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the author reveals the remarkable single-mindedness and courage of the soldiers of Britain's present-day Army in the face of a numerically superior, well-equipped and well dug-in Army in the face of a numerically superior, well-equipped and well dug-in enemy, whose level of resistance could not be accurately assessed.

Examines in detail the pivotal role of the 9th Battalion of the Parachute regiment.

This latest book on the Airfields & Airmen of the First World War covers the earliest days of the RFC with the retreat from Mons. We visit the graves of Fokker Eindecker aces and the airfields where the first Jastas were formed. Also covered are airfields from which Allied aces such as Beauchamp Proctor VC flew and there is a visit to the American cemetery at Bony that contains a number of aviators.

The Somme was surely one of the bloodiest rendezvous for battle of all time. High Wood, dominating the Bazentin Ridge, was the fiercely contested focal point of the battle. The Germans showed great determination and sacrifice defending the feature and it was not until September that it finally fell to the attackers. Ironically, the successful divisional commander was rewarded with dismissal for "wanton waste of men." This exceptional book not ...

Wellington and Napoleon tells the story of the convergence and final clash of two of the most brilliant commanders ever to meet on the field of battle, Wellington, his men said, "didn't know how to lose a battle." But Wellington himself admired his adversary. In Portugal and Spain, Wellington helped wreck Napoleon's Continental System, bled his reserves away and showed the 'unbeatable' French could be beaten after all. It was the British infan...

Drawing upon a new international archive of the Second World War, the support of veterans world-wide and from archives overseas, the author uses previously unpublished letters, diaries, photographs and reminiscences to tell the story of D Day in a way which brings the reader closer to the actual experience. from an aerial, naval and land perspective the events of D Day are captured superbly in wartime contemporary and retrospective documentation.

Hitler's desperate last throw during the depths of winter 1944/45 came perilously close to being a major disaster for the Allies. Their offensive through the Ardennes fell on the Americans and caught them totally by surprise. Unaccustomed to set-backs, the situation was for a time extremely serious and in some areas panic set in and events went out of control. It was only after the most bitter fighting and massive reinforcement that the rot wa...

The crushing defeat suffered by the British Army by the Zulus at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 is by any standards a gripping and shocking story. The discovery of a complete set of diaries written by a young Royal Artillery officer who was the only survivor of his unit which lost all their guns is a very important find. Not only does this superb record tell of the dramatic events of that fateful day but it captures the atmosphere of the whole ...

The rescue of the BEF from Dunkirk, 10th May - 3rd June 1940. Written by the former Poet Laureate.

The village sits on top of the ridge that bears its name, a ridge that was an objective on the 1st July 1916. As it was, the whole position was not finally cleared until early September 1916 as German, Australian and British troops fought tenaciously over it.

The First World War had far more influence on subsequent literature than did the experience of the Second World War. The "Poets of the Great War" series was launched recently with a well-received volume on Wilfred Owen, a gifted poet who was killed a week before the Armistice. Edmund Blunden represents the second type of war poet, one who survived the war but whose later career, in this case spanning nearly sixty years, was forever marked by h...

The "war poets" have become synonymous with World War I. This account of poetry during the First World War, which was extremely popular in its original hardcover edition as Violets from Oversea, features 25 poets including Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Francis Ledwidge, and Wilfred Owen. Some of the poets glorified the war and many hated it, but nearly all had distinguished front-line records. Some wrote poems specifically about events of ...

In June 1940 Britain's front-line against the German armies was the coast of Kent and Sussex. Across the Channel Hitler's all-conquering forces gathered, preparing for invasion, as the Home Forces struggled desperately to recover from the disaster and miracle of Dunkirk. Occupation of these islands was nearer than for almost nine hundred years. Kent and Sussex 1940, tells the story of the Kent and Sussex communities that found themselves in th...

Martin Easdown's compelling account of the German air raid on Folkestone in 1917 and its appalling aftermath is the first comphrehensive history of an episode to be published. He gives a dramatic description of the event, relying heavily on the eyewitness testimony from the townspeople who were there on that fateful day. He records the experience of the German airmen who carried out the raid and a terrifying method of warfare.

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A graphic account of the defence of Hartlepool, Whitby and Scarborough against German seaborne raiders in 1914 and a detailed history the coastal defences that confronted the German navy. For the first time the author relates the wider story of the batteries of the Northeast of England and of the gunners who manned them in times of war and peace. His study covers all the coastal batteries from Northumberland and the Tyne, south through Wearsid...

This is spectacular photographic record of the D-Day invasion that captures many different aspects of the air, sea and military campaign. A great majority of photographs are unliekly to have been seen by the general public and they have been superbly reproduced directly from original negatives held by national archives in Britain and the USA. Detailed captions describe the action portrayed in each photo and an introduction puts D-Day into its ...

From the mound, or Butte, next to Polygon Wood, one can see all of World War I simply by turning around. The front line never varied more than a mile anna half in any direction from this strongpoint, in a small corner of Belgium that remained in Allied hands throughout the war.

First World War Generals tend to have dubious reputations and in group photographs of the High Command on the Western Front, one figure stands out as an archetypal Colonel Blimp - smart to a fault, white hair, white moustache, pot-belly. This was Sir Herbert Plumer. But his appearance belies the fact that he was one of the best-performing and best-regarded officers on the Allied side. He was famously thoughtful of his men and sparing of their ...

Although the years 1915-1918 saw titanic battles on the Western Front, many British military professionals and historians consider their army's greatest moment to have been a small battle fought at the beginning of the war in August, 1914. In those simpler days a fully-equipped British Expeditionary Force could be on French soil and locked in combat with the Germans a mere eight weeks after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.As the Anglo-Fre...