2,642円 It was close to the small southern Belgian town of Mons that the shooting war began or the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. It was close to the same town that it ended for them over fifteen hundred days later. Neither the BEF nor the German Army planned or foresaw that first confrontat...

612円 This edition features • a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes CONTENTS I. Starting for the Field II. Under the Red Cross III. On the Edge of War IV. War Correspondents and Despatch-Boats V. Off for Santiago VI. The Cuban Coast VII. The Fight at Guantanamo VIII. The Landing and Advance o...

2,102円 'Deftly told' The Herald They were modern men, the soldiers of the '45: doctors and lawyers, students and teachers, gardeners and weavers. These are the men often written out of history, or else depicted as gallant but misguided fools. But in reality they were children of the Age of Reason, they ...

1,780円 In Rana Mitter's tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deserves Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perh...

11,109円 The first edition of The Thirty Years' War offered an unrivalled survey of a central period in European history. Drawing on a huge body of source material from different languages and countries throughout Europe, it provided a clear and comprehensive narrative and analytical account of the subjec...

750円 In 2009, an Army Major deployed a small team of specialists to Afghanistan to identify new technologies needed to fight the war. Traveling from Forward Operating Bases to Combat Outposts, braving rockets and IEDs, fighting the Army bureaucracy more than the enemy, this small team worked to improv...

241円 This is Harry Verlander’s story, one of five true-life recollections from the Second World War in Tales From The Special Forces Club. The Special Forces Club is a fabled gentlemen’s club, based in the heart of London. It has a closely guarded secret: you have to be a genuine hero to be a member. ...

1,246円 A gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler’s most terrifying battleship – the legendary Tirpitz – and the brave men who risked their lives to attack and destroy this most potent symbol of the Nazi’s fearsome war machine. Tirpitz was the pride of Hitler’s navy. To Churchill, she was ‘the Beast...

605円 Original book in ePub format. WITH AN AMBULANCE DURING THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR Personal Experiences and Adventures with Both Armies 1870-1871 by CHARLES E. RYAN, F.R.C.S.I., M.R.C.P.I. Knight of the Order of Louis II, of Bavaria New York Charles Scribner's Sons 153-157 Fifth Avenue 1896 Aberdeen Un...

612円 This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS (abridged list) I. The Advancing Frontier II. Indian Wrongs and Discontent III. The Unprotected Frontier IV. The Grindstone War and the Death of Sidominadota V. The Frontier and the Winter of 1856-1857 VI. Okoboji and...

1,152円 The story started when I was in Clayton, New York for a two year stint. It was in this historic area, and along the beautiful St. Lawrence River, that I became interested in the War of 1812. All around were battlegrounds and markers of important sites. I thought of writing an essay but as I resea...

12,767円 The first comprehensive history of NATO in the 1960s, based on the systematic use of multinational archival evidence. This new book is the result of a gathering of leading Cold War historians from both sides of the Atlantic, including Jeremi Suri, Erin Mahan, and Leopoldo Nuti. It shows in great ...