Slag & fälttåg

The Civil War's Atlanta campaign rages on following A Long and Bloody Task: "e;More than informative . . . challenges simplistic caricatures of Hood and Sherman"e; (The …

The classic World War II memoir of a U.S. Marine's heroism at Iwo Jima from a Medal of Honor recipient. Foreword by Bob Dole"e;One of the most remarkable true stories one is …

Since the United Nations adopted the principle of self-determination in 1945, great powers have found that military strength is no guarantee of success in small wars fought against …

By late 1944 the Allies were poised to smash the Siegfried Line and break into Germany. Supply lines were shorter thanks to the port of Antwerp. Arnhem aside, there had been a long …

One of the greatest paradoxes of the Battle of Normandy is that the German divisions found it much harder to reach the front line than the Allies, who had to cross the sea and then …

How well did civilian morale stand up to the pressures of total war and what factors were important to it? This book rejects contentions that civilian morale fell a long way short …

In the spring of 1861, tens of thousands of young men formed military companies and offered to fight for their country. Near the end of the Civil War, nearly half of the adult male …

'The last great, untold story of WWII... highly compelling' Daily MailFleeing Nazi persecution for America in the 1930s, the young German-born Jews who would come to be known as …

Irish troops have served 40,000 individual tours of duty over four decades in Lebanon. All over Ireland, in almost every family, there is a father, a brother, a sister, son, …