Military Life & Institutions

The Royal Army Medical Corps was present during all engagements in the Second World War. From the frozen wastes of Norway through to liberation fro...

Part memoir, part investigative journalism, and completely engrossing, What We Inherit is not a book you'll be forgetting anytime soon. Oprah Maga...

It has the privacy and immediacy of a diary but holds the interest like a novel. It follows the adventures, trials and tribulations of Nuibin Amhla...

The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, includi...

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...

When Tony Thorne first turned up for his medical in 1956 he had little idea of the adventures he would face and the people he would encounter over ...

The official tie-in book to the wildly popular Facebook page, featuring brand-new crazy, off-the-wall, outrageously funny, and downright awesome pe...

The Victoria Cross is Britain and the Commonwealths most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upo...

In May 1945, as the triumphant Red Army crushed the last pockets of German resistance in central Berlin, French soldiers fought back. They were the...

A fascinating account of Russia's Five-Day War against Georgia in 2008, notable for its strategic mistakes which prompted President Putin to undert...

Douglas Arthur Chambers joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1915. He took three sketchbooks with him and documented his time in the army, from t...