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by Janet Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach, but it also marches in its boots and its uniforms, carrying or driving its weapons and other equipment, and all this material has to be ordered from headquarters, produced and delivered. Janet Macdonald's detailed and scholarly new study...
Maladies and Medicine
Exploring Health & Healing, 1540–1740
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized. It also explains the...
The Military Life and Times of General Sir Miles Dempsey
Monty's Army Commander
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Miles Dempsey, Commander of the British Second Army in the invasion of Europe 1944-45, is almost unknown to the general public. Yet his part in Britains contribution to that campaign was second only to Montgomerys in importance.Dempsey survived two and a half years of bitter fighting as an infantry...
Operation Mercury
The Fall of Crete 1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Unlike the few other books written on the catastrophic fall of Crete in May 1941, this book concentrates on the military actions between the first German paratroop landing on 20 May and the final defeat and evacuation on 30 May. As well as studying the strengths, tactics, leadership and weapons of...
by Arthur Banks
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2000
This is a unique study of the conflict of 1914-18 on land, sea and in the air, through maps, diagrams and illustrations. Within the scope of some 250 maps, Arthur Banks has presented both broad general surveys of political and military strategy, and the most closely researched details of major individual...
Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944
El Alamein, Tunisia, Algeria and Operation Torch
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Despatches in this volume include the despatch fo the campaign from Alamein to Tunis, by Field Marshal the Viscount Alexander of Tunis. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces North Africa; despatch on operation in the Western Desert December 1940 to February 1941, by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell,...
Traditional Enemies
Britain's War With Vichy France 1940-42
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
After the surrender of the French government in May 1940, the British were concerned that the resources of the French Empire, and particularly the powerful French fleet, would be put at the disposal of the Germans. The British, dependent upon their naval power and the resources of the Empire and Commonwealth...
Britain on the Brink
The Cold War’s Most Dangerous Weekend, 27-28 October 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Britain was America’s first-line defense, a vulnerable, but unsinkable ‘aircraft carrier’ on which the United States based the Strategic Air Command’s first-strike elements of their America’s nuclear deterrent. The Strategic Air Command’s UK bases...
Carriers at War
1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The Author begins this fascinating book by tracing aircraft carrier development between the Wars. Eschewed by the Germans and Italians and with Britain squandering her early lead, the Americans and Japanese became front-runners.
The Royal Navy learnt the hard way in the early stages of WW2...
Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to Operation Market Garden
Leopoldsburg-Eindhoven-Nijmegen-Arnhem-Oosterbeek
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Like the other books in the Holts' acclaimed Battlefield Guide Series (see inside front cover for details) this is much more than just a guidebook. It charts in fascinating detail what happened at each recommended stop and brings alive, with cameos and personal recollections, the dramatic events of...
The Nisibis War
The Defence of the Roman East AD 337-363
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the ‘Nisibis War’), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on a strategic offensive to bring about a decisive battle. Instead, the Emperor Constantius II adopted a defensive strategy and conducted a mobile defence based upon small frontier...
Special Operations South-East Asia 1942-1945
Minerva, Baldhead & Longshank/Creek
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Many books have been written about Second World War special forces operations in Europe and the Middle East. Much less has been said about such operations in South-East Asia – those launched against the Japanese in Sumatra and the Andaman Islands, and the Germans in Goa. These operations, and the...
Lost at Sea Found at Fukushima
The Story of a Japanese POW
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
On a calm, tropical afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in April 1942, a British tramp steamer, the SS Willesden, was shelled, torpedoed and sunk by a German raider, the KMS Thor. The Willesden was carrying 47 officers and crew, and a cargo of vital war supplies destined for Britain’s 8th Army...
The Flatpack Bombers
The Royal Navy and The Zeppelin Menace
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Our vision of aviation in the First World War is dominated by images of gallant fighter pilots duelling with each other high over the Western Front. But it was the threat of the Zeppelin which spurred the British government into creating the Royal Flying Corps, and it was this 'menace', which no aircraft...