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Cross and Crescent in the Balkans
The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
This is not just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is the history of a quite extraordinary century and a bit which began when a tiny of force of Ottoman Turkish warriors was invited by the Christian Byzantine Emperor...
Wellington the Beau
The Life and Loves of the Duke of Wellington
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The military achievements of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, have been well documented and deservedly so. Inevitably his fame and success made him attractive, nay irresistible, to the opposite sex and over the many years of his campaigning away from home he came into contact with a...
Imperial General: The Remarkable Career of Petellius Cerialis
The Remarkable Career of Petellius Cerialis
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent biography. Fortunately his career was a remarkably eventful and colorful one. With a knack for being caught up in big events and emerging...
by Champion, Jeff
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Pyrrhus of Epirus was rated by Hannibal as the second greatest general yet seen (placing himself third). Indeed, Hannibal referred to Pyrrhus as his teacher, although the two never met, since he learnt so much of the art of war from his writings. Pyrrhus was born into the royal house of Epirus, northwest...
by Ross Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
First in an exciting series, charting Rome's bloody road to empire
Recounts the desperate struggles for survival of the young Roman republic
Describes how and why Roman Armies eventually beat their Etruscan, Samnite, Celtic and other neighbours to dominate all of Italy
Discover...
The Lords of War
Supreme Leadership from Lincoln to Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
In this compelling study of leadership, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines how the difficulties they faced and the political and strategic backgrounds of their days and analyses how they performed and...
by Peter Wilkinson, Joan Astley
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
General Colin Gubbins was in charge of SOE during World War Two. This is the first biography of a man who was destined to live his life in the shadows. A biography of General Colin Gubbins, who was in charge of SOE during World War II. Gubbins was destined, by the nature of his profession, to live...
The Battle for France
Six Weeks That Changed The World
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
After the long winter of the Phoney War the invasion of the Low Countries and France by Hitler’s rampaging armies threw the World into crisis. Chamberlain’s Government fell, Churchill became Prime Minister. France was humiliated, the British Expeditionary Force was only saved by the miracle of...
by R J Minney
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The thrilling and inspiring true story of Violette Szabo, the fearless British cloak-and-dagger agent who infiltrated Nazi occupied France.
Switchboard operator and volunteer for the Women’s Land Army, Violette Szabo was only twenty-two years old when her husband, Etienne, a captain in the French...
by David Santiuste
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This fascinating account of an unsung English monarch and military leader is “a pleasing and well-informed appraisal of the first Yorkist king” (Dr. Michael Jones, author of Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle).
Indisputably the most effective general of the Wars of the Roses in fifteenth-century...
The Crater
Burnside's Assault on the Confederate Trenches June 30, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2000
It seemed like a good idea to frustrate Union commanders: dig a 500-foot long mine underground to reach the fortifications of the long-besieged Confederates at Petersburg, Virginia, and set off a powerful explosion. The result created a 30-foot deep crater and a break in the Confederate line.
Over the Wire
A POW's Escape Story from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Philip Newman, a British army doctor left behind after the evacuation from Dunkirk, spent his time as a prisoner of war in France, then Germany, treating the wounded and sick – and planning to escape.
After several failed attempts he got out over the wire and journeyed for weeks as a fugitive...
Helmand Mission
With 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
After celebrating St Patricks Day 2008, 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup deployed to Afghanistans Helmand province as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade. For six months the Royal Irish fought the Taliban in Helmand in some of the most difficult country on earth. At the same time the Battlegroup was training...
The Battle of North Cape
The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
“The hunting down and sinking of the magnificent German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was one of the epic actions of World War II . . . stirring” (Work Boat).
On December 25, 1943, the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst slipped out of Altenfjord in Norway to attack Arctic convoy JW55B which...