Warfare & Defence

This is a remarkable and unique story of Jim Brigginshaw. Having been captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Jim was first s...

The Great War is an immense, confusing and overwhelming historical conflict - the ideal case study for teaching game theory and international relat...

This new book in the popular Polish Wings series tells the story of the famous German parasol-winged WWI fighter monoplane in Polish Air Force serv...

This book is the first full length political history of the Afghan Army, and as such is unparalleled in the range and depth of its analysis of this...

At the beginning of the war, not a single European army was prepared in any sense, to deal with the large numbers of victims in a humanitarian way....

In June 1944, Johannes Börner is 19 years and Léon Gautier 21. These two elite soldiers will take part in the battle of Normandy in the frontline, ...

A superb colour guide to Operation Cobra, complete with over 800 photographsOperation Cobra was the codename for an offensive launched by the Firs...

...essential background and new historical insights make otherwise inexplicable elements of the Bismarck story much clearer, without diminishing th...

The record of Carrier Air Group 15 in World War II is astonishing by any measure: it scored 312 enemy aircraft destroyed, 33 probably destroyed, an...

Tanks features 52 of the best armoured fighting vehicles from World War I to the present day. Beginning with the prototype Mark V Male in 1917, the...

When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and m...

This is the first-ever analytical study of Nazi Germany's political foreign intelligence service, Office VI of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and it...