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The Campaign of Waterloo

The Classic Account of Napoleon's Last Battles

by John Fortescue
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016

The Campaign of Waterloo is the complete account of the climatic campaign and battle of the Napoleonic Wars abstracted from Sir John Fortescue’s monumental A History of the British Army. Issued as an independent volume, The Campaign of Waterloo chronicles the events from Napoleon’s exile...

Letters from Kimberly

Etewitness Accounts from the South African War

by Edward Spiers
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013

'Full of new material, fresh insights and perceptive analysis.' Ian Knight

The defence of Kimberley – and the mission to relieve it – was one of the great dramatic sagas of the South African War. The actual relief, following a spectacular cavalry charge, represented the first decisive upturn...

Letters from Ladysmith

Eyewitness Accounts from the South African War

by Edward Spiers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010

Edward Spiers, a leading authority on the Victorian British army, presents here a select edition of letters from the siege of Ladysmith (1899–1900) that have not been seen since their original publication in metropolitan and provincial newspapers. The 250 letters were published in different British...

Thunder on the Danube

Napoleon’s Defeat of the Habsburg, Vol I

by John H Gill
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014

The Franco-Austrian War of 1809 was Napoleon’s last victorious war. He would win many battles in his future campaigns, but never again would one of Europe’s great powers lie broken at his feet. In this respect 1809 represents a high point of the First Empire yet at the same time Napoleon’s armies...

The Bloody Road to Tunis

Destruction of the Axis Forces in North Africa, November 1942-May 1943

by David Rolf
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015

As the Afrika Korps withdrew after a bruising defeat at El Alamein, it became apparent that Axis forces would not be able to maintain their hold over Libya. Rommel pulled his troops back to Tunisia, digging in along the Mareth Line, and turned westwards t

Gunfire!

British Artillery in World War II

by Stig H Moberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017

This book provides an insight into how artillery resources were established, developed and employed during the Second World War, using the British Royal Artillery as an example. Beginning with an overview of the nature and state of readiness of the Royal Artillery on the outbreak of war, the...

The Wedding Feast War

The Final Tragedy of the Xhosa People

by Keith Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012

The last of the nine Frontier Wars fought between 1799–1877 was in many ways a ‘prequel’ to the more famous Zulu War of 1879, featuring as it did many of the British regiments and personalities who were to fight at Isandlwana, as well as being the final defeat of the Xhosa people and their reduction...

Codenamed Dorset

The Wartime Exploits of Major Colin Ogden-Smith Commando and SOE

by Peter Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014

This gripping new history tells the little-known story of one of the most courageous men to have served with the newly formed Commandos and SOE during the Second World War. It is a story of extreme courage and a revealing portrait of a man who ultimately gave his life to the liberation of France....

Aces of the Luftwaffe

The Jagdflieger in the Second World War

by Peter Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014

The air battles of the Second World War were fought ferociously and with extraordinary skill and courage on both fronts. The fighter pilots of the Luftwaffe, the jagdflieger, in fact outscored their Allied counterparts by some margin and were some of the highest scoring fighter pilots of all time....

The Victoria Cross at Sea

The Sailors, Marines and Naval Airmen awarded Britain’s Highest Honour

by John Winton
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016

Naval VCs have been won in places as far apart in time and distance as the Baltic in 1854 and Japan in 1945, in the trenches from the Crimea to the Western Front, in harbours from Dar es Salaam to Zeebrugge, from the Barents to the Java Sea, from New Zealand to the North Atlantic, and from China to...

Gallipoli Victoria Cross Hero

The Price of Valour- The Triumph and Tragedy of Hugo Throssell VC

by John Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The son of a former Premier of Western Australia, Hugo Throssell, volunteered to join the Imperial Australian Force which was shipped to Gallipoli in 1915. He was a member of the 10th Australian Light Horse which fought in a dismounted role in Gallipoli. He was involved in the famous charge of the...
by Alex Niestle
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014

No other publication on this subject comes even close to including the amount of detail provided in this book. An introduction both summarizes previous works on the subject and describes the difficulties of obtaining and verifying information from either the Germans or the Allies on U-boat losses.

The...

The Forgotten VCs

The Victoria Crosses of the War in the Far East During WW2

by Brian Best
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017

Fought amid the most challenging terrain of any theater during the Second World War, the campaign in the Far East saw heroic actions against the unyielding Japanese that resulted in the awarding of more than forty Victoria Crosses – greater than a fifth of all the VCs of the war. Such actions...

Royal Observer Corps

The ‘Eyes and Ears’ of the RAF in WWII

by An Official History
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018

The key roles played by the Royal Observer Corps in the Second World War have, all too often, been overshadowed by more glamourous arms of the defense forces. The teams in the Sector Stations, plotting the battles raging above, and the Spitfires and Hurricanes swooping upon the formations of enemy...
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