This is the first Pocket Manual to be dedicated to the German Army in the First World War, with chapters comprising of complete documents or extracts...

With Their Bare Hands traces the fate of the US 79th Division - men drafted off the streets of Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia - from boot c...

At the height of the Second World War this small pocket-book was issued to all ratings on board ships of the Royal Navy. In straight period prose it o...

A member of the legendary Band of Brothers, Ed Shames was involved in some of the most important battles of World War II. His incredible combat reco...

As the war began to swing in favour of the Allies, it became clear that no final defeat of the Third Reich would be possible until the armoured mons...

The entry of the US into World War II provided the Allies with the industrial might to finally take the war to German and Japanese forces across the w...

The Eastern Front was the most significant theatre of World War II. Here the bulk of the Wehrmacht was committed and eventually shattered by the Red A...

In June 1944 the Allies opened the long-awaited second front against Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, and this was to be the start of a long...

During World War II, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia found themselves trapped between the giants of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Over the course...

When British soldiers charged across the Somme in September 1916 they were accompanied by a new and astonishing weapon - the tank. After a stutteri...

One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was undoubtedly the myriad alliances and suspicions that existed between the Russian, Ger...

There are many broad studies of the Vietnam War, but this work offers an insight into the harrowing experiences of just a small number of men from a...