A fast-paced and absorbing read of the final months of the crucial Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign during the Pacific War by esteemed World War II historian Jeffrey Cox.
The remarkable story of an overlooked map archive that reveals how maps have helped inspire some of the greatest scientific discoveries, but also led to terrible atrocities.
Drawing on unpublished first-hand accounts, this is a gripping history of the experiences of the Commandos and their unsung allies in one of the bloodiest battles of the Burma Campaign.
Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, thisis a fascinating exploration of how and why the Revolutionary War descended into a brutal existential struggle.
The extraordinary story of the family who built a garden, fought the Taliban and were forced to flee for their lives during Britain and America's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The remarkable story of the seven African-American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their recognition.
The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can: running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern Wind is the anticipated next volume in Kynaston’s landmark ‘Tales of a New Jerusalem’ series
A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics.
The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east
A powerful investigation into the plight of the remaining Christians in the Middle East by the multi-award-winning journalist described as 'one of our generation's finest foreign correspondents' (Daily Telegraph)
The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances.
A ground-breaking history of the siege of Leningrad, masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material.
This is the inside story of an Army Ranger, surrounded and outnumbered, fighting a desperate action on the ground during the Black Hawk Down raid in Somalia in 1993.
Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced afast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War.
A timely and controversial examination of thirty years of diplomatic misunderstandings, roads not taken and mutual suspicion that resulted in the terrible tragedy of Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine.
A dramatic history of the Steel Lobsters, Sir Arthur Hesilrige’s Regiment of Horse, in the English Civil War – the last fully armoured knights in England.
