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1915 The First World War in Photographs
Setbacks & Failures
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
1915, the second year of the Great War, was to see the failure of the Dardanelles landings and the sinking of the Lusitania, shown below, with the loss of 1,198 people, as well as the first bombing of mainland Britain by Zeppelin and the entry of Italy into the war. Huge battles would be fought at...
1941 The Second World War in Photographs
A Global Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
1941 At the beginning of the year, Britain stood alone against Germany and Italy. The war in Africa dominated the headlines, with huge swathes of the North African desert changing hands continually. At sea, Germany’s Bismarck sank HMS Hood, but was soon sunk herself, while Fortress Britain endured...
1944 The Second World War in Photographs
Liberation & Vengeance
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
1944 saw the largest seaborne invasion ever staged in Operation Overlord. The Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, opened the way for the thrust into the occupied countries of northern Europe, in particular France, with the Allies liberating Paris in August. This was the...
1917 The First World War in Photographs
Mud and Tanks
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
1917, the fourth year of the Great War, saw another year in the trenches for millions of troops mobilised in Europe. Apart from short patrols in the North Sea, the ships of the Royal Navy and Germany’s imperial navy remained in port. However, the enemy submarines were in operation intensively. In...
1945 The Second World War in Photographs
A Brave New World
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
1945 was the meeting point of two eras. It marked the end of the Second World War, a conflict ushered in by the lightning strikes of the Blitzkrieg and characterised by the brutalities inflicted by the Nazi regime. It concluded with the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima...
1940 The Second World War in Photographs
Britain Stands Alone
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
1940 As the period of the ‘Phoney War’ came to an end, the Nazis unleashed their Blitzkrieg tactics, which saw the rapid mobility of the ground forces closely supported by superior air power. The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Norway fell in the spring, and the British Expeditionary Force made...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Everyone knows that members of the U.S. Special Forces are the top-shelf, crème de la crème, A-Number-Ones, specially hand-picked people to train and serve as the avant garde of the largest, most well-funded military on the face of the earth. But that doesn’t happen overnight! There are special...
by Ian Speller
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
This new and updated edition of Understanding Naval Warfare offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare, providing a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues, and debates, set within the context of relevant history.
Navies operate in an environment...
Forgotten Warriors
The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, the Corps Ethos, and the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the Marine Corps was ordered to deploy an air-ground brigade in less than ten days, even though no such brigade existed at the time. Assembled from the woefully understrength 1st Marine Division and 1st Marine Air Wing units, the Brigade shipped out only six...
Ride Around Missouri
Shelby’s Great Raid 1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
In July 1863, with the Confederacy still reeling from the defeats at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Union forces pushed deep into Arkansas, capturing the capital of Little Rock. In response, Colonel Joseph O. Shelby launched a daring raid to disrupt the advance. Taking 600 men and a section of light artillery,...
Tel El-Kebir 1882
Wolseley's Conquest of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
In 1881, the Egyptian army mutinied against the Khedive of Egypt and forced him to appoint Said Ahmed Arabi as Minister of War. In March 1882, Arabi was made a Pasha and from this time on acted as a dictator. Arabi demanded that the foreigners be driven out of Egypt and called for the massacre of...
At Close Quarters
SOE Close Combat Pistol Instructor Colonel Hector Grant-Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the paramount Allied sabotage force of the Second World War. Its job - in Churchill's words - was to "set Europe ablaze" through the use of sabotage, insurrection and assassination. One of its "shining Stars" and "legends" was the close-combat pistol instructor,...
by Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Topics covered in this volume include Israel's experience in counterinsurgency warfare, the effectiveness of security barriers, predicting the rise of Hamas, lessons of the Second Lebanon War of 2006, and the possibility of security arrangements for Israel in the Golan Heights. Contributors include...
The Forgotten Dead
The true story of Exercise Tiger, the disastrous rehearsal for D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise...