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The Soviet invasion of its neighbour Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a bloody nine-year...
On 3 April 1982 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced that Argentine armed forces...
The Jacobite Rebellion was the final attempt of the House of Stuart to re-establish itself on...
On the night of 1 August 1798 a British fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson...
Napoleon Bonaparte is renowned as one of the great military commanders in history, and the...
During the 19th century Britain entered into three brutal wars with Afghanistan, each one saw...
For 5 days in May 1980, the world watched as the SAS performed a daring raid on the Iranian...
Filled with the promise of adventure and glory, the Royal Navy of the Napoleonic era enticed...
Late in the morning on 21 October 1805, warships from the British and combined French and...
Gregory Fremont-Barnes examines the lives of the American Bomber Crewmen of the Eighth Air...
By the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Britain was the undisputed master of the seas, owing...
In the mid-19th century India was the focus of Britain's international prestige and commercial...
The wars against the Barbary pirates not only signaled the determination of the United States to...
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson's decisive victory over the combined fleets of France and Spain on 21...
Drawing on many contemporary sources and eyewitness accounts, this book examines the lives of...
Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an...
This volume covers Napoleon's gradual fall from power, beginning in the spring of 1813, when...
Napoleon's occupation of the Iberian peninsula embroiled him in a protracted and costly war...
Europe's great powers formed two powerful coalitions against France, yet force of numbers,...
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