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Orde Wingate
A Man of Genius 1903-1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Winston Churchill described Wingate as a ‘man of genius who might well have become a man of destiny’. Tragically, he died in an jungle aircraft crash in 1944.
Like his famous kinsman Lawrence of Arabia, Wingate was renowned for being an unorthodox soldier, inclined to reject received patterns...
The Surrender of Singapore
Three Years of Hell 1942–45
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Until the late 1930s, Singapore was noted as a popular stop-off point for wealthy European travellers on their way to countries such as Australia and New Zealand. All of that changed with the outbreak of the Second World War.
Despite Major-General William Dobbie, the General Officer Commanding...
by Nick Van Der Bijl
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
The Hundred Days that saw the British response to General Galtiere of Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands are for many British people the most remarkable of their lives.
It describes the dark days of early April, the feverish response and forming of the Task Force, the anxieties and uncertainties,...
3 Para Mount Longdon
The Bloodiest Battle
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
The author of Falklands Hero follows the Third Parachute Battalion through a ferocious battle to secure a key strategic position during the Falklands War.
This, the first in a series on Special Operations, tells the story of Three Para and the often-neglected struggle for Mount Longdon. It was...
by Michael Carver
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
In THE WAR LORDS, Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of the twentieth century century, American, British, German and French: Field-Marshal the Earl Alexander, E.H.H. Allenby, Claude Auchinleck,...
El Alamein 1942
Turning Point in the Desert
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposing sides, there was a real risk that Rommel’s Afrika Korps and his Italian allies would break through and seize Cairo with catastrophic strategic and political...
The Afghan War
Operation Enduring Freedom 1001-2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing down on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October 2001 in Operation Enduring Freedom, and this photographic history is a graphic introduction to it.
The immediate aim was to eject the Taliban from...
Armoured Warfare from the Riviera to the Rhine 1944 - 1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
While the Allied armies were deadlocked with the Germans in Normandy after D-Day and even as they broke out and began their long advance, another campaign was being fought against the Germans in southern France – and it is this campaign, which is often neglected in accounts of the liberation of...
Tank Wrecks of the Eastern Front 1941–1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Four years of armored battle on the Eastern Front in the Second World War littered the battlefields with the wrecks of destroyed and disabled tanks, and Anthony Tucker-Jones’s photographic history is a fascinating guide to them. It provides a graphic record of the various types of tank deployed...
by Hans Seidler
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Hitler’s Defeat on the Western Front 1944-1945 is a compelling account of the Nazis’ ten month struggle against the overwhelming Allied military might on the Western Front.
Thanks to the successful Images of War format of authoritative text supported by copious, well captioned contemporary...
by Ian Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
The Deutsche Afrika Korps (best known as simply Afrika Korps) built up a well-deserved reputation as a superb fighting machine. While this was founded on the leadership and tactical genius of its legendary commander Erwin Rommel and the fighting skills of its officers and men, another vital element...
The Last Great Cavalryman
The Life of General Sir Richard McCreery GCB KBE DSO MC
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Dick McCreery was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1915 and served on The Western Front, winning the MC and surviving wounds.
In 1938 he joined the staff of 1st Division under Alexander before being given command of 2 Armored Brigade. He won the DSO for his leadership during the...
The Hammer of the Scots
Edward I and the Scottish Wars of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Known to posterity as Scottorum Malleus – the Hammer of the Scots – Edward I was one of medieval England's most formidable rulers. In this meticulously researched new history, David Santiuste offers a fresh interpretation of Edward's military career, with a particular focus on his Scottish wars....
Fixer and Fighter
The life of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, 1170 – 1243
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Hubert de Burgh rose from obscure beginnings to become one of the most powerful men in England. He loyally served first King John and then the young Henry III and played a crucial role in saving the Plantagenet dynasty when it was at its most vulnerable.
During King John’s disastrous wars in France,...