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Largely unknown or unrecognised by most visitors to the Western Front, Villers-Plouich and its adjacent ridges were among the last centres of German resistance west of the Hindenburg Line. The capture and consolidation of the hamlet and nearby villages in April 1917 necessitated some ferocious and well-executed attacks by several British divisions. Once under Allied control the area came to represent the epitome of trench warfare. When British...

Operating under the cover of a Code and Cypher "School", Bletchley Park was in fact the center for British code-breaking in World War II. Originally a Victorian mansion, temporary structures at Bletchley Park housed 10, 000 people by 1945. It was here that the Ultra and Enigma codes were broken, providing the Allies with advance information on Axis maneuvers and attacks for the rest of the war. Despite a rather thin cover, the Germans never gu...

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In late July 1944 the Allies began their breakout from the Normandy beachheads. The Americans in Operation COBRA and the British in Operation BLUECOAT. VIII and XXX British Corps were to seize the dominating ground running north west from Mont Pincon and exploit towards Vire. Mont Pincon is the highest hill in Normandy and is a formidable obstacle as well as magnificent observation post. The Germans saw it as essential to their defensive plans...

London had the world's first professional police force, and the police forces of the British Isles continue to rank as among the best in the world. In a similar format to previous pocket guides to the British armed forces, this handy guide covers chain-of-command, rank, organization, abbreviations and active operations. A wealth of detail will be found here on the conventional Metropolitan forces of England, Wales and Scotland, as well as the ...

A World War II English POW escape story. Illus.

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Jane was a wartime phenomenon. A sensation. She was also an important feature in the morale of Britain's fighting forces around the world and to those left behind on the "Home Front." So important, in fact, that her fame extended to the House of Commons where one wartime MP referred to our troops as "Jane's fighting men!" Until now there has been no published study of Jane or the woman who inspired her. This book fills the gap with a publicati...

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

Here, for the first time, is revealed the true and compelling story of the sensationally successful, joint United States and UK campaign to liberate Iraq from the oppressive regime of Saddam Hussein from its conception to its dramatic conclusion.

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

The battle of Arnhem was one of the great turning points of the Second World War. John Waddy fought there. Maps and photos. *Also appeared in September 1997 Buyer's Notes*

In The Dictionary of the Second World War there are more than 1, 600 detailed and analytical entries - together with specially commissioned maps - which cover every aspect of the war. Theatres: Eastern and Western Europe, North and East Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Actions and operations from Barbarossa to Overlord, from Midway to Iwo Jima. Tactics and strategies from submarines to airborne operations, from bl...

The strangely named First Aid Nursing Yeomanry traces its origins to the Great War. However, it is for their service during the Second World War that they are best known. They worked in a wide variety of roles both at home and overseas, both overt and covert. Of the latter there were 39 girls who worked with SOE behind the lines with Resistance movements. Of these 13 were captured and killed, often after torture, including Odette Churchill and...

Private Edward Roe receives his call up to the so called Great War on 5 August 1914, little realising that the clock of Christianity has just started ticking backwards, marking the beginning of his 'Hells Bells' diaries of daily life on the front line. His prose is a combination of close proximity machine-gun fire and distant, often misplaced, artillery bombardment, from doing nothing one day he is caught between crossfire the next. Shot in Yp...

Talbot House Poperinghe was opened in November 1915 as a 'Soldiers Club' - a haven from hell - by two Chaplains of the 6th Division, Philip 'Tubby' Clayton and Neville Talbot. The house was dedicated to the memory of Gilbert Talbot, Neville's brother, who had been killed in in the afternoon counter-attack (set up to re-take the positions lost in the early morning Liquid Fire attack of the same day) at Hooge on 30 July 1915. For the following t...

The book covers in detail the attacks of 14-18 July 1916 against the Bazentin Woods and villages and beyond. Walks and tours of the surroundings areas are included with detailed action maps.

This text brings together the accounts of the actions of every recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War II. The medal of this ultimate honour is inscribed with the simple words 'For Valour', and this cross of courage was awarded to a total of 182 men - many posthumously.

This is a young cavalry lieutenant's moving and shocking account of front line service in the couldron of war: His troop of Scimitar light-armoured vehicles was attached to the I CHESHIRE Battle Group (under the charismatic command of Colonel Bob Stewart). Fresh from Germany he and his men found themselves in a highly political and lethally dangerous civil war. They witnessed appalling atrocities and human tragedy on a giant scale. Both the so...

The St. Nazaire raid has not been covered in the detail warranted by its role in the evolution of special warfare tactics. James Dorrian has drawn on interviews with over 100 survivors, both British and German, to present this remarkable account. All aspects of the engagement are covered, including the final ironic incident that resulted in more German casualties than the main battle itself.