Pictorial category: 1048 books
The Great War Illustrated 1918
Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The final book in a series of five titles which graphically cover each year of the war. 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...
by Chris Sams
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
German raiders posed an incredible threat against the Allied forces in August 1914, particularly to British merchant vessels and their naval superiority. As the world plunged into war, two fleets of German raiders and cruisers lay beyond the North Sea. Several German admirals ventured across the world,...
The Medal of Honor
A History of Service Above and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A comprehensive history of America's highest award for military valor. The Medal of Honor chronicles the creation, evolution, and awarding of the Medal, from the battlefields of the Civil War to the jungles of Vietnam, through a wealth of illustrations and hundreds of authoritative, action-filled...
Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1943 - 1944
Kursk to Bagration
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
The third volume in Nik Cornish’s photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front records in vivid visual detail the sequence of Red Army offensives that pushed the Wehrmacht back across Russia after the failure of Operation Citadel, the German attack at Kursk. Previously unpublished...
Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1942 - 1943
Stalingrad to Kharkov
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The second year of the Second World War on the Eastern Front was dominated by Stalingrad, the protracted battle for the city on the Volga, and this is the major episode in this volume of Nik Cornish’s four-volume photographic history of the conflict. Stalingrad was a turning point in the war, the...
The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS: Volume Two
Stalin’s Nemesis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Lavishly illustrated with 185 photographs, many previously unpublished and rare
Utilises new material about every aspect of the formation
Includes unique first-hand accounts from interviews with the last surviving veterans
The last ever opportunity to capture the accounts of the participants
The...
A Royal Engineer at War 1940-1945
From Crossing the Desert to Crossing the Rhine
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A Royal Engineer at War 1940-1945: From Crossing the Desert to Crossing the Rhine is a British soldier’s account of his life, both private and militarily, while serving with the Corps of Royal Engineers between 1940 and 1946. Based on the diaries of Driver First Class Robert ‘Robb’ Jones, the...
From Gazala to Tunis
422 Days in the Life of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
From Gazala to Tunisia: 422 Days in the Life of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade is the story of the riflemen and their battles of Gazala to the successful end of the North African campaign. These 422 days include the bitter battles of Gazala, the conflict around the Cauldron, the loss of Tobruk...
by Michael D. Doubler and John W. Listman
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
The National Guard is the compelling account, in words and pictures, of the nationÆs oldest military institution. From the defense of the Jamestown settlement in 1607 to peacekeeping missions in the Balkans and, most recently, to their participation in the war on terrorism, the citizen-soldiers of the...
When Janey Comes Marching Home
Portraits of Women Combat Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
While women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, in the current war, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless. More than in any previous conflict in our history, American women are engaging with the enemy, suffering injuries, and even...
by John V. Quarstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
When the CSS Virginia (Merrimack) slowly steamed down the Elizabeth River toward Hampton Roads on March 8, 1862, the tide of naval warfare turned from wooden sailing ships to armored, steam-powered vessels. Little did the ironclad's crew realize that their makeshift warship would achieve the greatest...
A History of Ironclads
The Power of Iron Over Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
One of history's greatest naval engagements, the Battle of Hampton Roads, occurred on March 8 and 9, 1862. On the first morning, the Confederate ironclad the CSS Virginia, formerly known as the Merrimack, sank two Union wooden warships, proving the power of the armored vessels over the traditional sailing...
The Sirdar and the Khalifa
Kitchener’s Reconquest of Sudan 1896-98
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Perhaps one of the most dramatic events of the late Victorian period was the death of General Charles ‘Chinese’ Gordon at the hands of the Mahdi’s fanatical warriors as they finally broke their way into the Sudanese city of Khartoum. The story is well-known, recounted in numerous books and celebrated...
by Michael C. Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
"First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Carolina's Confederate soldiers. But the state's involvement stretched far beyond these few battles. The state was one of the last to leave the Union but contributed...