Product Description: “Hurray, boys, we’ve got them!” General Custer reportedly told his troops before the Battle of Little Bighorn. As this shrewd, controversial book shows, military disaster comes in many forms, except, in hindsight, the unexpected...read more

Product Description: ‘Well written and persuasive …objective and well-rounded….this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’ **** Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday ‘A true judgment of him must lie somewhere between hero and zero, and in this detailed biography Gary Sheffield shows himself well qualified to make it … a balanced portrait’ Sunday Times ‘Solid scholarship and admirable advocacy’ Sunday Telegraph Douglas Haig is the single most controversial general in British history...read more

Product Description: Take a guided tour of every major conflict through the ages. Trace the epic 5,000-year story of warfare from the earliest battles to the War on Terror with "War", now in compact format. Explore the campaigns and conflicts, the warriors and commanders and the tactics, weapons and technology that have shaped human warfare, with fascinating features on topics including the role of infantry, siege warfare, military tactics and the treatment of wounded soldiers...read more

Product Description: For fans of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, this masterful Victorian adventure set in the Zulu wars in South Africa introduces George Hart—part British, part Zulu, all warrior George Hart was always an outsider...read more

Product Description: The Defence of Lucknow is a memoir of the dramatic events of 1857, when the native sepoy troops of the Bengal army dramatically rose up against their colonial masters. The ensuing insurrection was to become the bloodiest in the history of the British Empire, with several thousand killed on both sides...read more

Product Description: In late September 1943, nearly 200 veterans of Montgomery's Eighth Army were arrested for refusing orders to join units of the US Fifth Army at the Salerno beachhead in southern Italy. Within six weeks, all but one had been found guilty of mutiny, their sentences ranging from five years' penal servitude to death...read more

Product Description: On 12 June 1940, more than a week after the last British troops had been evacuated from Dunkirk, the 51st (Highland) Division was forced to surrender to General Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at St Valery-en-Caux. More than 10,000 members of the Division were driven into five years of captivity in prison camps...read more

A chronicle of the scandalous reign of England's George IV captures the sexual intrigue and financial improvidence that that helped define the Regency period and also notes this complex King's intelligence and advocacy of the arts. Reprint. (view table of contents)

The 7th Earl of Cardigan is remembered as the man who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854. Fatal for so many of his men, the event rejuvenated his career which had been dogged by scandal and disgrace. This biography unravels the life of the infamous aristocrat.