despatch rider at...

In 2014, Eric J. Wittenberg published The Devils to Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour, an award-winning study of Union cav...

Much like the large commercial companies, most humanitarian aid organisations now have departments specifically dedicated to protecting the securit...

'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' The TimesFor years KGB operative Vasili Mitrokhin risked his life hiding top-secret materia...

The Civil War in the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential. Generals Meade and Lee continued whe...

Bringing together the work of nine leading historians, and superbly illustrated with contemporary photography and colour maps, The Second World War...

Two sisters. Two special agents. One War. Sisters and Spies is the incredible true story of British special agents Eileen and Jacqueline...

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

Arthur Meyerowitz was on his second air mission over France when he was shot down in 1943. He was one of only two men on the B-24 Liberator known a...

Foreword by Admiral Lord West of Spithead Few people, even in the Navy, are even aware of this dreadful incident [the loss of submarine HMS Trucule...