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Operation Bluecoat
After seven weeks of bitter fighting there was a desperate need to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. In late July 1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempseys Second Army moved …
The Great War Illustrated - The Home Front
Many books have looked at the effect of the war on the Home Front, but this is the first book to take a glimpse at the Home Front photographically from an international point of …
In Bed with the Georgians
This cultural history of eighteenth century England explores the world of sex workers, royal scandals, and all manner of immoral behavior. In Bed with the Georgians reveals the …
Gallipoli Sniper
'This is a well-researched, detailed and compelling story.' Defender Magazine Billy Sing was a small, dark man – and a deadly killer. When, as a member of the Australian Imperial …
Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars
In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much bloodshed. …
Harry Smith’s Last Throw
The War of Mlanjeni was the longest conflict in South African history until the second Anglo-Boer War. The loss of life was substantially heavier than that of the Zulu War of 1879 …
Edward I and Wales, 1254-1307
The late 13th century witnessed the conquest of Wales after two hundred years of conflict between Welsh princes and the English crown. In 1282 Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the only native …
Missing Believed Killed
During the early years of WW2 it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the remains of R.A.F. aircrew deemed ‘Missing Believed Killed’ was totally inadequate. The Missing …
Julius Caesar's Civil War
Julian Romane examines the campaigns of Julius Caesar throughout the civil wars that followed his famous crossing of the Rubicon, through to the defeat of the final Pompeian …
Living in Early Victorian London
London in the 1840s was sprawling and smoke-filled, a city of extreme wealth and abject poverty. Some streets were elegant with brilliantly gas-lit shop windows full of expensive …
Far East Air Operations 1942-1945
Despatches in this volume include Air Operations in Burma and Bay of Bengal 1 January to 22 May 1942 by General Wavell, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia November …
Air War Malta
This is the story of the historic air defense of Malta by the WRAF against the combined attacking forces of the Italian and German air forces. The island was poorly equipped when …