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Battle of Plassey 1757
Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw...
The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow
On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by...
The Milosevic Trial: Lessons for the Conduct of Complex International Criminal Proceedings
When Slobodan Milosevic died in the United Nations Detention Unit in The Hague over four years after his trial had begun, many feared - and some hoped - that international...
Boots on the Ground: Britain and her Army since 1945
On Luneberg Heath in 1945, the German High Command surrendered to Field Marshall Montgomery; in 2015, seventy years after this historic triumph, the last units of the British Army finally...
Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill
The award-winning, new definitive history of Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders"Thrilling. ... A CLASSIC." -True WestWINNER: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award; New Mexico-Arizona Book Award; and Colorado Book...
Amiens 1918: From Disaster to Victory
Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dramatically in a matter of...
The Men Who Flew the Phantom F-4
The Phantom was developed for the US Navy as a long-range all-weather fighter and first flew in May 1958, before becoming operational in 1961. The US Air Force then realized...
Fighting for the Faith: the Many Fronts of Crusade and Jihad 1000-1500ad
Fighting between Christians and Muslims in the medieval period is often seen in the narrow context of the battle for the Holy Land. Other points of conflict tend to be...
Battle of Killiecrankie 1689: The Last Act of the Killing Times
The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national...
Bad Boy: Bert Hall, Aviator and Mercenary of the Skies
Weston Birch (Bert) Hall carved out his place in history with an almost devilish delight. Much of what has been written about him, including his own two autobiographies, has proven...
Among the Italian Partisans: The Allied Contribution to the Resistance
The remarkable story of the foreigners who volunteered to join the guerrilla war against Germans and Fascists in World War II Italy. The fighters included Britons, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders,...
Voices in Flight: RAF Night Operations
"The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the air. The Fighters...
Battle of the River Plate
At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes later a dramatic signal was sent from...
English Collusion and the Norman Conquest
The reality of war, in any period, is its totality. Warfare affects everyone in a society. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive analysis of eleventh century warfare as...
Waterloo Archive, Volume 1: British Sources
In the first ground breaking volume of a new series, acclaimed Napoleonic scholar Gareth Glover, brings together previously unpublished material relating to the Battle of Waterloo. The hitherto unseen material...
With Moore to Corunna: The Diary of Ensign Charles Paget, Fifty-Second Foot
Ensign Charles Paget's previously unpublished diary of the Peninsular War is an important discovery for two reasons. The regiment in which he served - the 52nd Foot - was one...
German Airforce I Knew 1914-1918
Major Georg Paul Neumann was a former German Air Force officer who had served in the Great War. He produced his outstanding survey of the German Air Force in 1920...
Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.
A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance "Provocative, intriguing and cogently argued."-David Stuttard, Classics for...
Zeppelin
This new publication from Michael Belafi offers some truly intriguing content. Photographs of the mighty Zeppelin at all stages of development feature in a publication that aims to chart the...
England, France and Aquitaine: From Victory to Defeat in the Hundred Years War
This is a narrative history of England and France during the Hundred Years War, from the triumphs of Henry V to the defeat of the English and loss of Gascony...
Inside the Regiment: The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
In this companion volume to her pioneering study Redcoats Against Napoleon, Carole Divall tells the fascinating inside story of a typical infantry regiment during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Rather...
The Road to Passchendaele: The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and...
Caesar's Great Success: Sustaining the Roman Army on Campaign
Logistics have become a principle, if not a governing factor, in modern military operations. Armies need to be fed and supplied and the larger the army, the greater the logistical...
Roman Barbarian Wars: The Era of Roman Conquest
The history of the 'barbarian' peoples of Europe is filled with dramatic wars and migrations along with charismatic and often farsighted leaders. Inevitably, their greatest challenge was their struggle with...
Desert Warfare
A world where little light penetrates. Of dense vegetation, tangled roots, fetid mud and swamps. Where the helicopter, sophisticated weaponry and technology have revolutionized military combat. But where survival still...
Nothing Significant To Report: A Kiwi soldier's hilarious true stories of mischief and misadventure in the New Zealand Army
Laugh-out-loud yarns from a soldier in the New Zealand Army When new recruit Dario Nustrini's head was freshly shaved in preparation for the army, he knew nothing about what training...
Flight Craft 6: Ilyushin/Beriyev A-50: The 'Soviet Sentry'
Brought out in the late 1970s as a successor to the obsolete Tu-126 airborne early warning aircraft, the A-50 co-developed by the Il'yushin and Beriyev bureaux is one of the...
Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy
The first account in English of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre and the last hunt for Nazi war criminals. On 12 August 1944, a unit of the 16th SS Panzergrenadier...
Liberating Europe: D-Day to Victory in Europe 1944-1945
Despatches in this volume include the Despatch on air operations by the Allied Expeditionary Air Force in North West Europe between November 1943 and September 1944, the despatch on the...
Tribute: Salute to the Armed Forces of the Second World War
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Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out
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Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Despatches in this volume include the despatch on the campaign from Alamein to Tunis,...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel
Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII
Author: Martin W BowmanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew...
Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson
Author: Steven E. MaffeoFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 228mm, 550g, 392 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2012In today's world of satellites and electronic eavesdropping, it is hard to appreciate the...
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
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Author: Andrew RobertsFormat: Paperback, 134mm x 203mm, 204g, 256 pagesPublished: Penguin Putnam Inc, United States, 2020A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world...
Ghosts on the Somme: Filming the Battle - June-July 1916
Author: Alastair FraserFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 235mm, 224 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Endorsements: ...'This book is the product of careful and painstaking historical detective work, and...
The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909
Author: William R. BraistedFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 295 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2008Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the...
Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII
Author: Martin W BowmanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Fight for the Air
Author: John Frayn TurnerFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 248 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This collection of popular air warfare stories covers the entire span of World...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18
Author: Alfred Grossmith MasonFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 224 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014In mid-1942 Alfred Grossmith Mason became navigation/ Gunnery Officer on SS Empire Baffin,...
The Sultan's Yemen: 19th Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule
Author: Caesar E. FarahFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2002In the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, the resulting...
Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel
Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...
Western Front 1914-1916
Author: Martin MaceFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 211 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914,...