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Marshall Ney
The Bravest of the Brave
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
A.H. Atteridge's biography of Michel Ney, Napoleon's most famous marshal, is a classic work of its kind.
He describes Ney's meteoric career in vivid detail, from his enlistment as a hussar in the army of Louis XVI, his rapid promotion through the ranks of the revolutionary armies and his long...
by R E Urquhart
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Major-General Urquhart commanded the 1st British Airborne Division in Operation Market Garden, the greatest airbone assault of World War II, the struggle to capture Arnhem and win control of the bridge across the lower Rhine. The story of the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem involved not only an Airborne...
by Martin Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This fourth volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day covers every aspect of aerial operations on and behind the beaches at 'Omaha' and 'Utah' beaches on 6 June 1944. It might be imagined that the passing years would blunt the outlines of the experience but the D-Day veterans do not forget....
Spirit of Resistance
The Life of SOE Agent Harry Peulevé, DSO MC
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
One of the most determined and courageous secret agents of the Second World War, Harry Peulevé joined the BEF in 1940 before volunteering for F Section of the Special Operations Executive. On his first mission to occupied France to set up the SCIENTIST circuit, he broke his leg on landing and, after...
Battle on the Seven Seas
German Cruiser Battles 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The cruisers of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserlische Marine) were active throughout the First World War and saw action all around the globe, tying up valuable Allied naval resources out of all proportion to their number. Drawing on first-hand accounts and original research in German archives, the...
Fighting Through From Dunkirk to Hamburg
A Green Howards Wartime Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
When Bill Cheall joined up in April 1939, he could not have imagined the drama, trauma, rewards and anguish that lay in store.
First and foremost a Green Howard, he saw the sharp end of the Nazis’ Blitzkrieg and was evacuated exhausted. Next step, courtesy of the Queen Mary, was North Africa...
by Marren, Peter
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Britain was a place of conflict in the Dark Ages, between the departure of the Romans and the Norman Conquest. Clashes of allegiance, competition for territory and resources, and intense rivalries among the warlords and kings gave rise to frequent outbreaks of fighting. This was the time of legendary...
El Salvador
Dance of the Death Squads, 1980–1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...
Bay of Pigs
CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House. Badly planned, badly organized, the affair was littered with mistakes...
Antigonus the One-Eyed
Greatest of the Successors
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors,' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to Greece. After Alexander's death, Antigonus,...
Rome, Blood and Politics
Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic 133-70 BC
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile politicians who proposed political or social reform programs, many of which culminated in acts of bloodshed on the streets of Rome itself. This began in 133 BC with the military recruitment...
German Soldiers in the Great War
Letters and Eyewitness Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI.
German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences...
Monitors of the Royal Navy
How the Fleet Brought the Big Guns to Bear
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Monitor warships mounted the biggest guns ever deployed by the Royal Navy, and played an undeniably important part in Allied efforts during World War One and Two. They were built as cheap "disposable" ships made out of redundant bits and pieces which the Admiralty happened to have available...
by Canwell, Diane, Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval engagement of the First World War, if not any war. Admiral Scheer had adopted a policy of launching attacks against the British coast. What he did not know was that the British had broken his naval codes and that they knew of his plans. Consequently, when...