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Armoured Warfare in the Battle of the Bulge 1944-1945
The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944\. It was a result of the extraordinary recovery of Hitler's panzer divisions following crushing defeats on the …
Six Armies In Normandy
The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed …
Victory in Italy
While the main focus in early 1945 was on the advance to The Fatherland, 15 Army Group's 5th (US) and 8th (British) Armies were achieving remarkable results in Northern …
Breakthrough of Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Battle of the Bulge
"e;...a seminal, ground-breaking, and unreservedly recommended contribution to personal, professional, community, and college/university library World War II history …
Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was the decisive weapon of the Great War – it dominated the battlefields. Yet the history of artillery during the conflict has been neglected, and its impact on the …
The Women in Blue Helmets
The Women in Blue Helmets tells the story of the first all-female police unit deployed by India to the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in January 2007. Lesley J. Pruitt …
The Politics of Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era
Most literature on peacekeeping narrowly focuses on particular peacekeeping operations, and the political bargaining between peacekeeping participants. However, there is very …
Gendering Peace
In 1999, after 24-years of violent military occupation by Indonesian forces, the small country of Timor-Leste became host to one of the largest UN peace operations. The operation …
Fascism's European Empire
This 2006 book is a controversial reappraisal of the Italian occupation of the Mediterranean during the Second World War, which Davide Rodogno examines within the framework of …
Air War in the Falklands 1982
The war fought between the United Kingdom and Argentina in 1982, for the possession of the Falkland Islands was probably the last 'colonial' war that will ever be undertaken by the …
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War
Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications--particularly trenches and other semi-permanent earthworks--used by Confederate and Union field armies at all …
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade in the Peninsula, France and the Netherlands, from 1809 to 1815
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade is probably the best-known and most popular of the many memoirs written by the men who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War and Waterloo …