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The Roman conquests of Macedonia in the 2nd century BC led directly to the extension of their authority over the troublesome tribes of Thrace to th...

DescriptionWhen A Passionate Prodigality was first published in 1933 it was hailed as one of the finest English works to have come out of the First...

DescriptionPoland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about e...

In the late 4th century, pressure from the Huns forced the Goths to cross the Danube into the Roman Empire. The resultant Battle of Adrianople in 3...

Created in 1945 when Korea was partitioned, North Korea or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea remains the world's most secretive nation. Eve...

Mick and Margery Jennings's comfortable life in Singapore ended with the Japanese invasion in late 1941. Margery was captured in Sumatra after HMV ...

DescriptionHans Sch ufler fought as the commander of a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945...

James Henry Banton was born in Burton on Trent in 1920. He worked as a driver of a steam locomotive used to used to transport beer and supplies to ...

How can we attempt to understand the experience of those involved in ancient battles, sieges and campaigns? What was the visual impact of seeing th...

A detailed analysis of the organization, uniforms and weapons of the French Imperial Guard created by Napoleon I. The author describes how this lar...

"An army may march on its stomach but it leans on its funny bone." So says Brigadier Charles Ritchie, and he should know. Postings to the Yemen, No...

Andrew Field, who has published four best-selling books on the Battle of Waterloo, has established himself as one of the leading experts on the Fre...

Bohemond of Taranto, Lord of Antioch, unofficial leader of the First Crusade, was a man of boundless ambition and inexhaustible energy - he was, in...

'Napoo', 'compray', 'san fairy ann', 'toot sweet' are anglicized French phrases that came into use on the Western Front during the First World War ...

Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for noncommissioned officers located in Nazi occupied Torun, in northern Poland. The camp consist...

DescriptionThis book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. ...

The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet str...

The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American op...

Steel Inferno provides a unique insight into the experiences of 1st SS Panzer Corps, one of only two units in the German Army which bore Hitler's n...

A realistic, in-depth review of the methods used to treat the casualties of violence in the Middle Ages.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): ...

Naval warfare is the unsung hero of ancient Greek military history, often overshadowed by the more glorified land battles. Owen Rees looks to redre...

General Douglas A MacArthur, Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area, saw the liberation of the Philippines Archipelago as the launching board for ...

Narrative of Rome's wars during a tumultuous period of civil war and mounting external threats. Discusses development of the Roman army and the arm...

Contributor(s): Author: M. P. RobinsonOther: Peter LauOther: Guy GibeauThe AMX 13 was originally designed in the immediate aftermath of the Second ...

DescriptionThe Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now it has been recorded ...

There can be few technologies in the history of the modern world that have progressed so rapidly, and have seen so much change in such a short time...

A visual record of all the armies involved in the Battle for Burma during the Second World War from the British, American, Chinese, Indian, Burmese...

DescriptionAlready the best-selling English-language guide to the area, universally known as THE BIBLE, this is the 75th anniversary, completely re...

The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of Dictator Saddam Hu...

Comprehensive account of US military helicopters in war and peace up the present day.

DescriptionField Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) was one of the foremost German commanders of the Second World War. After service on both th...

DescriptionThe story of the Battle of Waterloo - of the ultimate defeat of Napoleon and the French, the triumph of Wellington, Bl cher and their al...

Eighth Army was formed in Egypt in September 1941. A year later, under Montgomery, it defeated Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika at El Alamein which led ...

The Sdkfz 251 halftrack was one of the most versatile armored vehicles produced by either side in the Second World War. Designed by the firm of Han...

DescriptionCharles Esdaile's new guide to the Battle of Waterloo presents the experience of the soldiers who took part in the battle in the most gr...

In September 1944, to prevent Japanese air interdiction against General MacArthur's planned invasion of the Southern Philippines, the Americans att...

A richly illustrated guide to modeling the nimble M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, a Cold War veteran of the jungle and desert, filled with previous...

The Bradley Fighting Vehicle was developed in the 1970s to counter the new Infantry Fighting Vehicles of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allie...

By 1944 the German army was on the defensive on all fronts and Allied bombing was putting increasing pressure on the nation's industrial output. Si...

With production in excess of 55, 000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of ...

DescriptionThrough historic photos, this volume traces the development, production and deployment of this iconic piece of military equipment from t...

DescriptionThe American campaign to capture Okinawa, codename Operation ICEBERG was fought from 1 April to 22 June 1945. 350 miles from Japan, Okin...

Auschwitz and Birkenau were separated from each other by about a 45-minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evol...

For much of the Cold War, the British Army's main battle tanks (MBT) were first the Centurion and then the Chieftain. The question of the latter's ...

Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of Eighth Army reinforcements from t...

Major General Julian Thompson first wrote No Picnic when the momentous events of April - June 1982 were fresh in his mind. As Commander of 3 Comman...

This edition includes an excellent bibliographical essay which surveys the latest works on Frederician Prussia and eighteenth-century warfare. Clas...

DescriptionAny miniature wargame is greatly enhanced by realistic and evocative scenery and buildings, but commercial ready-made pieces can be expe...

DescriptionMore than 350 bombs fell on Wimbledon during the Second World War, killing 150 residents and injuring a further 1, 071. Around 12, 000 h...

Few soldiers are deemed good enough to be selected and trained as snipers and even fewer qualify. As a result, snipers are regarded as the elite of...

DescriptionIn this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and the campaign that preceded it, Ian Cast...

Hitler's shock decision to launch the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 was arguably the turning point of the Second World War. Spe...

DescriptionThe fifty-ton British Centurion tank, developed during the darkest days of the Second World War, was designed to outgun and outperform t...

DescriptionDuring the Cold War, the T-54/55 series of tanks represented the most serious threat to Nato land forces in Europe. Available in huge qu...

The Panzer I and II played a significant part in the blitzkrieg campaigns that brought Germany such extraordinary success in the early years of the...

DescriptionAndy Singleton has been modelling and painting most of his life and has been a professional commission figure painter for some years now...

DescriptionWhen at Hitler's insistence the first Tiger I tanks went into action in Tunisia in December 1942 they rapidly gained a formidable fighti...

DescriptionHobart's reputation as an armored warfare specialist began in the pre-war era. In 1923 he transferred from the Royal Engineers to the Ro...

DescriptionFollowing his first book in the TankCraft series on the British army's Shermans during the battle for Normandy, Dennis Oliver has compil...

DescriptionDrawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the 5th SS Division Wiking 1941 - 1945 is the 5th book in the Waffen-...

A new and overdue definitive study of the British involvement in the (largely ignored) Salonika Campaign from the military angle.

DescriptionCold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the op...

DescriptionThe Second World War Jeep was one of the most famous and influential military vehicles of all time, and over 600, 000 were produced. It ...

DescriptionAmong the most successful armored vehicles produced by American industry - known as the Arsenal of Democracy - during the Second World W...

Contributor(s): Author: Gerry Van TonderWhen the world held its breath ... It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75...

Designed as a heavily armored tank which could accompany infantry formations, the Churchill's ability to cross rough ground and climb seemingly una...

DescriptionThe Wehrmacht used reconnaissance and support vehicles widely in the Second World War and this book sets out to show the full range of b...

DescriptionThe British Chieftain - designed in the late 1950s as the replacement for the Centurion - was perhaps the best main battle tank in servi...

Historian and collector Michael Green shows in this fascinating and graphically illustrated book that the two wars that engulfed Indochina and Nort...

DescriptionThe Deutsche Afrika Korps (best known as simply Afrika Korps) built up a well-deserved reputation as a superb fighting machine. While th...