Military History

Because of the geographical location of the Isle of Thanet, it was always going to play a part in the First World War. For some wounded British and...

With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. C...

Fought amid the most challenging terrain of any theatre during the Second World War, the campaign in the Far East saw heroic actions against the un...

All nations and peoples have a body of legendary tales and semi-historical episodes which explain who they are and help to define their place in th...

Initially admiring Thomas Paine''s efforts for independence, John Adams nevertheless was rattled by the political philosophy of Common Sense and re...

When the Second World War was declared in September 1939, Northamptonshire was better prepared for the years that followed than it had been twenty-...

On 21 May 1940 during the ill-fated Dunkirk Campaign the British launched an operation spearheaded by two tank regiments to help secure the city of...

The most comprehensive and enlightening version of these seminal events yet. **Sir Ranulph Fiennes** Britain s elite Special Air Service Regiment,...

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 C...

Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handli...

At the outbreak of the First World War, the United Kingdom had no aerial defence capability worthy of the name. When the war began Britain had just...

During the Second World War, the German Fallschirmjger (paratroopers) carried out many successful and daring operations, such as the capture of the...

Life in wartime London evokes images of the Blitz, of air-raid shelters and rationing, of billeted soldiers and evacuated children. These are famil...

These days horses are mainly used for leisure activities the non-rider knows little about them in a modern context, let alone a historical one. For...

Edward I s conquest of Wales was a key formative event in the history of Britain, but it has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over 100 ...

In 1878, H.M. High Commissioner for Southern Africa and the Lieut. General Commanding H.M. Forces, clandestinely conspired to invade the Zulu Kingd...

The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) provides the Army s integral repair and recovery capability. Its soldiers are deploye...

Here, Martin Bowman brings us the first book on Operation Varsity to include both British and US air and ground operations, as well as the US, Brit...

Mick Powis describes the novel threat posed to the British war effort by the raids of German airships, or Zeppelins, and the struggle to develop ef...

Synonymous with conflict and humanitarian aid, the mandate of the International Red Cross (ICRC) is to protect the wounded victims of war, civilian...

_Cambrai Campaign 1917_ is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s battles in November and December of 1917. It starts with the plan to car...

When the Second World War commenced on 1 September 1939, the people of Cornwall rallied together in a way that they hadn t done since the Great War...

The holocaust will remain a stain on the history of mankind in perpetuity, long after the recollection of many of the perpetrators has faded. Some ...

The Needs of Others is set in the UN in 1994, where diplomats learn of violence in Rwanda. Representing UN ambassadors, human rights organisations,...

In 2000 aircraft restorer Guy Black of Aero Vintage located the hulks of at least two Airco DH9 bombers in a remote part of India hidden away in w...

This book recounts the efforts over many years to dive wrecks that contained treasure in one form or another. The often prolonged and sometimes dan...

This ground-breaking book takes an insightful and close New Look at one of the most fascinating subjects of the Civil War--the long-overlooked batt...

On 9 April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark. Within hours and without a real fight the government capitulated; cooperating with the Nazis in ord...

In the early decades of the American Republic, American soldiers demonstrated and defined their beliefs about the nature of American republicanism ...

As a child, Dave Gutierrez hung on every word his father recalled about his cousin Ramon, El Sancudo (the mosquito), and his service in World War I...

The Field Marshal was a born commander and, besides being a gifted linguist, was mobilised as a Subaltern for the Boer War to act as a secret agent...

War is a duel written large. How did we get from clubs and spears to machine guns and drone missiles? What led to the human race firing projectiles...

The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In ad...

Winston Churchill called it the unknown war. Unlike the long stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 191418 between the Russian Empire and the...

This is not intended as a treatise on the futility of war, because that has been done before by much cleverer people. Neither is it a stirring stor...