Military Life & Institutions

The 4th and 5th Battalions, the Norfolk Regiment were formed in the early days of The Great War as part of the Territorial Force and deployed with ...

To mark the 20th anniversary of the lifting of the British Armed Forces gay ban' on 12 January 2020, this book brings together a selection of LGBT...

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

For many service men and women, the battle is over, but the ink lives on. Thousands have chosen to commemorate their military service through tatto...

Irish Guardsmen have been involved in all aspects of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq from in Kabul in 2001, through the invasion of Iraq in ...

The Knight's Cross was the German Army's highest award for valour, and only 0.04 per cent of the soldiers who served in the Second World War receiv...

This is part one of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately modern color ...

When introduced in 1914, the Military Cross filled a large void in medallic recognition for junior officers--the first men over-the-top when going ...

It's spring 1920 in the small military town of Nandagiri in southeast India. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in ch...

The Victoria Cross is the highest award given to members of the Commonwealth military forces for acts of extreme bravery in battle. There is no gre...

In 1984, as an eighteen-year-old school leaver, the author was conscripted into a chaotic world of strict order, intense discipline and subtle brai...

An unputdownable account of the courage and bravery under fire of our Australian soldiers on the frontline - from WWII to Afghanistan. From Gallip...

This is an expert guide to the uniforms of Britain, America, Germany, USSR and Japan, together with other Axis and Allied forces. It is an incredib...

Originally published in 1909 to 'interest and educate the public mind in the men who constitute the first line of our defensive forces', this serie...

As a little girl, Teressas father dotes on her and little sister, Karen, while mercilessly mocking her older sister, Debbie. Teressa thinks its D...

The Gurkha Army Service Corps, the predecessor of The Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment, was raised in Singapore in 1958 ten years after the tra...

It is August 1990, and Iraq has just invaded Kuwait, setting off a chain reaction of events leading up to the first Gulf War. Vicki Codys husband, ...

The uniforms of the fighting men of the American War of Independence are a vivid illustration of the difficulties and complexities of the conflict,...

With the onset of World War II, African Americans found themselves in a struggle just to be allowed to fight for their country. Individuals like...

For Valour: Th e Complete History of the Victoria Cross will be the definitive work on the subject and compelling as a narrative as well as the ult...

In World War II, the U.S. Army not only supplied its soldiers with the most modern equipment and uniforms, suitable for any combat situation, but w...