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Just three months after Napoleon had expelled the British from Spain in January 1809, a second expeditionary force, under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, set sail for Lisbon to re-establish a British presence on the Iberian Peninsula.

In December 1899 the British Army suffered a series of defeats in the course of a few days which became known as Black Week. Although heavily outnumbering the burgher armies of the Boer Republics, the British were unable to adapt to the local conditions or to the requirements of modern warfare.

The War of the Bavarian Succession (1778-1779) was the last confrontation between the Prussia of Frederick the Great and the Austrians, in which the Prussian king was unable to force his enemies to battle. This is the first modern study of this conflict.

An account of Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau's victory over a Saxon army and its Austrian allies, which brought an end to the Second Silesian War.

The book provides a vastly illustrated in-depth history of the development of the (later) so-called 'battleship' in the Prussian and subsequent Imperial German Navy, from its early beginnings to the last projects, like it never had been told in this depth in a single book before.

A fresh study of the tumultuous events of summer 1870 when Moltke's German armies destroyed Napoleon's Imperial army, laying the foundations for a military and political hegemony lasting into the 20th Century.

A modern study of the role and performance of the Spanish Navy during the Spanish American War of 1898.

This volume presents the most intense military conflict of 1848-1849, the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence. From June 1848 to October 1849, Hungary, which had gained autonomous government within the Austrian Empire, fought an armed struggle to preserve it, first against the imperial and finally against the Russian army.

The Heroes We Needed is an epic saga about the courageous American airmen who brought the Japanese Empire to its knees and ended World War II with the greatest bombers the world had ever seen, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, and one man's fight 70 years later to save their stories from being forgotten.

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 1643 two powerful armies clashed: the French and the Spanish fought on the plain of Rocroi. It was not the first time. But this battle has gone down in History as the symbol of a change in European military hegemony: the Spanish Tercios were defeated by the French Regiments. But was that battle so decisive?

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.

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.

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.