E-böcker / Memoarer & Biografier
From Colonial Warrior to Western Front Flyer
Sydney Herbert Bywater Harris was an adventurer, a man possessed of great courage and charm, who fulfilled every schoolboy fantasy and really did 'live the dream'. The second you ...
The History of the Battle of Britain Fighter Association
In 1945 it was announced that Allied airmen who had taken part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 would be entitled to the “immediate” award of the 1939-1945 Star, with Battle of Bri ...
Johnny Get Your Gun
At the age of seventeen-and-a-half, full of idealism and patriotism, John Tucker enlisted as an Infantryman in the London Kensington Regiment and reached France, after training, in ...
Marcus Agrippa
Marcus Agrippa personified the term 'right-hand man'. As Emperor Augustus' deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in laying the found ...
The Seleukid Empire of Antiochus III
Grainger's latest edition demonstrates that the Seleukid kingdom was still one of the great powers of the ancient world after Magnesia.The second volume in John Grainger's history ...
Dorking in the Great War
From Zeppelin raids to housing refugees and evacuees or from men volunteering to fight or women working in the local Gunpowder factory, Dorking in the Great War looks at how the ex ...
The Few: Fight for the Skies
In this new pictorial history from Philip Kaplan, the perspectives of both RAF and Luftwaffe airmen are considered within the wider context of one of the most iconic and pivotal co ...
The Rise of Hitler
In 1945, amidst the ruins of a bomb-damaged German home a tattered book, Deutschland Erwache, was recovered as a souvenir by a British soldier. This rare and invaluable primary res ...
Nine Battles to Stanley
Nine Battles to Stanley is a soldiers account of the ground fighting on South Georgia and the Falklands. What makes this book unique is the fascinating and objective way the autho ...
Castle Point in the Great War
Prior to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the Castle Point District was madeup of four very quaint, peaceful little parishes: Canvey Island, South Benfleet,Hadleigh and Thund ...
My Escape from Donington Hall
It was an escape from a PoW camp as daring and fraught with danger as any immortalised by Hollywood. Yet the story is less familiar than most – as it concerns the only German priso ...
Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2
Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work which has been compiled on behalf of the Association of Friends of the Waterloo Committee and contains over 3,000 memorials to soldi ...
The Civilian Bomb Disposing Earl
Charles 'Jack' Henry George Howard, GC, 20th Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire, born into the noble formidable House of Howard, possessed extraordinary courage. Jack became an earl at th ...
The Manchester Bantams
In May 1916 Major Eustace Lockhart Maxwell, a former Indian cavalry officer, was given command of an infantry battalion in France. After 48 hours with his new unit, Maxwell wrote t ...
The Zulu War Journal
Written by Henry Charles Harford C.B., The Zulu War Journal offers unprecedented insight into one of history’s most famous conflicts. From the catastrophe at Isandhlwana to the hun ...
Military Detention Colchester From 1947
Author royalties to The Soldiers Charity (ABF) and MPSC Association. Foreword by General Mike JacksonFrom a German POW camp to HM Forces only remaining detention center the mere me ...
Ferries Across the Humber
Starting with an introduction about discovering the coal-burning paddle steamers of the Humber in the early 1970s the book continues with a brief history of the ferries of the Humb ...
Mark Antony: A Plain Blunt Man
Mark Antony was embroiled in the tumultuous events of the mid-1st century BC, which saw the violent transformation from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. After being defeated ...
A German Tommy
It was a time of misguided loyalties. The First World War British Army, in a shameful act of patriotism, was withdrawing from the front line veterans who had a German name and post ...
The Real Sherlock Holmes
On 6 December 1886, Arthur Foster leaves the Queen's Theatre, Manchester with a pocket full of gold and a lady bedecked with diamonds on his arm. He hails a hansom cab unaware that ...
Marching to the Sound of Gunfire
In this exciting and revealing book, scores of British soldiers tell their amazing stories of life – and death – in the front line of the Allies' advance from Normandy to Hitler's ...
Howard Pixton
This book is a truly remarkable account that captures the atmosphere, thrills and danger of the pioneering days of aviation. Howard Pixton was flying for A V Roe at Brooklands in 1 ...
The Courage of Cowards
To many they were nothing more than cowards, but the 'conchies' of the First World War had the courage to stand by their principles when the nation was against them... An innovat ...
Bomber Harris
The bombing campaign conducted against Germany and German-occupied Europe in the Second World War was, and remains, one of the most controversial operations of the entire war. Much ...
Battles of a Gunner Officer
What was it like to serve as an artillery officer during the Second World War? How did he view the battlefield and experience combat? And how did his work with the guns combine wit ...