Illustrated by over 100 photographs, dozens of maps and colour profiles, Showdown in Western Sahara offers a fascinating study of the military aspects of this conflict, its strategy, tactics and experiences with different weapons systems.
Based on extensive research, with help of Angolan and Cuban sources, the War of Intervention in Angola, Volume 2, traces the military build-up of the Cuban and Soviet-supported Angolan military, the FAPLA and its combat operations.
Based on recently available archival sources, Isaev describes the battle from a new point of view: that in fact it's not the tanks, but armoured units, which win or lose battles.
Thoroughly researched from primary sources, and providing plenty of absorbing detail, this book is a valuable addition to the history of the SS, and the men who volunteered to serve in it.
While the first volume in this mini-series spanned the first decade of confrontations between Libya and several of its neighbours, but foremost the USA... Læs mere
A brilliant young poet, leading a gallant band whose epic adventure ends in defeat, betrayal and execution. Montrose was a doomed King's general who dared to win - and lost it all.
The development of the F-5 lightweight supersonic fighter in the mid-1950s was almost a gamble for the Northrop Corporation, but ultimately resulted in one of most commercially successful combat aircraft in modern history.
On 30 March 1972 the South Vietnamese positions along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated the North from South Vietnam were suddenly shelled by hundreds of heavy guns and multiple rocket launchers.
The story of Iraq's ambitious and advanced weapon development programmes in the 1970s and 80s, including the Al-Hussein, a stretched long-range variant of the famous Soviet R-17E.
A history of the little-known conflict between insurgents in northern Morocco and Spanish colonial forces that forged the leaders who went on to fight the Spanish Civil War.
An investigation of the effect of the Industrial Revolution on naval warfare before the battle of Lissa and a comprehensive study of the campaign.
This book, based on extensive new research, examines the military forces of the British Army which effectively faced the threat of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars on Ireland.