Military Life & Institutions

Apart from the quiet chatter of a few mechanics, who were checking that one aircraft was too badly damaged ever to fly again, there was a shocked s...

A study of U.S.-Chinese relations involving the U.S. Army, this work focuses at the personnel level on the Army's service in China. While studie...

In the late months of 1944, seventy-one men climbed aboard a runt of a ship only one-hundred-fifty-feet long and twenty-three feet wide, and headed...

'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane As war looms, can they kee...

'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane As war looms, can they kee...

The original soldiers handbook of practical battlefield triage. In no place is medicine more valued than the battlefield. In 1944, the US War Depa...

As an asthmatic teenager in the 1950s, I longed for a life in a place more exotic and warm for my condition than the then dreary Britain. National...

The uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now tr...

How did children in Ipswich help the war effort? Who was imprisoned in Ipswich for opposing the war? Where in the town was there thought to be a Ge...

British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) is situated in Alberta, amidst the dry, semi-barren, rugged and undulating Canadian prairie, where the ...

The Scum of the Earth explores the common soldiers the Duke of Wellington angrily condemned as ''scum'' for their looting at Vitoria, from their gr...

THE PERFECT STOCKING FILLER for anyone who thinks they''''d survive the world''''s most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do.--...

A Royal Engineer at War 1940-1946 is a British soldier's account of his life, both private and military, while serving with the Corps of Royal Engi...

'Time Flies: Reflections of a Fighter Pilot' retells the exploits of David Hamilton's thirty years of service in the Royal Air Force. He had a wide...

The New Kingdom of Egypt marks the apogee of military organisation and preparedness. Beginning the era under foreign occupation, the Egyptians buil...

This is a flying adventure book set within the framework of the Cold War and told through the lens of the RAF Pilot's Flying Log Book. Philip Keebl...

Gunter Horst Beetz was born in Berlin in 1926. Growing up as part of a typical family-his father was a banker, his mother a housewife-he joined the...

This is the quite remarkable and true story of Squadron Leader Derek J. Sharp AFC BSc Dip Comp JP RAF and his incredible adventures. Nothing perhap...

'What was it really like to serve in the British Army during the Second World War? Discover a soldier's view of life in the British Army - from re...

Over a million Indian soldiers fought in the First World War, the largest force from the colonies and dominions. Their contribution, however, has b...

Tommy Atkins has been the nickname given to soldiers of the British Army since the eighteenth century. The origin of the name is shrouded in myster...

Almost a century has passed since the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918. Of all the soldiers who went through that hell on earth, photog...

Almost a century has passed since the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918. Of all the soldiers who went through that hell on earth, photog...

The Second World War saw many people consigned to long periods of exile, far from home. How did the exiled keep in touch with home? Why were some e...

More than a century has passed past since German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the treasures of Bronze Age Mycenae. The richly decora...

A fascinating trawl through a very personal history. - Irish GazetteA stirring story of Easter Week that has gone untold until now. - Irish Voice I...

In 1945 it was announced that Allied airmen who had taken part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 would be entitled to the immediate award of the 193...

Hundreds of thousands of military members are making the transition to civilian life each year. This transition is a move into unfamiliar territory...

The East of England, particularly Suffolk, became a new home for thousands of American airmen during the Second World War. After starting to arrive...