Military Life & Institutions

A collection of Rudyard Kipling''s articles based describing Lord Kitchener''s volunteer army, written just a couple of months after the death of h...

The beginning of World War I saw thousands of army and navy aviators who needed specialized clothing that could not be purchased off-the-shelf. ...

Primus in armis, ''first in arms'', is the motto of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Britain''s senior Regiment of volunteer cavalry raised in 1794 ag...

In Lee's Tigers Revisited, noted Civil War scholar Terry L. Jones dramatically expands and revises his acclaimed history of the approximately twelv...

Military historians have often regarded the roll of the Italian military as somewhat bi-polar. During the First World War, Italy sided with the All...

Soldiers to the Last Day: Rhineland- Westphalian 6th Infantry Division, 1935-1945 recounts the history of the German 6th Infantry Division from its...

The 22nd Maine Regiment joined General Nathaniel Banks' campaign in Louisiana, fighting at Irish Bend in two attacks on Port Hudson. Drawing on fir...

The 6th Michigan Volunteer Infantry first deployed to Baltimore, where the soldiers' exemplary demeanor charmed a mainly secessionist population....

Winged Sabres is the story of a RFC & RAF squadron flying the cumbersome FE2 from February 1916 to September 1917, and then the superlative Bri...

The Royal Dragoon Guards, formed in 1992 from the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, has a proud history datin...

_The Leeds Rifles_ is a detailed chronicle of the four Battalions of Riflemen who left Leeds for the Western Front. In 1914, just as now, they were...

The final part of the Lion and the Rose trilogy detailing the TF battalions of the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in the Great War. Establi...

General David Stanley's Union cavalry at Stones River in Middle Tennessee. The campaign saw some of the most desperately fought mounted engagements...

The third book in the series covers the story of a panzer soldat from Germany's Wehrmacht of the Second World War. Günter Polzin served his brief m...

Using a wealth of contemporary sources, this book narrates the story of the Liverpool Rifles in the Great War from their mobilisation in August 191...

The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) supported the British Army throughout the First World War treating sick and wounded military personnel. The RAM...

Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little ...