Military Life & Institutions

This is the story of the 6th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment in 1918. They fought numerous, bloody actions, suffering the highest casualties of any ...

This is the story of the 6th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment in 1918. They fought numerous, bloody actions, suffering the highest casualties of any ...

Regimental histories abound, but few can be as stirring as this story of the fortunes of the famous Yorkshire-based Green Howards. Raised in 1688 ...

The heroic and inspiring story of the fortunes of the Black Watch, whose soldiers have distinguished themselves in theatres of war across the world...

In December 1777, the Continental army was encamped at Valley Forge and faced weeks of cold and hunger, as well as the prospect of many troops leav...

'The true nature and functions of a pioneer battalion were never fully understood during the war either by military or laymen. Pioneers ...pioneers...

The first book to recount the stories of every single Allied serviceman (including more than a hundred and fifty American aircrew) helped by one of...

This is the only work covering the history and lineage of Marine Attack squadrons, from the date of their activation forward, until their deactivat...

This is a study of one of the 8th USAAFs sub-units. The 1st Combat Bomb Wing (1CBW), created on 13 September 1943, was preceded first by the 1st Bo...

Monty's desert legions - 7th Armoured Division, 51st Highland Division and 50th Northumbrian Division - helped him win at El Alamein and throughout...

47 Royal Marine Commando: An Inside Story 1943-1946 tells the story of 47 Royal Marine Commando during the Second World War based on personal accou...

The 712th Tank Battalion landed in Normandy three weeks after D-Day and spent eleven months in combat. Along the way, its men dug up potatoes with ...

Commanded by the controversial Major-General Ivo Thomas, the 43rd (Wessex) Division was branded the Fighting Yellow Devils' out of respect by its W...

Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Caro...

This history of the 11th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War-- civilian soldiers and their families--follows the regiment from their 1861 m...

In the opening months of the First World War, 1,500 men from Cambridgeshire came forward to serve their country as a battalion in Kitchener's New A...

In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonized over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia; they seemed unstoppable. He foresaw their intent...

When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much missed favourite brother in India she had no idea that a hundred years later th...

A wide range of personal experiences are covered in the seventeen chapters of this book. All the stories are written by the participants who descri...

The 19th Battalion was an infantry unit that fought in many of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Hailing from Hamilton, Toronto, and ot...

This is the first scholarly history of the only regular army cavalry regiment raised during the Civil War. Unlike volunteer regiments raised by ind...