Regiments

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...

In May 1945, as the triumphant Red Army crushed the last pockets of German resistance in central Berlin, French soldiers fought back. They were the...

Volume 4 of The Other Side of the Wire looks at the events that occurred in preparation for the German Offensives of 1918; the last attempt to brin...

When the 107th New York Volunteer Infantry arrived in Washington, D.C. in August 1862, President Lincoln personally honored them with a regimental ...

Hull Rifles looks at the 4th East Yorkshire Regiment during the Great War and examines the origins of the battalion and its history over the three ...

205 Group RAF provided the only mobile force of heavy night bombers in the Mediterranean theatre in the Second World War. It operated mainly from b...

Irish troops had fought for Louis XIV in the 1670s, under Irish officers who had little choice but to fight in foreign service, with the blessing o...

In 1943, the New Brunswick Rangers were sent to Britain, converted into a heavy weapons support unit, and shipped off to Normandy. Originating as a...

According to Pere Daniel the Dragoon corp got its origins under the reign of Henry II, with the mounted arquebusiers, created in 1554. Those were m...

This book, a continuation of volumes one and two, completes the study of more than a hundred British regiments all of whom played more than importa...

So great was the reputation of Scottish combat troops in the trench warfare of World War I that an unnamed commentator told Haldane, author of theH...

The 4th and 5th Battalions, the Norfolk Regiment were formed in the early days of The Great War as part of the Territorial Force and deployed with ...

Irish Guardsmen have been involved in all aspects of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq from in Kabul in 2001, through the invasion of Iraq in ...

The Knight's Cross was the German Army's highest award for valour, and only 0.04 per cent of the soldiers who served in the Second World War receiv...

It's spring 1920 in the small military town of Nandagiri in southeast India. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in ch...

The Gurkha Army Service Corps, the predecessor of The Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment, was raised in Singapore in 1958 ten years after the tra...

With the onset of World War II, African Americans found themselves in a struggle just to be allowed to fight for their country. Individuals like...

The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois tells the story of the Twenty-ninth United States Colored Infantry, one of almost 150 African American reg...

From the author of the celebrated Great War memoir

Part history book and part travel guide, D-Day Gunners is aimed at anyone interested in the artillery on the D-Day beaches and landing grounds. Whi...

This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the Panzer Graf (Armoured Count). An aristocra...