Warfare & Defence

'Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable' The New York Times'A nail-biting escape story' Financial TimesAt the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill alre...

In 2012 Jean Paul Pallud wrote the After the Battle account of the Desert War; now he completes the story with detailed coverage of the landings of...

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLERThe great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the cla...

Many books have looked at the effect of the war on the Home Front, but this is the first series to take a glimpse at the Home Front photographicall...

Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division b...

The official account of the Royal Artillerys activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment...

In 1943, as war raged along the Eastern Front, the German forces attempted to push further east in the brutal Operation Citadel, which saw one of t...

By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of the Japanese 15 Army crossed the inhospit...

J. Howard Wert was a recent college graduate when the armies of the North and South converged near his family's homestead just three miles outside ...

With a plot to grace any comic opera, the 1859-72 ''Pig War'' broke out when an American living on a quietly disputed small island in the Gulf of G...

Blood, guts, dust and hatred: the real history of the American West. Today is a Good Day to Fight covers the period from the initial penetration of...

As night fell in Picardy on Thursday 24 October 1415, Henry V and his English troops, worn down by their long march in search of a crossing of the ...

Blenheim has gone down in history as one of the turning points of the War of the Spanish Succession and some would say in the history of conflict ...

The Ardennes, 1944. Driven back by the Allies since D-Day, Germany launches a surprise offensive on the Western Front. This assault against the u...

My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. ...

How much can you really find out about the Great Battles of the First World War in five minutes? This handy little history book will surpass all yo...

The battle of the Falaise Pocket, fought during World War II from 1221 August 1944, was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy. Taking i...

In the cold morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of German soldiers are in position from Port en Bessin eastwards past Colleville on the Normandy coa...

After D-Day in 1944 many British troops believed the war would be over by Christmas. The German Army in Normandy had been destroyed, but by Christm...

On 20 September 1944, a force of US paratroopers launched a desperate, near suicidal river crossing in an effort to reach their airborne brethren t...

When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organise a new American army, he vow...