Military

A comprehensive directory of fast-firing weapons from around the world, organized according to country of manufacture. Features key...

A riveting story about one of history's most enigmatic warriors. WARRIOR. SAMURAI. LEGEND. The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and...

 A thrilling and highly newsworthy military adventure in the burning rubble of Islamic State. 'If there are young...

The incredible story of the radar wars - Britain's most secret battle In the winter of 1941 an...

Special forces training is no walk in the park. The rules are strict and they make sure you...

The size of western armed forces, their stocks of weaponry and their readiness for combat are declining. Meanwhile,...

In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the Second World...

Ian Mansfield was serving in the Australian Army when he was selected to command a team of Australian...

 The Prisoner in His Palace is an evocative and thought-provoking account of how the lives of twelve young...

The story of young German Jews who escaped the Nazis, most often without their families, only to return...

Unique among World War I campaigns, the fighting at Gallipoli brought together a modern amphibious assault and multi-national...

One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII  When hostilities erupted in December 1941, Pappy Gunn...

At the end of World War II, it was assumed that the letters of Heinrich Himmler were lost....

 The true wartime story of William Ash - the inspiration for Steve McQueen's character in The Great Escape....

The extraordinary inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the years after 9/11.Following the attacks...

Thrilling examination of some of the actions the SAS has been involved in up to and including its...

Snipers at War is a detailed history and analysis of the equipment, tactics and personalities of the ‘sniping...

A unique and heartbreaking memoir of a child's imprisonment in a Japanese POW camp during World War II....

Interweaving the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who liberated Jerusalem, the acclaimed international journalist traces the...

One of the shortest lived and most battle hardened of the 1st Australian Imperial Force's battalions, the 47th...

Looking Forward, Looking Back explores the Australian Army's rich and proud history. The Australian Army boasts a broad...

In The Seventy Great Battles of All Time, an international team of military historians reconstructs and analyses the...

Since 1914 the art and increasingly science of warfare has become ever deadlier. Tanks have become more mobile...

In May 2013, freelance photographer Daniel Rye was captured in Syria and held prisoner by Islamic State for...

Between January and August of 1945, the Allies staged their last great military victories, participated in the Potsdam...

In 1991 Coalition forces liberated Kuwait after its brief occupation by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. In 2011, US Navy...

 D-Day and the subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a million men and helped seal the fate of...

Since the end of the 19th century, the Ritz Hotel in Paris has been an international symbol of...

In the early hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German...

The Sniper Encyclopaedia is an indispensable topic-by-topic guide to a fascinating subject. This beautifully illustrated, comprehensive volume covers...

Kim Hughes is the most highly decorated bomb disposal operator serving in the British Army. He was awarded...

MALARIA is not only the greatest killer of humankind, the disease has been the relentless scourge of armies...

From his cage in a putrid, overcrowded Indian gaol, Paul Jordan reflects on a life lived on the...

Jim Bodero spent much of World War Two in several versions of hell. Taken prisoner when Singapore fell...

1941: Great Britain is fighting for its very existence. France has surrendered and installed Marshal Pétain, an ageing...

When the terror of Gallipoli was freshWhen the terror of Gallipoli was fresh in peoples minds, the great...

In The Spirit of Gallipoli Patrick Lindsay explores the source of the Anzac legend as he continues his...

"The sky was lit by burning villages and houses . . . Rivers and seas of flame leaping...

After escaping a P.O.W camp with six others, Australian Lance Corporal Ralph Churches went back for his mates,...

On 21 September 1918, with retreating German forces on their last legs, the 1st Battalion of the AIF...

High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, the menacing Vincigliata Castle - a very special prisoner-of-war camp converted...

The century that has elapsed since the 1915 Dardanelles campaign has done little to quell the debate that...

Justice in Arms brings to life a fascinating and important element of Australia’s legal history — the role...

Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has...

Stalin's life is one of the most extraordinary of the modern era and Stephen Kotkin's new biography is...

Submarines offers a highly illustrated guide to all the main classes of submarines to be used in naval...

The best-selling Australians at Home were the first books to study the Australian home front, during World War...

The Australian artists who painted World War I approached their subject personally, in ways that reflected their experience...