Comprehensive account of Allied convoy operations and German attempts to disrupt. Written by a published expert of naval operations in WW2.
A fine and moving example of a Japanese POW memoir.
Includes some 100 stories concerning omens and premonitions of people who sailed on the ill-fated liner. Reveals... Læs mere
Autobiographical readable/humorous account of ten years as an experimental/military test pilot at MOD Boscombe Down.
A new perspective on the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of G. A. Custer. Ground breaking new history.
The story of the Battle of Stalingrad with wartime pictures and modern day comparisons to present this title in our 'then and now' theme.
This overdue biography describes how an officer who fought tribesmen in India and Dervishes in North-East Africa, thereby playing no significant role in The Great War, found himself as Winston Churchill's Chief of Staff throughout the Second World War.
The first history of women astronomers in English to cover individuals from antiquity to the modern day. Features 30 in-depth biographies and 99 brief portraits of women astronomers, space explorers, and astrophysicists.
An objective account of The Spanish Peninsular War, translated into English for the first time. The story of the 'British Gracchi', three brothers who with their attitude and effort maintained this fragile alliance between both countries until the final victory over the French.
The first account in English of this war winning asset, denied to Hitler.
First full book devoted to the Wigwam murder. Uses hitherto unseen Canadian files for the first time. Includes eye-witness testimony of those... Læs mere
Covers tank guns from eight countries (Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, Italy, Czechoslovakia and the United States).