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From the moment that they arrived in North America the English settlers in both Virginia and New England came into conflict with the native tribes over the acquisition of land. With little attempt at peaceful resolution the English massacred, eliminated or displaced many of them.

The 1632 Battle of Lützen and its specific details are re-evaluated after recovering and organizing several thousand battle-related artifacts recovered during systematic four-year metal detector survey, re-considering all written or pictorial historical sources and by including a landscape reconstruction and tactical analysis based on 17th century

In this short book historian Hugh Driver examines the struggle to determine and stabilize the frontier of southern Africa's Cape Colony in the aftermath of the British occupation in 1806.

The story of Tony Hunter-Choat's service in the elite 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment of the Foreign Legion during the Algerian War. It draws on the unpublished memoir of this much decorated legionnaire: Commander of the Légion d'Honneur, Médaille Militaire and three awards of the Croix de la Valeur Militaire.

How did the newly re-constituted British 34th Division, with all of its infantry battalions fresh off the ships from Egypt and Palestine together with the 15th (Scottish) Division find themselves fighting in the French Xe Armée in the summer of 1918 under General Charles Mangin, a man known by his men as The Butcher of Verdun?

A study of the Indian Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front. Part of the Indian Corps, the Brigade went into action to support the BEF in holding back the German advance to the sea. The Indian sepoys fought with great loss in an unfamiliar theater.

Infantrymen of the Air is a complete account of the Royal Italian airborne forces during WW2: their origin, organization, training, and combat operations from 1936 to 1943. The battle accounts are supported by numerous maps and includes a section on the science of airborne operations.

'Passchendaele' has always been controversial. Responsibility for the failures of the first month has, since the publication of the Official History in 1948, has been concentrated on Hubert Gough, of Fifth Army, to the virtual exclusion of Haig. This book challenges that view and the account in the Official History.

In the dying days of World War Two, when the fate of nations was being decided by the triumvirate of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin, Hitler's Austrian homeland provided a scenic backdrop for the last stand of Army Group South.

This is the first book to be devoted to a series of forgotten battles in the spring of 1943 in the hills of northern Tunisia. The author brings to life the fascinating story of a successful British victory in April 1943 largely achieved by the 78th "Battle Axe" Division which has been all but forgotten by most historians.

The book addresses the important global role of the Indian Army during the First World War. It is an academic reassessment of the army by both established and early career scholars of the Indian Army, as well as naval historians.

Some 50,000 British Territorials served in India during the Great War. Astonishingly, it has taken a century for a book on them to be written. The Territorials - citizen soldiers, members of a force formed before the war for home defense - never expected to serve abroad, but volunteered for 'Imperial Service' at Lord Kitchener's request.

Wedged between the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele, the Battle of Arras has often been termed 'The Forgotten Battle' with little in the way of supporting literature.

This third volume closes the gap between the unit histories of volumes 1 and 2 and the technical descriptions in the Jentz and Spielberger books. For the first time, efforts are described in detail of what was taken to create units and what was required to keep the Tiger tank in action regarding handling and operating the vehicle.

Erupting in the aftermath of a military coup and the mass-killings of anti-coup protesters in October 1979, the civil war in El Salvador was fought between the military-led junta government and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front - an umbrella organization of predominantly left-wing groups.

For Now and Forever! deals with the two military coup d'état attempts in Venezuela of 1992, providing the background to both the socio-economic situation of the country and the state of affairs inside of the armed forces.

This book describes the conflict between Tito's Yugoslav Army and the Soviet and other satellite armies, that lasted between 1948 and 1954; the first major conflict within the communist bloc.

For decades Pakistan has orchestrated a campaign of state-sponsored terrorism in India and elsewhere abroad. It bombed trains in Mumbai in 2006, conducted a series of outrageous attacks on the city in 2008, and has launched dozens of minor attacks on the Indian security services in Kahsmir and elsewhere.

This volume presents the role of the Belgian Tactical Air Force, Congo, (FATAC) in the Congo, 1964-1967, and is an addition to the author's previous publications dealing with the Congo Crisis, 1960-1967.

'The Rise of Byzantium' expands the original @three Ages of Rome' ruleset beyond the collapse of Rome's Western Empire. It covers the Early Byzantine wars of Belisarius and Narses, and ends with the wars of Mauricius. The six new historical scenarios span three centuries of warfare in the eastern Mediterranean.

This book explores in detail the clothes, weapons and accoutrements of the Scots at war between 1460 and 1600.

From its humble beginnings in 1941, People's Liberation Movement rose to be a leading junior member of the anti-Hitler coalition four years later. Based on a wide spectre of sources written in half-a-dozen languages and from a dozen different archives, the "Sea of Blood" tells this fascinating story and offers an unrivalled insight into the inner w