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Service Most Silent
The Navy’s Fight Against Enemy Mines
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
From the very outset of war Nazi Germany demonstrated its determination and ability to lay siege to the British Isles by the laying of mines in shipping lanes. Losses to both merchant ships and naval vessels became a serious factor. If supplies continued to be lost by a combination of U-Boat and mine...
Our Chances were Zero
The Daring Escape by two German POW's from India in 1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2008
During World War II the British imprisoned many German and Italian prisoners of war and civilian internees in India. The less co-operative prisoners were kept under harsh conditions in camps in the Himalayan foothills.
The author was a German civilian working in India at the outbreak of war...
by Charles Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 1997
Charles Evans records his passage from idyllic youth, fresh from Oxford in 1939, into the harsh reality of a junior doctor in Burma. Beautifully written and elegantly vivid, his diaries illuminate the progress of this ugly campaign while his post-war life saw ground-breaking work as a mountaineer, eventually rewarded by a knighthood.
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones’s series of books on armoured warfare in the Images of War series is a graphic account of the development of armoured forces in the Arab and Israeli armies from 1948 to the present day. In a sequence of over 200 archive photographs he tells the story of...
Hitler's Gulf War
The Fight for Iraq 1941
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This military history of the Iraqi revolt in WWII, told from the point of view of the men who were there, is “a fantastic and enjoyable book” (Col. Tim Collins, OBE).
In the spring of 1941, on an airfield fifty-five miles from Baghdad, a group of RAF airmen and soldiers were outnumbered by...
Fight the Good Fight
Voices of Faith from the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
“The inspiring stories of a number of very different characters who used their Christian faith to cope with their experiences of the First World War.” —Jacqueline Wadsworth, author of Letters from the Trenches
While a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world...
Fight the Good Fight
Voices of Faith from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The Second World War challenged many of the concepts that had provided stability and unity in the world. As totalitarian regimes in Europe and Asia attempted to impose their world view on their neighbours, a struggle for what Winston Churchill described as `Christian civilisation’ took place on...
Tirpitz
The First Voyage
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album belonged to a member of the crew of famous German Battleship Tirpitz. It is a little known fact that before the start of World War Two the ship went on a shakedown voyage into the Atlantic, traveling north into Arctic waters and south into...
Constantius II
Usurpers, Eunuchs and the Antichrist
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The reign of Constantius II has been overshadowed by that of his titanic father, Constantine the Great, and his cousin and successor, the pagan Julian. However, as Peter Crawford shows, Constantius deserves to be remembered as a very capable ruler in dangerous, tumultuous times.
When Constantine I...
In the Shadow of Nelson
The Life of Admiral Lord Collingwood
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Vice Admiral Cuthbert (Cuddy) Collingwood may have been 10 years older than Horatio Nelson but he was Nelson's close friend from the outset. They served together for over 30 years and only at Trafalgar, was Nelson his superior officer.
The relationship is all the stranger as their temperaments...
by David Markham
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Napoleon's incredible career went through a number of distinct periods. Much has been written about his rise to power, his time as leader of France, his ultimate defeat at Waterloo and his exile on St. Helena. But the short critical period of his fall from power, the few months in 1815 between Waterloo...
The Knights Hospitaller
A Military History of the Knights of St John
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the pilgrims began their transformation into a Military Order. Their fervour and discipline made them an elite component of...
by Matthew Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
King Richard III remains one of the most infamous and recognizable monarchs in English or British history, despite only sitting on the throne for two years and fifty-eight days. His hold on the popular imagination is largely due to the fictional portrayal of him by William Shakespeare which, combined...
Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors
A Guide to Research Methods for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors is the ideal handbook for family historians whose research has reached back to the early nineteenth century and are finding it difficult to go further. John Wintrip guides readers through all the steps they can take in order to delve even more deeply into the past.
Carrying...