From Kokoda to Kure (Volume 6. of "The Doctors at War" Series)
This is the final volume in the series of “Australian Doctors at War ”, and takes up the story from the conclusion of the Kokoda Campaign in January 1943. It documents the medical support given to the campaigns in New Guinea in 1944 and 1945, and the landings on Borneo in 1945. It includes the biographies of four hundred Australian doctors who ......
The gripping book about a panzer division and its battles in the shattered streets of Stalingrad. In Death of the Leaping Horseman, the untold story of 24. Panzer-Division's savage fighting on Stalingrad's outskirts and in the devastated ruins of the city itself is revealed in a detailed day-by-day account.
On July 21, 1861, near a Virginia railroad junction twenty-five miles from Washington, DC, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in the first major battle of the Civil War. This revised edition of Hennessy's classic is the premier tactical account of First Manassas/Bull Run.
A compelling, fresh account of the battle of Rorke's Drift, featuring an array of previously unpublished material including defender accounts and artwork. The author questions what is widely believed to be historical fact and instead offers up his own interpretation of one of the most established actions of the hospital fight.
This rare memoir is the gripping account of a foreigner who served with the Germans on the Eastern Front and provides a vivid, firsthand description of World War II combat. Sigmund Heinz Landau, a Romanian fighting with the Waffen SS, was a participant at the siege of Budapest and the final battle for Berlin in 1945.
The 31st Waffen-Ss Volunteer Grenadier Division in World War II
Formed in the fall of 1944, the 31st Waffen-SS Volunteer Grenadier Division was composed mainly of ethnic Germans living in Hungary. After a brief period of training, the division endured its baptism of fire against the Red Army in the Hungarian sector of the Eastern Front in late 1944.
The military activity which ensued from the strategic position of Gloucestershire & Bristol, straddling the River Severn, is reflected in the landscape. From hillforts and castles to airfields and electronic eavesdropping activities, defensive sites are described in this book and placed in their social, political, historical and military contexts.
Other Ranks is a First World War classic, first published in 1931 but quickly lost in the wave of war memoirs and novels. It is the fictionalised account of William Tilsley's war experiences through the eyes of ordinary soldier Dick Bradshaw in the 55th West Lancashire Division. This authentic memoir of life and death on the front line begins with ......
A Year of British Battles, Sieges, Atrocities and Heroics
Armchair General brings British history to the reader by making a battle the focal point of an easy read 700 word per day narrative. Each day of the calendar year is the anniversary of a British battle or siege, Viking through to the War on Terror, 393 battles fought on all 366 days of the year on all five continents. The date is pivotal to ......
