Military Life & Institutions

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize The most entertaining writer in science The Times, Books of the Year Wa...

Over 3,540 Old Cheltonians (OCs - former pupils of Cheltenham College) fought in the Great War of 1914-18, with six being awarded the Victoria Cros...

Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversariespanic, exhaustion, heat, noiseand introduces us to the scientists ...

Monuments honoring leaders and victorious armies have been raised throughout history. Following the American Civil War, however, this tradition ...

In Liverpool local heroes tend to be drawn from football or the music business or from the period when the city was one of Britains greatest ports....

The last veteran of the First World War has long since died, and those of the Second are getting ever scarcer, but public interest in war memorials...

After the war it was estimated that 230 current and former students and staff of Hulme Hall had served in the Armed Forces between 1914 and 1919. T...

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He res...

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...

Many books have been written about the Victoria Cross and its recipients.The first published work on the subject appeared in 1857 the same year as...

Epitaphs of the Great War Passchendaele is an edited collection of headstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the Third Battle o...

By August 1918 fortune was on the side of the Allies: America was increasing its contribution of troops and equipment substantially; the morale of ...

In 1922 the fledgling Irish Free State decided to replace the RIC with the Civic Guard (An Garda Síochána). This new Irish police force found itsel...

Published to coincide with the centennial of the end of the First World War, this informative book is an essential guide to the memorials of the wa...

This is the story of two airmen - an RAF Rear Gunner and a Luftwaffe Pilot. Alexander Ollar was raised in the Highlands of Scotland. He became an e...

They were among the sporting elite of 1914 - the stars of the Northern Union - idolised by thousands of enthusiastic men, women and children up and...

In the history of the Victoria Cross, this is the first book exclusively written about the recipients of this prestigious award who were members of...

This ambitious project in association with The Victoria Cross Trust will be published in 8 volumes over 4 years, the first publishing on the 160th ...

The story of the Royal Navy in the Second World War is an epic, consisting both of dramatic battles such as the River Plate and Matapan, and drawn-...

On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; hes reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the...

For over twenty years the battlecruiser HMS 'Hood' toured the world as the most iconic warship in the Royal Navy. Unmatched in her beauty and chari...

It was the events of the Crimean War that changed everything. Until that time, those serving in Britain's army or navy had been expected to do thei...

The British Empire at its height stretched around the globe. From Asia to the Americas, scores of countries were conquered or assimilated into the ...

For four years the German U-boats of U-Flottille Flandern would become a serious threat to the omnipotence of the Royal Navy and its fleet. By th...