Gettysburg. Does any other single word in any language invoke so much passion and angst, enthusiasm and sadness, as do those ten letters? But what IS Gettysburg, exactly? I am almost embarrassed to say I discovered the answer to that question – or at...

Since September 1962, hardly a week passed without a major armed confrontation or an outright war in Yemen. The number of long-lasting insurgencies, mutinies, rebellions, or terrorism-related activities that took place during this period is going int...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Middle Eastern instability is manifest externally in many ways: by crises afflicting governing regimes, the rise of political Islam, terrorism, revolution, civil war, increased migration,...

"Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness" offers four valuable but little-studied events of the Civil War. Each story explores the hardships of battle, and demonstrations of courage and...

The forty-second volume of the collected writings and correspondences of the American statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. In the spring of 1784, Franklin, John Jay, and British negotiator David Hartley exchanged ratificatio...

The gallant stand of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne has long become part of historical and media legend. But how many students of the war realize there was already a U.S. unit holding the town when they arrived? And this unit – the 10th Armo...

Eighty years after its creation, the Luftwaffe is still one of the most fascinating forces in the history of aviation. A companion to Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1, which covered the victory years from 1939 up to Spring 1942, this volume with nearly 4...

The distinctive black and yellow chequered markings of the 353rd Fighter Group, the "Slybirds", made them one of the USAAF 'Mighty' 8th Air Force's most colourful fighter groups. Flying P-47D Thunderbolts and later P-51D Mustangs the 353rd's appearan...

For sale in CIS only! In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, "repression squads" of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on the defenceles...

For sale in CIS only! This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the genesis of civilisation in the fo...