Pictorial category: 1048 books
Nineteenth Century Freedom Fighters
The 1st South Carolina Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
The 1st South Carolina Volunteers, later the 33rd United States Colored Troops, were the first black unit of the Civil War. Preceding the famous 54th Massachusetts�seen in the film Glory�by one year, these South Carolina slaves turned soldiers were noted for their courage, discipline, and pride,...
by Philip Haythornthwaite
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Though less celebrated than the infantry and cavalry, Napoleon's 'specialist' troops – artillery, engineers and supporting services – were indispensable elements without which no army could have operated, and frequently assumed greater significance than the line regiments. Indeed, having suffered...
Mayday!
Shipwrecks, Tragedies & Tales from Long Island's Eastern Shore
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
From valiant rescues to sorrowful disasters, the eastern shore of Long Island is home to a riveting collection of maritime lore.Since the mid-1600s, eastern Long Island�s shoals, sandbars and assorted submerged hazards have caused many an unlucky vessel to become shipwrecked. The frequency of wrecks...
Curiosities of the Confederate Capital
Untold Richmond Stories of the Spectacular, Tragic and Bizarre
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In the early days of the Civil War, Richmond was declared the capital of the Confederacy, and until now, countless stories from its tenure as the Southern headquarters have remained buried. Mary E. Walker, a Union doctor and feminist, was once held captive in the city for refusing to wear proper women's...
New York's North Country and the Civil War
Soldiers, Civilians and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Although Northern New York did not host any Civil War battles, it did not come out unscathed in the War Between the States. Brave soldiers fought in many major clashes, such as those of Jefferson County's Thirty-fifth New York Volunteer Regiment. Civilians struggled for the cause in their own way, with...
by Mr Martin Windrow
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
This volume covers the classic 'Beau Geste' period, of the French Foreign Legion when the corps was expanded during the most dynamic years of French imperial expansion. Legion battalions fought in the deserts and mountains of southern Algeria and Morocco, as well as in the jungles of North Vietnam,...
Hitler's Defeat on the Eastern Front
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
A stunning photographic account of Hitler’s last stand in the face of the Red Army’s successful offensive of 1944.
Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions, the book provides an absorbing analysis of this traumatic period of the Second World War....
The Waffen SS in Combat
A photographic history
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This is the photographic history of the Waffen-SSS in combat on all fronts. The short six year history of the Waffen SS spanned triumph and disaster, and their story can be traced through these powerful images, which clearly document the reality of combat from 1940 to 1945. These rare images span...
The British at First and Second Ypres
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army at Ypres from 1914-15. Rare photographs illustrating the optimistic men of the BEF in the act of mobilization and transport to France are contrasted with photographs from the battlefield during the opening...
Trench Warfare
Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This powerful collection, depicting the grim events of trench warfare, showcases the work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era. Included here are the works of serious artists, propagandists, illustrators and humorists. The result is a stunning and vivid graphic...
The BEF in 1917
Arras, Vimy, Messines, Passchendaele and Cambrai
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army at Passchendaele. The book is comprised of rare photographs illustrating the years of fighting on the northern sector of the Ypres salient, which finally culminated in the capture of the ridge at Passchendaele,...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The famous image of Hitler in Paris has become one of the most iconic images of the Second World War. However, Hitler only spent a few hours in Paris before heading to Flanders to re-visit the sites of the battlefields where he had served during the Great War. He was on a propaganda mission to publicize...
The German Army on Campaign 1914 - 1918
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This is the photographic history of the German Army on campaign throughout the First World War. The most striking images from the German perspective are gathered here and form a significant historical record of one of the most important events of modern history.
In 1914, the German war machine...
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The battlefield interaction between infantry and tanks was central to combat on most fronts in World War II. The first 'Blitzkrieg' campaigns saw the tank achieve a new dominance. New infantry tactics and weapons – some of them desperately dangerous – had to be adopted, while the armies raced...