On August 17-18, 1942, 211 men of the US Marine Corps' 2nd Raider Battalion conducted a daring am...

Covering all Pacific islands involved in World War II military operations, this book is a detaile...

Using historical files kept by each of the armed services and nations involved in the Korean War,...

Including extensive information only found in scattered sources or official documents and archive...

Evolved from the colonial units created by the French, this book discusses the original reorganiz...

Besides continuing a long history of world-wide peacekeeping, the commitment of US troops to the ...

Osprey's elite series title for all cavalry units that participated in World War II (1939-1945). ...

Perhaps the biggest difference in the fighting between the two world wars lay in the invention of...

Just about every war movie - famously, Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers - includes dramat...

In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the first of over 150,000 Allied soldiers stormed five beache...

The brutal fighting between US Marines and Japanese infantry on the island of Guadalcanal in many...

The M16 was first introduced in 1958 and was revolutionary for its time as it was made of lightwe...