War & defence operations books

Updated to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, D-Day: Operation Overlord and the Battle for...  Read More >>

"From April 14-26, 1865, the hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices transfixed a nation reeling from the...  Read More >>

'Like Crécy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.’- Bernard Cornwell,...  Read More >>

"This is a facsimile reproduction of the 1819 edition. It tells the story of the War of 1812 in a ""biblical style""....  Read More >>

The August Offensive or ‘Anzac Breakout’ at Gallipoli was an attempt to break the stalemate of the campaign. It...  Read More >>

The first English translation of Pierre-François Percy’s journal, describing life as Surgeon-in-Chief of Napoleon’s...  Read More >>

The Korean War lies between the enormity of the Second World War and the controversy of Vietnam. Although it often...  Read More >>

Retrace the journey of the 1/7th Royal Warwicks at Passchendaele.  Read More >>

Account of The Battle of Itter Castle, 1945 - one of only two known times in the Second World War when Americans...  Read More >>

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the...  Read More >>

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the...  Read More >>

Southeast Asian countries boasts a wide range of approaches to military modernisation due to their great diversity...  Read More >>

Ulric Dahlgren was a brilliant, ambitious young man who became the youngest full colonel in the United States Army...  Read More >>

Accounts of the battle come from the author's interviews with the men who took part. The author walks the reader...  Read More >>

A brilliant, inspiring and original work! Writers, students and historians alike will be indebted to the author...  Read More >>

A one of a kind blend of maps and aerial photographs explaining the bloody battles of Normandy in new, exquisite...  Read More >>

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An accurate, exciting diary-like chronicle of the day-to-day machinations of the German generals as they struggle...  Read More >>

In 2011, South Sudan was welcomed into the United Nations as the world’s newest nation. Celebrations on the ground...  Read More >>

King George's Army -- British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815 Volume 2 is the second volume of an encyclopedic...  Read More >>

Waterloo is perhaps the most famous battle of the 19th century and surely in the top ten of all military engagements...  Read More >>

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Terminal Island: Lost Communities on America’s Edge is the joint effort of two authors, Naomi Hirahara and Geraldine...  Read More >>

Detailed analysis of a significant but neglected battle between Julius Caesar and Pompeian die-hards.  Read More >>

"The controversial classic of German military theoryIn 1891 Count Alfred von Schlieffen (1833-1913) was thrust into...  Read More >>