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.
A series of eyewitness accounts of service in the famed German parachute forces during the Second World War.
Sheds light on a hitherto ignored period of the history of WWII and analyses why some German units were prepared to fight when all was lost.
This book describes and examines the first phase of the 'bush war' during which the Rhodesian forces honed their individual and joint skills, emerging as a formidable albeit lean fighting force.
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.