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by Peter Liddle
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
How can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile...
by John Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Deborah is a British First World War tank that rose from the grave after taking part in one of the most momentous battles in history. In November 1917 she played a leading role in the first successful massed tank attack at Cambrai. Eighty years later, in a remarkable feat of archaeology, the tank’s...
The Operators
On The Street with Britain's Most Secret Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Few outside the security services have heard of 14 Company. As deadly as the SAS yet more secret, the Operators of 14 Company are Britain’s most effective weapon against international terrorism. For every bomb that goes off 14 Company prevent twelve. The selection process is the most physically,...
by James Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
“A photographic history of the Nazi party’s building works in Munich and in the Berchtesgaden and Obersalzberg . . . These postcards are fascinating” (HistoryOfWar.org).
Hitler’s Alpine Headquarters looks at the development of the Obersalzberg from a small, long established farming...
S.A.S Men in the Making
An Original's Account of Operations in Sicily and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Peter Davis was the youngest officer in the SAS during World War II. In his autobiographical account, he reveals the naïve enthusiasm he felt when he joined the Unit, his fears and trepidation during training, and the horror at what he later experienced during his first operations in the liberation...
Prussian Apocalypse
The Fall of Danzig 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Egbert Kieser’s graphic account of the Red Army’s assault on East Prussia in 1945 is one of the classic histories of the destruction of Hitler’s Germany, and it has never before been available in English. Using extensive, firsthand, unforgettable eyewitness testimony, he documents in riveting...
by Richard Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
A total of eleven British armoured divisions were formed during the 1939-1945 war but, as this highly informative book reveals, just eight saw action.
In 1940 only 1st Armoured Division faced the German blitzkrieg and it was in the North African desert that armoured divisions came into their...
Hitler's Arctic War
The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
‘In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German divisions would have to fight and to winter in northern Karelia and on the Murmansk coast.’ (Lieutenant-General...
El Salvador
Dance of the Death Squads, 1980–1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...
Bay of Pigs
CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House. Badly planned, badly organized, the affair was littered with mistakes...
Antigonus the One-Eyed
Greatest of the Successors
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors,' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to Greece. After Alexander's death, Antigonus,...
Why the Germans Lost
The Rise and Fall of the Black Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book examines the history of the German Army which, for the best part of two centuries, influenced the course of events in Continental Europe. It was an army that studied the conduct of war at the highest levels, planning for the destruction of its opponents during the early stages of a war....
by Paul Strong, Sanders Marble
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
A year-by-year examination of key WWI battles and how the ongoing advances in artillery shaped strategy, tactics, and oprations; includes battlefield maps!
World War I is often said to have been an artillery war, yet the decisive role artillery played in shaping military decisions—and therefor...
Poland Betrayed
The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
An in-depth history of the attack that began World War II, and one country’s courageous fight against two unstoppable forces.
Hitler’s military offensive against Poland on September 1, 1939 was the brutal act that triggered the start of World War II, wreaking six years of death and bloodshed...