Land forces and warfare Books

Ayuda De Memoria Del Oficial Mexicano En Campaña, written by General de División Sóstenes Rocha, offers a unique glimpse into the operational strategies and daily life of a Mexican officer during the late 19th century. Published in Paris in 1879, this...

The Crusader tank-tank (Mk.I, Mk.II and Mk.III) was perhaps the most typical and well-known military vehicle employed by Britain during the Second World War. Armed with a 57mm cannon, it was equipped with a very powerful and reliable engine, well...

Il carro armato-cacciacarri Crusader (Mk.I, Mk.II e Mk.III) fu forse il più tipico e noto mezzo militare impiegato dalla Gran Bretagna durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Armato di cannone da  57mm, era dotato di un motore molto potente ed...

Clearing Vietnam': Anatomy of a U.S. Army Land Clearing Team, captures the sights, sounds, and unusual encounters of a young combat engineer who found himself operating a specialized bulldozer within the dense jungles of South Vietnam. It was a place...

The British Sniper, A Century of Evolution is a detailed reference to the British Army's involvement in the role of sniping from the earliest days of 1915 to the present. This title provides the history and explains why in the beginning the British Army...

During the Vietnam war, the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers was tasked with removing heavy jungle cover along roadways that were being used by the Viet Cong and NVAs to attack passing convoys in South Vietnam. A unique tractor was developed to cut...

After the first two volumes on Italian artillery, devoted to the study and analysis of artillery pieces inherited from the First World War, both domestically produced and sources of wartime prey (typically Austro-Hungarian) following the victory in...

Dopo i primi due volumi sui cannoni italiani, dedicati allo studio e l'analisi dei pezzi d'artiglieria ereditati dal primo conflitto mondiale, sia di produzione nazionale che fonti di preda bellica (tipicamente austro-ungarica) a seguito della vittoria...

Repair Parts Scale for the Australian Army Land Rover 110 "Perentie" FFR (Fitted For Radio) vehicle with winch. As a specialised model, the FFR (With Winch) Repair Parts Scale covers equipment and fittings not found on other "Perentie" Land Rover 110...

Repair Parts Scale for the Australian Army ½ Ton No. 5 Tactical Trailer. The No. 5 Trailer Repair Parts Scale covers parts and equipment comprising the No. 5 Trailer. A Repair Parts Scale book is an illustrated catalog of parts for vehicles and trailers...

Ufficialmente designato come Medium Tank, M3, fu il primo carro armato medio statunitense ad essere fabbricato in grande serie. Venne ideato e progettato intorno al 1940 e divenne operativo nel 1941. La sua torretta venne realizzata in due...

The armoured cars were a perfect example of the adaptability of the Royal Army's forces in World War II, both the domestically developed models and the improvised versions. They were obviously recovered and redeployed by the forces of the Italian Social...

Le camionette furono un perfetto esempio di capacità di adattamento delle forze del Regio Esercito nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale, sia i modelli sviluppati in patria che le versioni improvvisate. Vennero ovviamente recuperate e ripiegate dalle forze della...

At the end of the First World War, Hungary, as a member of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, found itself on the losing side. Its army disintegrated and its armaments were acquired or destroyed by the victorious Allied nations. However, in the late 1920s,...

On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of "Cougar Squadron," the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq's Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South...

The Battle of the Huertgen Forest, first published in 1963 and written by Official Department of the Army Historian Charles B. MacDonald, recounts the story of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. In September 1944, three months after the...

The 51st Highland Division fought and lost in France in 1940, was reborn, and fought and won in the North African desert, Sicily and finally in North Western Europe from D-Day to the end of the war. As a division the men earned the respect of friend and...

This is a modern reprint of the World War Two original book. It contains 42 pages of full color images and information on the Landing Vehicle Tank Mark 3 Bushmaster (LVT-3). This is an exacting replica and has pages made to look old including faux...

The role of the BEF in the fall of France and the retreat to Dunkirk. Covering the 1939-40 'Phoney War' in a single chapter, the focus of Major L.F. Ellis's official history of the campaign in France and Flanders falls on the role of the British...

Describing the campaign from D-Day onwards, this excellent contemporary battalion history is divided into two parts. The first contains an outline of the activities of the 2/24th during the campaign in Europe from D-Day to VE-Day, and the second is a...

This is the single most important text on the subject of the gun in the British Army during the Second World War. It is complete in all detail, and exceptionally well illustrated with diagrams, photographs and maps. It covers the following...

VICTORY IN THE WEST VOLUME II: THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY The second of two books in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the final stages of the liberation of western Europe in 1944-45. 

The first in the 18-volume Official History of the Second World War covers the defence of the British Isles on land, sea and in the air, from the Phoney War, through the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, to victory in Europe. 

T.K. Derry's official account of the disastrous opening British campaign of the Second World War in April-May 1940, which led to the downfall of Neville Chamberlain and the elevation of Winston Churchill to the Premiership.

The Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) was not born German.  Its original name was LT vz. 38, and was the best Czechoslovak tank made between the wars. However, it only had luck and substantial use in another army, the German army, which renamed the...

Il Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) non nasce tedesco.  Il suo nome originale era LT vz. 38, ed era il miglior carro armato cecoslovacco realizzato tra le due guerre. Ebbe però fortuna e sostanziale utilizzo solo  in un altro esercito, quello...

The Campaign in Italy focuses on Allied efforts to drive Italy out of the war, defeat the German forces there and to push up through the Italian peninsula to threaten the German underbelly. The three Indian divisions participated in this Allied effort...

The Arakan Operations 1942-45 describes the operations in the coastal belt of Arakan in Burma from 1942-45. After the reverses suffered by the Indian forces in Burma, the issue confronting India was to stem the tide of Japanese advance and retrieve the...