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by Daniel Mersey
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
The Roman army of the early empire is one of the most instantly recognizable armies and enjoys a reputation for excellence. This and their many famous campaigns against a wide range of colorful foes makes this one of the most popular periods for wargamers. Covering the period from 27BC to AD284, Daniel...
Peninsular Eyewitnesses
The Experience of War in Spain and Portugal 1808-1813
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Many books have been written about the British struggle against Napoleon in the Peninsula. A few recent studies have given a broader view of the ebb and flow of a long war that had a shattering impact on Spain and Portugal and marked the history of all the nations involved. But none of these books...
From the Marne to Verdun
The War Diary of Captain Charles Delvert, 101st Infantry, 1914–1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Charles Delvert’s diary records his career as a front-line officer in the French army fighting the Germans during the First World War. It is one of the classic accounts of the war in French or indeed in any other language, and it has not been translated into English before. In precise, graphic detail...
by Harry Levy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
This book tells the story of a young Jewish airman who was shot down over Belgium and then captured by the Germans. It tells of his life as a suspected spy and POW.
by Paul le Goupil
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The unforgettable memoir of a WWII French Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
Paul le Goupil was about to take his first job as a teacher when Germany invaded France in May of 1940. Soon after, he joined the Front National and found his life irreversibly...
The German Army on Vimy Ridge
1914/1917
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
The book starts with on the capture of Vimy Ridge and the nearly spur of Notre Dame de Lorette in October 1914. The major battles of spring and autumn 1915 is described as is the twelve month period from late autumn 1915 when British forces occupied the lines on the western Ridge. The period from...
Hitler's Defeat on the Eastern Front
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
A stunning photographic account of Hitler’s last stand in the face of the Red Army’s successful offensive of 1944.
Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions, the book provides an absorbing analysis of this traumatic period of the Second World War....
Have You Forgotten Yet?
The First World War Memoirs of C.P. Blacker
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2000
The story of an infantry officer on the Western Front, of the Fourth Battalion of the Coldstream Guards who was awarded the MC. At first he had a relatively safe posting but this preyed on his conscience and asked for front-line duty. This he experiencced in large meaure and his account is hugely...
Hitler: A Life in Pictures
The Official Third Reich Publication
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
This exceptional source is probably the best of the contemporary accounts of Hitler in power, albeit from a heavily pro-Nazi stance. The testimonies collected together were based on interviews conducted by Heinz A. Heinz in 1933 and 1934, shortly after Hitler had taken power.
Millions of ordinary...
SS Panzer Divisions on the Eastern Front
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Rare photographs from SS sources illustrating the armoured formations which took part in this titanic struggle. Includes rare images of the Panther in action.
The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front
A Photographic Record of the Waffen SS in the East
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This is the illustrated history of the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front. The life and death of the Waffen SS can be traced in the surviving photographs, and the brooding saga of the decline from triumph into disaster is told through these powerful images which clearly document the reality of combat on the Russian Front.
The Gestapo on Trial
Evidence from Nuremberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
The Nuremberg Trials were held by the four victorious Allied forces of Great Britain, the USA, France and the USSR in the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg from November 1945 to October 1946. Famous for prosecuting the major German war criminals, they also tried the various groups and organisations that...
Ypres
Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This powerful collection, depicting the grim realities of the four-year struggle for the Ypres salient, showcases the work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era. Included here are the works of serious artists, propagandists, illustrators and humourists. The result...
The British at First and Second Ypres
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army at Ypres from 1914-15. Rare photographs illustrating the optimistic men of the BEF in the act of mobilization and transport to France are contrasted with photographs from the battlefield during the opening...