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Battle for Sicily
Stepping Stone to Victory
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
On the night of 9-10 July 1943, an Allied armada launched the invasion of Sicily, a larger operation than the Normandy landings the following year. Over the next thirty-eight days, half a million Allied servicemen fought the Germans and Italians for control of this rocky island, which was to become...
Anzio
Italy 1944
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
In an attempt to outflank the German Gustav Line running across Italy, Operation SHINGLE was launched on January 22nd 1944. Achieving complete surprise, the Allies made a successful landing at Anzio, but paused rather than pushing quickly inland, a delay which gave the Germans time to seal off the...
'Sink the French!'
At War with Our Ally—1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
A history-defining moment in World War II, when the allied nations of England and France stood on the precipice of betrayal—and war with each other.
After the forces of Nazi Germany launched their Blitzkrieg assault on Holland, Belgium, and Northern France, the tentative relationship between...
Armoured Warfare in the Italian Campaign
1943 to 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The Second World War campaigns in North Africa, on the Eastern Front and in northwest Europe were dominated by armored warfare, but the battles in Italy were not. The mountainous topography of the Italian peninsula ensured that it was foremost an infantry war, so it could be said that tanks played...
From Warsaw to Rome
General Anders' Exiled Polish Army in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In May 1944, 40,000 Polish soldiers attacked and captured the hilltops of Monte Cassino, bringing to a close the largest, bloodiest battle fought by the western Allies in the Second World War. Days later the Allied armies marched into Rome seizing the first Axis capital.
No-one in 1939 could...
by Geoffrey Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
When Men at Arnhem was first published in 1976 the author modestly concealed his identity behind a pseudonym and changed the names of his comrades in arms. But the book was at once recognised as one of the finest evocations of an infantryman’s war ever written and those in the know were quick to...
Wind in the Wires and An Escaper’s Log
A British Pilot’s Classic Memoir of Aerial Combat, Captivity and Escape during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Duncan Grinnell-Milne was one of that select band of young men who made history in the air between 1915 and 1918 when they learned to fly in machines that resembled box-kites and laid the foundations of aerial combat which future generations would follow. He became a flying ace, with six confirmed...
My War in the Air 1916
Memoirs of a Great War Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Originally published under the title An Airman's Outing, this magnificent title chronicles the daily life of the Flying Officer during the Great War. Touchingly dedicated to 'The Fallen of Umpty Squadron R.F.C.', Bott chronicles the lives and losses of his squadron as they carried out their duties...
A German Deserter's War Experiences
Fighting for the Kaiser in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
In 1913 Julius Koettgen, a pacifist and a socialist, was drafted into the ranks of sapper battalion No. 30. He dutifully fought in the ranks of the Kaiser's armies during 1914 and 1915 and saw action in France and Belgium where he describes the terrible events which were to become known as 'the rape...
The Fighting Padre
Pat Leonard’s Letters From the Trenches 1915-1918
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Pat Leonard served throughout the Great War as a Chaplain to the Forces in France, Belgium and, after the Armistice, in Germany. Along with the many hundreds of letters he wrote to the relatives of those ‘parishioners’ who died or were wounded, he found time to describe for his parents back at...
The Battle for Burma
Wild Green Earth
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a bigger force, on the same unorthodox lines, could make a strategic difference. Aged 32, Fergusson...
On the Roads of War
A Soviet Cavalryman on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Ivan Yakushin survived the Siege of Leningrad, fought at the Battle of Kursk and pursued the retreating German army through Russia, Belorussia, Poland and into Germany itself. This is the story of his war. He tells the tale in his own words, with remarkable clarity of recall, and gives an authentic...
Dawn of Victory, Thank You China!
Star Shell Reflections 1918–1919
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Jim Maultsaid’s third and final book, The Dawn of Victory, Thank You China! is based on his service with the 169 Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) between 1918 – 1919.
There were 96,000 Chinese volunteer in the CLC and their achievements have gone largely unrecognized for 100 years. As Jim Maultsaid’s...
A Woman Living in the Shadow of the Second World War
Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
“These previously unpublished diaries of an English woman surviving the war at home provide a fascinating insight into society and life” (Firetrench).
Helena Hall’s daily diary of the war years, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed and evocative personal records of the Second...