Military Life & Institutions

The story of the 39th Divisional Field Ambulances beings in the year of 1915 at various recruiting offices, and continues in a thin, uncertain stre...

In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye captures the challen...

How does an Army recruit attain an identity with soldierhood? What do they give up and what do they gain? What happens when a young officer, indoct...

The Italian Risorgimento was the political process that led to the unification of the Italian peninsula into a single kingdom after three bloody wa...

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps early operations and illust...

The Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz) was one of the highest decorations given for extreme acts of valour to all ranks of the German armed forces during...

As the first Anzacs to land at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and among the last to serve in Afghanistan 100 years later, the men and women of the Aust...

The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Se...

The First World War tore apart the early twentieth century. Both terrible and terrifying, it banished misplaced optimism that war on such an uncons...

It was not just the searing heat of the day, hot enough to boil an egg on the bonnet of a lorry, or the sand that nestled in every crevice of the b...

Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks was a legend in his lifetime. He leapt to fame as a Brigade, Divisional and Corps Commander during the Second...

When the US Marine Commandant, Major General Thomas Holcomb, announced the formation of what became the US Marine Corps' Women's Reserve, legend ha...

The Royal Army Medical Corps was present during all engagements in the Second World War. From the frozen wastes of Norway through to liberation fro...

Part memoir, part investigative journalism, and completely engrossing, What We Inherit is not a book you'll be forgetting anytime soon. Oprah Maga...

It has the privacy and immediacy of a diary but holds the interest like a novel. It follows the adventures, trials and tribulations of Nuibin Amhla...

The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, includi...

From its origins as the Consular Guard of the French Republic, and as Napoleon's personal bodyguard, the Imperial Guard developed into a force of a...

When Tony Thorne first turned up for his medical in 1956 he had little idea of the adventures he would face and the people he would encounter over ...

The official tie-in book to the wildly popular Facebook page, featuring brand-new crazy, off-the-wall, outrageously funny, and downright awesome pe...

The Victoria Cross is Britain and the Commonwealths most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upo...