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...