Warfare & Defence

This updated edition of the 1992 reference work (exhaustive...fascinating--Library Journal) contains comprehensive information about United Stat...

The last veteran of the First World War has long since died, and those of the Second are getting ever scarcer, but public interest in war memorials...

After the war it was estimated that 230 current and former students and staff of Hulme Hall had served in the Armed Forces between 1914 and 1919. T...

What is the nature of courage, how and when should it be recognized, and how has our appreciation of it changed? These are among the questions Gran...

For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretchi...

Over 3,540 Old Cheltonians (OCs - former pupils of Cheltenham College) fought in the Great War of 1914-18, with six being awarded the Victoria Cros...

Many books have been written about the Victoria Cross and its recipients.The first published work on the subject appeared in 1857 the same year as...

Epitaphs of the Great War Passchendaele is an edited collection of headstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the Third Battle o...

By August 1918 fortune was on the side of the Allies: America was increasing its contribution of troops and equipment substantially; the morale of ...

In 1922 the fledgling Irish Free State decided to replace the RIC with the Civic Guard (An Garda Síochána). This new Irish police force found itsel...

Published to coincide with the centennial of the end of the First World War, this informative book is an essential guide to the memorials of the wa...

They were among the sporting elite of 1914 - the stars of the Northern Union - idolised by thousands of enthusiastic men, women and children up and...

In the history of the Victoria Cross, this is the first book exclusively written about the recipients of this prestigious award who were members of...

This ambitious project in association with The Victoria Cross Trust will be published in 8 volumes over 4 years, the first publishing on the 160th ...

The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. These young Ameri...

On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; hes reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the...

For Valour: The Complete History of the Victoria Cross will be the definitive work on the subject and compelling as a narrative as well as the ulti...