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Memoirs of a Red Cross Doctor
Better to Light a Candle
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Synonymous with conflict and humanitarian aid, the mandate of the International Red Cross (ICRC) is to protect the wounded victims of war, civilians, prisoners and refugees alike.
In Memoirs of a Red Cross Doctor, Frank Ryding recounts the missions he undertook with the Red Cross during a career...
Posters of The Great War
Published in association with Historical le Grande Guerre, Peronne, France
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Until the arrival of radio and television, and despite the influence of newspapers, posters were the major medium for mass communication. During the Great War all the belligerent nations produced an extraordinary variety of them - and they did so on a massive scale. As the 200 wartime and immediate...
by Jon Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
In June 1948, Joseph Stalin halted all road and rail traffic in to and out of the Allied sector of Berlin and cut off all electricity to the city. The only route into Berlin was by means of three twenty-mile-wide air corridors across the Soviet zone of Germany. Thus the wartime allies of Britain,...
Operation Lusty
The Race for Hitler's Secret Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
A fascinating overview of the Allies’ post-WWII program to gain access to advanced Nazi war machines and the technology they ultimately recovered.
Prior to the Allied D-Day assault on Normandy, France, rumors had already been circulating that high-tech Nazi super-weapons (wunderwaffe) had reached...
Julius Caesar's Disease
A New Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
It is generally accepted as a historical fact that Julius Caesar suffered from epilepsy, an illness which in classical times was sometimes associated with divinely bestowed genius. The ancient sources describe several episodes when, sometimes at critical junctures, one of the most famous military...
Saladin: Hero of Islam
Hero of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The extraordinary character and career of Saladin are the keys to understanding the Battle of Hattin, the fall of Jerusalem and the failure of the Third Crusade. He united warring Muslim lands, reconquered the bulk of Crusader states and faced the Richard the Lion Heart, king of England, in one of...
Road to Manzikert
Byzantine and Islamic Warfare 527-1071
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the Anatolian heartland of the Empire. Outmaneuvered by the Turkish sultan, Alp Arslan, Romanus was forced to give battle with only half his troops near Manzikert....
by Lucinda Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Animals in the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse reveals...
Service Most Silent
The Navy’s Fight Against Enemy Mines
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
From the very outset of war Nazi Germany demonstrated its determination and ability to lay siege to the British Isles by the laying of mines in shipping lanes. Losses to both merchant ships and naval vessels became a serious factor. If supplies continued to be lost by a combination of U-Boat and mine...
Our Chances were Zero
The Daring Escape by two German POW's from India in 1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2008
During World War II the British imprisoned many German and Italian prisoners of war and civilian internees in India. The less co-operative prisoners were kept under harsh conditions in camps in the Himalayan foothills.
The author was a German civilian working in India at the outbreak of war...
by Charles Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 1997
Charles Evans records his passage from idyllic youth, fresh from Oxford in 1939, into the harsh reality of a junior doctor in Burma. Beautifully written and elegantly vivid, his diaries illuminate the progress of this ugly campaign while his post-war life saw ground-breaking work as a mountaineer, eventually rewarded by a knighthood.
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones’s series of books on armoured warfare in the Images of War series is a graphic account of the development of armoured forces in the Arab and Israeli armies from 1948 to the present day. In a sequence of over 200 archive photographs he tells the story of...
Hitler's Gulf War
The Fight for Iraq 1941
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This military history of the Iraqi revolt in WWII, told from the point of view of the men who were there, is “a fantastic and enjoyable book” (Col. Tim Collins, OBE).
In the spring of 1941, on an airfield fifty-five miles from Baghdad, a group of RAF airmen and soldiers were outnumbered by...
Fight the Good Fight
Voices of Faith from the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
“The inspiring stories of a number of very different characters who used their Christian faith to cope with their experiences of the First World War.” —Jacqueline Wadsworth, author of Letters from the Trenches
While a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world...