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Hitler’s Heavy Panzers 1943-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This work with its in-depth text, captions and rare images chronicles the last desperate years of the Wehrmacht Panzerwaffe. Despite a worsening strategic situation both on the Eastern Front and in the West, Hitler’s Panzers and their highly motivated crews showed superior tactical abilities and...
Retreat and Retribution in Afghanistan 1842
Two Journals of the First Afghan War
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
The blow to British pride and confidence caused by the crushing defeat of their army in Afghanistan during the winter of 1841/2 compares in its impact to the disaster in New York on 11 September 2001. The British had replaced a popular and effective monarch with a weak one in the mistaken belief that...
by Anthony Seldon, David Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In this pioneering and original book, Anthony Seldon and David Walsh study the impact that the public schools had on the conduct of the Great War, and vice versa. Drawing on fresh evidence from 200 leading public schools and other archives, they challenge the conventional wisdom that it was the public...
Lord Esher
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Although wielding huge influence in late Victorian and Edwardian political life, Reginald Baliol Brett (1852 – 1930), the second Lord Esher was, an enigma to his contemporaries and still remains a puzzle to historians.
At the heart of British and Imperial political affairs for several decades,...
by Neville Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1999
Earl Bathurst arguably exerted greater influence on the establishment and consolidation of the British Empire than any other single individual. In writing this highly authoritative work, Professor Thompson had access to the previously untapped Bathurst Family archives.This biography also throws fresh...
Attack on London
Disaster, Riot and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Generations of Londoners from Roman times to the present day have confronted natural and man-made threats to their city. Disasters, rebellions, riots, acts of terror and war have marked the long history of the capital - and have shaped the character of its people. In this evocative account Jonathan...
by Peter Oldham
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
The battle for the possession of the villages of Messines Ridge, Messines, Wytchaete, St. Eloi, took place in 1914-17, and the final battle for Messines in 1918. The 1917 Battle of Messines was preceded by 19 giant mine explosions and was the biggest military mining effort in history. This book gives...
Midway: Dauntless Victory
A re-examination of America’s greatest naval victory of World War II.
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
This is an in-depth study of the battle of Midway that reviews the many previous accounts and compares their accuracy and veracity with fresh documentation that has been released recently, including new material on the post-war analysis made by a US select committee. There are new viewpoints on the...
Operation Varsity
The British and Canadian Airborne Crossing of the Rhine
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
In Spring 1945 the outcome of the war was ritually certain but the mighty River Rhine still stood in the way of the Allies. Eisenhower’s strategy was to guarantee a crossing in the Ruhr area by allocating the main effort to Montgomery’s 21st Army Group. Monty’s task was to envelope and take...
Nijmegen
U.S. 82nd Airborne Division - 1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
The 82nd Airborne Division fought some of its most desperate battles in support of the British landings at Arnhem, yet these actions are little known today. All of the units, personalities and actions of this hopeless struggle are covered in the acclaimed Battleground Europe style. This heavily illustrated...
by Philip Warner
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
The story of the shadowy special reconnaissance unit whose intelligence helped the Allies win World War II.
It operated in Italy, Sicily, Austria, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was at Dieppe with the Commandos, in France with the SAS, at Arnhem with Airborne, and in Germany until the...
Arnhem
Landing Grounds and Oosterbeek
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2008
This is the latest in the well-respected Battleground series of books, and covers a number of aspects of the battle of Arnhem. It concentrates on the landings and the desperate and legendary battle fought by the remnants of 1st Airborne Division in the town of Oosterbeek. The book relies on both historical...
Hell's Highway
U.S. 101st Airborne -1944
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Hell's Highway is the dramatic name given to the vital stretch of road that the British 3rd Guards Armoured Division had to advance down rapidly on their route to relieve the American Paras (82d Airborne) at Nijmegen and the British I st Airborne Division at Arnhem. Adopting the clear and successful...
by John Waddy
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Although the Battle of Arnhem was fought over sixty years ago. It still evokes such interest that it would seem to rank with the great victories of Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo and the Battle of Britain, all of which proved to be turning points in the history of our nation. Arnhem was not a victory,...