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Double Cross in Cairo
As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in World War Two. ln 1941, with the help of …
Movements and Positions in the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Published here for the first time, the Civil War combat memoir of Lieutenant Colonel James Taylor Holmes of the 52nd Ohio Volunteers presents a richly detailed firsthand account …
Surgeon in Napoleon's Grande Armee
Pierre-Francois Percy was Surgeon-in-Chief of Napoleon's Grande Armee. This is the first English translation of Baron Percy's notebooks, containing his interesting, revealing, and …
Dettingen 1743
This study analyses the battle of Dettingen, one of the major Allied victories of the War of the Austrian Succession, and the last time a British monarch commanded troops in the …
In Abor Jungles
An account of the Abor Expedition, the Mishmi Mission and the Miri Mission. Reprint of the original 1912 edition.
A Doctor in the XIVth Army
Charles Evans records his passage from idyllic youth, fresh from Oxford in 1939, into the harsh reality of a junior doctor in Burma. Beautifully written and elegantly vivid, his …
Battle and Battle Description in Homer
Acknowledging that Homer is a poet, not a staff instructor, Albracht works carefully through the Homeric text to produce a persuasive picture of the workings of battle in the …
With the Guns in the Peninsula
This British artillery officer's journal vividly depicts life on the frontlines in the war against Napoleon in Spain and Portugal. In August 1812, Second Captain Webber of the …
Freedom's Mercenaries: British Volunteers in the Wars of Independence of Latin America
Between 1817 and 1825, 10,000 British mercenaries, many of them veterans of the Napoleonic Wars, left Europe to join the armies and navies of Bolivar, San Martin, and other leaders …
Defence Under Thatcher
Drawing upon a wide range of interviews with many of the key actors, Andrew Dorman examines how defence policy was formulated and implemented during the premiership of Margaret …
Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust
Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, seen through the eyes of the Jewish …
Ludlow in the Great War
Wars affect everyone. Whether they are fought on the battlefields or on the home front, by the armed forces or civilians, sacrifices have to be made, and everyone suffers one way …