Author: Peter Doyle

Geology controls the outcome of battle and no more so than during the trench warfare of the Great War; this new book by expert Peter Doyle takes u...

In 1914, Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V, was just 17. Yet with the world war two months old, the young princess was destined to ...

Objects are the way in which we can touch the past, and they play a living role in history today. Through them, we can understand the experience of...

The Battle of Loos saw a change in Allied strategy, which up until then had been a series of small-scale assaults that achieved little or no ground...

The British soldier of the Great War has been depicted in many books. Invariably, a pen picture paints him as stoic, joining the army in a wave of ...

World War Two was the most terrible war that Europe, and indeed the world, had ever seen. Discover the truth behind the propaganda with this brilli...

One day, a small bundle of letters was found in a flea market. Kept together for one hundred years, these few letters tell of one teenage boy, Perc...

The British soldier of the Great War has been depicted in many books. Invariably, a pen picture paints him as stoic, joining the army in a wave of ...

The First World War largely directed the course of the twentieth century. Fought on three continents, the war saw 14 million killed and 34 million ...

In a campaign part sponsored by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915 remains one of the most resounding A...

The British Army in the First World War was not only the largest the country had placed in the field but also the biggest single organisation creat...

How much can you really find out about the Leaders and Commanders of the First World War in five minutes? This handy little history book will surpa...

The failure of the Gallipoli campaign was instantly blamed on a great untruth that the War Office was unprepared for Dardanelles operations and ga...

The First World War profoundly changed British society. The armed forces' need for mass recruitment saw the workforce severely depleted, with women...

In their companion volume to British Army Cap Badges of the First World War, authors Peter Doyle and Chris Foster present an overview of the main c...

For the British army, the cap badge is the most easily identifiable form of insignia. It represents a distillation of the pride of the regiment, it...

Objects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can understand the experience of men...

It was a war that shaped the modern world, fought on five continents, claiming the lives of ten million people. Two great nations met each other on...

Frank and Percy Talley of the 1st City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) were destined to leave England to take part in the last, and most costly, ...