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Fortune Favours the Brave
The Battles of the Hook Korea 1952-53
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
All too little remembered today, the Korean War was bitterly fought out under atrocious conditions of weather and terrain. Greatly outnumbered by their Communist Chinese and North Korean enemy, the United Nations forces fought with extraordinary resolve and gallantry.
The Hook, the name given to a...
The Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm 1990-1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Each stage in the Gulf War, the liberation by American-led UN forces of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait in 1990-91, is vividly described in this photographic history. Over 180 photographs provide a remarkable visual account of Operation Desert Storm in the air, at sea and on land, and they show the vast array...
In the Teeth of the Wind
Memoirs of the Royal Navy Air Service in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
So rapid have been the advances in the science of aeronautics since the end of the First World War that it requires a considerable feat of imagination to cast one's mind back over the comparatively short period of seventy years to the days when Flight Commander Bartlett of the Royal Naval Air Service...
The Strike Wings
Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons 1942-45
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In November 1942, the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended and seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germany’s vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine. The outcome was a series sea/air battles at close quarters,...
by John Fidler
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Although Lancaster was the ancient County town, it had a population of only 40,000 in 1914. Of these, it is thought that some 5,000 men saw war service between 1914-18, and over 1,000 did not return. In consequence, the recruiting drives, the tribunals to consider exemption from 1916, and the ever-growing...
by Symeon Mark Waller
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 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 Doncaster were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record...
Air Raid Shelters of the Second World War
Family Stories of Survival in the Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
This book features the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including interviews with people who used them during the Second World War. The different types of bunkers/air raid shelters (both public and in people’s gardens) are covered and the strength and weakness of their designs discussed,...
Real War Horses
The Experience of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to...
by Simon MacDowall
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The fascinating history of “a race that simply would not accept defeat” (Books Monthly).
In the late fourth century, pressure from the Huns forced the Goths to cross the Danube into the Roman Empire. The resultant Battle of Adrianople in 378 was one of Rome’s greatest defeats. Both western...
The Defense of Moscow 1941
The Northern Flank
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The little-known story of the Battle of Kalinin on the eastern front, and how it shaped the course of WWII—based on archival records from both sides.
There was only one point in the Second World War when Nazi Germany had a chance of winning. That point was October 1941, when most of the Red Army’s...
A Wander Through Wartime London
Five Walks Revisiting the Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Through a series of five walks this book discovers the sights, sounds and experience of the capital at war; it details the remaining tangible evidence of the dark days via air raid shelter signs, bomb damage on buildings and memorials detailing heroic and often tragic events. The new routes cover...
by Douglas d'Enno
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
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 Brighton were committed to as the war s
by Derek Tait
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
When news of the war broke out in 1914, nothing could prepare the citizens of Aberdeen for the changes that would envelop their city over the next four years. The story of Aberdeen in the Great War is both an interesting and intriguing one. The city played a key role in the deployment of troops to...
The First Day on the Somme
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7.30 am. On 1 July 1916 the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than...