Military History

A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindness it left in its wake.On 9th August 1945, t...

The Battle for the Silver Helmets, 12 August 1914Eight days after the start of World War I, four German cavalry regiments charged into glory, histo...

500 Battlefields That Shaped English HistoryA comprehensive A-Z guide of information on every battle fough on English soil 'Fascinating' - The Sund...

Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics ...

The US Army and US Marine CorpsThis study of the evolving uniforms and personal equipment used by US ground forces in the Korean War features new f...

The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage DramaOn April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, o...

Discover the Sunday Times bestseller and incredible true story behind the most catastrophic 24-hours the British military faced in World War II fro...

The True Story Of How I Searched For My Family In The Ruins Of The CityThe incredible, heart-breaking and poignant diary of a woman searching for h...

The Incredible True Story of the Olympic Hero Who Swam For His LifeThe extraordinary true story of Alfred Nakache, the Olympic French swimmer who w...

The newest book from the hit BBC One TV show The Repair Shop, in which the experts commemorate the 80th anniversary of the international ending of ...

Who Wins Wars — and Why'Phillips Payson O'Brien is one of our finest historical thinkers.' James Holland, author of Normandy '44 War and power are ...

The Inside StoryThe fascinating inside story of Churchill's D-Day, told through a ground-breaking collaboration between a world expert on Churchill...

From Keel Laying to Pearl Harbor MemorialA photographic guide to the USS Arizona, which exploded and sunk in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.A pho...

Alfred T. Palmer's WWII PhotographyAlfred Palmer was a prolific home front photographer whose work was used by numerous federal propaganda agencies...

Aircraft Carriers in the Imperial Japanese NavyA pictorial guide to Akagi and Kaga, two early Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk at the Batt...

McDonnell Douglas MiG HunterA concise pictorial guide to the F-4 Phantom, featuring over 200 images.A concise pictorial guide to the F-4 Phantom, f...

The United States and the Middle East Since 1945This second edition of Crisis and Crossfire traces the origins of the contemporary challenges the U...

From Cyrus the Great to Qassam SoleimaniFrom Emperors to Shahs to Ayatollahs, Hashim's revealing book explores how Iran has sought to defend itself...

Churchill's Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America’s First Secret Agent of World War IIThe untold WWII story of a former NFL player turned White H...

Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar WorldImagine a world in which clothing wasn't superabundant – cheap, disposable, indestructible – but p...

In this third edition of the Chief Petty Officer’s Guide, author Paul Kingsbury offers the same caliber of wisdom and advice that has helped Chief ...

The Life of Bertram RamsayBertram Ramsay has acquired almost mythical status in the history of the Second World War, firstly as the principal organ...

A Global History of World War IIA radical new history of history's most brutal struggle for survival between imperial powers.A radical new history ...

The Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb - By The People Who Were ThereA sweeping and comprehensive new oral history of the atomic bomb's creat...

1861-1865In four volumes, The Complete Medal of Honor lists the full citations of every recipient of the USA's highest award for bravery between th...

A Personal Retrospective of the Pacific TheaterIn Destroyers at War Adm. James L. Holloway III, the twentieth Chief of Naval Operations, recalls hi...

An Interpretive Analysis of Theory and Practice. This is a timely study of 'small wars,' such as the current situation in Afghanistan. It is wide-r...

A HistoryThis new history reveals that the Baltic States were as fiercely contested between the Germans and Russians as any flashpoint of the Secon...

The Story of Britain’s Most Ingenious Intelligence UnitA fascinating study of the British Empire’s Middle Eastern intelligence section during the F...

History’s most evil war machine laid bare in three intense works from renowned bestseller Charles WhitingHitler’s Secret War: During the Second Wor...

The Falklands War is the period of Margaret Thatcher's premiership which still attracts the greatest attention. Mrs. Thatcher's War is a new histor...

A World War II Story of Valor and Forgiveness Across GenerationsAn intergenerational story of war, forgiveness, and memory told through stolen and ...

The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use ItA vivid account of one of history's most significant events: the approval, co...

From Columbus to TrumpThe global powerhouse that is the United States of America is younger even than the British Museum, Guinness and the flushing...