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After every conflict, historians gather to describe the heroic exploits stemming from that action. For Victoria Cross winners, such histories are ordinarily detailed and numerous ...
From established historian James Holland, this is the top ten bestselling and second biggest history book of 2019.
'A devastating new account..Holland knows his ...
A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding
Command of the oceans ...
This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old-joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot ...
How can you off-balance your enemy? When is the best moment to deliver a counter-attack? What is the effect of shock action or defence in ...
'The Japanese attacked us, they mortared us, they shelled us...they did everything.' On 21 July 1942, a large Japanese reconnaissance mission landed along the ...
This book examines the capabilities and performance of the Italian army in the North African campaign and its significant contributions to the Axis effort there ...
The period covered in this book, is well known for its epic battles and grand campaigns of territorial conquest, but Hellenistic monarchies, Carthaginians and the ...
Having made its debut in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, anti-aircraft artillery was used extensively in the First World War. It was, however, not until ...
The German Panzerj ger, or Panzerj gertruppe, was one of the most innovative fighting arms of World War II and its story has never properly ...
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army ...
The North African campaign was one of the hardest fought episodes of the Second World War, yet the vital part played by the Italian Army ...
The Rolls-Royce Merlin is the most recognisable aero engine in the world. It powered the Battle of Britain aircraft, the Spitfire and Hurricane, as they ...
In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm 'Willi' Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a ...