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Cover of Vietnam from Cease-Fire to Capitulation [Illustrated Edition]
by Col. William E. Le Gro
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016

Col. William E. Le Gro was a staff member of the MACV (U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam) from 1972-1975 and served in Saigon during its last days. Armed with first-hand knowledge, including the GVN forces and their limits, this book will provide the reader with an accurate and detailed account of events following the U.S. withdrawal in 1973. Illustrated with 22 maps.
Cover of With Kitchener To Khartum [Illustrated Edition]
by George Warrington Steevens
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Illustrated with 15 maps George Warrington Steevens was among the most prominent journalists of the Victorian era; writing articles for the National Observer, Pall Mall Gazette and the newly founded Daily Mail; by far his most famous book was ‘With Kitchener to Khartum’. As close member of Kitchener’s...
Cover of Vietnam Studies - RIVERINE OPERATIONS 1966-1969 [Illustrated Edition]
by Major General William B. Fulton
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

[Includes 2 charts, 6 diagrams, 16 maps, and 21 illustrations] “This monograph describes U.S. Army Riverine planning and operations in the Republic of Vietnam during the years 1966 through 1969. Since the personal experience of the author was with preparations for riverine operations and the initial...
Cover of Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier

Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier

An Autobiography [Illustrated Edition]

by Colour-Sergeant Thomas Faughnan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

[Illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War] Thomas Faughnan served in the 6th Royal Regiment, now the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, during a most bloody period of British History. Born in Derry in...
Cover of The Invasion of the Crimea: Vol. VII [Sixth Edition]

The Invasion of the Crimea: Vol. VII [Sixth Edition]

Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan

by Alexander W. Kinglake
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017

This is the sixth edition of the seventh volume in a series of nine that was originally published in 1877, and which together provide a thoroughly comprehensive operational history of the Crimean War to June 1855, including all the early battles and the first attack on the Redan. Alexander...
Cover of Henry Clifford V.C.

Henry Clifford V.C.

His Letters and Sketches from the Crimea

by Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Hugh Clifford V.C.
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016

First published in 1956, this book is a rich collection of letters written by Major-General Sir Henry Clifford during his service in the Crimean War, where he received the appointment of aide-de-camp to Sir George Brown, commanding the light division, and was present at Alma and Inkerman. For his...
Cover of From Cadet To Colonel: The Record Of A Life Of Active Service Vol. II
by Major-Gen. Sir Thomas Seaton K.C.B.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

At the tender age of 16 Thomas Seaton took up a cadestship in the East India Company in 1822, and waved farewell to his native London for a career of soldiering in India. He was to spend most of his life in the Indian sub-continent and its border regions, at the sharp end of the expansion of the British...
Cover of Life and Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, Bart. — Vol. II
by Field Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, Bart.
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016

In this second volume Field Marshal Burgoyne letters and correspondence describe his service during the Crimean War and his later life. By the time of the conflict in Russian Sir John was inspector-general of fortifications and a major-general; he was assigned to the expedition as the chief engineering...
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Admiral Thunderbolt

The Spectacular Career of Peter Wessel, Norway’s Greatest Sea Hero

by Col. Hans Christian Adamson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

“A Sea Cadet in 1711 and a Vice Admiral in 1718, young Wessel barged into battle against his Swedish foes wherever he found them, often in direct violation of orders issued by timid souls in the Admiralty. But Frederik IV, King of Denmark-Norway, loved a winner. He gave his youthful fighting cock...
Cover of Moltke’s Projects for the Campaign of 1866 Against Austria
by Field Marshal Graf Helmuth von Moltke
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017

Originally published in 1907, this is the translation by the British Army War Office of Field Marshal Moltke’s military papers relating to the war of 1866 (first published in their original German in 1896). “A NEW light was thrown upon the campaign of 1864 by the publication, in 1892, of...
Cover of The Mahdist Revolution
by Major Robert N. Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

This paper analyzes the Mahdist Revolution in the Sudan from 1881 to 1885. Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdallah proclaimed himself the Mahdi (the expected one or the deliverer in the Islamic faith) and fought the colonial Egyptian government of the Sudan and the British. Britain was drawn into the conflict...
Cover of Kandahar In 1879: The Diary Of Major Le Messurier
by Major Augustus Le Messurier
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

A remarkable diary from the wars of the British Empire of the historic march on Kandahar in 1879. The Second Anglo-Afghan war 1878-1880 was intended to establish peace and British hegemony to the North-West frontiers of the Indian Empire. After the brutal and disastrous effort of the British...
Cover of Too Late For Gordon And Khartoum;

Too Late For Gordon And Khartoum;

The Testimony Of An Independent Eye-Witness Of The Heroic Efforts For Their Rescue And Relief [Illustrated Edition]

by Alexander Macdonald F.R.G.S.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Includes 6 detailed plans and maps Sudan was afire with flame and revolt in 1883 as the Islamic revolution headed by the self-proclaimed Mahdi gained followers and captured districts. The British government not wanting to be involved in the costly suppression of the rebellion ordered Egypt...
Cover of Reformation Europe, 1517-1559
by Sir G. R. Elton
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016

A classic account of the Reformation, revealing the issues and preoccupations which seemed central to the age and portraying its leading figures with vigour and realism. The book is an analysis of the religious, economic, cultural and political history of Europe during the period of the Reformation....
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