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The Brusilov Offensive by Timothy C. Dowling tells the story of this important but little-known battle in the military and political history of the Eastern Front in World War 1.…
SOE Syllabus. Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare World War II with an introduction by Denis Rigden. This book tells how in the early years of World War II prospective agents for the…
British Built Aircraft. Volume 5. Northern England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by Ron Smith This is the fifth and last volume in a series covering all of the aircraft…
The Illustrated Manual of U. S. Portable Flamethrowers by Charles S. Hobson explores the development of each model, the prototypes, failures and standardized models with the…
The Saga of the Tin Goose. The Story of the Ford Trimotor by David A Weiss. From the blurb: 'It was the brainchild of Henry Ford and inventor William Bushnell Stout. It was the…
The Lost World of Bletchley Park. An Illustrated History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by Sinclair McKay is the first comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable…
Monarchy The History of an Idea by Brenda Ralph Lewis traces the origins and development of the idea of monarchy from ancient cultures to the rise of the modern world and the…
Four Caroline Portraits. Thomas Hobbes, Henry Marten, Hugh Peters, John Selden by A L Rowse takes a fresh look at the Civil War of the seventeenth century through the eyes of the…
Blitz Over Sussex 1941-42 by Pat Burgess & Andy Saunders details the effects of the aerial warfare over the county during the years 1941 and 1942. Very well illustrated with…
The Bomber Command War Diaries. An Operational Reference Book, 1939-45 by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt documents every Bomber Command operation and also describes the…
The Virgin Queen. The Personal History of Elizabeth I by Christopher Hibbert paints a compelling and evocative portrait of one of history's most fascinating women, illuminated…
Set in a Silver Sea. A History of Britain and the British People. From Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century by Sir Arthur Bryant begins with the Atlantic flood which made…
Flanders Then and Now. The Ypres Salient and Passchendaele by John Giles. From the blurb: 'The author recreates, by means of contemporary photographs juxtaposed with others taken…
The German Freikorps 1918-23 by Carlos Jurado, illustrated by Ramiro Bujeiro. Part 76 in the Elite series. This is a concise account of a little-known but central episode in the…
Men of the Battle of Britain. A who was who of the pilots and aircrew, British, Commonwealth and Allied, who flew with Royal Air Force Fighter Command July 10 to October 31 1940…