War & defence operations books

A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--showing how the military gathered...  Read More >>

The story of how the Continental Amy's defeat in New York inspired George Washington to rethink his strategy and...  Read More >>

"""It was a deed of insignificant affair, but we exaggerated it into a deed of great valor and importance."" With...  Read More >>

Featuring a foreword by Bernard Cornwell, a fascinating study of one of the most significant conflicts in the long...  Read More >>

A vivid narrative history of the Solomons campaign of World War II, one of the key turning points in the U.S. Navy's...  Read More >>

"On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The ""shot...  Read More >>

General Levin von Bennigsen's memoirs offer unique insights into the epic confrontation between the French and Russians...  Read More >>

Napoleon's Irish troops and their battles, recounted by one of their officers Napoleon Bonaparte recruited to...  Read More >>

Infectious disease, wounded and dying soldiers, and a shortage of supplies were the daily realities faced by the...  Read More >>

Introduces readers to critical decisions made by Confederate and Union commanders during the Maryland Campaign....  Read More >>

A sweeping history and powerful indictment of America's longest overt war, by the veteran New York Times journalist...  Read More >>

Illustrated throughout it describes the formation and battle performance of the major Italian armoured units such...  Read More >>

A well-illustrated history of a hitherto untold and ignored U-boat story  Read More >>

Offers a persuasive rethink of methodologies for true transitional justice in Yemen and for a truly post-conflict...  Read More >>

Siachen, 1987: Battle for the Frozen Frontier tells the story of Lt Gen. Ramesh Kulkarni's command of this infantry...  Read More >>

Napoleon's Irish troops and their battles, recounted by one of their officers Napoleon Bonaparte recruited to...  Read More >>

From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle....  Read More >>

British regimental wives marched with the troops and endured all the hardships of campaigning from hunger and childbirth...  Read More >>

Cannon to the left of them; cannon to the right of them… The legend of an extraordinary defeat brought vividly to...  Read More >>

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A fascinating new lens through which to view the horrifying Burmese campaign of the Second World War, this book...  Read More >>

The only publicly available translation into English of Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky's official history of the Russian...  Read More >>

Provides a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on O’ahu’s Wheeler, Bellows, and Haleiwa...  Read More >>

Historian Jim Morgan examines the lead up to the James Island campaign as well as the skirmish itself on June 16,...  Read More >>

The hard-hitting narrative of the Pacific War's ""forgotten battle"" of Peleliu -- a story of intelligence failings...  Read More >>