Military institutions

To find an example of a full and successful, yet unconventional, military career, one need look no further than General 'Jim' Wilson.

Siegfried Sassoon is mostly remembered for the devastating poetry he wrote during World War One as a result of leading his troops "e;over the top"e; to certain death.

The little known story of these female reservists and the role they played in WWII, packed with photos.

From its origins to its use in combat today, The Little Book of Camouflage tells the history of camouflage in conflict.

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The actions of General Patch's Seventh Army are analysed and assessed in this detailed history of their advance across Europe in 1943-45.

The Territorials 1908-1914 is a unique, comprehensive record of the part-time soldiers who made up the Territorial Force that supported the regular army in the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War.

Longshore Soldiers chronicles the wartime experiences of port battalion veterans, part of the US Army's Transportation Corps.

Longshore Soldiers chronicles the wartime experiences of port battalion veterans, part of the US Army's Transportation Corps.

From the beginning in 1935 this attractive book describes the different elements that went into the Panzer-Divisions.

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

The book tells the story of the 10th Australian Light Horse during World War One.

Armistice in 1918 presented the British government with an enormous challenge how could the British army that had been built up on an unprecedented scale during the war be cut back to a peacetime size and how could millions of soldiers be returned to civilian life?

Postureo y píxeles para develar el presente: narrativas de los parques arqueológicos en la red relaciona los parques arqueológicos en Colombia y el mundo digital, explorando las publicaciones generadas, consumidas y compartidas en redes sociales.

Highly experienced author John Frayn Turner has succeeded in capturing the indomitable spirit of the WAAF during WW2.

What was life in the Red Army like for the ordinary soldier during the Great Patriotic War, the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany on the Eastern Front?

This illustrated series presents the uniforms and equipment of the United States Army from the nineteenth century to the present day.

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place.

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.

A wide range of personal experiences are covered in the seventeen chapters of this book.

General Sir Richard Dannatt's distinguished career in the army has spanned thirty-eight years and seen him serve in many different theatres of conflict, from Northern Ireland (where he was awarded the Military Cross) to Bosnia and Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.

An account of the World War II heroics of the corps that “revolutionized medical care for British troops .

On the centenary of the Great War comes this poignant look at fifty objects never far from Tommy's side official uniform, good-luck charms, phrasebooks, a sweetheart's letter, some unexpected and others more familiar.

On the centenary of the Great War comes this poignant look at fifty objects never far from Tommy's side official uniform, good-luck charms, phrasebooks, a sweetheart's letter, some unexpected and others more familiar.

The noted author and literary scholar, Samuel Hynes, has remarked that there has been no great book on the Korean War, a significant gap in American military letters.

From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever.

The precepts laid down are the result of the experience acquired in the war in the Peninsula, from the first battle of Rolia in 1808, to the last in Belgium, of Waterloo in 1815They have been the means of saving the lives, and of relieving, if not even of preventing, the miseries of thousands of our fellow-creatures throughout the civilized world.

"e;Get down, Jim.

When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion in the Army.