Warfare & Defence

The Avro Lancaster took the RAFs bombing campaign right to the heart of Nazi Germany, night after night, despite suffering appalling losses. The un...

Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks was a legend in his lifetime. He leapt to fame as a Brigade, Divisional and Corps Commander during the Second...

Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved the deployment of huge armies and ...

The scene is set with an overview of the respective states of the RAF and Japanese Airforce, and an explanation of how the American Volunteer Group...

When the US Marine Commandant, Major General Thomas Holcomb, announced the formation of what became the US Marine Corps' Women's Reserve, legend ha...

Volume 1 of this two-part work puts the reader firmly into the footsteps of the 2nd and 5th Rangers as they arrive in England in 1943. It follows t...

Since their foundation during the Second World War, the Parachute Regiment has acquired a formidable reputation as tough, fearless soldiers. 'The R...

Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach, but it also marches in its boots and its uniforms, carrying or driving its weapons and ...

A visit to the battlefield of Verdun is usually dominated by the forts of Douamont and Vaux, the museum at Fleury and the striking, huge Ossuary, A...

The author, a veteran, is professor and chief of general surgery for the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Details the struggles at five...

Flight Through the Ages' was the title of the first annual exhibition of the Guild of Aviation Artists in 1971. This book celebrates 50 years of ex...

Revolution was on everyone's lips. The ancien regime had been cast aside and King Louis XVI had been executed in front of a mocking crowd. Every cr...

While the development of tanks had largely led to the replacement of cavalry in most armies by 1939, the Soviets retained a strong mounted arm. In ...

The Royal Army Medical Corps was present during all engagements in the Second World War. From the frozen wastes of Norway through to liberation fro...

A decorated First World War pilot, Hans Baur was one of the leading commercial aviators of the 1920s before being before becoming Adolf Hitler's pe...

When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied to the strongest. There ensued a long ser...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of...

The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen p...

Fighting like a girl says I can be powerful in ways that are natural to me; I have access to power too it may not look the same as your power, but...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of th...

Part memoir, part investigative journalism, and completely engrossing, What We Inherit is not a book you'll be forgetting anytime soon. Oprah Maga...