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by Artem Drabkin
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
The Soviet T-34 medium tank was one of the most famous and effective fighting vehicles of the Second World War. Along with the German Tiger and the American Sherman, it was a milestone in tank design that changed the course of the conflict. Much has been written about the technical history of the...
T-34
The Red Army's Legendary Medium Tank
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
It could be said that the T-34 was the tank that won the Second World War. In total 57,000 were produced between 1941 and 1945. Stalin's tank factories outstripped Hitler's by a factor of three to one, and production of the T-34 also exceeded that of the famed American M4 Sherman.
Not only did...
Das Reich
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich – Drive to Normandy, June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
The infamous SS Das Reich Division was resting in Montauban, South West France when the Allies invaded Normandy in June 1944. When ordered to rush North, they ran into a series of French Resistance, SAS and SOE delaying actions. This ruthless Division reacted violently and their reprisals culminated...
by Stewar Kent, Nick Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The exceptional exploits, courage and leadership of British SOE Agent Trotobas have long been recognised in France but not in his own country despite being recommended for the Victoria Cross.
Captured on his first mission, Trotobas led a mass break-out from Mauzac Internment Camp and eventually...
by Dr K G Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
A collection of authoritative and often controversial essays that will hold the attention of even the most informed reader. This fascinating book covers such important and relevant topics as Churchill and the Secret Services, ULTRA codebreaking and Soviet espionage and much more.
Warsaw 1944
An Insurgent's Journal of the Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
“Built around a journal written in the months just after the Warsaw uprising by . . . a teenage fighter in the Polish underground . . . a compelling account.” —HistoryOfWar.org
This remarkable journal, written shortly after the event, describes not only the author’s own experiences...
Guardsman and Commando
The War Memoirs of RSM Cyril Feebery DCM
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Guardsman and Commando is Cyril Feebery's memoir of his service with the British Army between 1937 and 1945.Feebery served with the Grenadier Guards in the British Expeditionary Force, was evacuated wounded from Dunkirk, completed Commando training in Scotland an joined the Middle East Commando (Layforce).
On...
Betrayed Ally
China in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community.
In 1912 the Qing Dynasty had ended. President Yuan Shikai, who seized power in 1914, offered the British 50,000 troops to recover the German colony in Shandong...
Stalingrad
How the Red Army Triumphed
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Michael K. Jones's new history of Stalingrad offers a radical reinterpretation of the most famous battle of the WW2. Combining eyewitness testimony of Red Army fighters with fresh archive material, the book gives a dramatic insight into the thinking of the Russian command and the mood of the ordinary...
Freely I Served
The Memoir of the Commander, 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade 1941-1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Freely I Served is the gripping memoir of Stanislaw Sosabowski who became one of the most senior Polish commanders during the Second World War.
After seeing service with the Austrian Army in World War I, the author joined the newly created Polish Army in 1918. By September 1939 he was commanding...
Lost Souls of the River Kwai
Experiences of a British Soldier on the Railway of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
This is the moving story of a young man who found himself along with thousands of his comrades in the nightmare of Japanese captivity. Unlike so many (it is said that one Commonwealth POW died for every sleeper laid) Bill lived to tell the tale. Indeed it is remarkable that this story has not been...
The Escape From Elba
The Fall & Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty armies back to Paris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his comrades-in-arms and sets sail for his new domain - the tiny, poverty-stricken, pestilential island of Elba. Yet within...
Massacre on the Marne
The Life and Death of the 2/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Massacre on the Marne is a graphic reconstruction of the experiences of a small closely knit group of fighting men - the 2/5th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment - in the Great War.
These men were not elite regular troops or Kitcheners' Men - they were Territorials. In many ways they...
by John Sheen
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1998
Although called the Tyneside Scottish, very few of the men who made up this Brigade were of Scottish descent. Many came from local villages or were from the Northumberland pits. They saw action at the Battle of the Somme and after it were allowed to put tartan behind their cap badges because of their bravery.