British War

From an acclaimed historian comes a “richly textured” (The Wall Street Journal) tale of power and betrayal: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose tumultuous reigns shaped the course of English history. Richard of Bordeaux and Henry of Bolingbroke, cousins born just...

British and American commanders first used modern Special Forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of irregular warfare has remained as elusive as the practitioners of special operations themselves.

In The Weight of Vengeance, Bickham provides a provocative new account of America's forgotten war, underscoring its significance for both sides by placing it in global context. This shifting balance of power provided the United States with the opportunity to challenge Britain's dominance of the Atlantic world. territorial expansion.

March 1879. Zululand burns, and the fate of the frontier will be decided on the blood-red heights of Kambula. Second Lieutenant William Blackwood, marches north with the Monmouthshire Fusiliers as Her Majesty’s forces prepare to strike a hammer blow against the enemy. Assigned to Colonel Evelyn Wood’s elite flying column on the untamed frontier, Blackwood is swept into a relentless campaign of raids, skirmishes, and mountain warfare. Here, loyalty is measured in blood, and every patrol could be a man’s last. From the shattered ridges of Hlobane to the storm-wracked heights of Kambula,...

In the days between May 24 and 28, 1940, the British War Cabinet held a historic debate over whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. In this magisterial book, John Lukacs demonstrates the decisive importance of these five days. Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical...

When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics, but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme, the author comes closer than any historian yet to explaining what was behind the often-described operations of this famous 1916 battle at Jutland. 

The Great Boer War (1899-1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy.  

This is the history of the world, in summarized form. Learn how the major figures, events, and ages of history connect without detail-overload. Spanning from the beginning of the Universe to the Space Age, and even predictions of the future, this is the shortest history book you will ever read.

Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughter of Japanese troops ultimately liberated India and Burma. 

In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain's empire and to sow the seeds of its eventual dissolution. Beginning with a skirmish in the Pennsylvania backcountry involving an inexperienced George Washington, the Iroquois chief Tanaghrisson, and the ill-fated French emissary Jumonville, Anderson reveals a chain of events that would lead to world conflagration.

The first in an action-packed spy series introducing Lieutenant Dragan Kelly. It is 1942. HMS Visigoth has been torpedoed off the coast of German occupied Norway. Sole survivor Lieutenant Dragan Kelly finds himself behind enemy lines, unsure who to trust. The Norwegian resistance share rumours about a mysterious Nazi plant where an Armageddon weapon of terrifying power is under construction. Should Kelly escape to Russia or stay and investigate it? And what of the stunningly beautiful but enigmatic resistance fighter Sybilla? Kelly falls in love with her, but is she all she claims to be? ...

**One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019** "The winning combination of George Newbern's engaging narration and Rick Atkinson's vivid new work of history--the first in a planned trilogy about the American Revolution--brings to life what could have been a dry account of Revolutionary...

A remarkable story of high hopes and crushing disappointment, the campaign contains moments of sheer horror and nerve-shattering excitement; pathos and comic relief; occasional cowardice and much selfless courage - all culminating in the climax of the First Battle of Ypres. And yet, as Peter Hart shows in this gripping and revisionary look at the war's first year, for too long the British part in the 1914 campaigns has been veiled in layers of self-congratulatory myth.

South Carolina, 1780. Charleston has fallen. The British believe the American Revolution in the South is over. They are wrong. Retreating deep into the deadly Carolina swamps, Colonel Francis Marion refuses surrender and begins waging a brutal guerrilla war against the most powerful army on earth. Striking supply lines, ambushing patrols, and vanishing into the blackwater wilderness before the British can retaliate, Marion and his ragged militia soon become legends throughout the colonies. To the British, he becomes something else entirely: The Swamp Fox. But the war inside the swamps is ...

Pellew: Boarders Away Gerald Pellew is fourteen years old, the son of a dead admiral, and newly turned over to the Ardent when she sails straight into a trap off Ushant. Out-gunned by the combined fleets of France and Spain, the ship strikes her colours, and Gerry is marched into a French prison to rot. What follows is hunger, fever, and the slow dying of the men around him, but a boy who has been well taught does not lie down. When a winter storm tears open the prison wall, Gerry and a small powder-boy slip into the flooded river with nothing but a hidden coat and a promise to keep. They ...

The vast scale and number of battles that the British Empire engaged in during its colonial expansion is truly monumental. It is this historical enormity that has inspired the creation of this book series, "The Battles of the British Empire." This series serves as a tribute to the remarkable military endeavours and strategic genius demonstrated by the British forces over centuries. It seeks to explore and document the various conflicts that defined an era and shaped the modern world. In my recent book, "Great Military Units of History," I ranked the British Empire's forces second only to ...

The vast scale and number of battles that the British Empire engaged in during its colonial expansion is truly monumental. It is this historical enormity that has inspired the creation of this book series, "The Battles of the British Empire." This series serves as a tribute to the remarkable military endeavours and strategic genius demonstrated by the British forces over centuries. It seeks to explore and document the various conflicts that defined an era and shaped the modern world. In my recent book, "Great Military Units of History," I ranked the British Empire's forces second only to ...

A thrilling tale of post–World War II London, where the peace proves as tricky to navigate as the past, from the #1 international bestselling author of Life After Life. “[Atkinson] boasts an immaculate prose style, a dry wit and a taste for narrative legerdemain. This splendid historical...

Portsmouth, England. A ten-year-old boy. A British warship. The boy already knows what hunger can make someone do. When he is caught stealing food for his family, prison should end his troubles. Instead, it is only the beginning. Taken from his cell and forced aboard the British warship HMS Progress, the boy becomes a cabin boy under a brutal captain. Trapped at sea and subjected to unimaginable cruelty, he learns one lesson above all others: survive. Three years later, Boston changes everything. Then the ship reaches Boston. When fire tears through the city, the boy sees his chance. He ...

Temeraire * Book 3 After their fateful adventure in China, Capt. Will Laurence of His Majesty’s Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchased from the Ottoman Empire...