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BRIXMIS - The Last Cold War Mission

by Steve Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011

BRIXMIS (The British Commander-in-Chief’s Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most little-known and covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind "enemy lines" 1- months after the Second World War had ended and remained operating...

The Tale Of The Indian Mutiny [Illustrated Edition]

by William Henry Fitchett
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny. William Henry Fitchett was a prodigious author writing many books on British History, perhaps his most famous is his one volume history of the Indian Mutiny. Variously...

The Flight Of The ‘Goeben’ And The ‘Breslau,’ An Episode In Naval History

by Admiral Sir A. Berkeley Milne
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

The pursuit of Goeben and Breslau was a naval action that occurred in the Mediterranean Sea at the outbreak of the First World War when elements of the British Mediterranean Fleet attempted to intercept the German Mittelmeerdivision consisting of the battlecruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser...

Birth Of Modern Counterfire - The British And American Experience In World War I

by Major William M. Campsey
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

This study investigates the original needs for and development of counterfire techniques in World War I. Concentrating on the experiences of the British and the Americans, the examination explores techniques of counterfire and their failures or successes. The first chapter investigates why World War...

Gibraltar

The Greatest Siege in British History

by Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018

A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain’s Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France—an overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded,...

Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword

The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808–1815

by Andrew Bamford
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

Although an army’s success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword, military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of the British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic...

Loyalists and Redcoats

A Study in British Revolutionary Policy

by Paul H. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Focusing on the role of the American Loyalists in Great Britain's military policy throughout the Revolutionary War, this book also analyzes the impact of British politics on plans to utilize those colonists who remained faithful to the Crown. The capacity of the Loyalists to affect the war's outcome...

British Soldiers of the Korean War

In Their Own Words

by Stephen F. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

More than 30,000 British troops fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953 and more than 3,000 died, with over 1,000 being captured and held in atrocious conditions by the Chinese or Koreans. At least half of those captured died in prison camps. More than 70 per cent of those who fought were 18-19 year...

Making British Culture

English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830

by David Allan
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008

Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship...

Real War Horses

The Experience of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914

by Anthony Leslie Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016

Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to...

A Lady’s Escape From Gwalior [Illustrated Edition]

by Ruth Coopland
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014

[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny] By 1857, British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India. But in 1858...

Great Britain's Great War

by Jeremy Paxman
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013

Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people. NOW A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION SERIES "He writes so well and sympathetically, and chooses his detail so deftly, that if there...

The Great Turning Points of British History

The 20 Events That Made the Nation

by Michael Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013

Twenty of the most crucial moments in Britain's history. BBC History Magazine asked a selection of leading historians to choose and describe the twenty most important turning points in British history from AD 1000 to 2000. Collected together, their choices present a new way of looking at our...

In a Guardsman’s Boots

A Boy Soldier’s Adventures from the Streets of 1920s Dublin to Buckingham Palace, WWII and the Egyptian Revolution

by Paddy Rochford, Caroline Rochford
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

When he was just eight years old, Paddy Rochford enrolled at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Military School, where he was taught how to be a soldier with the British Army, like his father. Soon afterwards, in 1922, he and his fellow pupils were evacuated from Ireland, a land torn apart by civil war. Across...

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