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Battle for the Baltic Islands 1917
Triumph of the Imperial German Navy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
In late 1917, the Russians, despite the revolution, were still willing to continue the war against Germany. This is an account of Operation Albion, the highly successful sea borne operation launched by the Germans to change their minds. The Baltic Islands were pivotal for the defense of the Finnish...
Hitler's Secret Commandos
Operations of the K-Verband
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Hitler's Secret Commandos is the history of the K-Verband naval commando unit, established in 1943 to reek havoc amongst invading allied forces involved in amphibious landings or actions, against German-occupied coasts.
Following the Italian and British example, the basic idea was for a small,...
by Lawrence Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Lawrence Paterson is an author and historian.
by Daniel Mersey
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
The Roman army of the early empire is one of the most instantly recognizable armies and enjoys a reputation for excellence. This and their many famous campaigns against a wide range of colorful foes makes this one of the most popular periods for wargamers. Covering the period from 27BC to AD284, Daniel...
by Roy E. Stolworthy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
A powerful novel of a teenager who fights in the First World War, hoping to redeem himself after the death of his brother.
Feeling responsible for the accidental death of his recently conscripted brother, fifteen-year-old Thomas Elkin takes on the identity of his dead sibling—and enters into...
Surgeon at Arms
Parachuting into Arnhem with the First Airbornes
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Surgeon at Arms is without doubt one of the most interesting and dramatic personal memoirs to come out of the Second World War. The author, a surgeon, was parachuted into Arnhem with the First Airborne Division. His professional skill was at once tested to the limit and the modest detachment with...
by Jack Holroyd
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
By the end of the Second World War the reputation of Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS) had become so heavily sullied that the organization was branded criminal and banned in postwar Germany. It's authority in Nazi Germany had been enormous having been made responsible for Reich internal security, it implemented...
Pest Control
An Assassin Bug Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Bob Dillon can’t get a break. A down-on-his-luck exterminator, all he wants is his own truck with a big fiberglass bug on top — and success with his radical new, environmentally friendly pest-killing technique. So Bob decides to advertise. Unfortunately, one of his flyers falls into the wrong...
by Bill Fitzhugh
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
All Bob Dillon ever wanted was a truck with a big fiberglass bug on the roof. All he had to do was survive a half dozen assassination attempts, pull a ten million dollar con on a Bolivian drug lord, and then fall off the face of the earth with his family and his new best friend, Klaus. Six years later,...
Tales from the Rifle Brigade
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade Random Shots From a Rifleman
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
To Napoleon's troops, the sharp shooters of the 95th (Rifle) Regiment were 'the rascals in green', famed throughout Europe for their bravery, skill, and dash. Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade was the first book to be published by a veteran, recounting the amazing escapades of this legendary...
Wellington’s Worst Scrape
The Burgos Campaign 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The disastrous retreat and near disintegration of Sir John Moore’s army on the road to Corunna in 1809 is traditionally regarded as the low point in the history of the British intervention in the Peninsular War. Yet under the Duke of Wellington, the British and their allies suffered defeats and...
Peninsular Eyewitnesses
The Experience of War in Spain and Portugal 1808-1813
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Many books have been written about the British struggle against Napoleon in the Peninsula. A few recent studies have given a broader view of the ebb and flow of a long war that had a shattering impact on Spain and Portugal and marked the history of all the nations involved. But none of these books...
Fort Vaux
Verdun
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
The bitter fight for Fort Vaux is one of the most famous episodes in the Battle of Verdun - it has achieved almost legendary status in French military history. The heroic resistance put up by the fort’s commander, Major Raynal, and his small, isolated garrison in the face of repeated German assaults...
From the Marne to Verdun
The War Diary of Captain Charles Delvert, 101st Infantry, 1914–1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Charles Delvert’s diary records his career as a front-line officer in the French army fighting the Germans during the First World War. It is one of the classic accounts of the war in French or indeed in any other language, and it has not been translated into English before. In precise, graphic detail...