Military history

As part of the famous 101st Airborne Division (the Screaming Eagles), the 321st Glider Field Artillery Battalion saw nearly constant action during World War II, from assisting the infantry by landing supplies and providing combat support to fighting on the front lines.

The story of how English country houses were repurposed during the Second World War, told through the lives of those who lived and worked in themIn the Second World War, country houses across England were requisitioned by the government for the war effort.

This original study, focussing on the impact of the crusading movement in medieval Wales, considers both the enthusiasm of the Welsh and those living in Wales and its borders for the crusades, as well as the domestic impact of the movement on warfare, literature, politics and patronage.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume III by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

Bloody fighting between rival tribes and clans has existed since the dawn of Homo sapiens, but war as we knew it began to take the more organized forms we recognize today in the ancient Near East, starting in the vital region near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (modern Iraq) and ultimately extending west to the Mediterranean Sea through what became the Holy Land of the Bible, a region eventually contested by Egypt, the Roman Empire, and others, and extending north and east into the mountains of Persia (modern Iran).

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume VIII by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

A memoir of fathers and sons, baseball, a world at war, and second chances.

As part of the famous 101st Airborne Division (the Screaming Eagles), the 321st Glider Field Artillery Battalion saw nearly constant action during World War II, from assisting the infantry by landing supplies and providing combat support to fighting on the front lines.

This defining work on Hitlers elite fanatical boy soldiers details the creation and training of these teenage warriors and their baptism of fire in the Normandy campaign in World War II.

Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Picketts Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War.

This defining work on Hitlers elite fanatical boy soldiers details the creation and training of these teenage warriors and their baptism of fire in the Normandy campaign in World War II.

"e;A comprehensive study of the Civil War's first major battle .

Sir William Reardon Smith (1856-1935) was one of the foremost figures in south Wales in the early twentieth century.

When Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915, few would have predicted he was destined for greatness.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume V by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

Ethical approaches to war require that we don't value only the lives of 'our' people, as Realism asserts; that we don't enforce our sense of justice with weapons, as Militarism demands our 'moral warriors' do; that force is used only in self-defence, based on the principles of Just War Theory.

This book is based on more than a hundred letters sent home by three Swansea brothers during the First World War, almost all of which relate to the period 1916-18 when Richard, Gabriel and Ivor Eustis were serving in different theatres.

How to prepare-mentally and physically-for life in the armed forces.

Second to None: A Military Romance Vol.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XXI by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

When Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915, few would have predicted he was destined for greatness.

From the War for Independence to the War on Terror, American military intelligence has often failed, costing needless casualties and squandering money and materiel as well as prestige and all too often it has failed to learn from its mistakes.

By the summer of 1945, Adm.

In March 1945, against the advice of his top subordinates, Gen.

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is a Holocaust-era diary chronicling the experiences of a Jewish adolescent during World War II.

In the spring of 1940, the Germans invaded France, and the British army crossed the English Channel to fight alongside its ally.

Alone Against Hitler tells the lesser-known but pivotal story of former Austrian chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume IV by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

This book tellswith firsthand accounts as well as numerous, never-before-seen photographsthe combat history of German Tiger Tank Battalion 503, the senior Tiger battalion of the German Army, equipped with both the Tiger I and the King Tiger.

The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.

Alone Against Hitler tells the lesser-known but pivotal story of former Austrian chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg.

This book tellswith firsthand accounts as well as numerous, never-before-seen photographsthe combat history of German Tiger Tank Battalion 503, the senior Tiger battalion of the German Army, equipped with both the Tiger I and the King Tiger.

War in Europe began with the first human migrants.

In March 1945, against the advice of his top subordinates, Gen.

War in Europe began with the first human migrants.

While the Marine Corps island-hopped across the Pacific from Guadalcanal to Saipan to Iwo Jima, the U.

Wie transportiert man uber hundert Elite-Soldaten heimlich in unbeleuchteten Frachtflugzeugen uber 4.

Disenado y construido en el astillero argentino Principe y Menghi, el transporte polar ARA Bahia Paraiso B-1 se incorporo a la Armada Argentina en noviembre de 1981.

Had Lieutenant George S.

History of the War in Afghanistan Vol.

While the Marine Corps island-hopped across the Pacific from Guadalcanal to Saipan to Iwo Jima, the U.

In June 1942, the U.

Joffre And His Army by Charles Dawbarn is a captivating historical biography that delves into the strategic leadership of General Joffre during World War I.

Had Lieutenant George S.

The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry SadlerThe top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn't ';Paint It Black' or ';Yellow Submarine'--it was ';The Ballad of the Green Berets,' a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam vet Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.

In June 1942, the U.

From the War for Independence to the War on Terror, American military intelligence has often failed, costing needless casualties and squandering money and materiel as well as prestige and all too often it has failed to learn from its mistakes.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XIX by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

Scholars hail the find as "e;the most important discovery in Civil War scholarship in the last half century.

By the summer of 1945, Adm.