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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Why is Colonel pronounced "kernal"? Why does a Lieutenant General outrank a Major General? Why is Navy Captain a higher rank than Army-Air Force-Marine Captain? Why do Sergeants wear chevrons? Was John J. Pershing a six-star General? The answers to these and other such questions as well...
The Fatal Fortress
The Guns and Fortifications of Singapore 1819 - 1953
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 was arguably the greatest disaster suffered by the British Empire. Between 1923 and 1938, the Singapore naval base had been upgraded with some of the largest coast guns ever installed. The guns’ design and incorrect siting have since been blamed for the humiliating...
by Gavin Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Formed in June 1940 for the purpose of gathering intelligence behind
enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) played a secretive but vital role in North Africa during World War II. Highly trained in mechanized reconnaissance and specializing in desert operations, the unit provided support to...
Hitler's Naval Bases
Kriegsmarine Bases During the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Hitler's U-boats and his dreaded pocket battleships such as Bismarck and Tirpitz - Churchill dubbed the latter as 'The Beast' - continue to fascinate an ever-growing interest in the Second World War. Despite a numerical disadvantage when compared the Royal Navy, Hitler's U-boats wrecked havoc in the...
Tirpitz
The Life and Death of Germany's Last Great Battleship
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Referred to by Winston Churchill as `the Beast', `Tirpitz' was Germany's last great battleship and was one of the largest and heaviest battleships ever constructed by a European navy. Sister ship to the infamous `Bismarck', `Tirpitz' may be referred to as `the Lonely Queen of the North'. Laid down...
by Bill O'Neal
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
With its vast size and long frontier period, Texas was the scene of more combat events between Native American warriors and Anglo soldiers and settlers than any other state or territory. The US Army, therefore, erected more military outposts in Texas, a tradition begun by Spanish soldados and their...
Escort Pilot
Guarding the American Bombers Over Europe in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
“Anyone interested in a unique look at the American-Anglo air war effort after the Battle of Britain, would do well to read Escort Pilot**”** (New York Journal of Books).
Spitfire, Mustang, Lightning, Thunderbolt . . . in the darkest days of World War II, these legendary fighters escorted...
Hitler versus Stalin
The Eastern Front 1944–1945 - Warsaw to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In the fourth and final volume of Nik Cornish's photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front the defeat of the German army, the destruction and occupation of the cities in eastern Germany and the humiliation of the German people are shown in over 150 mostly unpublished wartime...
by Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke, Dick de Lonlay
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
The first part of the military history of the Franco-Prussian War, write by the supreme Prussian military mind, Helmuth von Moltke. This great work realized on four ebooks is presented with the finest illustrated work of the French artist Dick de Lonlay with about seventy full colour paltes for each book.
The 110th Holds in the Ardennes
The Blunting of Hitler’s Last Gamble and the Invasion of the Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the 28th Division received a message from headquarters informing them to ‘Hold at all costs’. From 05.30 that morning until 18 December, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment fought and held, giving ground only when forced out, but buying precious time...
British Frigate vs French Frigate
1793–1814
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
In the Age of Fighting Sail (1650–1820), ambitious officers of the navies of many nations sought command of a frigate. Speedy, nimble and formidably armed, frigates often operated independently, unlike the larger ships of the line. Legendary sailors such as Edward Pellew and Charles-Alexandre Léon...
The Great War Illustrated 1917
Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Fourth in a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become...
THE WAR OF ROGER & FANNY
From the departure of the army from England in April 1854, to the fall of Sebastopol
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Fanny was quite a girl, but also a writer of considerable talent. Maligned by some of her contemporaries because she didn't quite fit in with the Victorian image of what a 'lady' should be, she did things her way and wrote about them in a vivid, lively way, bringing the Crimean War to gut-wrenching...
by Vladimir Emmanuel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Vladimir Emmanuel was a cavalry captain who fought against the Germans and later the Red Army in the Crimea. He created a wonderful set of color illustrations of the regiments he fought with in the early days of the war. The Russian Imperial Cavalry in 1914 details the uniforms of most of the Russian...