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The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko
In his famous Moonlight and Vodka, Chris de Burgh got it right: Espionage is a serious business. And like every serious business, it must be taken seriously. Less than two decades …
Luftwaffe Fighter Force
';A fascinating book' of thirty-four debriefings given by pilots and flight crew membersincluding the legendary German fighter ace Adolf Galland (HistoryOfWar.org). The Nazi air …
Mercenaries to Conquerors
When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that …
Joan, Lady of Wales
The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of Princes, an era defined by ever-increased threats of …
Slaughter on the Somme
At 07.30 hours on 1 July 1916, the devastating cacophony of the Allied artillery fell silent along the front on the Somme. The ear-splitting explosions were replaced by the shrill …
Medieval Maritime Warfare
This graphic account of Medieval maritime warfare covers the sea wars fought by the Byzantines, Muslims, Normans, Crusaders, Vikings plus the English, French, Italian city-states …
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front - Battles of the Scarpe 1918 and Drocourt-Queant Line
In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in …
Stoke Field
The Battle of Stoke, the last and most neglected armed clash of the Wars of the Roses, is one of history's great might-have-beens. The forces of the first Tudor king Henry VII …
Armies of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 550-330 BC
Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the history, organization, equipment and tactics of the military forces deployed by Achaemenid Persia during the period 550-330 …
German Reconnaissance and Support Vehicles, 1939-1945
This WWII pictorial history illustrates the full range of Nazi vehicles used in reconnaissance and support missions throughout the war. The German military used reconnaissance …
SOE in The Netherlands
Until 1943 there was little effective resistance to the German occupation of The Netherlands. Though numerous small opposition groups had formed immediately after the German …
Battles of Coronel and the Falklands, 1914
A history of two South American World War I naval battles between Germany and Great Britain. The defeat that Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock suffered at Coronel in 1914 at …