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.
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.
This second volume is a detailed and unbiased study of the military, historical, and political circumstances of the 1969 Sino-Soviet border war.
The first authoritative account of Operation Mar Verde: the Portuguese amphibious assault on Guinea's capital in 1970 aiming to stage a coup and destroy the Guinean Air Force.
One of the few English language books to cover this important war in South American history, using English and Spanish sources.