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Light Dragoons
The Making of a Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Although only formed in December 1992, The Light Dragoons look back to a history that began in the days of the first Jacobite rebellion. In 1922 a reduction in the Army’s strength saw the amalgamation of four regiments of Hussars into the 13th/18th Hussars and the 15th/19th Hussars. Now they too...
Salamanca 1812
Wellington’s Year of Victories
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
1812 was the year in which the Peninsular War swung in the favor of the combined forces of the British, the Spanish and the Portuguese. This was the result of a series of victories over the French gained by the allied armies under Wellington, and this is the subject of Peter Edwards’s compelling...
Marching with Wellington
With the Enniskillings through the Peninsula to waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2003
Compiled from hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, this book tells of the dangers and rigors of life as experienced by the Infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. A superbly researched work by an expert historian, it captures the atmosphere of the era with total immediacy made possible only because the writers were actually there.
Impossible Victories
Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds – victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counter attack, an unexpected manoeuvre, a stubborn refusal to be beaten and the impossible victory is won. In the ten dramatic episodes in this book, military...
by Ian Fletcher, Natalia Ishchenko
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
On 20 September 1854 the combined British and French armies confronted the Russians at the river Alma in the critical opening encounter of the Crimean War. This was the first major battle the British had fought on European soil since Waterloo almost 40 years before.
In this compelling and meticulously...
Life of Sir John Moore
Not a Drum Was Heard
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Sir John Moore organized and trained the British light infantry during the Napoleonic wars, and thus is regarded as the father of all subseqent British special warfare units. This biography is the first to draw on papers in the archives of the Dukes of Hamilton and Argyll which shed new light on Moore's...
Lost to the Sea
Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby. But the Romans and the Ravenser folk are long gone, as are their streets and buildings – sunk beneath...
Servants' Stories
Life Below Stairs in their Own Words 1800-1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Step into the world of domestic service and discover what life was really like for these unsung heroines (and heroes) of society. Between 1800 and 1950, the role of servants changed dramatically but they remained the people without whom the upper and middle classes could not function.
Through oral...
A Pauper's History of England
1,000 Years of Peasants, Beggars & Guttersnipes
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
A unique tour through British history—from the perspective of the peasants and the poverty-stricken.
The past is traditionally told from the viewpoint of kings and queens, politicians and pioneers. But what about the people struggling to survive at the very lowest levels of society?
A Pauper’s...
The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes
The Ancient World Economy & the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia & Han China
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
A fascinating history of the intricate web of trade routes connecting ancient Rome to Eastern civilizations, including its powerful rival, the Han Empire.
The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian...
Rise of the Tang Dynasty
The Reunification of China and the Military Response to the Steppe Nomads (AD581-626)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD. Narrating the campaigns and battles, he analyses in detail the strategy and tactics employed, a central theme being the collision of the steppe cavalry with Chinese infantry armies.
By...
In Action With the Sas
A Soldiers Odyssey from Dunkirk to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Roy Close's wartime experiences make breathtaking reading. Mobilized in 1939 he became part of the BEF and was fortunate to avoid death or captivity during the German blitzkrieg and escape through Dunkirk. Sent to North Africa, he joined the Paras and, from there, to the SAS. In 1944 he operated behind...
The Platoon
An Infantryman on the Western Front 1916-18
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
John Joseph Steward fought in the Great War, from the Battle of the Somme to the final offensives of 1918, and he was an acute, unflinching observer of the conflict he took part in - of life and death on the Western Front. He was a writer, too. He recorded his experiences in accurate detail and later...
Free to Fight Again
RAF Escapes and Evasions 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. To then manage to return to Allied shores inevitably needed considerably more good fortune and often the assistance of local patriots and resistance workers.
This...