Military Life & Institutions

Created at the end of the Civil War, Arlington National Cemetery has become a part of the landscape as fixed in the national imagination as the Whi...

A year after the start of the Battle of Britain, from the late summer of 1941 the Kenley Wing was one of the six Allied fighter wings taking the wa...

Foreword by Lance-Sergeant Johnson Beharry VCTHE VICTORIA CROSS is Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in t...

For as long as there have been armed forces there have been camp followers the families who move with the military to stay with their men. This bo...

The Guard charges Napoleon gave special attention to this splendid unit the Imperial Guard and it became a sort of little army within the Grande ...

In 2014 the Royal Gibraltar Regiment celebrated its 75th anniversary. This is the history of the regiment and its preceding formations, a history t...

The enduring popularity of the BBC TV series Dads Army has focused attention on one of the strangest and least military armies ever formed the Bri...

Norway was one of the nations producing the highest number of volunteers for the German war machine during WWII. Most of them ended up in the mecha...

In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner crossed the line of departure with a convoy of soldiers headed into the Iraqi desert. Now he lies awake each night b...

Everyone has heard of, say, the Irish Fusliliers, the Glorious Glosters, or Royal Scots Greys. But where are these regiments today? What are they c...

In a broadcast to the nation in September 1940 King George VI announced the institution of the George Cross - a civilian equivalent of the Victoria...

In AD 400 Roman rule in Britain was collapsing as the thinly stretched empire was besieged on all sides. In The Last Legionary, Paul Elliot explore...

It was the First World Wars largest seaborne invasion and the Irish were at the forefront. Recruited in Ireland, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers were or...

Throughout the relatively short yet highly distinguished history of the Royal Air Force there has been a tendency for the men and women of the Serv...

This book was written to provide an in-depth study of the Danish and Norwegian armies of the Napoleonic Wars. The goal was to provide a working do...

In 1952, Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne and became the Sovereign Head of the Armed Forces. In the sixty years of her reign so far, there ha...

The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionar...

Changing the Rules of Engagement brings to life the authentic, vivid stories of leadership from inspiring and adventurous women who achieved the ex...

At the start of the Civil War, volunteers from six counties in southeastern Alabama formed the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment. As part of Robert...

This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to traditional views ...

Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain is a thought-provoking reassessment of medical responses to war-related psychological br...

One million, one hundred thousand men and women lost their lives in the service of the British Empire during the First World War; in the Second, an...

With First World War casualties mounting, there was an appeal for volunteers to train as front-line medical staff. Many women heeded the call: some...

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh - later Lord - Dowding was one of the greatest Englishmen of the 20th century. He created Fighter Command with its uniq...

Throughout the 16th Century, the Spanish had an aura of invincibility. They controlled a vast colonial empire that stretched across the Americas an...

Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennes...

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