Warfare & Defence

During World War I, German U-boats had been the most effective naval weapon against the Allies and without America''s entry into the war in 1917 Br...

'A timely and cogent reminder that history never ends and is about to be made' - Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of GeographyWith the world alrea...

In April 1941, a passenger ship sailing from New York to Cape Town was attacked and sunk by a German raider in the South Atlantic. The passengers w...

In 2004 the world was first introduced to The Filthy Thirteen, a book describing the most notorious squad of fighting men in the 101st Airborne Div...

Praise for Robert L. Tonsetics previous publications:takes an unflinching look at both the adventure and trauma of war while aiming to fill the gap...

The Dam Buster raid, Operation Chastise, has gone down in history as one of the greatest feats of arms executed by the Royal Air Force. Extraordina...

Thousands of books and articles have been written about the Battle of Gettysburg. Almost every topic has been thoroughly scrutinized except one: Pa...

With this last volume, pontoneers, permanent gunners or Coastguards gunners, too often left in shadow as the materials and the guns which they ser...

At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air For...

The village of Givenchy-les-la-Bassee sits on a small rise in the Pas de Calais Department in northern France. One hundred years ago it was overtak...

Sudden Justice explores the secretive history of the United States' use of armed drones and their key role not only on today's battlefields, but al...

The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal N...

In 1939, North Northumberland shared a proud tradition of military service with it s wider region and this was reflected in the huge numbers of men...

The Royal Artillery played a vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces' successful operation to re-capture of the Falkland Is...

Drawing on an extremely rare collection of photographs taken by the camera guns of Bristol Beaufighters deployed on ground-attack and anti-shipping...

Ancient Rome was uniquely bellicose. Her legionaries are often cited as the original professional soldiers and famed for their iron discipline, but...

The Crimean War, the most destructive and deadly war of the nineteenth century, has been the subject of countless books, yet historian Anthony Daws...