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Marengo and Hohenlinden
Napoleon's Rise to Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
In a tense, crowded thirty-three days in the autumn of 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte organized a coup and made himself dictator of France. Yet his position was precarious. He knew that France would accept his rule only if he gained military victories that brought peace. James Arnold, in this detailed and...
Wellington Against Soult
The Second Invasion of Portugal 1809
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
At the heart of David Buttery’s third book on the Peninsular War lies the comparison between two great commanders of enormous experience and reputation – Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, and Jean de Dieu Soult. In Soult, Wellesley met one of his most formidable opponents and they confronted...
Sniper of the Skies
The Story of George Frederick 'Screwball' Beurling, DSO, DFC, DFM
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
When asked to conjure an impression of the 'typical fighter pilot', you may be inclined to think of the confident, extroverted, gregarious type, rallying his men and flying in the pursuit of victory. George Frederick 'Screwball' Beurling, DSO, DFC, and DFM, certainly achieved more victories than most...
Their Finest Hour
Stories of the Men who Won the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Their Finest Hour tells the fascinating stories of six of Churchill’s ‘Few', each of whom played an important part in the Battle of Britain. Celebrated and much respected on their own squadrons, all have since faded into obscurity. Their achievements, against all odds, and the fortunes of their...
by Nick Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Stafford in the Great War tells the fascinating story of a county town and its people between the catastrophic years of 1914-18 . The title was written as a companion volume to the author's earlier work, Stafford at War 1939-45, and adopts the same successful formula. The book examines the work of...
Roman Empire at War
A Compendium of Roman Battles from 31 B.C. to A.D. 565
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
In a single volume, Empire at War catalogues and offers a brief description of every significant battle fought by the Roman Empire from Augustus to Justinian I (and most of the minor ones too). The information in each entry is drawn exclusively from Ancient, Late Antique, and Early Medieval texts,...
The Biafra Story
The Making of an African Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
A fearless act of journalism in 1960s Nigeria and the true story behind the international bestselling novel The Dogs of War.
The Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s was one of the first occasions when Western consciences were awakened and deeply affronted by the level of suffering and the...
The Armed Rovers
Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
By far the most dangerous of the RAF operations during the Second World War were daylight attacks on enemy shipping, yet little has been written about this aerial campaign and the brave airmen who took part. In particular the intense air-sea battles that were fought in the Mediterranean have been...
Menin Gate North
In Memory and In Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanize the Menin Gate Memorial (North), to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been...
by Andy Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
Jane was a wartime phenomenon. A sensation. She was also an important feature in the morale of Britain's fighting forces around the world and to those left behind on the "Home Front". So important, in fact, that her fame extended to the House of Commons where one wartime MP referred to our...
Hitler's Headquarters
1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Hitlers Headquarters 1939-1945 is a superb photographic record of the full range of headquarters from where Hitler exerted his iron grip on the Nazi war effort. Being pathological about his security, he divided his time between his numerous HQs spread across his empire.These HQs include his Berlin...
by Thomas Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
This book lists all the important tanks used in the Second World War, both by the Allied (England, France, Russia and the USA) and Axis Powers (Germany, Italy and Japan). Thomas Anderson, an expert on the history of the Second World War, offers an in-depth volume detailing the vehicles, their use...
United States Infantry Weapons of the Second World War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
During the arduous campaigns in theatres of war from the Pacific to North West Europe, American infantry weapons played a key role in the eventual victory over the Axis forces. In so doing they earned a special reputation for ruggedness and reliability. In addition to being used by US ground forces...
Fallschirmjager
Elite German Paratroops In World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album that belonged to a member of the elite German Paratroopers. First Sgt Wilhelm Plieschen served with Fallschirmjager Machine Gun Battalion 7, which suffered very heavy losses in the invasion of Crete, then saw bloody conflict as Hitler’s...