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This is the full story of the Battle of the Ardennes. In the last weeks of 1944 the German armies in the West, after a continuous retreat since the Battle of Normandy five months earlier were regrouping in what they thought was to be the last battle in defence of the Fatherland. But Hitler had other plans--to mount an offensive through the Ardennes that would deal such a blow to the Western Allies that they would be willing to negotiate a sepa...

The second guide to the epic struggle by the British and Polish paratroopers at Arnhem.

In Spring 1945 one final hurdle faced the American and British Armies under Ike's supreme command - the Rhine. This mighty river was literally the last ditch for the defence of Hitler's Germany. Crossing it would be a major military undertaking. The race was on to find intact crossings that could save many lives and precious time. Famously the American forces in a daring coup-de-main operation seized the Bridge at Reagen which due to German bl...

Virtually all the fighting on land between the British and French armies during the Napoleonic Wars took place in Spain and Portugal. This guide concentrates on the main military actions described from the point of view of the British armies under Wellington and his Portugese allies. The battles and battlefields are described in detail and illustrated with a profusion of maps, plans, contemporary plates and photographs.

Immortalized in the film Zulu, the British defense of Rorke's Drift has become the best-known battle of the Colonial Wars. Ian Knight became the acknowledged authority on the Zulu War of 1879 at a very young age. His research in London has been supplemented by numerous visits to the South African battle sites. The detailed narrative of the baltic covers all the units, personalities and events of this legendary engagement in the popular Battleg...

The authors' description of the events on the fateful day - 2 January 1879 - brings to life the shocking defeat of the British Army at the hands of the Zulus. The blunders and omissions that resulted in the loss of so many lives are exposed.

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The attack at Fromelles is significant for a number of reasons. It was the Australians' first major operation on the Western Front and pitted them against a part of the German line that was an object lesson in the siting of a defense.

A book of outstanding photographs, documents and artwork, depicting the response of the British people to World War I.

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In 1940 Rupert Clarke, a young Irish Guards officer, was appointed an aide-de-camp to General Harold Alexander, the last senior British officer to leave the Dunkirk beaches. For the next four years Clarke saw a great deal of the Second World War as Alexander's constant companion and confidante. Because of Alexander's reputation for tact and coolness under fire, he was selected for some of the most difficult assignments of the war.Clarke was at...

Battleground Europe launches a new series of books devoted to the wartime experiences and influences of the "war poets" of the First World War. The first volume is devoted to Wilfred Owen, who has emerged as the greatest of these "war poets." As with many of his generation, the war was to be his only major experience, as Owen developed his poetry in response to many wartime encounters and incidents, only to die exactly one week before the Armi...

Between the years 1804 and 1815, Napoleon created twenty-six Marshals of France. These men, who held the highest positions in the Empire after Napoleon himself, came from very diverse backgrounds and ranged from a smuggler to a Prince. During the years when Napoleon was conqueror of most of Europe, the Marshals acquired titles and great riches but in the end there was only one who was not corrupted by greed or ambition, and who remained loyal.

Many thousands of words have been written about the conception of the bomber offensive in World War II, the strategy and the tactics of Bomber Command, the choice of target systems, the method of attack, the evaluation of bombing results and the implications for the national war effort, both Allied and enemy. Surprisingly little has been written of the men who flew these bombers, who faced and sustained a loss rate never before borne by a mili...

Reissue of the only book written by W.W.II fighter ace, Douglas Bader.

Gallipoli, tells of the disastrous campaign at Gallipoli in 1915 when the allies failed to knock Turkey out of the war. Complete with then and now photographs the book provides detailed historical descriptions of the area and the events, all of which will appeal to the armchair historian and the intrepid visitor to the sites. It will prove an indispensable reference guide to this disastrous allied action on the Turkish coast in World War I.

This book takes a close and detailed look at this billet on the Western Front and the men who served there.

This little volume concentrates on the Wars of the Roses in the years 1460 and 1461, and is a military history with political history provided for continuity between the following military events: the 1460 and 1461 campaigns, and the battles of Wakefield, Ferrybridge and Towton. While there are alre

Well-adapted to its environment and with its passionate sense of self-identity and inner unity, the Afrika Korps was a smooth-functioning and militarily efficient fighting force. Since it had the social characteristics of a well-ordered family, Ronald Lewin has written this book as a biography. From February 1941 when Rommel arrived in Tunisia, the author tells the story of a long succession of engagements between the Desert Rats and the Afrik...

John Killen's exhaustive work is a study of German air power between 1915 and 1945, from the early days of flying when Immelmann, 'Boeike, Richthofen and other First World War aces fought and died to give Germany air supremacy, to the nightmare existence of the Luftwaffe as the Third Reich plunged headlong to destruction. Here are the aircraft: the frail biplanes and triplanes of the Kaiser's war, the great Lufthansa aircraft and airships of t...