This represents only a tiny fraction of what we offer in military history. All of these, and many more are available for purchase through ABE.


1944 The Canadians in Normandy

Reconstructs the strategies and actual operations that marked the the day-by-day progress of the Canadians as they helped to crush a German army and make the Allied victory inevitable.

Stars in the Corps: Movie Actors in the United States Marines

Filled with more than thirty celebrity profiles of motion picture stars who served in the US Marine Corps from World War I through Vietnam. A companion volume to Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services.

The Star Captains: Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars

Reveals that the romanticised image portrayed in the novels of C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian was indeed close to the truth - frigate captains were outstanding officers, whose careers followed separate paths from their less talented contemporaries.

The Trench: Experiencing Life on the Front Line, 1916

A fascinating, harrowing and deeply moving insight into the life in the trenches of the Great War, to accompany the landmark BBC2 series.

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

In the first volume of a remarkable trilogy, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa.

Great Zulu Battles: 1838-1906

Ian Knight, explores in compelling detail ten significant Zulu battles, from Thuleka in 1838, through the civil war of 1856 to the struggles of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu wars and beyond to 1906, when the royal house was finally broken.
All of these books are hardcovers, or oversized paperbacks. Check our stock through our ABE link to order any of these titles.