Specific wars and campaigns

The Blackburn Skua was the first monoplane to be designed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s.

In early 1942, shipping losses in the Atlantic threatened Britain's very survival.

A history of the Welsh Battalion and its service during World War I in France.

This pictorial history shows the full extent of captured foreign aircraft used by Nazi Germany during WWII.

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 German historian's classic account of the Red Army's assault on East Prussia at the end of WWII, now available in English translation.

This book covers the bases used during the Second World War by the American fighter units that flew in support of the 8th Air Forces heavy bomber forces.

A Royal Air Force pilot recounts his experiences on the front lines of WWII in both Europe and the Pacific in this fascinating military memoir.

A British Army officer chronicles his years of service during WWII, including time in a POW camp and the beginning of the Special Air Service.

As part of the AHT series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area-in this case Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire.

A history of 9 Group, Royal Air Force Fighter Command, formed specifically to protect Liverpool and Manchester during the darkest hours of WWII.

The author of Javelin from the Cockpit looks at some of the more notable British, German, and American fighters through performance and handling trials.

"e;One of Britain's best-known aviation historians .

The inter-war years between 1918 and 1939 saw the newly created Royal Air Force fighting for its very existence politically, being dispatched to the remotest corners of the British Empire and its Protectorates in various policing roles and then finally engaged in a headlong rush to modernize in the face of the new German Fascist regime that was threatening British and European freedom.

A history and guide to the historic British airfields where American bombers had to be ready to go at a moment's notice-includes photos.

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.

The Mustang was born from a British WW2 specification to North American during 1940.

This WWII battlefield guide offers a detailed history of the Allied Liberation of Nijmegen during Operation Market Garden-with maps and photos throughout.

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

In an attempt to outflank the German Gustav Line running across Italy, Operation SHINGLE was launched on January 22nd 1944.

A military history of the seventeenth century English Civil wars, including guides and pictures of historic battlefield sites.

Major General Sir Roy Redgrave has enjoyed an unusual, some might say eccentric, life.

The RAF Regiment was created in the early years of World War II for the active dedicated defense of RAF airfields and installations.

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

This memoir of a Soviet POW's escape from a Nazi concentration camp is a remarkable account of cruelty and courage during WWII.

This is the story of Allied fighter pilots and the part they played in all the principal operational theatres of World War II.

A decorated British officer's wrenching and inspiring firsthand account of the worst battle of the Burma campaign.

The third in a trilogy of books, the others being Cambrai -The Right Hook and Bourlon Wood by the same authors covering the battle for Cambrai in November 1917.

This is the vivid memoir of a man who was twenty-one at the outbreak of World War II.

This WWII guidebook brings the momentous drama of D-Day to life with an in-depth study of the fighting on Normandy's Sword Beach.

This WWII history examines an early British commando raid on Nazi occupied France through extensive interviews with survivors from both sides.

The battle for Guillemont raged throughout August 1916.

The village of Epehy gave its name to one of the most important battles of 1918.

This fully illustrated WWI battlefield guide provides essential historical context and visitor information for exploring this site on the Western Front.

The Battlefield General game books put you in command of the forces engaged in some of history's most famous battles.

This book features the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including interviews with people who used them during the Second World War.

This is a guide to the existing WWII aircraft to be found in aviation museums throughout the world.

Written well over ninety years ago while the experiences of youth were still fresh in the authors mind, this is the story of a seventeen-year-old boy from the time he joined Kitcheners Army, as one of the first hundred thousand in 1914, until he found himself in hospital-an officer with the Military Cross-recovering from his last wound, on the day of the Armistice, 11 November, 1918.

The British Airborne landings on Sicily are the least known and, without doubt, the most fraught with political and technical strife.

British commandos are among the most celebrated soldiers of the Second 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.

A first-hand account from a British POW, "e;not so much about the building of the Burma-Siam railway as it is about the existence of the men who built it"e; (BiblioBuffet.

Lawrence Attwell was one of the lucky ones, surviving over four years of trench warfare on the Western Front.

A first-hand account from a British POW, "e;not so much about the building of the Burma-Siam railway as it is about the existence of the men who built it"e; (BiblioBuffet.

Dawyck Haig, the only son of the great Field Marshal, was born in 1918, the year of his father's victory.

Unlike its near neighbour, working-class Salford, Manchester proved able to raise eight Pals battalions.

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

The Battle of Loos formed part of a wider offensive conducted by both French and British Forces in September 1915.

Lawrence Attwell was one of the lucky ones, surviving over four years of trench warfare on the Western Front.

This illustrated history chronicles the ground combat of the Korean War through rare wartime photographs.