Cold wars and proxy conflicts

Early on 1 September 1914, the Germans surprised 1st Cavalry Brigade harboring in the little town of Nry.

The fighting on Redan Ridge in 1916 has long been overshadowed by events on each flank, namely Serre on the left and Beaumont Hamel on the right.

Ninety years after the Battle of the Somme was fought, visitors continue to flock in very large numbers to the massive Memorial to the Missing at Thiepval, site of a bitter three-month struggle during the summer of 1916.

This latest book in the Battleground Europe series describes the battles over several years, and in particular 1917 and 1918, for a wood and small village.

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.

A history of the World War I engagement between British and German forces in northern France, and a visitor's guide to the battlefield site.

The 2nd Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry was one of only two battalions of the regiment that did not have its history published in some form after the Great War, the other was the 1/7th (Territorial) Battalion.

Airfields and Airmen:Cambrai covers the earliest days of the RFC with the retreat from Mons.

A history of four battalions of the Durham Light Infantry raised in the Country during the First World War.

The river Aisne featured prominently in August 1914 during the Retreat from Mons and in September was the scene of bitter fighting when the BEF re-crossed it in their unsuccessful attempt to dislodge the German Army entrenched along the Northern Crest.

In September 1915 Kitcherner's men were in action for the first time in the largest offensive of the year.

This book concentrates on Gully Ravine and its immediate area on the western side of the Helles battlefield.

Historian Peter Pedersen examines the World War I battle on the Western Front that decimated an Australian regiment in Fromelles: French Flanders.

Based on interviews with survivors of German WWI prison camps, this account documents the heroism and perseverance of British troops in captivity.

This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front.

The Battle of the Lys, fought in April 1918, was critical for the Allies and for Germany.

The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval engagement of the First World War, if not any war.

This new edition of the classic WWI battlefield guide is updated with current information and a new walking tour through Mametz Wood.

This oral history presents the firsthand stories and memories of Britain's last living WWI veterans-complete with then and now photographs.

Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s.

Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s.

This fascinating biographical history reveals how the future German general established his reputation at the WWI Battle of Caporetto.

Jack Sheldon examines the German mindset at the close of 1914 when it became apparent that a quick victory was no longer a possibility.

The letters of John Max Staniforth are among the most perceptive, graphic and evocative personal records of a soldiers life to have come down to us from the Great War.

Beaumont Hamel is a name which conjures up appalling visions of the catastrophic reverse suffered by men of VIII Corps, British Fourth Army on 1st July 1916, when thousands of men were killed and wounded for no gains whatsoever.

"e;At the start of World War One the Imperial German Navy had a large number of surface warships deployed around the world.

Llewelyn Wyn Griffiths Up to Mametz, published in 1931, is now firmly established as one of the finest accounts of soldiering on the Western Front.

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Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common.

In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest.

In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide.

The long path to the Berlin Wall began in 1945, when Josef Stalin instructed the Communist Party to take power in the Soviet occupation zone while the three Western allies secured their areas of influence.

The greatest threat to the Western alliance in the 1960s did not come from an enemy, but from an ally.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting up Cuban beaches with machine guns.

The British action at Mons on 23 August 1914 was the catalyst for what became a full blown retreat over 200 blood drenched miles.

This is much more than just another book to add to the thousands on The Great War.

An analysis of the military raiding strategy employed on the Western Front during World War I.

This history of the Royal Flying Corps during the Battle of Somme offers a comprehensive firsthand look at WWI military aviation.

A first-hand account of World War I by a nineteen-year-old Englishman who led a platoon into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme.

The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval engagement of the First World War, if not any war.

The personal account of the original Red Eagle of the establishment, equipment, and training practices of the highly classified MiG squadron of the USAF.

The personal account of the original Red Eagle of the establishment, equipment, and training practices of the highly classified MiG squadron of the USAF.

At once fascinating and horrific, this book details the conception, development and impact of the atomic bombs infamously dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

At once fascinating and horrific, this book details the conception, development and impact of the atomic bombs infamously dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was the fastest and most successful strike fighter of the Cold War.

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was the fastest and most successful strike fighter of the Cold War.

How the modern world was shaped by super power rivalry through deception and propagandaThis guide exposes the reality behind the war between capitalism and communism, two ideologies divided by the Iron Curtain.

From the end of the Second World War to the present day, the world has changed immeasurably.

The academic debate in Western social science about the growing "e;convergence"e; or similarities between American and Soviet society acquired political significance in the diverse relationships that made up the global Cold War.