The 1st Infantry Division was established in 1917 to participate in the fighting in France and faced the major German offensives of 1918. During the Second World War, it effected its first assault landing in North Africa in 1942. Then followed the in...

This new book is designed as a guide to the flight clothing and equipment issued to American airmen in Europe, August 1942 (the first bombing mission over France) to May 1945. Hundreds of period photographs and hundreds of detailed pictures of surviv...

May 1745. After a brief start to the campaign, the French Army under the Marechal de Saxe laid siege to Tournai in Flanders. The Anglo-Dutch army came to the aid of the besieged town and fought on unfavorable terrain with, as a result, one of the g...