An outstandingly written, action-packed memoir of a decorated British soldier's experience of fighting Taliban forces in Afghanistan in summer 2006.

In a fascinating time-travelling experiment Lion Television, with the BBC, follow a team of historians who will spend a year recreating farm life in 1885. This book follows the team as they try to run a farm using only materials and resources that would have been available to them in the Victorian era.

Presents the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's railways, stimulating economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. This title reveals that the global expansion of the railways was key to the spread of modernity and the making of the modern world.

Newly-discovered diaries that take us back to the trenches and present the war as it really was.

Formed by men not eligible for active service - too old, too young, in reserved occupations vital to the war effort - who were expected to resist a German invasion with any resources they had to hand, the Home Guard is the embodiment of plucky British resolve against the odds. This book intends to evoke this spirit.

Their job is to put themselves in the heart of danger - to run into battle to rescue the wounded and to risk their own lives to try and save the dying. This book presents the story of those brave men and women who go to war armed with bandages not bombs, scalpels not swords, and put saving life above taking life.

Starting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff's shipyards in Belfast, this book explores the pre-history of the Titanic.

Offers a re-evaluation of the vital contribution made by the Roman navy to Roman imperial power, covering the organisation of the fleets and the everyday life of the soldiers.

The story of life after the Great War ended for a generation determined not be dominated by the past

An oral history taken from Imperial War Museum's Sound Archive. This title features soldiers from both sides tell their stories of this epic conflict.

Drawing on material from the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, this title presents an intimate insight into life on the front line of the war of the Somme: from the day-to-day struggle of extraordinary circumstances to the white heat of battle and the constant threat of injury or death. It features contributions from soldiers of both sides.

Brian May's painstaking reproduction of exquisite stereo photographs from the dawn of photography transports the reader back in time to the lost world of an Oxfordshire village in 1850s England.

Doug Beattie returns to Helmand Province for one final tour - and it's the most bloody and brutal conflict yet.

In November 1942, two nights after tha Battle of El Alamein, a young British army officer was captured by German forces. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with him and his peers, Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid: unknown to anyone else, he was the stepson of Lt-Gen Bernard Montgomery, who had just inflicted the first serious land defeat on the Third Reich. This ...

Examines the 'gold rush fantasy' in American psychology and describes its dire consequences. This book talks about the Florida land boom, the operations of Insull, Kreuger and Hatry, and the Shenandoah Corporation.

The Battle of the Coral Sea is unique in the annals of naval history. It is the first battle in which enemy fleets never came within sight of one another. Instead, aircraft launched from carrier decks were sent out to attack the enemy with bombs and torpedoes. This book tells the story of this battle in the Pacific War.

A personal history of The Great War told using never-seen-before interviews, letters and photographs.

Following the lightening destruction of the Egyptian forces at the outbreak of the Six Day War, Israel turned to the forces of Jordan and Syria, with whom Egypt had signed a mutual-defence pact, and which had now entered the war. This title presents one of the most important of 20th century campaigns.

Snapshots of gaiety and celebration - the street parties, the victory speeches - are how some people think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of World War II were far from a 'golden age' of pride and self-confidence. This title presents the real story of what happened when millions of ex-servicemen returned home.

A vivid and powerful diary of life in the trenches