Battles & campaigns books

An easy to read history of Bleeding Kansas and the Border War paying particular attention to Quantrill's Raid of...  Read More >>

From the author of The Wizards of Armageddoncomes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’...  Read More >>

‘Excellent’ Antony Beevor ‘Saul David is a brilliant historian … In shocking...  Read More >>

Take a glimpse inside Nelson's flagship at The Battle of the Nile? Travel with one little boy who discovers...  Read More >>

In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed...  Read More >>

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On March 31, 1968 Lyndon Johnson announced a bombing halt over much of North Vietnam, a limited troop increase,...  Read More >>

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From the Treaty of Fontainebleau to the Battle of Corunna The first part of Sir Charles Oman's classic history...  Read More >>

From The Battle of Corunna to the end of The Talavera Campaign The fate of the Iberian Peninsula was in the balance...  Read More >>

Ocaña, Cadiz, Bussaco, Torres Vedras Volume III covers the period from September 1809 to December 1810, when the...  Read More >>

Masséna's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona Volume IV covers the period during which Portugal was finally...  Read More >>

Between the Autumn of 1812 and the late Summer of 1813 campaigning in the Peninsula took on a new aspect. From being...  Read More >>

Volume V covers the period during which the outcome of the war was effectively decided by Wellington's great advance...  Read More >>

The Capture of St. Sebastian, Wellington's Invasion of France, Battles of the Nivelle, the Nive, Orthez and Toulouse...  Read More >>

L'infanterie de Ligne subira tous les chocs des dernières années de l'Empire, de la campagne de France à Waterloo,...  Read More >>

Major Marcus Reno's actions at the Battle of Little Big Horn have been both criticized and lauded, often without...  Read More >>

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Operation Deliberate Force is the first ever authoritative, inclusive and richly illustrated account of the combat...  Read More >>

A detailed and richly illustrated, blow-by-blow account of the first major air-mobile operations up to that point,...  Read More >>

Americans have been fascinated by ruins as symbols of the past and now as symbols of the future. Empire of Ruins...  Read More >>

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A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today.  Read More >>

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1997.  Read More >>