Leo Cooper imprint: 85 books
by Francis Ingall
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
One of the last of the famed Bengal Lancers, Brigadier Ingall has spent most of his life in India and Pakistan. When he first went to India in 1929, all the officers were English and all the enlisted men were Indian (Hindu, Sikh and Moslem). India was part of theBritish Empire and the Army was basically...
The Heroes of Rimau
Unravelling the Mystery of One of World War II's Most Daring Raids
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
On September 11, 1944, the British submarine "Porpoise" slipped quietly from Fremantle Harbour, bound for Indonesia. It was carrying the 23 Australian and British members of Operation Rimau who, under the leadership of the remarkable Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Lyon of the Gordon Highlanders,...
Imperial Echoes
Eye-Witness Accounts of Victoria's Little Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 1994
The years between the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 are sometimes described as 'The Long Peace', the there were in fact British Soldiers fighting somewhere in the world throughout the whole of that period, usually in an effort to restore order in some far-flung...
Homecoming Heroes
An account of the re-assimilation of British Military personnel into civilian life
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1992
It is a sad and shaming but indisputable fact that the reception according to British soldiers on returning to civilian life has for centuries been little short of disgraceful, and even in this more enlightened age compares unfavourably with that of many other countries. In Homecoming Heroes Peter...
The Road to Kalamata
A Congo Mercenary's Personal Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1989
The Road to Kalamata is the real-life adventure story of the 4 Commando team of mercenary soldiers, as told by their leader, Col. Mike Hoare. At the close of 1960, the newly formed independent state of Katanga in central Africa recruited Hoare and his team to suppress a rebellion by the Baluba, a...
Disastrous Twilight
A Personal Record of the Partition of india by Major-General Shahid Hamid
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1993
The Partition of India in 1947 probably created more problems than it solved, problems which have bedevilled the subcontinent ever since and which show no sign of going away, since those who feel that they were hard done by at the time of the settlement nearly forty years ago harbour their grudges...
by Juliet Piggott
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1990
This history of the QARANC records the role that nursing has played in the army from the 17th century until the present day. The author describes the rise of the early army nursing organizations and the genesis of QARANC. Her picture of Florence Nightingale is revealing in that it puts aside the conventional...
The 17/21st Lancers
1759-1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 1993
The regimental history of a regiment about to lose its identity, known sometimes as the Death and Glory Boys because of their famous skull and crossbones badge. They have had a long and distinguished history ending recently in the Gulf War and are about to be merged with the 16th/5th Lancers.
I Survived, Didn't I?
The Great War Reminiscences of Private 'Ginger' Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1993
4124 Private Byrne, C,. 2nd Battalion the Hampshire Regiment, latterly transferred to the Machine Gun Corps; served Egypt, 1915; France and Belgium, 1916-1918; Germany 1918-1919; honourably discharged, 1919. Behind that bold statement lies a remarkable account of en infantryman’s service on the...
by Carney Lake
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1994
Carney Lake served for six years in a Royal Marines Commando Unit and in this book tells his story - the names of those men involved have been changed to protect their identities, but the events happened as described. The result is arguably as vivid and accurate a depiction of Britain s fighting men...
by Alex Bowlby
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1969
In 1944, having distinguished itself in the North Africa campaign, Rifleman Bowlby's battalion of Greenjackets was sent to Italy. But instead of being used in the specialised role for which it had been trained, most of the battalion's vehicles were taken away on arrival, and the riflemen were told...
Aircrew
The Story of the Men Who Flew the Bombers
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 1991
Bruce Lewis brings this book together to tell the story of the men who flew the bombers. The different roles within the aircraft are covered and each of their unique experiences discussed through first hand accounts.
by David Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
The story of the wreck of the British merchant brig Isabella on the Falkland Islands in 1812, the rescue of whose passengers was complicated by the outbreak of war between Britain and the United States, telling of the adventures which befell citizens of both countries before the passengers were restored to their native shore.
by James Leasor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
This is the true story of a Royal Marine wounded by shrapnel in Mandalay in WW2 who undergoes a long solitary march to the Japanese through the whole of Burma and then finds his way back through India and back to Britain to report for duty in Plymouth. On his way he has many encounters and adventures...