Battles & campaigns books

This work identifies 455 Black men who enlisted in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 and another 662 Blacks who...  Read More >>

A new book on how the iconic film was made and certain scenes were faked  Read More >>

Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout America, Embattled Freedom reveals as never...  Read More >>

After the Civil War, Delilah and Jameson Hartford return to their plantation in an attempt to rebuild it and save...  Read More >>

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Pham Xuan An was one of the twentieth century's greatest spies. While working as a correspondent for Time during...  Read More >>

City Boys at War considers a campaign of just eleven months, from September 1939 to July 1940, viewed at the micro...  Read More >>

This book is the first in-depth history of Britain's decision to invade Iraq since the Chilcot Inquiry released...  Read More >>

An exploration of the actions and fate of the First Marine Division during the invasion of the Pacific island of...  Read More >>

A ground-breaking examination into the battles that gave birth to the nations of the modern Western world.  Read More >>

A farcical twelve-year stand-off between the British and the Americans, with a pig as the only casualty  Read More >>

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Discarding tidy abstractions about the conduct of war, Aaron Sheehan-Dean shows that the notoriously bloody US Civil...  Read More >>

The Battle of Waterloo was just the beginning of a long transition to peace. Christine Haynes offers the first comprehensive...  Read More >>

Dunker Church is one of the most iconic structures of the American Civil War. This is a must-read for anyone interested...  Read More >>

The shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 is known as the ‘shot heard around the world’. Using a reconstructed...  Read More >>

The only history of the last months of World War One: out in paperback for the centenary.  Read More >>

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Tells the story of the first jet versus jet war, the largest in number of victories and losses, and one of the few...  Read More >>

The correspondence of Napoleon's last army leading up to and during the Waterloo campaign. Volume 1 contains surviving...  Read More >>

The correspondence of Napoleon's last army leading up to and during the Waterloo campaign. Volume II contains daily...  Read More >>

The correspondence of Napoleon's last army leading up to and during the Waterloo campaign. Volume IV covers the...  Read More >>

The correspondence of Napoleon's last army leading up to and during the Waterloo campaign. Volume III includes the...  Read More >>

Material objects lie at the crux of understanding individual and social relationships in history, and the Civil...  Read More >>