Krig & slag

John Gallishaw was born in St Johns, Newfoundland in Canada in 1891. Educated at Harvard he was 23 when the Great War broke out. He returned home to join the Canadian army in …

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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.'Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are …

How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desertIn summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised …

Boken är skriven på arabiska. Den är en berättelse och kan läsas som skönlitteratur, men också förstås som ett allmänt inlägg i samhällsdebatten. Den handlar om alienationens …

IN THE NAME OF HASSAN is the story of a determined boy´s lost wanderings. It is Iraq in the early 2000s. Hassan wakes up under a vegetable stand to an ordinary day, when he needs …

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Set in the 1740s, just after the start of the French and Indian wars, James Fenimore …

I Hassans namn är berättelsen om en beslutsam pojkes vilsna vandring. Det är Irak i 2000-talets början. Hassan vaknar upp under ett grönsaksstånd till en vanlig dag, då han med …

The Highland Territorials were made up of the 51st Division, who had fought bravely in the Great War, and entered WWII with a fearsome and loyal reputation. Here Erik Linklater …

It is a tale of defeat, but when defeat is characterised by valour of a certain pitch and quality, its memory may outlast a tale of victory. And like the Burghers who came with …