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Cold War Jet Combat
Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950-1972
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Recounted here are nine of the earliest wars involving jet aircraft. From the Korean War and beyond, it comprises a wealth of gripping insight. Many of the jet-to-jet dogfights that spanned these jet-powered wars are enlivened to thrilling effect, including those engaged in during the two Indo-Pak...
by May, Timothy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
The Mongol armies that established the largest land empire in history, stretching across Asia and into eastern Europe, are imperfectly understood. Often they are viewed as screaming throngs of horsemen who swept over opponents by sheer force of numbers rather than as disciplined regiments that carried...
Cross and Crescent in the Balkans
The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
This is not just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is the history of a quite extraordinary century and a bit which began when a tiny of force of Ottoman Turkish warriors was invited by the Christian Byzantine Emperor...
Wellington the Beau
The Life and Loves of the Duke of Wellington
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The military achievements of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, have been well documented and deservedly so. Inevitably his fame and success made him attractive, nay irresistible, to the opposite sex and over the many years of his campaigning away from home he came into contact with a...
Imperial General: The Remarkable Career of Petellius Cerialis
The Remarkable Career of Petellius Cerialis
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent biography. Fortunately his career was a remarkably eventful and colorful one. With a knack for being caught up in big events and emerging...
by Champion, Jeff
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Pyrrhus of Epirus was rated by Hannibal as the second greatest general yet seen (placing himself third). Indeed, Hannibal referred to Pyrrhus as his teacher, although the two never met, since he learnt so much of the art of war from his writings. Pyrrhus was born into the royal house of Epirus, northwest...
The Lords of War
Supreme Leadership from Lincoln to Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
In this compelling study of leadership, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines how the difficulties they faced and the political and strategic backgrounds of their days and analyses how they performed and...
The Battle for France
Six Weeks That Changed The World
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
After the long winter of the Phoney War the invasion of the Low Countries and France by Hitler’s rampaging armies threw the World into crisis. Chamberlain’s Government fell, Churchill became Prime Minister. France was humiliated, the British Expeditionary Force was only saved by the miracle of...
Over the Wire
A POW's Escape Story from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Philip Newman, a British army doctor left behind after the evacuation from Dunkirk, spent his time as a prisoner of war in France, then Germany, treating the wounded and sick – and planning to escape.
After several failed attempts he got out over the wire and journeyed for weeks as a fugitive...
Helmand Mission
With 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
After celebrating St Patricks Day 2008, 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup deployed to Afghanistans Helmand province as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade. For six months the Royal Irish fought the Taliban in Helmand in some of the most difficult country on earth. At the same time the Battlegroup was training...
by Garrard, John, Garrard
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Vasily Grossman (1905-64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report The Hell of Treblinka, was the first eyewitness account...
Caracalla
A Military Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Caracalla has one of the worst reputations of any Roman Emperor. Many ancient historians were very hostile and Edward Gibbon later dubbed him ‘the common enemy of mankind’. Yet his reign was considered by at least one Roman author to be the apogee of the Roman Empire. Guilty of many murders and...
Tank Commander
From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany - The Memoirs of Bill Close
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Bill Close had a remarkable war. In campaign after campaign, from the defense of Calais in 1940 to the defeat of Germany in 1945, he served as a tank commander in the Royal Tank Regiment - and he survived. His tanks were hit eleven times by enemy shellfire and he bailed out. He was wounded three times....
Red Army Tank Commander
At War in a T-34 on the Eastern Frount
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
What was it like to command a T-34 tank on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? How were tank operations organized and carried out, what was the actual experience of combat, and what were the qualities that made the difference between success and failure - and what were the chances of survival?...