Leo Cooper imprint: 85 books
Gunner at Large
The Diary of James Wood R.A. 1746-1765
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1988
James Wood was one of the first trained at Woolwich and served successively as a Volunteer, Mattross, Cadet, Cadet Gunner and Fireworker in France, the Low Countries, Scotland and India.
by V.E Tarrant
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1992
By November, 1942, the empire of Adolf Hitler had reached its zenith. It stretched from North Africa to the Arctic, from the English Channel to Stalingrad deep inside the Russian interior. The German Army seemed invincible, but then in a matter of only five days, from 19th to 23rd November, 1942,...
Victory Must be Ours
Germany in the Great War 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1995
Europe went to war in 1914 tot he sound of brass bands and cheering crowds; in every country, civilians and soldiers alike believed that the war would be won by Christmas time. By the time Christmas arrived, however, it became clear that this, indeed, would be a much longer war. In the months and...
The Long Left Flank
The hard Fought Way to the Reich 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1988
When in August, 1944, the Allies broke out of Normandy, the world's attention became fixed on the dramatic British and American armoured thrusts into the Rhine. The war in Europe seemed all but over. Far to the left, along the flank of the Allied Expeditionary Force, almost unnoticed, a battle was...
Once a Grenadier
The Grenadier Guards 1945-1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 1996
'An eminent writer has said that regiments great in history have this in common with mortals- through old in glory and honour, they have yet the vigour of youth. To none may the remark be more truthful applied then the Grenadier Guards...' Thus wrote Chichester and Burges-Short in 1900 and, judging...
Falklands Aftermath
Picking Up The Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 1988
This book tells the story of the Falklands war after it ended. The people who were lost in the war and the numerous implications of lief after the war and how it irrevocably change many peoples lives forever.
Twice Around the World
Some memoirs of diplomatic life in North Vietnam and Outer Mongolia
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1993
John Colvin's career as one of Her Majesty's Representatives in Foreign Parts never scaled the greatest heights of the ambassadorial ladder, but it did lead to two unusual postings, which he describes in this book. In 1966 he was sent to Hanoi at a time when the Vietnam War began to assume its full...
A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919
Volume 2: 1851-1871
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1993
In-depth coverage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the numerous colonial campaigns of the period.
A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919
Volume 1: 1816: 1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1993
The first volume, after a prologue in which the origins and early development of mounted warfare are discussed, including the Waterloo Campaign of 1815, covers the period from 1816-1850. During this period, the Cavalry were chiefly in action in India, fighting in a number of wars from the Nepal War, through to the First Afghan and First and Second Sikh Wars.
A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919
Volume 3: 1872-1898
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1993
This volume covers the high noon of the British Empire, beginning with the Zulu War of 1879 and ending with Kitchener's River War of 1898. Between these came the 2nd Afghan War, the first Boer War, and Wolseley's Egyptian and Nile campaigns. Also described in some detail is the Cavalry's part in the campaigns against Osman Digna in the Eastern Sudan.
Scarlet Lancers
The story of the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers 1689-1992
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1993
The 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers have long had the reputation of being one of the most efficient, and at the same time one of the least flamboyant, of the British cavalry regiments. The regiment, as it exists today, is the product of the amalgamation after the Great War of two cavalry regiments...
Field Gun Jack Versus The Boers
The Royal Navy in South Africa 1899-1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 1997
War broke out in 1899 between the British and South African settlers of Dutch descent, the Boers, or Afrikaners as they are usually called today. Despite previous clashes, the British seriously underestimated their opponents. Although dressed in battered civilian clothes and made up entirely of volunteers,...
War Correspondent
Decreed Unfit for Service, the Author Saw the Normandy Landings, Arnhem, the Battle of the Bulge and Kamikaze Attacks
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994
The offhand admission to the doctor at the recruiting centre that he suffered from asthma as a boy was enough to put an end to Michael Moynihan's military career even before it started. However, this unpropitious beginning was eventually to lead to a wartime career far more dramatic than anything...
by John Winton
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 1995
As John Winton, the best and most authoritative writer on currant naval matters, says in the foreword to this book 'The Navy has never been well known for its flair for publicity....Again and again during the Falklands War it seemed to me that the chances of giving the Navy a 'chuck-up' were being...