War, combat and military adventure fiction

Strategic bombing is likely the most studied element in Aviation History.

The first supplement for the Konflikt '47 Weird World War II wargames rules, this volume presents a range of new material for the game, including:- New army list: The Japanese make their presence known on the battlefields of Konflikt '47.

November 1915 - HMS Halberd, while protecting a collier convoy, confronts a German cruiser.

Examines the origins, outbreak and early campaigns of the First World War in Central and Eastern Europe.

Major study of the influential military correspondent, Charles Repington, and his daily column in The Times during the Great War.

Deep in the heart of Russia, a group of casually dressed young men are learning a different kind of lesson.

On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs landed ashore at Gallipoli.

This study of the great powers'' expansionism encompasses the global events of the first half of the twentieth century.

International contributors from the fields of political science, cultural studies, history, and literature grapple with both the local and global impact of World War I on marginal communities in China, Syria, Europe, Russia, and the Caribbean.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton, The Mercenary follows the rogue American gun-for-hire known only as the Sandman.

In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war guilt; Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the conflict in France; Luigi Albertini, the Italian newspaper tycoon who, unique among scholars of the Great War, played a part in pitching his country into it; Paul W.

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If you loved I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon you won't want to miss this novel about her sister, Grand Duchess Maria.

Marine archaeologist Dr Innes McCartney reveals for the first time the location and state of the wrecks of all 25 warships sunk in the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow.

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The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound.

While the Great War raged across the trench-lined battlefields of Europe, a hidden conflict took place in the distant hinterlands of the turbulent Mexican Republic.

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the sequel to The Archers Tale and Vagabondthe spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets out wanting to avenge his familys honor and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail.

This is the first account in English of a much-overlooked, but important, First World War battlefront located in the mountains astride the border between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform.

Originally published in 1995, Antievolutionism Before World War I is the first volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021.

May 1944: High above the mountains of occupied Slovenia an aeroplane drops three British parachutists brash MP Major Jack Farwell, radio operator Sid Dixon, and young academic Lieutenant Tom Freedman.

Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as "e;the greatest living man of letters.

To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War.

Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery and eventual burial of a Lancashire Fuslier who was killed in action in 1914; the research leading to the erection in 2002 of a 'Believed to be buried' headstone in the Strand cemetery of an Australian killed in action at Messines in 1917; the action in 1914 that initiated the birth of the infamous 'Birdcage' on the western edge of Ploegsteert Wood and other stories of interest to enthusiasts of the Great War.

The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890-1940: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis is the first volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the period from his birth as a Jew in Tsarist Russia to his prominence as a New York psychoanalyst on the eve of the Second World War.

Horn shows that victory followed not only from the ability to arm and feed mass armies but also from the capacity to raise money.

Between 1910 and 1945 the United States transformed itself into a Super Power.

The Great War of 1914-1918 was fought on the battlefield, on the sea and in the air, and in the heart.

If you like Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane, you'll absolutely love this enthralling and action-packed novel of Roman adventure from bestselling author Douglas Jackson.

This extended study of one of the critical campaigns of World War I sheds light on vital strategic consequences for both sides.

These vigorous lectures deal with some of the many ways in which the question of structure in poetry (here synonymous with the whole range of artistic creation in words) can be discussed.

When the Menorah Fades is a fictionalized account of the town of Hadiach, Ukraine, a small Jewish community destroyed by Nazi occupation during World War II.

One of the most powerful novels about the experience of war, first published in 1985Captured by Hirohito's soldiers at the fall of Hong Kong and transferred to a Japanese slave camp outside Hiroshima, Captain Joe Sandingham was present when the bomb was dropped.

The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'.

The Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916, pitted Great Britain and Imperial Germany-the two largest fleets of World War I-against one another for the first time.

A lively, engaging history of The Great War written for a new generation of readers In recent years, scholarship on World War I has turned from a fairly narrow focus on military tactics, weaponry, and diplomacy to incorporate considerations of empire, globalism, and social and cultural history.

The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone.

With extraordinary narrative power, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in human history.

This book explores how print journalism was a powerful and persistent influence on public attitudes to, and memories of, the First World War in a range of participant nations, including Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, the United States and Australia.

The causes of the “war to end all wars” have been debated exhaustively over the years since Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on June 28, 1914.

The untold story of how Canadian Cyclists came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War.

Immigrant American soldiers played an important, often underrated role in World War I.

First published in 1988, this annotated selection of Wilfred Owen's poetry and prose provides a comprehensive one-volume text of his best work.

'We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eight.