Battles & campaigns books

In July 1862, Confederate Captain Raphael Semmes took command of a secret new warship. At the helm of the /Alabama/,...  Read More >>

The WWI began in East Africa in August 1914 and did not end until 13 November 1918. In its scale and impact, it...  Read More >>

Discusses about British Army on the blackest day in its history and gives a portrayal of rank and file Gloucestershire...  Read More >>

Details the dramatic but little known story of the 1943-1944 Ramu Valley campaign in New Guinea, which culminated...  Read More >>

Examines the carnage of Albuera in detail, and gives an account of the circumstances and the conflicting allied...  Read More >>

Jubal A Early's disastrous battles in the Shenandoah Valley ultimately resulted in his ignominious dismissal. But...  Read More >>

An account of one of the US Army's most intense and ferocious actions of the Great War. This is also the story of...  Read More >>

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Indispensable must-reads for all Civil War buffs and historians, bringing together little-known and never before...  Read More >>

A story of the battles of twentieth century, and their impact on the world. This work reveals that these battles...  Read More >>

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In the spirit of the smash bestsellers ""Flyboys"" and ""Black Hawk Down,"" ""Tiger Force"" puts readers in the...  Read More >>

Presents various aspects of warfare during the period of the crusades within the cultures most directly involved....  Read More >>

Forrest proved to be a counterweight to Grant: quick and nimble to Grants steady plodding, a ruthless slaveholder...  Read More >>

Historian Orville Vernon Burton suggests that, while abolishing slavery was the ages most extraordinary accomplishment,...  Read More >>

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General Mark W. Clark was one of the most successful – and controversial – US officers of World War II. Reprinted...  Read More >>

Italy was the scene of the longest, bloodiest, most frustrating, and least understood series of battles fought by...  Read More >>

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For this brave action seventeen-year-old Jack Lucas from North Carolina became the youngest soldier in the twentieth...  Read More >>

For the Americans, the capture of Saipan meant secure air bases for the new B-29s that were now within striking...  Read More >>

Presents the study of the battle of Midway that reviews the various accounts and compares their accuracy and veracity...  Read More >>

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During WW2 hostilities in the Baltic Sea commenced on 1 September 1939 when the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein...  Read More >>