Military History

What is the nature of courage, how and when should it be recognized, and how has our appreciation of it changed? These are among the questions Gran...

The Territorial battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers (149 Brigade) served with distinction in France and Flanders from 1915 until May 1918. I...

_'John Laband has long been the accepted authority on Anglo-Zulu War studies and his new work, The Fall of Rorke's Drift, is proof of his expertise...

Andrew Field, who has published four best-selling books on the Battle of Waterloo, has established himself as one of the leading experts on the Fre...

The City of London was always going to be an obvious target for German bombers during the Second World War. What better way for Nazi Germany to spr...

Vice Admiral Cuthbert (Cuddy) Collingwood may have been 10 years older than Horatio Nelson but he was Nelson's close friend from the outset. They s...

Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk and on the banks of the Dnieper. T...

Famous for Calvados apple brandy and Camembert cheese, Normandy is a green and pleasant land now dotted with thousands of British-owned second home...

The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the...

It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on ...

The Dutch resistance movement during the Nazi occupation was bedevilled by treachery, betrayal and poor organization and support from London. Despi...

The network of canals stretching from the coast at Gravelines, through St-Omer, B thune and La Bass e, follows the approximate boundary between Art...

Few could believe that within twenty years of the war to end all wars being won the world was once again at war. Veterans of the Great War feared g...

The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what ha...

Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck is a study not only of the individual but also of how the British Army, Indian Army and the Empire were transformed...

Poland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about expanding it...

It is 1814 and the Bengal Army of the Honourable East India Company is at war with a marauding Nepal. It is here that the British first encounter t...

Located in an Observer Corps post on the top of a Martello tower on the seafront at Dymchurch in Kent, Mr E.E. Woodland and Mr A.M. Wraight were on...

The Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross), known simply as the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross), was the highest German m...

The bomber will always get through was the oft-repeated mantra, first coined by Stanley Baldwin in 1932, which emphasised that the only realistic f...

Already the best-selling English-language guide to the area, universally known as THE BIBLE, this is the 75th anniversary, completely revised, up-t...

Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dr...

During the 19th Century the Royal Navy played a key role defending the expanding British Empire. As sail gave way to steam power, there was a press...

The Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield was famous for producing the Lee Enfield .303 Rifle, the standard issued rifle provided to all infantry sol...

When at Hitler's insistence the first Tiger I tanks went into action in Tunisia in December 1942 they rapidly gained a formidable fighting reputati...

Wife to Edward IV and mother to the Princes in the Tower and later Queen Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Widville was a central figure during the War ...

From its origins as the Consular Guard of the French Republic, and as Napoleon's personal bodyguard, the Imperial Guard developed into a force of a...

Merseyside played a unique role during the Second World War, which directly led to the area being a major enemy target in an attempt to put the por...

The author of this gritty memoir has lived life to the full and fortunately has the ability to recall his experiences in a graphic and entertaining...

On the night of 8 August 1944, the First Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize, directing their advance towards Falaise, with the intention of ...

On 19 February 1927, the city of Shanghai fell silent as a general strike gripped the factories of the industrial district. A magnet for foreign tr...

In November 1942, as the Battle of Stalingrad continued to rage, the Red Army launched a devastating counter-attack from outside the city. The Sovi...

Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success depended on a flow of conce...

When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to p...

Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and British Eighth Armies drove...

Last Post Over the River Kwai is the carefully researched account of the experiences of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion The East Surreys duri...