Military Life & Institutions

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...

This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It see...

Dressed to Kill is a unique and detailed analysis of naval uniform and its historical, social and economic contexts in the eighteenth and nineteent...

A detailed analysis of the organization, uniforms and weapons of the French Imperial Guard created by Napoleon I. The author describes how this lar...

In their companion volume to British Army Cap Badges of the First World War, authors Peter Doyle and Chris Foster present an overview of the main c...

That association of mountainous territories shut in among the European powers, Switzerland solved part of its financial problems as early as the Re...

The Army''''s management of Arlington National Cemetery has come under scrutiny following the discovery of burial errors and the identification of ...

This book describes the wartime experiences of Reverend David Railton, MC, who was a chaplain on the Western Front during WWI. As a chaplain, Railt...

The Knight''s Cross of the Iron Cross, to give it its full name, owes its origins to the ''Pour le Merite'' (Blue Max), an imperial award dating ba...

After Napoleon's victories over Austria and Prussia, he rearranged the map of Germany. In 1807, he created the Kingdom of Westphalia as a model sta...

The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the...

The United States Marine Corps was one of the phenomena of the Second World War. Greatly expanded from its pre-war order of battle of scattered def...