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United States Infantry Weapons of the Second World War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
During the arduous campaigns in theatres of war from the Pacific to North West Europe, American infantry weapons played a key role in the eventual victory over the Axis forces. In so doing they earned a special reputation for ruggedness and reliability. In addition to being used by US ground forces...
Fallschirmjager
Elite German Paratroops In World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album that belonged to a member of the elite German Paratroopers. First Sgt Wilhelm Plieschen served with Fallschirmjager Machine Gun Battalion 7, which suffered very heavy losses in the invasion of Crete, then saw bloody conflict as Hitler’s...
Escaper’s Progress
The Remarkable POW Experiences of a Royal Naval Officer
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
David James was in Motor Gunboats (with Robert Hichens of Gunboat Command.) Captured in February 1943 after abandoning ship as a result of a fierce engagement with three German armed trawlers in the North Sea he was imprisoned in Dulag Marlag.
His first tunnel was discovered before completion....
Salamanca 1812
Wellington’s Year of Victories
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
1812 was the year in which the Peninsular War swung in the favor of the combined forces of the British, the Spanish and the Portuguese. This was the result of a series of victories over the French gained by the allied armies under Wellington, and this is the subject of Peter Edwards’s compelling...
Marching with Wellington
With the Enniskillings through the Peninsula to waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2003
Compiled from hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, this book tells of the dangers and rigors of life as experienced by the Infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. A superbly researched work by an expert historian, it captures the atmosphere of the era with total immediacy made possible only because the writers were actually there.
by Mauriel Joslyn, Anna Malinovska
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Thanks to the foresight of the authors, Voices in Flight is a literary memorial to the hugely gallant men who fought their war in small dangerous and vulnerable aeroplanes. We hear told the stories and thoughts of not only pilots but ground crew and others closely associated with this form of combat....
by Otto Schwink
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the Imperial German Army at Ypres from 1914-15.
In the autumn of 1917 Captain Otto Schwink, a General Staff Officer, by order of the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army, produced a book entitled The Germans...
by Lawrence Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2002
Fritz-Julius Lemp's tragic sinking of the Athenia in a Second U-Boat Flotilla boat opened Germany's U-boat war against England. The following six years of bitter combat found the flotilla at the forefront of distant operations. Leading the attack, Legendary commanders such as Albrecht Achilles, Werner...
Battle for the Baltic Islands 1917
Triumph of the Imperial German Navy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
In late 1917, the Russians, despite the revolution, were still willing to continue the war against Germany. This is an account of Operation Albion, the highly successful sea borne operation launched by the Germans to change their minds. The Baltic Islands were pivotal for the defense of the Finnish...
Tales from the Rifle Brigade
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade Random Shots From a Rifleman
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
To Napoleon's troops, the sharp shooters of the 95th (Rifle) Regiment were 'the rascals in green', famed throughout Europe for their bravery, skill, and dash. Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade was the first book to be published by a veteran, recounting the amazing escapades of this legendary...
by Harry Levy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
This book tells the story of a young Jewish airman who was shot down over Belgium and then captured by the Germans. It tells of his life as a suspected spy and POW.
Have You Forgotten Yet?
The First World War Memoirs of C.P. Blacker
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2000
The story of an infantry officer on the Western Front, of the Fourth Battalion of the Coldstream Guards who was awarded the MC. At first he had a relatively safe posting but this preyed on his conscience and asked for front-line duty. This he experiencced in large meaure and his account is hugely...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
This unique collection of contemporary combat accounts provides a primary source insight into the reality of artillery operations on the Eastern Front. Mobile, rail and towed artillery are all considered in this fascinating compilation.
This book is part of the 'Hitler's War Machine' series,...
The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front
A Photographic Record of the Waffen SS in the East
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This is the illustrated history of the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front. The life and death of the Waffen SS can be traced in the surviving photographs, and the brooding saga of the decline from triumph into disaster is told through these powerful images which clearly document the reality of combat on the Russian Front.