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Tigers at Dunkirk
In this compelling new study of the disastrous 1940 campaign in France and Flanders, Matthew Richardson reconstructs in vivid detail the British army’s defeat as it was experienced …
British Concentration Camps
For many of us, the very expression ‘Concentration Camp’ is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a …
Assault on Germany
The author of A Luftwaffe General gives a detailed history of the Allied forces' brutal Operation Clipper during World War II. The Anglo-American battle for the Geilenkirchen …
The Emperor Commodus
Commodus is synonymous with debauchery and megalomania, best remembered for fighting as a gladiator. Ridiculed and maligned by historians since his own time, modern popular culture …
Ceawlin
This provocative study of medieval Britain presents a groundbreaking theory on the collapse of the post-Roman order and the formation of England. In Ceawlin: The Man Who Created …
Leningrad
The 900-day siege of the Soviet city of Leningrad by the combined forces of the Germans and the Finns is one of the most remarkable, and terrible, events of the Second World War, …
In Battle & Captivity
Initially published in 1917 under the title On the Right of the British Line, this is the first book written by the extraordinary Captain Gilbert Nobbs. Dedicated to his ever …
Vietnam War
This Vietnam War history examines the grueling Tet Offensive and America's struggle against the Viet Cong with more than 180 wartime photographs. On January, 30th, 1968, the …
Anna Komnene and the Alexiad
"e;Kolovou . . . rescues Anna from the talons of misogynist historians and places her where she belongs as an extraordinary, but very human, woman."e; -Beating TsundokuA …
Naval Warfare under the Byzantine Empire
While the armies of the Roman Empire, including its late 'Byzantine' phase, have been copiously studied, naval warfare of the period has been neglected. In part this is due to …
Pontefract and Castleford in the Great War
By the end of 1914, 15,000 Yorkshire miners had volunteered for the army, with around 1,000 from a single Castleford pit. Over the next four years these courageous men would write …
Battles of Arras: North
A guidebook for those planning a tour of this key battleground of the First World War. The First World War battlefields to the north of Arras including Vimy Ridge are among the …