Pen: 3888 books
The Battle for Burma
Wild Green Earth
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a bigger force, on the same unorthodox lines, could make a strategic difference. Aged 32, Fergusson...
On the Roads of War
A Soviet Cavalryman on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Ivan Yakushin survived the Siege of Leningrad, fought at the Battle of Kursk and pursued the retreating German army through Russia, Belorussia, Poland and into Germany itself. This is the story of his war. He tells the tale in his own words, with remarkable clarity of recall, and gives an authentic...
Dawn of Victory, Thank You China!
Star Shell Reflections 1918–1919
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Jim Maultsaid’s third and final book, The Dawn of Victory, Thank You China! is based on his service with the 169 Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) between 1918 – 1919.
There were 96,000 Chinese volunteer in the CLC and their achievements have gone largely unrecognized for 100 years. As Jim Maultsaid’s...
A Woman Living in the Shadow of the Second World War
Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
“These previously unpublished diaries of an English woman surviving the war at home provide a fascinating insight into society and life” (Firetrench).
Helena Hall’s daily diary of the war years, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed and evocative personal records of the Second...
by Michelle Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
An “utterly brilliant” and deeply researched guide to the sights, smells, endless wonders, and profound changes of nineteenth century British history (Books Monthly, UK).
Step into the past and experience the world of Victorian England, from clothing to cuisine, toilet arrangements to transport—and...
by Stanley Wort
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
A memoir of serving in prewar Hong Kong, being held prisoner by the Japanese, and surviving slave labor.
This is the story of a young man thrust into the Royal Navy in distant Hong Kong. With both drama and humor, he relates some of the situations in which he found himself—and provides a...
Captured at the Imjin River
The Korean War Memoirs of a Gloster
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2003
The author, a young conscript, fought with The Glorious Glosters at the legendary Imjin River battle. Heavily outnumbered by the Chinese and subjected to 'human-wave' infantry attacks, he and his colleagues suffered the trauma of being overrun and the vast majority of those who were not killed became...
Jungle Warfare
Experiences and Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
The physical conditions of jungle warfare and the closeness of contact with the enemy pose unique problems and call for special soldiering skills. Colonel John Cross, a life long Gurkha officer, has an unrivalled knowledge of this demanding warfare and uses it to best advantage in this instructive...
Healing in Hell
The Memoirs of a Far Eastern POW Medic
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Ken Adams, as a trained medic, was sent out to the Far East and immediately saw action on the Malay Peninsula. Captured at Singapore he initially worked at Changi Hospital. Many moves and much worse capos in Thailand were to follow. He describes his life, work and the terrible conditions endured at...
Sacrifice, Captivity and Escape
The Remarkable Memoirs of a Japanese POW
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Sacrifice, Captivity and Escape is an exceptional story. Peter Jackson was young and recently married when he was drafted into the army at the start of World War II. He had no wish to be there but like most of his generation he was given no choice.
Peter arrived in Singapore just as the city...
Wingate’s Lost Brigade
The First Chindit Operations 1943
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
With the Japanese seemingly unbeatable after their conquest of Malaya, Singapore, Thailand and much of Burma, Orde Wingate’s plans to conduct long range deep penetration operations behind Japanese lines in Burma were audacious to say the least. His Chindit operations (so called after Chindwin River)...
by Geoffrey Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
When Singapore fell so ignominiously to the Japanese in February 1942, many tens of thousands of men, women and children were left to their own devices. To stay in Singapore meant certain captivity. This book tells of some of the remarkable and shocking experiences that lay in store for those who...
We Fought at Kohima
At Veteran's Account
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The Japanese advance through Thailand, Malaya and Burma appeared unstoppable and the fate of India looked utterly precarious.
The garrison of the Kohima outpost numbering some 1500 British and Indian Army soldiers faced over 13,000 fanatical and previously victorious Japanese troops. The following...
by Neville Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
This remarkable story begins with as a young National Serviceman in 1951, the author walked through the gates at the Welch Brigade Training Centre, Brecon, and ends when he walked back into Civvy Street in 1953. Between these dates he went through many life-changing experiences, in particular the...