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Subtitled, "The British & Canadian Airborne Crossing Of The Rhine".

Interest in Operation Market Garden never wanes. Tim Saunders discusses the apparent allied failure to capitalise on their obvious superiority when faced with the II SS Panzer Corps around the area known as The Island.

Account of one of the most controversial operations during the Second World War, Operation Market Garden, an attempt to relieve British and American paratroopers at Arnhem. Publication will coincide with the broadcast of Stephen Speilberg's film "Band Of Brothers" on BBC1, which covers the same events.

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Reprint of this classic account of trench warfare. A rare record of WWI from the German viewpoint.

An eagerly awaited addition to the highly popular "Battleground" series.

Among the veterans that Field Marshall Montgomery brought back with him from the Mediterranean to spearhead the D-day invasion, were West Country infantrymen of 231 Brigade. Unknown to the Allies, a quality German Division had been moved forward to the coast. This was the same German Division that nearly halted the Americans at OMAHA and the West Countrymen had to fight extremely hard for their objectives.

The 82nd Airborne Division fought some of its most desperate battles in support of the British landings at Arnhem, yet these actions are little known today. The British operation pre-supposed that key bridges linking Arnhem with the advancing Allied reinforcements would be captured before they could be destroyed by the Germans. The bridge across the Waal River at Nijmegen was especially important and it was assigned to the U.S. 82nd Airborne D...

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Operation EPSOM was General Montgomery's third attempt to take the City of Caen, which had been a key British D-Day objective. Delayed by a storm, the attack, designed to envelop Caen from the west, eventually began at the end of June 1944. The Territorial Army battalions of 15th Scottish Division spearheaded the attacks through the well developed positions of 12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division. It was slow going and when tanks of the 11th A...