Thirty years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews have resulted in this fast-paced book seeing the light of day –…
The Grande Armée was something new. ‘We used to have the Army of Italy, of the Rhine, of Holland,’ explained Napoleon himself.…
- Churchill’s darkest hour: the military disasters of 1942
- Renaissance warfare: a military revolution
- Waterloo uncovered: veterans, archaeology, and the battlefield
- The…
We chart the career of Alexander from Macedonia to the Indus, and analyse the Battle of Gaugamela, his greatest victory.…
Holland has written a series of nine excellent campaign histories over the last few years, looking at fighting World War II in…
In 1759, Britain faced an invasion threat from France, but two remarkable victories – the Battle of Lagos and later the Battle…
Temporary 2nd Lieutenant Donald Bell, relying on adrenaline and instinct, led two men from his company through the mud of no-man’s land,…
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…
With his description of the events at Portsmouth, Atkinson once again justifies a New York Times review of a previous volume which…
The world’s largest ever airborne operation was launched during September 1944, with less than a week of planning. This was one of…