Regiments

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...

The official account of the Royal Artillerys activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment...

The mettle of the famous First Household Cavalry Regiment was tested to the maximum in action in the mountains of Italy in 194344. This book explor...

Raised as Colonel Solomon Richards Regiment in 1688, the 17th Regiment of Foot (later the Leicestershire Regiment) served with distinction througho...

41 Squadron RAF is one of the oldest RAF Squadrons in existence, having celebrated its 95th Anniversary in 2011. The unit has seen service from the...

Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division has become one of the most famous small units in U.S. history,...

This fascinating illustrated regimental history contains photographs between the 1860s and the last days of the Manchester Regiment in 1958, when i...

An inventive study of relations between the National Guard and the Regular Army during World War II, Guard Wars follows the Pennsylvania National G...

After a long series of crushing defeats by the apparently unstoppable Japanese air and ground forces, the eventual fightback and victory in Burma w...

From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generals...

The first VC awarded to a Gurkha was as a result of the most conspicuous bravery in 1915 in France during the Great War. In all, the Gurkha Briga...

The key naval battles against Imperial Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War have been described many times by numerous diligent and ski...

A new book about the Legion Wallonie on the Eastern Front, wearing the uniform of the Heer between 1941 and 1945. This book includes information fr...

After just four weeks of training, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders--a regiment of cowboys recruited into the First U.S. Volunteer Cava...

An illustrated account of the Household Cavalry and Foot Guards in The Great War. The story of the Guards in the First World War epitomises the ...

A year after the start of the Battle of Britain, from the late summer of 1941 the Kenley Wing was one of the six Allied fighter wings taking the wa...

The Guard charges Napoleon gave special attention to this splendid unit the Imperial Guard and it became a sort of little army within the Grande ...

In 2014 the Royal Gibraltar Regiment celebrated its 75th anniversary. This is the history of the regiment and its preceding formations, a history t...

The enduring popularity of the BBC TV series Dads Army has focused attention on one of the strangest and least military armies ever formed the Bri...

Norway was one of the nations producing the highest number of volunteers for the German war machine during WWII. Most of them ended up in the mecha...