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The Wipers Times was a gentle, humour-filled and satirical paper which, once its codes are cracked and its riddles solved, tells an interested reader much about the characters and personalities of the men in the British Army of the First World War.

This is a story based on the harsh realities of war in the early years of the nineteenth century and both sides of the coins have to be examined.

Scottish gunner John McEwan had some of the most harrowing experiences of any surviving Japanese POW in World War II. After enduring the usual deprivations of a Japanese prison camp, McEwan was among a batch of prisoners taken to Formosa (Taiwan) to work as a slave labor in a copper mine. This was dangerous work even for free laborers under peacetime conditions. McEwan was among the few who survived the especially harsh conditions at the mine....

Drawing on Britain's recent experience in Europe, the Falklands and the Persian Gulf, a military theorist offers some keen observations on winning, and preventing, future confrontations.

When noted author Rudyard Kipling pulled strings to get his son a commission in the Irish Guards at the beginning of World War I, he little realized he was sending the young man to his doom. Many years after Rudyard Kipling's own death in 1936, and after further decades of historical detective work, John Kipling's grave finally received a proper headstone in 1992.

A British veteran battles back after suffering seemingly incapacitating wounds.

This is a collection of episodes which tell the stories of people who were witnesses to destruction some fifty years ago, ordinary people, who were sometimes called upon to do extraordinary things.

While Germany's Italian and Japanese allies are well-known, the Axis was also made up of numerous smaller countries and collaborationist regimes in occupied territories.Author Rupert Butler pulls no punches in what is likely to be a controversial book, as he amasses substantial amounts of appalling evidence from contemporary documents to back up his condemnation of the Third Reich and its collaborators.

In the second volume of his definitive history of the final hundred years of the British Cavalry, Lord Anglesey deals with a considerably more active period than that which he covered in his first.

Volume VII covers the Western Front of World War I, the most difficult of all for the cavalry. Highly successful mounted actions in the first months of the war were followed by frustrating years in reserve or in the trenches as part of the Cavalry Division in an infantry role.

The author explains how the tradition of loyalty to the regiment has served the British Army so well over the past 350 years and, in his vivid description of some of the major campaigns in which it has fought, shows what it was like at various times to have been an officer or a soldier in the British Army.

The Royal Air Force fighter pilot remains one of the most enduring images of the Second World War. Chaz Bowyer has been among the most respected chroniclers of the RAF effort for over 30 years. To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the author has selected 20 RAF fighter pilots of the 1939-45 period, not only to give overdue recognition to their prowess and courage, but also to demonstrate the wide diversity of personali...

While the years offer Napoleon's defeat in 1815 are often glossed over as peaceful and uneventful, for Lord Bathurst, Britain's Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, they were ones of frenzied activity that did much to create the world balance of power we know today. While British armies took formal control of South Africa and increasing portions of India, Bathurst's shadow army of operatives seemed to have a finger in every pie worldwide.

As the title suggests The Dark Side of the Sky describes with dramatic tension and sympathetic humour the gap between a young man's high expectations of the glamour and rewards adventure offers and the real world.

Louis Stokes was not an outstanding scholar, nor did he meet with a glorious death, but his letters are a fitting memorial to the generation of schoolboys who lost their lives in the Great War.