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Ground-breaking research about Czechoslovak arms exports to the Middle East, based on official documentation.

This book describes and illustrates the key combatants and the most intense operations of Iran and Iraq. Destroyers, frigates, corvettes, and fast missile crafts are all covered in thoroughly researched text, photographs and custom-drawn color profiles, as are aircraft and helicopters supporting them.

As the Indian Air Force turns 90, it is in the throes of a major modernization and expansion drive. This book details the current state of the IAF and its modernization plans and prospects.

This volume describes the circumstances of the creation of the Civil Air Transport company, a paramilitary airline owned by the CIA, its participation in the Chinese Civil War, and the story of its founder, General Claire Lee Chennault of the famed Flying Tigers.

Through late 1987, the battlefields of southern Angola moved ever further away from the border to South-West Africa (Namibia), until the show-down between the Soviet-supported government in Luanda and South African-supported insurgency of UNITA culminated in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale.

Koeovet - the South West African Police's elite counter insurgency unit; feared and respected in equal measure. This first volume of an all new, two-part work, documents the inception of 'Ops K' or Koevoet and its role in the vicious South West African Border War up to 1984.

This book tells the story of the international intervention that took place in Somalia, the successes, failures and lessons learned.

The build-up and operational history of the Force Publique - a paramilitary force established by King Léopold II to secure the Congo Free State, in 1885 - including its deployments elsewhere in Africa, during the First and Second World War, in the Sudan, East Africa, and in Ethiopia.

The book considers the rise of the Sikh Soldier from the eighteenth century through to Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Sikh Empire, the consideration of Sikh warfare during the Anglo Sikh Wars leading to the employment of the Sikhs into the British Indian Army.

1916 was a pivotal year for the British Army. It was a year of intense combat that was defined by the Battle of the Somme and the appalling casualties of the 1st July 1916.

This book tells 40 Commandos untold role in the Falklands with many personal accounts from the officers and men of 40 Commando including being stranded in a minefield for several hours and a daylight helicopter assault onto Argentine positions on Sapper Hill under heavy fire.

Could Britain have fought the Third World War? Original research from British archives tells the story of Britain's readiness for war as part of NATO strategy.

A comprehensive, in-depth, and richly-illustrated study of the US-Cuban relations during the first half of the 1950s.

The first detailed account of the Indian military intervention in the Maldives in 1988, an operation prepared quickly and under immense pressure, but concluded successfully.

A colourful eyewitness depiction of French Napoleonic military uniforms by three exceptional French artists with explanatory texts translated into English for the first time.

An in-depth look at the organisation, weapons and uniforms of the combatants and non-combatants of the French and North German Confederation; includes colour plates of all branches of the service.

Based on primary research and extensive use of official documentation from both sides, this is the first-ever inclusive military history of naval warfare between Iran and Iraq.

The first operational history of three US Navy destroyer escorts and their crews at the height of the Cold War below, on and above the Mediterranean Sea.

A study of the British use of selected soldiers formed into temporary battalions, rather than established regiments, as the central tactical element on the battlefield in the 1775-1783 war.

An exceptionally detailed analysis of the Transylvanian in the 16th and 17th centuries.

"Cavalier Capital", the first detailed account of Oxford's role as "Royalist capital" to appear for almost three-quarters of a century, examines all aspects of Oxford's experience in the English Civil War.