Military Life & Institutions

This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the Panzer Graf (Armoured Count). An aristocra...

This is one of the most remarkable untold stories of the Second World war. At 11.02 am on an August morning in 1945 America dropped the worlds most...

The First World War had an enormous impact on Ireland. Over 240,000 Irish men and women volunteered to serve with the Allied forces, suffering almo...

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...

The official account of the Royal Artillerys activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment...

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 ...

Since its establishment in 1930 the Irish Military College has had a vital influence on not only the Defence Forces but on the nation. It has forme...

The mettle of the famous First Household Cavalry Regiment was tested to the maximum in action in the mountains of Italy in 194344. This book explor...

Silver was the codename for the only quintuple spy of the Second World War, spying for the Italians, Germans, Japanese, Soviets and the British. Th...

For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretchi...

Raised as Colonel Solomon Richards Regiment in 1688, the 17th Regiment of Foot (later the Leicestershire Regiment) served with distinction througho...

For the first time in print a book identifies each regiment and illustrates the change in uniforms, the colour of the facings and the nature and sh...

Fighters Over The Falklands captures daily life using pictures taken during the author's tours of duty on the Islands. From the first detachments o...

41 Squadron RAF is one of the oldest RAF Squadrons in existence, having celebrated its 95th Anniversary in 2011. The unit has seen service from the...

The entry of the Dominions and the colonies into WWI produced a mixture of languages and cultures and communication thus became an international co...

For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing thei...

Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division has become one of the most famous small units in U.S. history,...

This fascinating illustrated regimental history contains photographs between the 1860s and the last days of the Manchester Regiment in 1958, when i...

Covering the period from Sir Francis Drake to World War Two, this is the first book to be written on this subject in over 100 years. During that pe...

Included in this richly illustrated work by Daniel Blanchard are over 50 portfolios of American soldiers, ranging from paratroopers, pilots, infant...

The 82nd Division was first constituted on 5 August 1917 in the National Army. It was organized and formally activated on 25 August 1917 at Camp Go...

In the global theatre of contemporary warfare, courage and endurance are crucial for overcoming adversity. However, for Caroline Paige, a jet and h...

A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, Letters from the Front is a collection of correspondence sent by British and Commonwealth troops from th...

An inventive study of relations between the National Guard and the Regular Army during World War II, Guard Wars follows the Pennsylvania National G...

The regiments of the British Army have always set great store by their cap-badges which, in miniature, encapsulated the history and traditions of t...

After a long series of crushing defeats by the apparently unstoppable Japanese air and ground forces, the eventual fightback and victory in Burma w...

The war of 1914-1918 was a military, political and social disaster. No other war changed the map of Europe so dramatically and more than 15 million...

From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generals...

The first VC awarded to a Gurkha was as a result of the most conspicuous bravery in 1915 in France during the Great War. In all, the Gurkha Briga...

The key naval battles against Imperial Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War have been described many times by numerous diligent and ski...

A new book about the Legion Wallonie on the Eastern Front, wearing the uniform of the Heer between 1941 and 1945. This book includes information fr...

After just four weeks of training, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders--a regiment of cowboys recruited into the First U.S. Volunteer Cava...

An illustrated account of the Household Cavalry and Foot Guards in The Great War. The story of the Guards in the First World War epitomises the ...