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

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.

This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

Brutality, greed, honour, chivalry, the clink of chain mail, the clatter of hooves, and the call of the muezzin. Such are the ingredients of the Crusades. This book explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and the diversity of holy war and friendships and alliances between Christians and Muslims.

The true story of one man's determination to master the world's deadliest helicopter and of a split-second decision that changed the face of modern warfare.

Insights into the monuments, films, graveyards and poems that the Great War left behind - a moving, intriguing and illuminating de-coding.

Shows the people and events that have shaped the army: how Marlborough's victory at Blenheim is linked to Wellington's at Waterloo; how the fight at Rorke's Drift in 1879 underpinned the heroism of the airborne forces in Arnhem in 1942; and why Montgomery's momentous victory at El Alamein mattered long after the Second World War was over.

The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. This book offers an account of the battle of Normandy.

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

A day-by-day narrative account of the Battle of Britain, with illustrations, eye-witness accounts, documents, posters and timelines. Every aspect of the battle is covered from multiple points of view.

With the expansion of organisations such as the British SOE and the American OSS, and the supply of special forces units which operated behind enemy lines, clandestine warfare became a permanent part of the modern military and political scene. This manual presents a selection of these dark arts and techniques.

A British school stranded in occupied Europe

Who tried to bomb Japan with bats? Who invented the air-gun in 250BC? Which stories should we believe? The so-called Dambusters raid was all but ineffective; the Hurricane not the Spitfire was the champion of the Battle of Britain; Singapore did not fall because all the guns were pointing the wrong way.

A vivid and powerful diary of life in the trenches