Slag & fälttåg

Den största militära invasionen i världshistorien inleddes den 22 juni 1941. 3,3 miljoner tyska soldater överskred gränsen till Sovjetunionen, där de skulle möta fem miljoner man i Röda armén i strid. De tyska anfallskolonnerna rullade österut för...

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The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. A major new history of war by historian Andrew Roberts and General David Petraeus, former commander of the US-led coalition in Iraq and Afghanistan and former director of the C...

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Sommaren 1788 avseglar Gustav III från Stockholm med en mäktig flotta, spänningen är hög mellan konungen och adeln, missnöjet pyr bland officerarna. Rysslands intriger mot den svenska kungen har tilltagit samtidigt som han med franskt stöd byggt u...

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Kampen om Stalingrad blev legendarisk redan under andra världskriget. Här stred de sovjetiska försvararna med ryggen mot floden Volga medan Hitlers 6. armé försökte erövra staden. Striderna utvecklades till bitter kamp om varenda husruin. I februa...

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The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands... Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new rec...

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The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, arguably the first world war.

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Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews-now with a new afterword and additional photographs. Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve P...

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A fascinating account of Russia's Five-Day War against Georgia in 2008, notable for its strategic mistakes which prompted President Putin to undertake major military reforms. After Georgia's independence from Russia in 1991, President Sa...

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»Best History Book of the Year.« The Times »Antony Beevor kan konsten att litterärt gestalta historien. Hans nya bok om ¿slaget i Arnhem är brutalt bra.« Johan Croneman, Dagens Nyheter »Väl värd att rekommendera som motgift mot en alltför ljus och...

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ENTER THE BATTLEFIELDS OF ANCIENT GREECE WITH THE EPIC BESTSELLER FROM MASTER STORYTELLER CONN IGGULDEN 'Pacy and propulsive . . . Crackling with energy, violence and stirring speeches' DAILY MAIL 'Iggulden draws the Greek world con...

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Med denna bok i två delar framträder en i huvudsak ny och tidigare okänd bild av slaget om Stalingrad. Detta är den avslutande andra delen. Illustrerad med tydliga kartor och bilder. Utkommer hösten 2022, till 80-årsminnet av detta episka och...

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**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians** 'Alice Loxton is the star of her generation ... the next big thing in history' DAN SNOW 'Vivid, ...

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**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** Foreword by Tom Hanks. The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed TV series, and its sequel, Masters of the Air. In Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose pays tribute to the men of Easy Company, a crack rif...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL AND THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022 'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionis...

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Books of the Year, Guardian The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery From the ...

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Byggd på årtionden av forskningsarbete i både tyska och ryska arkiv, samt intervjuer med ett stort antal nyckelpersoner och veteraner, flyttar Christer Bergströms Stalingrad - Nya perspektiv på ett episkt slag fram forskningsläget om denna vändpun...

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Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic ...

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A HUGELY IMPORTANT BOOK ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AND PERSUASIVELY ARGUED DAILY TELEGRAPH, FIVE-STAR REVIEW Two leading authorities a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time collaborate on a landmark exam...

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The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion' Steven Runciman's triumphant three-volume A History of the...

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This ground-breaking new study of the battles of Kursk and Prokhorovka will transform our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the largest tank battle in history. 'If ever there was a...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close ra...

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Richard J. Evans' The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany explores how the First World War, the Weimar Republic and the Great Depression paved the way for Nazi rule. They started as little more ...

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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. The battle of Verdun lasted te...

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"Det här är en bok som verkligen imponerar oavsett vad man än må tycka om det ofta ruskiga innehållet. Den har tyngd, faktiskt även rent fysiskt genom pärmar och papper av hög kvalitet, men naturligtvis främst genom den vederhäftiga texten, d...

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The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: an imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour g...

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To Lose a Battle: France 1940 is the final book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and The Price of Glory and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. In 1940 Hitler sent his troops ...

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Den 14 oktober 1066 gick hertig Vilhelm av Normandie till angrepp mot kung Harold Godwinssons styrkor på Senlac Hill i sydöstra England. Vilhelm segrade och kröntes till kung på juldagen. Segern innebar att England knöts politiskt och kulturellt t...

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The Financial Times - Best books of 2022: Politics 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' The Times A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped ...

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Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943. The war in the North African desert was pure mechanized warfare, and ...

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