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Advance from Mons 1914

This is an outstanding personal memoir penned by a German infantry officer recalling his experien...

Russian World War II Dictionary

Unlike most of the Allied countries, no war jargon slang dictionary has been published in Russia....

History of the British Army Film & Photographic Unit in the

At the beginning of the Second World War the Nazi hierarchy had, at an early stage, fully recogni...

From Addis to the Aosta Valley

Based on the author's diaries, From Addis to the Aosta Valley is the account of Keith Ford's serv...

Battlefield Rations

The story of the food and 'brew-ups' of the front-line soldier from the Boer War to Helmand.

Blood Clot

A personal account of the Parachute Regiment's ferocious tour of duty in Helmand Provence, Afghan...

Bullets, Bombs and Cups of Tea

This is Ken Wharton's second oral history of the Northern Ireland troubles told again from the pe...

History of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit in th

Muddling Through

As with many other aspects of the British army the outbreak of World War One started a process of...

Operation Neptune

The D-Day landings of June 1944 were one of the most ambitious undertakings of all time, and thei...

Three Republics One Navy

Studnitz Wars

The journal of Prussian Major General Benno von Studnitz was originally published in 1891 in a ve...