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The U-Boat War in the Atlantic
Volume III: 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This is the third of three volumes describing U-boat operations in the Atlantic during the Second World War.
This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939...
21 Days in Normandy
Maj. Gen. George Kitching & the 4th Canadian Armoured Division
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
“Right[s] some of the injustices done to the Canadians” on their maligned actions during the Invasion of Normandy. “An absorbing account” (Firetrench).
The Canadian Fourth Armoured Division crossed the Channel in July 1944 to support the invading forces and assist in the Allied attempts...
by Peter Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
As early as 1940 political leaders and military commanders responsible for the conduct of the Allied operations relalised that, after a string of disastrous setbacks, national morale could only be restored by taking offensive action against the enemy. With the limited resources available Churchill’s...
All Quiet on the Home Front
An Oral History of Life in Britain During the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
A “fascinating” look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War (World War One Illustrated).
The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and...
Silent Skies
Gliders at War 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2008
On 10 May 1940 warfare changed forever when gliders swooped down to seize the fortress of Eben Emael in Belgium ahead of the German advance. In the following five years of war, the glider evolved into a war-winning weapon capable of landing men, guns and even tanks with pinpoint precision. Across...
by Martin Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This is the second volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day that includes a multitude of personal military accounts from both Allied and German Aviation personnel ‘who were there’. Overlord began with an assault by more than 23,000 airborne troops, 15,500 of them American, behind enemy...
by Richard Pike
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Tom Pike joined the Royal Air Force on 17 January 1924 as a Flight Cadet at Cranwell. During a long and varied career in peace and war he held a wide variety of RAF appointments around the world and when he eventually retired he had held the ultimate post in the RAF, that of Chief of Air Staff and...
by Kari Stennman, Kalevi Keskinen
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This superb illustrated series books charts the rise and fall of the German Air Force from 1939 to 1945. Each volume makes use of over a hundred rare photographs, many of them taken by Luftwaffe personnel, to bring history to life and record both the men and the aircraft they flew.
This title...
With the German Guns
four years on the western front
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
At once harrowing and light-hearted, Sulzbach’s exceptional diary has been highly praised since its orginal publication in Germany in 1935. With the reprint of this classic account of trench warfare it records the pride and exhilaration of what to him was the fight for a just cause. It is one of...
Napoleon’s Army in Russia
The Illustrated Memoirs of Albrecht Adam, 1812
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
In 1812 Napoleon's magnificent army invaded Russia. Among the half a million men who crossed the border was Albrecht Adam, a former baker, a soldier and, most importantly for us, a military artist of considerable talent. As the army plunged ever deeper into a devastated Russia Adam sketched and painted....
With Napoleons Guard in Russia
The Memoirs of Major Vionnet, 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Major Louis Joseph Vionnets memoirs of Napoleons disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdote and vivid glimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier. His account concentrates in particular on the retreat from Moscow, but he was present at all...
Hurricane over the Jungle
120 Days Fighting the Japanese Onslaught in 1942
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
This is the author's personal account of how the 22 pilots of No 258 Squadron RAF left Scotland in late October 1941 until 120 days later when all those who had not been killed became prisoners of the Japanese. The story takes us to the final defense of Singapore and then on to Sumatra and Java where...
Voices in Flight: The Fleet Air Arm
Recollections from Formation to Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The author Malcolm Smith has been the Editor of Jabberwock, the bi-annual journal of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, for two years and has inherited the complete archive of editions dating back to the formation of SOFFAAM in 1979. In browsing through these, it quickly became apparent to him that they provided...
With the SAS and Other Animals
A Vet's Experiences during the Dhofar War 1974
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
In 1970 at the height of the Cold War, the young Sandhurst-trained Sultan Qaboos of Oman, with secret British military backing, took on the communist rebels in a fierce but little known war. Along with regular British Army and contract officers, the SAS played a key role in this bitterly fought but...