This unique ship is the last of over 800 tank-carrying landing craft to have served at D-Day, the amphibious Allied assault on…
From the beginning, Okinawa challenged expectations. The landing was supposed to be the bloodiest of the war so far. The 182,000 troops…
Thirty years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews have resulted in this fast-paced book seeing the light of day –…
Just as there was no single Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War, there was no single Royalist Army either. But while…
The idea ‘took off’ in the aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuation, when a German invasion seemed imminent and there was a critical…
During a training session in the English Channel in May 1878, SMS Grosser Kurfürst was accidentally rammed by another German warship, SMS…
USS Nevada (BB-36) was found as the result of a joint project between SEARCH, Inc., an American archaeology firm, and marine robotics…
In 1759, Britain faced an invasion threat from France, but two remarkable victories – the Battle of Lagos and later the Battle…
It was a futuristic-looking aircraft, which Lockheed publicised as ‘a missile with a man in it’.…
Sinclair McKay’s well-researched, detailed, and all-embracing book is the first major study of the bombing of Dresden to be published for 15…