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The Battle of the White Mountain and the Bohemian Revolt, 1618-1622 not only looks at the battle, but also the armies and campaigns leading up to the battle.

This is the story of Sweden¿s Army during the wars 1700-1721 against a number of enemies, foremost Russia, until the collapse of the Swedish Empire.

This is the first account in English of a much-overlooked, but important, First World War battlefront located in the Italian Alps. The author's account includes the main operations and battle tactics of the special assault detachments such as the Italian Arditi units and the Austro-Hungarian storm troopers.

Lavishly illustrated by Franco Saudelli, the volume shows the elegance of the Saxon Army, misjudged by Friedrich II of Prussia as "weak".

Using a combination of new perspectives and new evidence, this book presents a reinterpretation of how 21st Army Group produced a successful combined arms doctrine by late 1944 and implemented this in early 1945.

When Helmuth von Moltke took over as Chief of the Prussian General Staff, the Prussian army had not fought for more than forty years. Yet within a decade and a half he had brought it to the point where it was the strongest in Europe.

In March 1945 the German Wehrmacht undertook its final attempt to change the course of the war by launching a counteroffensive in the area of Lake Balaton, Hungary.

Relying on extensive studies of the Sri Lankan War with the help of first-hand sources, official documentation and publications from all of involved parties, this volume provides an in-depth and particularly detailed account of military operations during the first 16 years of this war.

A detailed account of the Ethiopian-Eritrean War of Independence 1961-1991.

The journal of Paymaster John Harley is an exposé of life in both the British army and civilian life in Georgian times; full of intrigue, scandal and the strange.

Jacob Lord Astley and the Stow on gthe Wold Campaign, 1646, a nd the end of the Civil War in the Welsh Marches.

Panzers in Defence of Poznan 1945 by Maciej Karalus and Jaroslaw Jerzak is the first book published in English to describe the bitter battle for Festung Poznań in 1945.

An account of the naval campaign of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the subsequent public controversy and Court of Inquiry.

Covers the Scottish & Welsh Wars of Edward I & II up the Battle of Bannockburn.

The 1779 American Revolutionary War campaign leading up to the American assault and capture of Stony Point, New York, led by General Anthony Wayne.

This is an oral history of the 50th Northumbrian Division from 1939 to September 1942. The years of defeat.

At a time when many books about the Great War of 1914-1918 are largely reiterations of earlier strictly chronological accounts, wherein not much is new except perhaps the author's style, it is refreshing, even exciting, when a book offering new vistas comes along. Such a book is this one.

Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death. Biafra's war was modern Africa's first extended conflict.

A detailed account, based heavily on Vietnamese sources, of the continuing efforts of North Vietnam to invade the South.

Detailed account of Hungarian air aces during the Second World War drawn from much unpublished material.

Glenshiel: The Jacobite Rising in 1719 reconstructs this least well known of the Jacobite rebellions, including the decisive battle fought in the mountainous Scottish Highlands.

A comprehensive visitor's guide to the First World War battlefields around Arras, south of the Scarpe, with descriptions of the battles, detailed maps and photographs.

In the first of a potential new series Florian Richter presents colour profile models of every ship on both sides in this epic battle. In a change to previous paper soldier titles, these ships can be cut straight out of the book to create the British, French and Spanish fleets.

Black Hawks Rising acknowledges the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peacemaking mission. Many gave the mission little chance of success. As a fighting force, however, AMISOM took on the Somali insurgents in