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Blowing Our Bridges
A Memoir From Dunkirk To Korea Via Normandy
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2004
This action packed military memoir tells of the exploits of a young Sapper officer during both the Second World War and in Korea. Tony Younger was in the thick of the action during the German Blitzkrieg of 1940 seeing desperate fighting as the beleaguered British Expeditionary Force struggled to escape...
The Will to Live
A japanese POWs Memoir of Captivity and The Railway
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The Author kept a diary recording his 1,000 days of captivity at the hands of the Japanese army. The difficulties and risks involved in this task were immense, yet he persevered although it meant deliberately defacing and cutting up the small pieces of paper. As a result, his memoir is both contemporaneous...
Captivity, Slavery and Survival as a Far East POW
The Conjurer on the Kwai
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Captivity, Slavery and Survival as a Far East POW is the incredibly moving story of Gus Anckorn, a British soldier who was captured by the Japanese and held for over three and a half years. Before the war, Gus was a magician and throughout the war, entertained both fellow soldiers and Japanese guards...
Never Surrender
Dramatic Escapes from Japanese Prison Camps
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
While there have been many fine books covering the appalling experiences and great courage of the many thousands of POWscaptured by the victorious Japanese during late 1941 and early 1942, escape accounts are much rarer. This is due in large part tothe fact that only a comparatively small number of...
Railway of Hell
A Japanese POW's Account of War, Capture and Forced Labour
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
A young captain in the Royal Norfolk Regiment, Reggie Burton was wounded in the closing stages of the disastrous defense of Malaya and Singapore. He vividly, yet calmly and with great dignity, describes the horror of captivity at the hands of the Japanese. After initial confusion, the true nature...
Secret Letters from the Railway
The Remarkable Record of a Japanese POW
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Charles Steel took part in two military disasters - the Fall of France and the Dunkirk evacuation, and the Fall of Singapore. Shortly before the latter, he married Louise. Within days of being captured by the Japanese, he began writing a weekly letter to his new bride as means of keeping in touch...
Mist on the Rice-Fields
A Soldier's Story of the Burma Campaign 1943 - 1045 and Korean War 1950-51
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
This is the story of a young officer in the Indian Army who commanded a company in the Burma Campaign of 1943 to 1945. It covers the part played by the author and his unit in the long campaign to recover Burma, starting with the fierce close-quarter fighting in the jungles and rice-fields in the Arakan...
Life on the Death Railway
The Memoirs of a British POW
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the experience – the dreadful conditions, the brutal treatment, the sickness and starvation, the merciless routine of forced labour. Yet he also recorded...
Belisarius
The Last Roman General
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
A military history of the campaigns of Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian. He twice defeated the Persians and reconquered North Africa from the Vandals in a single year at the age of 29, before going on to regain Spain and Italy, including Rome (briefly),...
by David Breeze
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
At its height, the Roman Empire was the greatest empire yet seen, its borders stretching from the rain-swept highlands of Scotland in the north to the sun-scorched Nubian desert in the south. But how were the vast and varied stretches of frontier defined and defended?
Many of Rome's frontier...
Hellenistic & Roman Naval Wars
336BC-31BC
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
The period covered in this book, is well known for its epic battles and grand campaigns of territorial conquest, but Hellenistic monarchies, Carthaginians and the rapacious Roman Republic were scarcely less active at sea. Huge resources were poured into maintaining fleets not only as symbols of prestige...
by Nic Fields
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
The third in the Roman Conquests series will briefly cover Rome's first forays into the dark continent during the First and Second Punic Wars, then cover in detail her vindictive final conquest and destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War. The subsequent long wars against the slippery Numidian...
by English, Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history, and many believe he was the greatest military genius of all time (Julius Caesar wept at the feet of his statue in envy of his achievements). Most of his thirteen year reign as king of Macedon was spent in hard campaigning which conquered...
Fields of Battle
Retracing Ancient Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read and form the basis of our knowledge of these epic events, but they can just as often provide an incomplete or obscure record....