Battles & campaigns books

Military writer George Forty tells the story of the turbulent desert campaigns in North Africa during World War...  Read More >>

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For Hitler and German military, 1942 was a turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht...  Read More >>

The London Controlling Section (LCS) devised an elaborate two-part plan called Operation Fortitude that SHAEF (Supreme...  Read More >>

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In the early hours of 22 June 1941 units of the Wehrmacht began to pour into the Soviet Union. They were embarking...  Read More >>

For More than 40 years, F.-G. Hourtoulle has explored the Napoleonic epic and for the past eight years, he has been...  Read More >>

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When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the German Army annihilated a substantial part of the Red Army....  Read More >>

"East Prussia was the first genuine part of the German home lands that fell to the Red Army in 1945. Already by...  Read More >>

On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the famous defeat in US military...  Read More >>

A fully illustrated account of the American assault and German defense of the strategic port of Cherbourg.  Read More >>

Steve McCurry's best known and previously unpublished images of Afghanistan and its people.  Read More >>

Starting with the context and origins of the war, this work questions common assumptions about the nature of the...  Read More >>

The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the war on the eastern front....  Read More >>

The U-boat was a formidable foe, developed from a small coastal vessel into a killer picking off merchant convoy...  Read More >>

A fascinating insight by a military historian and serving soldier into a battle which was officially declared a...  Read More >>

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A study by historians of the First World War considers various aspects of command at various levels on the Western...  Read More >>

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This work describes the vital defensive fighting on 1 July 1944 at Rauray in Normandy. Here is a reconstruction...  Read More >>

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