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Up Close and Personal
These gripping first-person accounts take the reader directly to the heart of the battle and bring home the brutal reality of war, plain and simply, with no heightened colour or...
The Victorians at War
The men of the Victorian army ruled a large part of the world. As the visible power behind the greatest empire there had ever been, they were involved in wars...
Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War
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The authors discovered 150,000 pages of transcriptions of secretly recorded conversations among German prisoners of war, of which approximately one third were made in P.O.W. camps in Britain, another cache...
Assault Crossing: The River Seine 1944
The assault crossing of the River Seine by the British 43rd (Wessex) Division in August 1944 remains one of the most important operations of the closing stages of the Second...
July 1914: Countdown to War
Popular historian Sean McMeekin's story of Europe's countdown to war, told through the eyes of men who, even a century later, still seem larger than life. We meet the brooding...
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most...
The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land,
This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still...
Sniping in the Great War
Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and their role evolved throughout the Great War. As Martin...
The Charge: The Light Brigade, the Crimean War and a Military Disaster
Cannon to the left of them; cannon to the right of them The legend of an extraordinary defeat brought vividly to life The cavalry charge of the Light Brigade in...
Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New
Uncover the gripping narrative of Irish immigrants who transformed America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. Tyler Anbinder's landmark work exposes the grit and resilience of the Famine Irish,...
Auschwitz A Mother's Story: How I fought to survive and see my
Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. 'My child, I have to go with her!' I scream. But Dr Mengel is standing before...
First to Fight: The Polish War 1939
A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian at the height of his abilities. A new and definitive...
Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front: The Memoir of Dr Hans Rehfeldt -
A visceral account from contemporaneous diaries of a soldier who frequently came close to death but somehow survived. Following his Abitur (A-levels) in 1940, Rehfeldt volunteered for the Panzer Arm...
Catch That Tiger - Churchill's Secret Order That Launched The Most
One of the most dangerous and thrilling secret missions of World War II was ordered personally by Churchill after Hitler unleashed the Tiger tank against Allied troops in Europe and...
Battle Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York, 1450-1462
England, 1454. A kingdom sliding into chaos. The mentally unstable King Henry VI, having struggled for a decade to contain the violent feuding of his magnates, loses his mind. Disgruntled...
Defense of Moscow 1941: The Northern Flank
There was one point when Nazi Germany had its best chance of winning the Second World War on the Eastern Front in mid-October 1941. Most of the Red Army's forces...
Last Great Cavalry Charge: The Battle of the Silver Helmets, Halen 12
The First World War saw many changes to the way that warfare was conducted. Today, it is hard to believe that the use of cavalry was still seriously contemplated in...
The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917
THE EMPIRE MUST DIE portrays the vivid drama of Russia's brief and exotic experiment with civil society before it was swept away by the despotism of the Communist Revolution. The...
Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya
In Towers of Stone, award-winning Polish reporter Wojciech Jagielski brings into focus the tragedy of Chechnya, its inhabitants, and the war being waged there by a handful of desperate warriors...
Of Fangs and Talons
THE FIRST NOVEL BY NICOLAS MATHIEU, WINNER OF THE 2018 PRIX GONCOURT A literary crime novel of the new social order, where the white lower class blames their bosses, the...
The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights
The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar . In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was...
Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45
A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander. In 1944 the average life expectancy of a newly commissioned tank troop officer in...
British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945
British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945 explores the under-researched experiences of the British tank industry in the context of the pressures of war. Benjamin Coombs explores the various...
Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World...
Challenge of Battle: The British Army's Baptism of Fire in the First
In this timely new book, Adrian Gilbert clears away the layers of sentiment that have obscured a true historical understanding of the 1914 campaign to provide a full, unvarnished picture...
Day of the Caesars (Eagles of the Empire 16)
DAY OF THE CAESARS is the latest gripping novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Not to be missed by readers of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell....
D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander
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A remarkable first-hand account of one tank commander's experiences during the Allied invasion from D-Day to VE Day. 'An arresting chronicle of the life of an ordinary soldier during the...
Germans in Normandy
This title describes the Normandy campaign from the German perspective. It covers D-Day, Villers-Bocage, Cherbourg, St Lo, Caen, Avranches, and other battles in hedgerow country. Erwin Rommel, Michael Wittmann, and...
Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle from Stalingrad to
In these firsthand accounts--never before published in English--German soldiers describe the horrors of combat on the Eastern Front during World War II. A panzer crewman holds out to the bitter...
Panzer Aces I: German Tank Commanders of WWII
With the order "Panzers forward!" German tanks rolled into battle, smashing into the enemy with engines roaring and muzzles flashing. From Poland and the Eastern Front to the Ardennes, Italy,...
Pillars of Fire: The Battle of Messines Ridge June 1917
'Gentleman, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography.' So said General Plumer the day before 600 tons of explosives were detonated under the German...
Ypres Diary 1914-15: The Memoirs of Sir Morgan Crofton
Sir Morgan Crofton fought in the Boer War and joined the 2nd Life Guards at 34 years old as a cavalry office. His diary charts his experiences on the front-line...
In the Shadow of Arnhem
The Battle of Arnhem in September 1944 has been much publicised, with its extraordinary parachute drop and gallant defence by Frost's few men of the bridge at Arnhem. Although the...
Voices From the Trenches: Life & Death on the Western Front
A treasure-trove of previously unpublished letters and first hand accounts from British 'tommies' of life and death in the trenches during the First World War. This is the story of...
Bosworth 1485
The battle of Bosworth marked an epoch in the lives of two great houses: the house of York fell to the ground when Richard III died on the field of...
The Battle of Hastings: Classic Histories Series
The Battle of Hastings is probably the best-known and perhaps the most significant battle in English history. Its effects were deeply felt at the time, causing a lasting shift in...
Taming the Panzers: 3 RTR at War, 1914-45
During the desperate days of May 1940 that ended with the fall of France, the 3rd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment was sent to Calais where it played a vital role...
By Tank: D to VE Days
Normandy 1944. Like most of his comrades Ken Tout was just 20 years old. Not until many years later did he feel able to gather their memoirs in three Hale...
Somme: Into the Breach
No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front during the First World War than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life...
Target: Italy: The Secret War Against Mussolini 1940-1943
Drawing on long-classified documents, this is the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. Told for the very first time, it...
Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters
As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving...
The Albigensian Crusade
In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albigenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all...
The Western Front
It was along the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss border, that most of nine million soldiers from the United Kingdom and British...
The Longest Afternoon
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In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large,...
Black Watch: Liberating Europe and catching Himmler - my extraordinary
As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It...
For King And Country: Voices from the First World War
Far more than an anthology, FOR KING AND COUNTRY is Brian MacArthur's attempt to write a history of the First World War by drawing on the writings of those who...
Victory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of
When the heavily manned fleet of the Ottoman Empire met the ships of a fragile coalition of Christian European states in 1571, the waters off the coast of Greece, they...
The "Daily Telegraph" British Battlefields: The Definitive Guide to
Philip Warner's four volume battlefield series published between 1972 and 1975 covers all major battles in England and Scotland from the Anglo-Saxon conquest to the Jacobite risings of 1715 and...