Military History

8 June 1982, Falklands: Britain's Most Lethal Day of Combat since World War IIThe updated paperback of the acclaimed first history of 8 June, 1982,...

The USAAF in the Italian CampaignFilled with personal accounts of the action, this book details the USAAF’s tactical and strategic campaigns in the...

The Luftwaffe's disastrous last Blitz over EnglandThe story of Germany's disastrous last cross-Channel Blitz in early 1944, which left the Luftwaff...

Japan 1944–45An illustrated study of the clashes between B-29s conducting night raids on Japan and the Japanese nightfighters protecting the Home I...

The Great Soviet OffensiveA fascinating history of the great summer offensive launched by the Red Army in 1944 which turned the tide of the war.A f...

Escaping the Chinese Trap at the Chosin ReservoirIt has become the stuff of legend and is brilliantly brought to life in this book through first-ha...

A True Story of Stakeknife, Murder and Justice in Northern IrelandThe riveting story of how the death of a spy in the IRA led to the biggest murder...

The Untold Story of Wwii's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever

Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of AmericaHow a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspir...

The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World WarsA fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil...

Soldier Stories From Gettysburg’s George Spangler FarmThe George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg is a place of reverence. Nurses held the hands of dyin...

A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi HiltonIn April 1967, twenty-year-old Doug Hegdahl was knocked overboard from a U.S...

400 Years of Great Power Competition How have navies contemplated possible enemies? How did they learn, or fail to learn, once operations began? Ho...

The Political World of Bilad al-Sham 1050-1128Surveys a turbulent chapter of Syrian history from multiple perspectives, recalibrating the underlyin...

Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America

The Spanish Navy and the Civil War 1936–39In July 1936 a military revolt brought civil war to Spain; it erupted into a bitter political contest and...

The Struggle between Christendom and the CaliphateA powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christen...

How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

Task Force Lion in Iraq In this sharp, challenging memoir, Col Seth Folsom lays bare the complexities of modern military combat advisor missions at...

George S. Patton and the Deception of Operation Fortitude

The Forgotten Women of British IntelligenceThe first authoritative account of the remarkable women who worked in the back rooms of British intellig...

A Story of SurvivalThe first book on the Auschwitz women's orchestra by the bestselling historian of twentieth-century women's lives'Superb and tim...

This title analyses the deeper structures and mindsets of the Second Cold War. This is a relatively short work focusing on the metapolitics – the d...

The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the...

Powerful true stories of women and the HolocaustThe beautiful and moving histories of four young girls in the Holocaust, all linked by a red jumper...

The Tide Turns: An Oral HistoryThe definitive oral history of the battle that turned the tide of the Civil War that combines vivid first-hand accou...

Industrial Innovation and the American RevolutionBenjamin Franklin was serious when he suggested the colonists arm themselves with the longbow. The...

An Extraordinary Survival Exercise in a Second World War Japanese CampWith short biographies of the main protagonists, descriptions of what they ha...

The Secret History of Women at the CIAThe incredible true story of the female analysts who defied institutional sexism and helped bring down Bin La...

Convoys to Russia in the Second World War

D-Day, June 6, 1944Balkoski's depiction of 'Bloody Omaha' is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Sp...

The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-Day, June 6, 1944Balkoski is in top form in this groundbreaking analysis of the other half of A...

The Oral History of D-DayA landmark new account of the single most important day of WW2, in the words of the people who lived it.THE NEW YORK TIMES...

A Detailed Planning Guide for Defense Planners and AnalystsThe Craft of Wargaming is designed to support supervisors, planners, and analysts who us...

A Buried InheritanceOff-beat, irreverent and subversive – a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths, from the acclaime...

The Epic Survival Tale of a Vietnam POW and the Secret Code That Changed EverythingTap Code is the untold story of ex-Vietnam POW Colonel Carlyle '...

Exploring the military heritage of the Isle of Wight from Viking invaders straight through to the present day.The Isle of Wight has been a popular ...

Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler – How War Made Them, And How They Made War'Entirely fresh, brilliantly insightful and utterly co...

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025The incredible story of Agent Zo, the WW2 Polish resistance fighter secretly trained by Briti...

The British Army 1918–40‘A compelling history.’ – The Sunday Times‘Thought-provoking.’ – The Spectator‘Interesting and well-researched.’ – The Sund...

First published in 1980, shortly after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, this book speedily became a standard work of reference at military acade...

Their story. In their words.The eyewitness history of the Falklands war, as told by those who fought it. ‘Remarkable and unique’ Daily Express‘I ne...

WWII’s Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History ForeverThe new page-turner from the Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of ...

A Very Short IntroductionDistilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Carl v...

The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man who discovered BelsenThe untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man who found and helped liberate Bergen-Bel...