True war & Combat Stories

Cady Hoyte, like many other young lads of his generation, proudly joined the army in 1915 to fight for his King and Country. From the Warwickshire ...

In 1952, Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne and became the Sovereign Head of the Armed Forces. In the sixty years of her reign so far, there ha...

Following the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940, Britain was at her most vulnerable. France had capitulated and th...

After the Second World War, 400,000 German servicemen were imprisoned on British soil, some remaining until 1948. These defeated men in their tatte...

The Lost Generation of the First World War were boys who had barely left school before they found themselves living in trenches, drowning in mud an...

Although only children at the time, the Second World War had a permanent effect on the schoolboys who lived through the conflict. Watching a countr...

Please note: this book was written and published prior to Manning's identification as Chelsea. Beginning in early 2010, Chelsea Manning leaked an a...

The Jewish flight from Nazi Germany was one of the largest diasporas the world has ever seen. It sparked an international refugee crisis that chang...

The mass evacuation of children and new and expectant mothers during the Second World War is well documented. But over fifty per cent of children w...

First published in 1943, this is the gripping story of one man's involvement in RAF Bomber Command's fledgling offensive between August 1940 and De...

True tales of Second World War spies from across the West Country have been collected together for the very first time in this fascinating book. Fr...

The key to getting on with our closest Continental neighbours is to know the truth about what they endured during the German Occupation in the Seco...

One of The 30 Best Travel and Adventure Books of All Time, as selected by Gear Patrol, Winner 2015 US Travel and Adventure website. Fighter Pilot w...

More than 10,000 Germans and Austrians fled Nazi persecution and served with British forces during the Second World War. At the end of the conflict...

War in the Wilderness is the most comprehensive account ever published of the human aspects of the Chindit war in Burma. The word Chindit will alwa...

When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of F...