Military Life & Institutions

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Britains manpower crisis forced them to turn to a previously untapped resource: women. For years it was th...

Of the 10,000 men who landed at Arnhem, over nine days 1,400 were killed and more than 6,000 about a third of them wounded were captured. It was ...

At the end of 1917, after three years of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Allied armies of Britain and France, and those of their main oppo...

The second of three volumes, this book is part of a series considered the most complete and detailed study on the uniforms and the equipment used b...

The Clare War Dead is a comprehensive record of those men from County Clare who died during the Great War, and is the next instalment in this proli...

The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First W...

Carshalton in Surrey was deeply affected by the First World War: over 1,900 local men enlisted to fight. Of those men, 243 lost their lives and are...

From the hell of Gallipoli to the deserts of the Holy Land, torpedoed in the Mediterranean before finally posted to the mud and trenches of the Wes...

What really happened in Singapore and Malaya in the dark days of December 1941 to February 1942? Contrary to received wisdom, Singapore was not giv...

From the heat and dust of the Dardanelles to the mud of the Western Front, Corporal Angus Mackay had one constant companion, his diary. He wrote of...

During the opening four months of the First World War no fewer than forty-six soldiers from the British and Commonwealth armies were awarded the Vi...

Towards the end of September 1918 the Allied armies were poised to seize the Hindenburg Line the end of the war on the Western Front was at last i...

Following on from the success of the War Dead series in counties Tipperary, Wexford, Wicklow ,and Offaly, Tom Burnell now turns his attention to Co...

Taking a fresh look at the Scottish involvement in the English Civil War, this fascinating take on a popular period of history focuses on how the S...