Now in a compact, e-guide format, a short history of Julius Caesar's short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes, which led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France).
Irregular, semi-regular and reserve formations comprised a substantial part of the armed forces at the disposal of the Prussian Army throughout the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the campaigns of the Wars of Liberation, 1813-15.
Napoleon's occupation of the Iberian peninsula embroiled him in a protracted and costly war against British, Spanish and Portuguese forces ultimately led by one of history's greatest commanders -- the Duke of Wellington.
An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen 'warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings.
Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them.
Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, Tommy is the first history of World War I to place the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stage.
In a memoir of staggering power and candour, award-winning journalist Fergal Keane addresses his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public and others acutely personal.
This popular history of the English Civil War tells the story of the bloody conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I from the perspectives of those involved.
Winner for Reprint, 2012, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardAntietam is the eagerly awaited second volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.
This follow-up to Tonight We Die As Men continues the story of the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division as they dropped into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden.
The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was the ultimate confrontation between the two great totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century.
The final volume of Gardner's critically acclaimed biography of the Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment the sister company to the famed Band of Brothers this book traces the battalion's actions in the frantic final days of the war in Europe.
This groundbreaking account of the seventeenth century battle sheds new light on the actions taken by commanders, including the future Duke of Marlborough.
This is the remarkable account of Medal of Honor recipient Leslie Sabo Jr, whose brave actions in Vietnam and Cambodia were forgotten for over three decades.
During 1940 the German army swept with devastating speed across the Low Countries and into northern France and drove Allied forces back into a small pocket around Dunkirk.
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history.
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.
In 1917 Bourlon Wood on the Western Front was the scene of fierce back-and-forth fighting between the British and the Germans, with British gains on at least one occasion thrown away by lack of proper follow-up.
This follow-up to Tonight We Die As Men continues the story of the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division as they dropped into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden.
_______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York Times Book Review_______________On September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe.
The early battles of North Africa between the Axis powers and the British Commonwealth and her European allies were among the very last clashes of chivalry.
A strikingly original book about a terrible photograph an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family in Ukraine.
2016 is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme.
On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history.
The final volume of Gardner's critically acclaimed biography of the Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment the sister company to the famed Band of Brothers this book traces the battalion's actions in the frantic final days of the war in Europe.
Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies above England.
WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY AND THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A masterpiece.
This is the intriguing chronicle of Winston Churchills early years as a young soldier fighting in several different types of warson horseback in the cavalry at Khartoum, with saber and lance against the Dervishes at age twenty-two, in the South African war against the Boers, and finally in the First World War after he resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty, to volunteer to lead a Scottish brigade in the trenches of the Western Front, as Lieutenant-Colonel.
_______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende's long career' - New York Times Book Review_______________On September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe.
During 1940 the German army swept with devastating speed across the Low Countries and into northern France and drove Allied forces back into a small pocket around Dunkirk.
Simon Winchester, author of A Crack in the Edge of the World and The Professor and the Madman:"e;The essence of this inexpressibly beautiful story will remain with me, I believe, for the rest of my life.
