ANGUS KONSTAM

In 1585, war between Spain and Elizabethan England was all but inevitable. Consequently, Queen...

In September 1943, in the first weeks of the Allied campaign to liberate Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force of over 80,000 men was nearly beaten back into the sea by the German defenders in a ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno, south of Naples. This is the story of the tense, bitter struggle around the Salerno beachhead which decided the i...

This title examines the stone forts that played a crucial part in the course of the American Civil War, showing a wide range of fortifications from the Gulf of Mexico through to New England. It covers their design, construction and the way that they were armed and manned.

In his second volume on the Tudor Navy, naval expert Angus Konstam covers the extraordinary...

When General Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy was in crisis. Lee changed all that in a brilliant, week-long campaign. On 26 June the Confederates struck, fighting two hard-fought battles in two days at Mechanicsville and Gaine's Mill. The ferocity of the Confederate assaults convinced McClellan that he...

Osprey's examination of the Battle of Poltava (1709), which marked the demise of Sweden as a...

Following the pirate scourge of the early 18th century, many sea captains took to privateering as a

In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of...