Military History

ACM027 - “Big Week” 1944 Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe

A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day. The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed for...

ACM043 - Yom Kippur War 1973: Airpower in Israel's hardest-fought war

The story of the hardest-fought air war of the jet era, where highly trained Israeli air forces almost met their match against Egypt and Syria's high-tech MiGs and missiles. The Yom Kippur War, or...

ACM047 - Operation Barbarossa 1941: The Luftwaffe opens the Eastern Front campaign

Barbarossa was the biggest German invasion of World War II. Comprehensively illustrated, this study explores the air campaign that spearheaded it, and how it evolved during the rest of 1941. The...

ACM053 - France 1940: The first great clash of World War II airpower

A renowned airpower expert assesses the air campaign fought in France in 1940, explaining why the Luftwaffe was so effective against the French and British. The battle for France and Belgium was one...

ACM054 - Normandy 1944: The 'Transportation Plan' to cut D-Day communications

Packed with illustrations, this is the first book to focus on the 'Transportation Plan', the air campaign to isolate the D-Day beaches from German reinforcements. As the invasion of Europe grew...

ACM056 - New Guinea 1942–43: Halting the last Japanese advance

Lavishly illustrated, this book studies the role of airpower in the New Guinea battles of 1942–43, as the Allies checked and halted Japan's last significant offensives. Mark Stille and John Rogers...

Africa at War Book: Wings over Ogaden The Ethiopian–Somali War, 1978–1979

With Ethiopia in disarray following a period of severe internal unrest and the spread of insurgencies in Eritrea and Tigray, Ethiopia and its armed forces should have offered little opposition to...

Africa at War: Belgian Military Forces in the Congo: Volume 2: Congolese Tactical Air Force Co-Operation with the CIA 1964-67

Although Belgium officially withdrew its military forces from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in July 1960, unofficially the former colonial ruler of this central African country...

Africa at War: Biafra: The Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970

Nigeria was a unique concept in the formation of modern Africa. It began life as a highly lucrative if climatically challenging holding of the Royal Niger Company, a British Chartered Company under...

Africa at War: BookCongo Unravelled Military Operations from Independence to the Mercenary Revolt 1960-68

Post-independence events in the Republic of the Congo are a veritable Gordian knot. The ambitions of Congolese political leaders, Cold War rivalry, Pan- Africanism, Belgium's continued economic...

Africa at War: Bush War Rhodesia : 1966-1980

It has been over three decades since the Union Jack was lowered on the colony of Rhodesia, but the bitter and divisive civil war that preceded it has continued to endure as a textbook...

Africa at War: CIA and British Mercenaries in Angola, 1975-1976 : From Operation IA/FEATURE to Massacre at Maquela

The 1974 Carnation Revolution came as a blessing for independence movements in Portugal's African colonies: Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea. As had been the case in a number of sub-Saharan...

Africa at War: Ethiopian-Eritrean Wars: Volume 2 - Eritrean War of Independence, 1988-1991 & Badme War, 1998-2001

Ethiopia, a country of ancient origins in eastern Africa, remains a military powerhouse of that continent until our days. Nowadays involved in the war in neighboring Somalia, Ethiopia was also...

Africa at War: For God and the CIA : Cuban Exile Forces in the Congo and Beyond, 1959-1967

As United Nations armed forces found themselves struggling to quell a series of armed rebellions, towards the end of 1962 the United States increased its military role in the Congo Crisis by...

Africa at War: France in Centrafrique: From Bokassa and Operation Barracude to the Days of EUFOR

This military history of French Equatorial Africa examines the key players and operations from WWII to post-colonial conflicts. France in Centrafrique explores the history of French Equatorial Africa...

Africa at War: Great Lakes Conflagration: Second Congo War, 1998–2003

Great Lakes Conflagration' is the second in two volumes covering military operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the turn from the 21st century. This volume explores developments in...

Africa at War: Great Lakes Holocaust: First Congo War, 1996–1997

Great Lakes Holocaust' is the first in two volumes covering military operations in Zaire - as the Congo was named from 1971 until 1997 - and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the turn of the 21st...

Africa at War: Koevoet: Volume 1 - South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Operations During the South African Border War 1978-1984

Koevoet (Afrikaans for ‘Crowbar’) tells of the origination and deployment of the South West African Police’s elite counter-insurgency capability during the South African Border War of 1978–1989...

Africa at War: Libyan Air Wars - Part 2: 1985–1986

While the first volume in this mini-series spanned the first decade of confrontations between Libya and several of its neighbors, but foremost the USA and France, between 1973 and 1985, the second is...

Africa at War: Libyan Air Wars: Part 1: 1973-1985

Between 1973 and 1989, various Western powers and Libya were entangled in a seemingly never-ending exchange of blows. Supposedly launched in retaliation for one action or the other, this...

Africa at War: Mau Mau: The Kenyan Emergency 1952–60

“[An] informative and readable account of the growth of the politically motivated and extremely violent Mau Mau in Kenya.” —Military Historical Society  The Second World War forever altered the...

Africa at War: MINURSO - United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara: Peace Operation Stalled in the Desert, 1991-2021

In 1975 Spain relinquished control of its former colony of Spanish Sahara following a short conflict with the Polisario, the armed movement representing many of the native Sahrawi people. In the wake...

Africa at War: Peacekeeping in Darfur: the AMIS The mission of the African Union in Sudan, Darfur 2004-2007

Africa at War: Rhodesian Fire Force 1966-80

On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain. International sanctions were immediately instituted against the minority white regime...

Africa at War: Sanctuary Lost Portugal's Air War for Guinea 1961-1974 : Volume 1 - Outbreak and Escalation (1961-1966)

"This is an informative and motivating book covering another little known Cold War/African Colonial War campaign that is a welcome addition to modelers and historian bookshelves." — IPMS/USA From...

Africa at War: Sanctuary Lost: Portugal’s Air War for Guinea, 1961–1974: Volume 2 - Debacle to Deadlock, 1966–1972

From 1963 to 1974, Portugal and its nationalist enemies fought an increasingly intense war for the independence of Portuguese Guinea, then a colony but now the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. For most of...

Africa at War: Showdown in Western Sahara: Air Warfare Over the Last African Colony: Volume 1 - 1945-1975

The former colony of Spanish Sahara saw frequent outbursts of tribal and ethnic rebellions already while ruled by colonial authorities, in the late 19th and through early 20th Century. Its vastness...

Africa at War: South African Armoured Fighting Vehicles : A History of Innovation and Excellence, 1960-2020

During the Cold War, Africa became a prime location for proxy wars between the East and the West. Against the backdrop of a steep rise in liberation movements backed by Eastern Bloc communist...

Africa at War: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale: Cold War Angolan Finale, 1987–1988

In the broad history of the Cold War, the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was the climax of a far-off, but nonetheless important African war. It was waged between the apartheid South African Defence Force...

Africa at War: The Biafran Army 1967-70 : Build-Up and Downfall of the Secessionist Military

Synonymous with the starvation that killed almost two million people, Biafra was a parastate that voted to secede from Nigeria in May 1967. Formally recognized by Gabon, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and...

Africa at War: The Flechas: Insurgent Hunting in Eastern Angola, 1965–1974

In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly...

Africa at War: THE RIF WAR VOLUME 2 From Xauén to the Alhucemas Landing and Beyond 1922-1927

The Rif War in rugged northern Morocco is remembered for romantic films and novels about the French Foreign Legion, such as Beau Geste. In reality, the French intervention, although very important,...

Africa at War: War of Intervention in Angola : Volume 2 - Angolan and Cuban Forces, 1976-1983

As of mid-1976, the civil war in Angola was seemingly decided: supported by a large contingent of Cuban forces, the MPLA established itself in power in Luanda. Its native competitors, the...

Africa at War: War of Intervention in Angola : Volume 3 - Angolan and Cuban Air Forces, 1975-1989

War of Intervention in Angola, Volume 3 covers the air warfare during the II Angolan War – fought 1975-1992 – through narrating the emergence and operational history of the Angolan Air Force and Air...

Africa at War: WAR OF INTERVENTION IN ANGOLA VOLUME 5: Angolan and Cuban Air Forces 1987-1992

Through late 1987 and early 1988, the battlefields of southern Angola moved ever further away from the border with South West Africa/Namibia, until the showdown between the Soviet and Cuban-supported...

Africa at War: Wars and Insurgencies of Uganda 1971-1994

In 1971, Idi Amin Dada, a former officer of the King’s African Rifles and commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in a military coup in Uganda. Characterized by human rights abuses, political...

Asia at War: At the Forward Edge of Battle - A History of the Pakistan Armoured Corps 1938-2016: Volume 1

This is a well-researched and authoritative account by a military historian, Maj Gen Syed Ali Hamid. It embraces the evolution of the Pakistan Armoured Corps, including its culture, organization,...

Asia at War: At the Forward Edge of Battle - A History of the Pakistan Armoured Corps 1938-2016: Volume 2

At the Forward Edge of Battle is the first ever illustrated history of the Pakistan Armoured Corps. The Pakistan Armoured Corps is based on a unique blend of values and traditions inherited from its...

Asia at War: BORNEO STAND-OFF VOLUME 1 Seeds of the Confrontation and the Brunei Revolt of 1962

The aftermath of the Second World War saw many colonial empires in a state of upheaval. In South East Asia, what had been armed resistance against the Japanese invaders and occupiers was now often...

Asia at War: Eagles of Destiny: Volume 2 - Growth and Wars of the Pakistani Air Force 1956-1971

Eagles of Destiny Volume 2 is a detailed account of the transformation of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) with the help of the first US assistance program, and how its leadership utilised this...