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Life of Sir John Moore
Not a Drum Was Heard
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Sir John Moore organized and trained the British light infantry during the Napoleonic wars, and thus is regarded as the father of all subseqent British special warfare units. This biography is the first to draw on papers in the archives of the Dukes of Hamilton and Argyll which shed new light on Moore's...
Lost to the Sea
Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby. But the Romans and the Ravenser folk are long gone, as are their streets and buildings – sunk beneath...
Servants' Stories
Life Below Stairs in their Own Words 1800-1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Step into the world of domestic service and discover what life was really like for these unsung heroines (and heroes) of society. Between 1800 and 1950, the role of servants changed dramatically but they remained the people without whom the upper and middle classes could not function.
Through oral...
A Pauper's History of England
1,000 Years of Peasants, Beggars & Guttersnipes
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
A unique tour through British history—from the perspective of the peasants and the poverty-stricken.
The past is traditionally told from the viewpoint of kings and queens, politicians and pioneers. But what about the people struggling to survive at the very lowest levels of society?
A Pauper’s...
The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes
The Ancient World Economy & the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia & Han China
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
A fascinating history of the intricate web of trade routes connecting ancient Rome to Eastern civilizations, including its powerful rival, the Han Empire.
The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian...
Rise of the Tang Dynasty
The Reunification of China and the Military Response to the Steppe Nomads (AD581-626)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD. Narrating the campaigns and battles, he analyses in detail the strategy and tactics employed, a central theme being the collision of the steppe cavalry with Chinese infantry armies.
By...
In Action With the Sas
A Soldiers Odyssey from Dunkirk to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Roy Close's wartime experiences make breathtaking reading. Mobilized in 1939 he became part of the BEF and was fortunate to avoid death or captivity during the German blitzkrieg and escape through Dunkirk. Sent to North Africa, he joined the Paras and, from there, to the SAS. In 1944 he operated behind...
The Platoon
An Infantryman on the Western Front 1916-18
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
John Joseph Steward fought in the Great War, from the Battle of the Somme to the final offensives of 1918, and he was an acute, unflinching observer of the conflict he took part in - of life and death on the Western Front. He was a writer, too. He recorded his experiences in accurate detail and later...
Free to Fight Again
RAF Escapes and Evasions 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. To then manage to return to Allied shores inevitably needed considerably more good fortune and often the assistance of local patriots and resistance workers.
This...
Devil's Own Luck
Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Although strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throughout nearly all his time in Europe in 1944-45. He brilliantly conveys what it was like to be facing death, day after day, night after night, with never a bed to sleep in nor a hot meal to go home to. This is warfare in the raw ' brutal, yet humorous, immensely tragic, but sadly, all true.
by Mauriel Joslyn, Anna Malinovska
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Thanks to the foresight of the authors, Voices in Flight is a literary memorial to the hugely gallant men who fought their war in small dangerous and vulnerable aeroplanes. We hear told the stories and thoughts of not only pilots but ground crew and others closely associated with this form of combat....
From Coastal Command to Captivity
The Memoir of a Second World War Airman
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
Thanks to the perseverance and editorial effort of his son Allan, Jim Hunter's splendid war memoirs of flying and captivity can now be enjoyed by a wider audience. In the first part there is the account of his flying career in RAF Coastal Command, culminating in an extraordinarily brave attack by...
by Michael O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
In this latest addition to the Airfields and Airmen Series, Mike O’Connor describes the dramatic air actions that took place along the Belgian and North France coastline during The Great War.
In addition to the Royal Fighting Corps and RAF aspect this volume covers the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and Belgian Air Service (AMB) as well as the German Naval Air Service.
Shot Down
The Secret Diary of One POW's Long March to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Alex Kerr's Wellington, a twin-engine bomber, was shot down over Germany in 1941. At first hospitalised with hopes of repatriation, he unexpectedly found himself a prisoner in a German POW camp. Throughout those trying four years he was held captive, Alex kept a secret diary. This book reproduces...