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French Army at Verdun
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
In four and a half years of fighting on the Western Front during the First World War a few battles stand out from the rest. They had a decisive impact on the course of the conflict, and they still define the war for us today. For the French, the Battle of Verdun, fought between February and December...
The Battles of French Flanders
Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Loos and Fromelles
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The battles fought by the British army in 1915, in the second year of the First World War, are less well known than those fought immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914 and those that followed in 1916 which culminated in the Battle of the Somme. But the fighting at Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Neuve...
Retreat and Rearguard- Somme 1918
The Fifth Army Retreat
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
The German Spring offensive or Kaiserschlacht was a period of great danger for the Allies. Both sides were exhausted after years of bitter fighting and huge losses. While eventually catastrophically unsuccessful and the prelude to their final defeat, the Germans forced the Allies back over hard-won...
The Canal Line
France and Flanders Campaign 1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The network of canals stretching from the coast at Gravelines, through St-Omer, Béthune and La Bassée, follows the approximate boundary between Artois and Flanders and was, in 1940, the defensive line established on the western edge of the so-called Dunkerque Corridor designed by Lord Gort to provide...
The Battles of Arras: North
A Visitor's Guide; Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
The First World War battlefields to the north of Arras – including Vimy Ridge – are among the most famous and most visited sites on the Western Front, rivaled only by those around Ypres and the Somme, and this clearly written, highly illustrated guide is the ideal introduction to them.
Visitors...
Battle for the Escaut 1940
The France and Flanders Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off the River Dyle, to await the arrival of the German Army Group B. Their expected stay was considerably shorter than planned...
by Jerry Murland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
There is no other city in France that has the same associations in time of conflict that the British have with Arras. Since the campaigns of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, in the early 18th century, British soldiers have fought in and around Arras, occasionally as an enemy but, more often,...
Nine Divisions in Champagne
The Second Battle of Marne
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The book explains how the Allies, after a series of swingeing defeats, sank their differences and came together to turn the tide against the German Army in the Summer of 1918. Although it is a detailed history of the fighting by British divisions, it also highlights the growing presence of American...
The Battle of the Bulge
Hitler's Final Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
By late 1944 the Allies were poised to smash the Siegfried Line and break into Germany. Supply lines were shorter thanks to the port of Antwerp. Arnhem aside, there had been a long run of victories and there was no intelligence even from ULTRA to suggest a German counter-offensive.
So the major...
Marching to the Sound of Gunfire
North-West Europe 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
In this exciting and revealing book, scores of British soldiers tell their amazing stories of life – and death – in the front line of the Allies' advance from Normandy to Hitler's Germany. In eleven months of bitter fighting between D-Day and VE Day the combined efforts of the British and their...
Northern Ireland: The Troubles
From The Provos to The Det, 1968–1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
It is, of course, no secret that undercover Special Forces and intelligence agencies operated in Northern Ireland and the Republic throughout the ‘troubles’, from 1969 to 2001 and beyond. What is less well known is how these units were recruited, how they operated, what their mandate was and what...
by Peter Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Like Ypres, Arras was a front line town throughout the Great War. From March 1916 it became home to the British Army and it remained so until the Advance to Victory was well under way. In 1917 the Battle of Arras came and went. It occupied barely half a season, but was then largely forgotten; the...
Siege Warfare during the Hundred Years War
Once More unto the Breach
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Histories of the Hundred Years War have been written, and accounts of the famous battles, but until now no book has concentrated on the sieges that played a decisive role in the protracted struggle between England and France. Edward III’s capture of Calais in 1347 was of crucial importance for the...
by Kevin Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Seaforth and Eastbourne were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four...