Warfare & Defence

The nearly ten-month struggle for Petersburg, Virginia, is well known to students of the Civil War. Surprisingly few readers, however, are aware th...

The Wiking division was the only armoured SS division to fight exclusively on the Eastern Front. It is true that it was partly composed of Flemish,...

The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands: British Naval Campaigns in the Southern Hemisphere 1914-1915 tells the story of British cruiser warfare a...

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' ...

A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the...

Gerald Gliddon's classic survery of the Somme battlefield in 1916, first published in 1987 to great acclaim, has been greatly expanded and updated ...

6 June 1944 marked the beginning of the Allied liberation of France and Europe. But what does the D in D-Day stand for? Why were the code names Om...

Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the Viet Cong guerrillas and ARVN were not a major factor, but where the trained profes...

The Battle of Agincourt on 25 October, 1415, remains one of the most glorious victories in British history, with a legacy that endures today. A piv...

The Battle of the Somme was the most devastating engagement in which British troops fought during the First World War. The 141 days of conflict saw...

In 1864, General Sterling Price with an army of 12,000 ragtag Confederates invaded Missouri in an effort to wrest it from the United States Army's ...

Though few realize it, the Netherlands East Indies were the object of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Likewise, their invasions...

The Union Army's Red River Campaign began on March 12, 1864, with a two-pronged attack aimed at gaining control of Shreveport, Louisiana. It las...

'Like Crécy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.- Bernard Cornwell, bestselling author of The Last Kin...

A gripping examination of the Battle of the Barents Sea, fought in the near darkness and icy cold of the northern winter, in which the Kriegsmarine...

World War II is one of the first conflicts to be extensively recorded in detail by both combatants and journalists, and many iconic photos of the f...