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Several writers have remarked that Marlborough could have never achieved his great military success during the War of the Spanish Succession without the support, industry and ingenuity of his Chief of Staff, Quartermaster General and Chief of Intelligence, General William Cadogan, who became the 1st Earl of Cadogan, and who, in 1722, succeeded Marlborough as Commander-in Chief of the British Army. Apart from the other considerations, Marlborou...

Sir John Gorman served with the Irish Guards in North West Europe, winning the MC for ramming and knocking-out a Royal Tiger tank, the thickness of its armor precluded any other alternative! After the War he followed his father into the Royal Ulster Constabulary - not the normal choice of career for a Roman Catholic. He was 'headhunted' to join BOAC as head of Security. Amongst his duties was accompanying H.M. The Queen on Royal visits oversea...

To find an example of a full and successful, yet unconventional, military career, one need look no further than General 'Jim' Wilson. Always an outstanding sportsman, Jim found himself in the Rifle Brigade after Oxford just before the Second World War. His memoir concentrates on six of his major military endeavors, North Africa as a platoon commander followed by the long struggle up through Italy, both with the Rifle Brigade. After the war he ...

It is a soldier's tale cut in stone to melt all hearts" Thus Winston Churchill in his introduction to A.P. Herbert's novel The Secret Battle, a book inspired by and quite clearly based upon the execution of Sub-Lieutenant Edwin Dyett of the Nelson Battalion, 63rd (Royal Navy) Division on 5 January, 1917, for desertion in the face of the enemy. This moving and thought-provoking book cuts a path through the cloud of secrecy which for years has e...

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Shan' Hackett is remembered by his own and succeeding generations for a variety of achievements and attributes. A superb fighting soldier, he served with the Trans-Jordan Force, fought through North Africa and was involved in the formation of the Long Range Desert Group, the SAS and Popski's Private Army. He went on to raise the 4th Parachute Brigade which he commanded with flair at Arnhem where he was wounded and captured. He escaped and got ...

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Britain and its civilian population suffered greatly from German air attacks during World War II, both from the conventional air raids of the Battle of Britain and the V1 and V2 rocket attacks late in the war. Most accounts of these actions emphasize the experiences of the military forces. Charles Whiting, one of Europe's most popular military authors, concentrates on the suffering and resistance of Britain's civilian population in this heavil...

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This is a detailed account of the Second Battle of Ypres, April and May 1915. It draws heavily upon personal accounts and war diaries to present a comprehensive study of the battle in which Germany became the first nation to use poisonous gas as a weapon.

General John 'Shan' Hackett is remembered by his own and succeeding generations for a variety of achievements and attributes. This is his biography.

Readers of this author's Eighth Army s Greatest Victories will welcome this latest work covering the difficult early period of what was to become one of the most illustrious formations in British military history. Born from the Western Desert force, the Eighth Army was beset with command, equipment and morale problems before it emerged to enjoy glory.The book recounts the events of the first year of the Eighth Army's existence when it enjoyed ...

The Peninsula Years is a thrilling and fast moving narrative of the bloody campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as showing insight into the everyday hardships common to the ordinary British redcoat. The contrary nature of the infantryman of that time is effectively illustrated in the long and arduous retreat to Corunna with its accompanying scenes of drunken and licencious behaviour yet, when the occasion called for it, he was capable o...

Compiled from hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, this book tells of the dangers and rigors of life as experienced by the infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. A superbly researched work by an expert historian, it captures the atmosphere of the era with total immediacy made possible only because the writers were actually there.