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Western Front First Year
Neuve Chapelle, First Ypres, Loos
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Germany in the Great War Illustrated Western Front First Year is the latest title in a serial publication by historian Joshua Bilton. Advancing the 'German' perspective (including the Ottoman, Bulgar and Austro-Hungarian), this pictorial account illustrates the order of the Central Powers in 1915....
Sinews of War
The Logistical Battle to Keep the 53rd Welsh Division on the Move During Operation Overlord
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
A fascinating account of the feat of logistics which it took to supply of the hard fighting 53rd Welsh division from Normandy to Hamburg. A limited run Divisional publication out of print since the ’50s with a new introduction and overview of the actions of the Division.
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...
Depth Charge
Royal Naval Mines, Depth Charges and Underwater Weapons 1914-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
The history of weapons and warfare is usually written from the point of view of the battles fought and the tactics used. In naval warfare, in particular, the story of how these weapons were invented, designed and supplied is seldom told.
Chris Henry, in this pioneering study, sets the record...
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...