Poland was the 'tripwire' that brought Britain into the Second World War, but it was largely the ...

Blenheim has gone down in history as one of the turning points of the War of the Spanish Successi...

Flying at 18, demobbed at 20, Semple's astonishing experience has been meticulously put into...

By the time of the Normandy invasion in June 1944, the U-boats were a beaten force, hunted and ha...

On 10 December 1941, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by Japanese bombers i...

The poor discipline demonstrated by the British cavalry commanded by general Slade at Maguilla in...

Slim's Burma Boys relates the personal experiences of men who fought the 'Forgotten War' of ...

Since the short and bloody war between Nepal and Britain in 1814-15, Gurkha volunteers, ever mind...

This book covers not only the three major events on the Eastern Front, the battle of Tannenburg a...

The SS grew out of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler's obsession to prevent the treachery th...

The Battle of Maiwand was a key clash in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and one of the most serious ...

From his cage in a putrid, overcrowded Indian gaol, Paul Jordan reflects on a life lived on the e...