A detailed account of the fascinating aviation warfare during the colonial war in Guinea during the 1960s and 70s.
The story of Montgomery's XIII Corps in Sicily in 1943 based on interviews with veterans who consider it their bloodiest campaign of WWII.
The story of the mercenary army which gave the future Duke of Wellington the hardest fight of his life at the Battle of Assaye in 1803.
Examines the maneuvering systems of the five major powers from 1792 to 1815.
A hard-hitting history of the Soviet security police in totalitarian Latvia - with Latvians as both oppressors and oppressed.
This book deals with the Guerra Fantastica, or 'Fantastical War', a series of military operations that occurred in Portugal during the Seven Years' War.
This book offers a detailed narrative of the military operations of Genghis Khan and Sube'etei.
The book re-evaluates the introduction of the plug bayonet within the English army and consequential impact on infantry tactics and equipment in the last seventeenth century.
The first detailed account of the thousands of troops from Ireland who took part in the English Civil war. Their campaigns and charcteristics, equipment, and impact.
Ground-breaking research about Czechoslovak arms exports to the Middle East, based on official documentation.
This book details the RAF's preparation for - and execution of - the bombing campaign against Egyptian targets during the Suez War of 1956.
The story of the 24/7 nuclear alert maintained by the Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War.