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You Have to Die in Piedmont!
‘You have to die in Piedmont!’ An old folk song, still played in the western Alps, speaks about the French regiments that were incoming from the Mongeneve Pass in order to attack a …
With Tegetthoff at Lissa
The imperial Austrian navy which fought and won the signal victory of Lissa on 20 July 1866, during the so-called Seven Weeks' War of 1866, has in recent years been subjected to …
With Marshal Foch
The creation of the Supreme War Council and the change of Chief of the Imperial General Staff in late 1917 and early 1918 respectively, ensured that the final step towards Allied …
Wilson'S War
Today, just as he was a century ago, Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is an archetypal ‘love him or hate him’ character. An agile mind, a sharp, witty and sometimes wicked tongue, …
Wars, Pestilence and the Surgeon's Blade
Wars in the 19th century were accompanied by a very heavy loss of life from infectious diseases. Typhus fever, dysentery, malaria, typhoid fever and yellow fever caused many more …
Useless Mouths
This books looks of the British Army’s supply service, how it developed, and how it failed - especially in the Crimea War - and how reforms in the 19th century reformed it. It …
Unfailing Gallantry
Recent years have seen an increasingly sophisticated debate take place with regard to the armies on the Western Front during the Great War. Some argue …
Two Sides of the Same Bad Penny
In 1915, Great Britain and her Empire found itself engaged at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Lacking the wherewithal to conduct both campaigns effectively, the year was one of …
Twilight of the Gods
Few new personal accounts by Waffen-SS soldiers appear in English; even fewer originate from the multitude of non-German European volunteers who formed such an important proportion …
Towards a Wider War
Towards a Wider War examines British policy, grand strategy, military operations and tactical execution in the critical period of the `Phoney War’ - culminating in Scandinavia and …
To Rule the Winds
To Rule the Winds is the story of how a co-ordinated force of the Royal Air Force's fighter squadrons came into being as Fighter Command in 1936 and what became of it after the …
To Rule the Winds
This second Volume in the To Rule the Winds series deals with the evolution of the Royal Flying Corps through the First World War and its transformation, in 1918, into the Royal …