War & Defence Operations

Malta, then one of the easternmost bastions of Christendom, was attacked in 1565 by the Sultan of Turkey with 200 ships and 40,000 men. This book i...

The Sunday Times bestseller One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hasting...

'A devastating new account..Holland knows his stuff when it comes to military matters' Daily Mail, Book of the Week'A superb account of the invasio...

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why was the Battle of the Nile so decisive in the French Revolutionary Wars?- Why did the French believ...

ENTER THE BATTLEFIELDS OF ANCIENT GREECE WITH THE EPIC BESTSELLER FROM MASTER STORYTELLER CONN IGGULDEN'Pacy and propulsive . . . Crackling with en...

The Sunday Times bestseller One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hasting...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES SAS: ROGUE HEROES, STARRING CONNOR SWINDELLS, JACK O'CONNELL, ALFIE ALLEN ...

Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.War pressed against every fronti...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013 'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph 'Dazzling' Sun...

The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement by Soviet forces shortly afterwa...

'Masterful research, impeccable detail, with a beautifully flowing narrative of which Churchill himself would have been proud.' - Professor Peter C...

Operation Goodwood, the largest tank battle involving British troops ever to have taken place, has been a perpetual subject of controversy. Was it ...

The Financial Times Best books of 2022: Politics 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right bo...

The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the challeng...

A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduc...

World War II from Above offers a never-before-seen combination of annotated satellite images and expertly drawn battle maps. It aims to satisfy bot...

This is a fighter pilots memoir of four tumultuous years, 19381942, when he was first trained, then fought and survived in not one but two of the b...

When Hitler ordered the north of Nazi-occupied Norway to be destroyed in a scorched earth retreat in 1944, everything of potential use to the Sovie...

The Peninsular War is one of the defining campaigns of the British Army and sealed its reputation for supreme professionalism, heroic obstinacy and...

Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Missi...

In the Second World War, Malta was subjected to continual air attacks during a siege lasting nearly two and a half years.This is part of that story...

'The bomber,' said Stanley Baldwin in 1932, 'will always get through'. AA Command is the story of one attempt to prove a politician wrong. Drawing ...