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Rome, Persia and the War that Shaped the World, 565-630
For 700 years, Rome and Persia clashed as the superpowers of the Ancient World. The final phase of their great war is one of the most dramatic, surprising, and critical events in …
Chindit Affair
In March 1944, some 2,200 battle trained men of 111 Brigade flew from India into northern Burma to land on improvised airstrips cleared from the jungle, They were part of General …
Matter of Honour
The monument to Isaac Brock (17691812) on Queenston Heights in Canada, as high as Nelsons column in London, pays tribute to the military commander of all troops opposing the …
Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 336-30 BC
The Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium, was a time of great technological change and innovation in naval design. There was a naval arms race …
Tunbridge Wells in the Great War
Using original material and letters from the First World War, this captivating and eye-opening account uncovers the unnerving realities of the First World War and the impact it had …
Marengo and Hohenlinden
In a tense, crowded thirty-three days in the autumn of 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte organized a coup and made himself dictator of France. Yet his position was precarious. He knew that …
Some Desperate Glory
"e;An officer's diary hidden away for 40 years reveals the horrors of World War One in harrowing detail."e; -The SunSome Desperate Glory charts the progress of an …
British Battles of the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War continues to attract attention as a brutal political and military struggle which foreshadowed the wider war across Europe that followed, and it has given rise …
21 Days in Normandy
The Canadian 4th armored division crossed the Channel in July 1944 to reinforce the invading forces and assist in the Allied attempts to breakout of the Normandy beachhead around. …
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front
This illustrated WWI battlefield guide explores the heroic acts honored with Victoria Crosses-and the sites where they took place-in 1918 France. Historian and battlefield tour …
Sparta: Unfit for Empire
The end of the Peloponnesian War saw Sparta emerge as the dominant power in the Greek world. Had she used this position wisely her hegemony might have been secure. As it was, she …
The United Irishmen, Rebellion and the Act of Union, 1798-1803
The 1790s is one of the most critical decades in the history of modern Ireland. The decade witnessed the birth of the modern ideology of separatist Irish republicanism, the …