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Napoleon's Rise to Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
In a tense, crowded thirty-three days in the autumn of 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte organized a coup and made himself dictator of France. Yet his position was precarious. He knew that France would accept his rule only if he gained military victories that brought peace. James Arnold, in this detailed and...
Wellington Against Soult
The Second Invasion of Portugal 1809
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
At the heart of David Buttery’s third book on the Peninsular War lies the comparison between two great commanders of enormous experience and reputation – Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, and Jean de Dieu Soult. In Soult, Wellesley met one of his most formidable opponents and they confronted...
Sniper of the Skies
The Story of George Frederick 'Screwball' Beurling, DSO, DFC, DFM
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
When asked to conjure an impression of the 'typical fighter pilot', you may be inclined to think of the confident, extroverted, gregarious type, rallying his men and flying in the pursuit of victory. George Frederick 'Screwball' Beurling, DSO, DFC, and DFM, certainly achieved more victories than most...
Their Finest Hour
Stories of the Men who Won the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Their Finest Hour tells the fascinating stories of six of Churchill’s ‘Few', each of whom played an important part in the Battle of Britain. Celebrated and much respected on their own squadrons, all have since faded into obscurity. Their achievements, against all odds, and the fortunes of their...
by Nick Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Stafford in the Great War tells the fascinating story of a county town and its people between the catastrophic years of 1914-18 . The title was written as a companion volume to the author's earlier work, Stafford at War 1939-45, and adopts the same successful formula. The book examines the work of...
The Armed Rovers
Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
By far the most dangerous of the RAF operations during the Second World War were daylight attacks on enemy shipping, yet little has been written about this aerial campaign and the brave airmen who took part. In particular the intense air-sea battles that were fought in the Mediterranean have been...
Menin Gate North
In Memory and In Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanize the Menin Gate Memorial (North), to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been...
by Andy Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
Jane was a wartime phenomenon. A sensation. She was also an important feature in the morale of Britain's fighting forces around the world and to those left behind on the "Home Front". So important, in fact, that her fame extended to the House of Commons where one wartime MP referred to our...
Setting France Ablaze
The SOE in France During WWII
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
During the summer of 1940, as Britain was fighting alone for its survival, the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, instructed the newly formed and clandestine Special Operations Executive to “set Europe ablaze.” From that moment on the S.O.E. took its own war to Nazi-occupied Europe by...
Brothers In Arms
The Unique Collection of Letters and Photographs of Two Brothers from the Front
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Hidden away in the back of an old desk drawer was a dusty pile of school-style exercise books. In them were the recollections of a young officer who had fought with the Essex Regiment in the First World War from the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915, through the mud and misery of Ypres, to see victory...
Sherman Tanks of the British Army and Royal Marines
Normandy Campaign 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of the Normandy landings was the mainstay of Britain's armored battalions. In his second book in the TankCraft series, Dennis Oliver uses wartime photos...
Veterans
The Last Survivors of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
Using the veterans’ own words and photographs, the book brings to life a mixture of their excitement of embarkation for France, their unbound optimism and courage, the agony of the trenches, and numbing fear of going over the top. The fight for survival, the long ordeal of those who were wounded...
by Mark Carter
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
This is a vivid and perceptive insight into the horrors of war as experienced by British soldiers of the Royal Artillery in the Desert War in 1941–2. The author, who fought in the campaign, brings to life the true nature of the fighting as British gunners struggled to defend their comrades from...
by Bill Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This is not just the story of what was perhaps the most daring raid undertaken by the commandos during the war, but it is also the true and remarkable account of a desperate escape by Marine Sparks and Major 'Blondie' Hasler across German-occupied France. For nearly three months, while they desperately...