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As Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this highly illustrated, wide-ranging history, for most of the Cold War the tank retained its pre-eminence on the battlefield. The ...
The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This ...
No one in history has provoked more controversy than Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he an enlightened ruler or brutal tyrant? Was he an insatiable warmonger or ...
When the Panzer VI Ausf. E Tiger I tank first arrived on the battlefield, it started the Allied and Soviet intelligence race to discover everything ...
"Ashamed? Not in the least: my superiors told me that the results of my work saved thousands of British and American lives. It involved situations ...
This ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-641. Each volume (5 are planned) gives a detailed account ...
An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future
"Forty short chapters . . . describe war from the ancient world ...
Only after the Nazis invaded Poland and France did the United States Government authorise mass production of tanks. By the end of the War American ...
The machine-gun is one of the iconic weapons of the Great War indeed of the twentieth century. Yet it is also one of the most ...
The Tiger I and Tiger II tanks are probably the most famous German armoured fighting vehicles of the Second World War and despite the relatively ...
Revered naval theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, thought the Battle of Quiberon Bay (20 Nov 1759) was as significant as Nelson's victory in 1805, calling ...
The first book to explore in detail how intelligence agencies the world over have used sex as a way to acquire sensitive information. The potent ...
During the first half of the twentieth century, the mountainous North West Frontier represented one of the British Empire's most strategically important borders. For ...
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Gaius Julius Caesar remains the most famous Roman general of all time. Although he never bore the title, historians since Suetonius have judged him to ...