War & Civil War

Synopsis Subtitled : The Forgotten Blitz 1914-1915. At the outbreak of the First World War, the United Kingdom had no aerial defence capability w...

Synopsis From eyewitness accounts of the first post-war operations in Malaya in the 1950's to a controversial blueprint for the organisation's fu...

Synopsis In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. Th...

Synopsis Subtitled : Killing Time & Fighting Wars. Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a rev...

Synopsis Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume featuring historical maps and photographs from their...

Synopsis Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2019. Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2019. Subtitled : The true story of the resistance hero w...

Synopsis This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history. Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 re...

Synopsis The extraordinary account of one of the most daring World War II missions, as told in the movie Anthropoid. If anyone warranted assassin...

Synopsis Authors : Kelly Devries, Martin J. Docherty, Iain Dickie, Phyllis G. Jestice & Christopher Jorgensen. Subtitled : From Hastings to C...

Synopsis Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese main...

Synopsis Authors : Theo Boiten & Martin Bowman. Subtitled : The Bomber Campaign Against Germany 1942-45. Battles with the Luftwaffe is a compre...

Synopsis The British designed and built the Harrier, the most successful vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft ever made. Combining state-of-the-a...

Synopsis Subtitled : Great Commanders of The Ancient & Medieval World. Which was the most brilliant of Hannibal's three crushing defeats of Rom...

Synopsis The year 1588 marked a turning point in England's national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed England into a seafaring nat...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Art of Victory in The Age of Sail. This book is a brilliant study of those naval battles of Horatio Nelson which played su...

Synopsis On September 11, 1944, four American soldiers from the Fifth Armoured Division crossed the River Our and entered Hitler's Third Reich - th...

Synopsis Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history. This Victorian country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was was where ...

Synopsis Celebrating the lives of the magnificent women, the ATA girls, who courageously flew Spitfires, Tiger Moths, Lancaster Bombers and many o...

Synopsis Full Title : The Somme - The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs. The offensive on the Somme took place between July a...

Synopsis Subtitled : "As Commemorated In The Sandhurst Companies." A team of military historians (under the guidance of David Chandler, head of the...

Synopsis In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lif...

Synopsis Subtitled : US Marine Corps - Heroes of The Pacific War (Auth. Ron Field) Military Illustrated has emerged as one of the world's premier m...

Synopsis Costa Book of The Year 2018. A Sunday Times Paperback of The Year 2019. The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland dur...

Synopsis Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to ‘Joe-1’, the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949. A...