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Patrick Davis was posted as a novice 'hostilities only' officer to a veteran Gurkha battalion that 'had fought for about as long as troops can fight and remain a recoverable unit' …
Flying at 18, demobbed at 20, Semple's astonishing experience has been meticulously put into context. How do you fly a Handley Page across France in total darkness? The answer is …
Young John Wellham faced a dilemma: should he make his career in the Royal Navy or in the RAF? In 1938 the Fleet Air Arm became an integral part of the Royal Navy, and offered him …
A personal account of life as a German paratrooper in World War II. Martin Poppel's war diary charts his development from an eager soldier desperate for action, to a war-weary …
This is an account of episodes in the life of an Army officer who joined a Highland regiment in 1936 and served until 1970 all over the world in very different places and …
Follows a young Cambridge undergraduate from his call-up in 1942, through training as a tank officer, the landings in Normandy, and his command of a Sherman tank in the vicious …
This book, first published in 1947 and therefore not reliant on secondhand sources, details the full story of one Division, the 3rd, from its preparations for the Normandy landings …
Reissued more than 170 years after its first publication, a facsimile edition of one of the accounts of the Peninsular War.
Despite illness and with death an everyday occurrence, Captain Ronald Horner took part in countless theatrical productions during his incarceration by the Japanese in World War II, …
A committed young Communist who joined the Red Army on the day Hitler's Blitzkrieg tore across the Soviet Union's borders in June 1941, Sigismund unquestioningly offered his life …