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Despite what has been written in many books and magazine articles, the Ulster Division was not formed overnight by an en bloc enlistment from the Ulster Volunteer Force and Young Citizen Volunteers, nor were the YCV the youth wing of the UVF, as some believe.

While most famous for its U-2 penetration flights over the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated a large number of 'other' types of intelligence-gathering aircraft, or specially modified aircraft for operations beyond the Iron Curtain from the mid-1940s.

Volume 2 covers the epic Battle of the Somme and takes the reader through the story of 1 July 1916 as seen from the German defenders.

The various attempts at Home Rule for Ireland ultimately culminated in the Third Home Rule Bill which directly contributed to the creation of the Ulster Volunteer Force.

This book presents the Japanese navy offensive in the Indian Ocean area in March-April 1942. Its main goal was to destroy the Royal Navy in the Far East and achieve domination on the Eastern flank of the Pacific War on the eve of the battle of Midway.

The Borneo Confrontation (known as Konfrontasi in Indonesia) was a violent conflict lasting from 1963 until 1966, that stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of the Federation of Malaysia and the British crown colonies of North Borneo and Sarawak.

The Wild Geese, Irish soldiers exiled in France at the end of the seventeenth century, gained fame fighting for France on the battlefields of Europe, India and America in the eighteenth century.

This book details the evolution of India's nuclear journey, from the 1960s to the present day, the historical events leading to the 1974 nuclear test, the reluctant nuclearization that occurred thereafter and the first phases of an operational nuclear deterrent in the late 1980s.

The first book the compare and contrast the tactics, organisation and equipment of land warfare on the Central Front in the 1980s.

The story of the Pre-Civil War Stuart Trained Bands that numbered 100,000 men so often overlooked.

The insubordination of two Austria Corps Commanders at the battle of Königgrätz played a huge part in this, the Empire's greatest defeat. Their decision to engage in an epic struggle for control of the Swiepwald forest left 12,000 men dead or wounded, and the Austrian right flank wide open to the Crown Prince of Prussia's advancing Second Army.

The period 1792-1815 was a pivotal moment in world history, but many accounts lack detail about Ottoman military developments. The book examines changes and development of the Ottoman army from the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt until the Serbian uprisings in 1804-13 and 1815.

This book details the campaigns of Louis-Gabriel Suchet in the Peninsular War. The only one of Napoleon's marshals to earn his baton in Spain, Suchet conquered Aragon, Lower Catalonia, and Valencia in a string of brilliant sieges and battles against both Spanish regular and guerrilla forces.

General Levin von Bennigsen's memoirs offer unique insights into the epic confrontation between the French and Russians in Poland during the winter of 1806-1807, including the terrible carnage at Eylau and the disastrous battle at Friedland that paved the way for Napoleon's supremacy in Europe.

Fit to Command brings the battalion and regimental commanders of the British army in the period 1793-1815 into sharp focus and enables the reader to see their progression - how field officers of Wellington's victorious Peninsula army were dramatically better equipped for their roles than their earlier counterparts in Flanders in 1793.

For most of the war, until the fall of Lord North's ministry in 1782, Lord Sandwich managed the navy as First Lord of the Admiralty. The demands on the resources of the Royal Navy, at home and abroad, meant that he faced an unending struggle to balance its priorities.

A prequel to The Last Ironsides describing how the troops that later went to Portugal and Tangier came to be at Dunkirk at the time of the Restoration of Charles II. The rediscovery of an episode of British military history that has been forgotten; no other modern books describe this conflict.

This book describes the organization, arms, armor, dress, and daily life of samurai, soldiers, and commoners in Edo-period Japan.

The book describes the two devastating wars fought between Sweden and Denmark-Norway during the reign of Swedish King Charles X Gustavus, presenting new research on two wars previously seldom described in English.

This book expands the period covered by the Three Ages of Rome. It includes the wars of Alexander the Great and those of his Successors (the Diadochi). The four new historical scenarios span a century of warfare in the eastern Mediterranean. New army lists for the major forces involved.