Battles & campaigns books

Helping readers understand the tragic and complex Vietnam conflict, this book provides an overview of contested...  Read More >>

The creation, development, and operations of the Army of the Potomac as experienced through the eyes of its commanders...  Read More >>

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A year before the much-heralded second front was opened at Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily...  Read More >>

In this, the second volume covering the war on the Western Front, Peter Simkins describes the last great battles...  Read More >>

An illustrated volume exploring the evolution of trench warfare and weaponry in the latter half of the First World...  Read More >>

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Frederick Newhall was a company commander and later provost marshal and assistant adjutant general in the Sixth...  Read More >>

This title looks at how the men of the Confederate cavalry were recruited, trained, lived and fought. Both routine...  Read More >>

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Marathon, Hastings, Midway -- just a few of the major battles covered in this series, which introduces readers to...  Read More >>

Based on numerous diaries and letters, this book depicts the story of America's soldier sin Asia and the Pacific...  Read More >>

Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, ""a compassionate and penetrating account...  Read More >>

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In 1970, twenty-three year-old Army nurse, Mary Reynolds boarded a plane bound for Vietnam. Uncertain and alone,...  Read More >>

After two months of bitter combat in Normandy, Operation Bluecoat transformed the campaign into a war of movement....  Read More >>

In the second of his two Battleground guides, Frank Steer concentrates on the battle in the town itself and particularly...  Read More >>

This book concentrated on Gully Ravine and its immediate area on the western side of the Helles battlefield, Gallipoli....  Read More >>

Following in the Holts' series of battlefield guides comes this guide to 18 of World War I's most significant battles...  Read More >>

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In late July 1944 the Allies began their break-out from the Normandy beachheads. The Americans in Operation COBRA...  Read More >>

If ever there was a year of destiny for the British Isles, 1066 must have a strong claim. What dramatic changes...  Read More >>

Throws fresh light on the reasons for the many conflicts between England and Scotland, the men who fought - and...  Read More >>

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To find an example of a full and successful, yet unconventional, military career, one need look no further than...  Read More >>