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by Sean Davies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
A study of medieval warfare and a formative event in the history of Britain.
Edward I’s conquest of Wales has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over a century. Research has advanced since then, changing our perception of the medieval military mind and shining fresh light on the key...
Air War Over North Vietnam
Operation Rolling Thunder, 1965–1968
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In early 1965 the United States unleashed the largest sustained aerial bombing campaign since World War II, against North Vietnam. Through an ever escalating onslaught of destruction, Operation Rolling Thunder intended to signal America’s unwavering commitment to its South Vietnamese ally in the...
Palestine
The Ottoman Campaigns of 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The campaigns fought by the Ottomans against the British in Palestine are often neglected in accounts of the Great War, yet they are fascinating from the point of view of military history and critically important because of their impact upon the modern Middle East. Edward Erickson's authoritative...
VCs of the North
Cumbria, Durham & Northumberland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Today the Victoria Cross remains the supreme British award for bravery. It takes precedence over all other awards and decorations. During its 160-year history, since the first medals were given for gallantry during the Crimean War in the 1850s, 1,357 of these medals have been won, and almost fifty...
Yom Kippur
No Peace, No War, October 1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. 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 no longer drawn, but they linger on,...
The Battle of the Lys 1918: North
Objective Ypres
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The second of two Battelground Europe titles covering this highly significant battle of spring 1918.
The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the Kaiser’s men. Following close on the heels...
by Craig Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
In 1939, North Northumberland shared a proud tradition of military service with it’s wider region and this was reflected in the huge numbers of men and women from the area who came forward for service in the military or in roles such as the Home Guard, ARP services or nursing.
This part of...
China Station
The British Militry in the Middle Kingdom 1839-1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries.
He devotes chapters to the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated...
by Caroline Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
In August 1914, the Isle of Man was in the middle of a very successful summer season. The tourist industry was crucial to the island, but suddenly holiday-makers left and the Steam Packet vessels that normally brought them were requisitioned. The future was uncertain for those who relied on the season...
by Kenneth L. Privratsky
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
While many books have been written on the Falklands War, this is the first to focus on the vital aspect of logistics. The challenges were huge; the lack of preparation time; the urgency; the huge distances involved; the need to requisition ships from trade to name but four.
After a brief discussion...
by Philip Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril - Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Churchill, as a former First Lord of the Admiralty, was well versed in the importance of Britain protecting itself at sea. In the opening years of the Second World War, Germany’s...
An Invincible Beast
Understanding the Hellenistic Pike Phalanx in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Hellenistic pike-phalanx was a true military innovation, transforming the face of warfare in the ancient world. For nearly 200 years, from the rise of the Macedonians as a military power in the mid-fourth century BC, to their defeat at the hands of th
Waffen SS on the Western Front
Rare photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book in the popular Images of War series covers the deeds of the Waffen-SS on the Western Front during the Second World War. With extensive text and in-depth captions with many rare and unpublished photographs it describes the fighting tactics, the uniforms, the battles and the different elements...
King Stephen and The Anarchy
Civil War and Military Tactics in Twelfth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Anarchy, the protracted struggle between Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda for the English crown between 1135 and 1154, is often seen as a disastrous breakdown in one of the best-governed kingdoms of medieval Europe. But perhaps the impact of the conflict has been overstated, and its effect...