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Setting France Ablaze
The SOE in France During WWII
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
During the summer of 1940, as Britain was fighting alone for its survival, the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, instructed the newly formed and clandestine Special Operations Executive to “set Europe ablaze.” From that moment on the S.O.E. took its own war to Nazi-occupied Europe by...
Brothers In Arms
The Unique Collection of Letters and Photographs of Two Brothers from the Front
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Hidden away in the back of an old desk drawer was a dusty pile of school-style exercise books. In them were the recollections of a young officer who had fought with the Essex Regiment in the First World War from the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915, through the mud and misery of Ypres, to see victory...
Sherman Tanks of the British Army and Royal Marines
Normandy Campaign 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of the Normandy landings was the mainstay of Britain's armored battalions. In his second book in the TankCraft series, Dennis Oliver uses wartime photos...
Veterans
The Last Survivors of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
Using the veterans’ own words and photographs, the book brings to life a mixture of their excitement of embarkation for France, their unbound optimism and courage, the agony of the trenches, and numbing fear of going over the top. The fight for survival, the long ordeal of those who were wounded...
by Mark Carter
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
This is a vivid and perceptive insight into the horrors of war as experienced by British soldiers of the Royal Artillery in the Desert War in 1941–2. The author, who fought in the campaign, brings to life the true nature of the fighting as British gunners struggled to defend their comrades from...
by Bill Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This is not just the story of what was perhaps the most daring raid undertaken by the commandos during the war, but it is also the true and remarkable account of a desperate escape by Marine Sparks and Major 'Blondie' Hasler across German-occupied France. For nearly three months, while they desperately...
Tunnelmaster and Arsonist of the Great War
The Norton-Griffiths Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2003
Sir John Norton-Griffiths was one of a breed of adventurer, pioneer, entrepreneur and soldier whose like is very seldom seen. Having learnt his trade and made his fortune mining the rich seams of south Africa, he turned his expertise to more deadly use in the Great war. He led the gallant miners who...
Escaper’s Progress
The Remarkable POW Experiences of a Royal Naval Officer
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
David James was in Motor Gunboats (with Robert Hichens of Gunboat Command.) Captured in February 1943 after abandoning ship as a result of a fierce engagement with three German armed trawlers in the North Sea he was imprisoned in Dulag Marlag.
His first tunnel was discovered before completion....
by Dominik Richert, D C Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
As a conscript from Alsace, Dominik Richert realized from the outset of the First World War that his family was likely to be at or near the front line. He was a reluctant soldier who was willing to stand up to authority – and to avoid risks – in order to survive. His honest account of his part...
by Carey, Brian Todd, Allfree
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Warfare in the Medieval World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe in the period between the fall of Rome and the introduction of reliable gunpowder weapons during the Thirty Years' War. Through an exploration of thirty-three selected battles,...
Prisoner of the Gestapo
A Memoir of Survival and Captivity in Wartime Poland
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Tom Firth begins his extraordinary memoir by describing his unusual childhood in Japan and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. In 1930 the family settled in his mothers native Poland only to split up when Poland was overrun by the Nazis and the Russians in 1939. Whilst his father and older...
Investigating Organised Crime and War Crimes
A Personal Account of a Senior Detective in Kosovo, Iraq and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Tony Nott retired from the Dorset Police in 2002 at the rank of superintendent. He had spent most of his service as a detective, and had been involved in the investigation of a number of murder cases and other serious crimes.
In 2000 he led the British forensic team on exhumations in Kosovo...
by Holt, Tonie,
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
This guide book covers the present-day battlefield, and the actions that took place on and immediately behind the D-Day beaches, and Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Guide to Normandy has been put together to take you around the area.This book, part of a new series of guides, is designed conveniently in...
Fort Douaumont
Verdun
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
This fully revised second edition of Christina Holstein’s acclaimed Battleground guide to Fort Douaumont will be essential reading for students of the Battle of Verdun, for visitors to the battlefield, and for anyone who is interested in the history of twentieth-century fortifications.
The...