This is an updated guide to the military sites around Britain and Ireland where the great events of history took place. It includes sites from the distant prehistoric past, through two World Wars
A selection of material from the US Army Military History Institute at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The archive contains some 7,000 returned questionnaires that were sent out in the 1970s and 1980s, along
An immensely readable and visually striking account of the pivotal final stages of World War I, when two very different concepts went head to head on the battlefield. Illustrated throughout, this book
Diaries, trench maps, and previously unpublished photographs transport the reader, in this story of?how on the battlefields of the Somme the nature of warfare changed forever?One of the largest battle
The struggle between Germany and the Allies along the Western Front is for many the most familiar element of World War I. However, many less well-known theaters of conflict, key to the overall progres
Ranging from the Peloponnesian war, to Trafalgar and Gettysburg, to the War in Iraq, this exciting book tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history. Thi
Osprey's study of the pivotal battle of the English Civil War (1642-1651). In 1645 the fate of the British monarchy hung in the balance as the Royalist Army under King Charles I fought the Parliamenta
