Historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was ...

Uriel Bachrach was born in Germany in 1926 and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. In 1945 he began studying chemistry at The Hebrew University in Jer...

This book chronicles exploits of the 3rd Bomb Squadron of Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault's experimental Chinese-American Composite Wing, in which young...

Ever since I left the land that was my home, wherever I have traveled and lived, I have been asked the same question: How could a Hitler happen, in...

Drawing on a rich, interdisciplinary collection of U.S. and Mexican sources, this volume explores the conflict that redrew the boundaries of the No...

"Outstanding . . . the best short history I have read of America's role in World War II . Stoler and Michelmore draw on a judicious selection of hi...

"Outstanding . . . the best short history I have read of America's role in World War II . Stoler and Michelmore draw on a judicious selection of hi...

A 40-page hardcover book in handy 7 x 6" format that tells the adventurous true story of how the remains of the Unknown Soldier were retrieved from...

It began with the Battle of Çanakkale. It was hand-to-hand killing, the physical closeness of its soldiers unmasking the depersonalisation of the p...

Germany's Tiger tank, whether in the form of the Tiger I or later Tiger II (King Tiger), was the most feared tank of WWII. Despite production total...

A century after the beginning of the Great War, the contributions of the Maritimes to the formation of the Canadian Expeditionary force remain rela...

I can’t visualise us getting out of this, but I want to TRY to believe in a future, wrote 23-year-old Barbara Anslow (then Redwood) in her diary on...

Emily Hobhouse, 1860-1926, was one of the first great women of the twentieth century. She was a feminist, a pacifist and an internationalist, and a...

This is a study of some of the rank-and-file men, the foot soldiers, who carried out the "Final Solution." The Trawniki concentration camp in Polan...

Long before Civil Rights, the Tuskegee Airmen fought for equality. First they integrated the Armed Forces, then a whole nation and did it with comp...

The President and Congress have historically played different roles when sending U.S. troops into hostile situations. The President has the power u...

This book examines American counterinsurgency practices and tactics. At its heart, a counterinsurgency is an armed struggle for the support of the ...

This highly detailed reference book is for both novice and experienced collectors, and is focused on the World War II U.S.-made, fully machine-embr...

At 31 years old, Major Cyrus Inches resolved to survive the Great War, and did so without losing his sense of humour, in spite of the tragedies he ...

Lieutenant Colonel (Reserves) Yoni Chetboun relates a mosaic of moments from his service as a commander during one of the most complex periods in t...

Military historian Andris Kursietis' new book Under Three Flags is his latest work covering the 20th Century. The book provides an analysis of the ...

This new, extensively researched volume is a comprehensive guide to the history, development, wear, and use of uniforms and equipment during Americ...

This new book takes a close look at a variety of authentic World War II era German uniforms including examples from the Army, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmari...

This three-volume set is unquestionably the best reference on German SS military uniforms ever produced. This spectacular work is a heavily documen...

This three-volume set is unquestionably the best reference on German SS military uniforms ever produced. This spectacular work is a heavily documen...

This three-volume set is unquestionably the best reference on German SS military uniforms ever produced. This spectacular work is a heavily documen...

The Kommandostab Reichsfuhrer-SS, the Hohere SS and the Polizeifuhrer in occupied Russia, the infamous Einsatzgruppen in cooperation with Sicherung...

No less than Dwight Eisenhower described Andrew Jackson Higgins as "the man who won the war for us," referring to the landing craft he perfected. T...

Due to the specific nature of the Marine Corps' mission, the Marines has a acute need for amphibious vehicles. From the Vietnam War through today, ...

Though it barely missed being caught and destroyed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy's USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier took p...

USS Hornet (CV-8), made famous through its launching of the 16 US Army B-25 Mitchell bombers flown by Jimmy Doolittle's raiders in the first US str...

The USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship in the United States Navy's last, and most battle-worthy, battleship class, which also included the New Jers...

The story of the USS Missouri, one of America's most famous warships of the twentieth century, and the world's last battleship, is told from her in...