An Operational History of the British and Commonwealth Armies during World War II
by Brian E. Walter
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781636245669
Publisher: Casemate
Pub Date: 2026-05-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Casemate
368 Pages
Pitched into a global conflict against three powerful adversaries—Germany, Italy and Japan—the British and Commonwealth armies slowly turned the tide and scored a string of victories that helped bring about the demise of the Axis powers.
The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of the twentieth century, the task was to prove a very different one.
Between 1940 and 1945 London suffered 101 daylight and 253 nighttime air raids from the Luftwaffe and V1 and V2’s. There were 80,000 fatalities or serious injuries and appalling devastation. Well...
Encouraged by the success of an attack on Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917, Field Marshal Haig ordered that his generals should continue their preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres. Delayed due to...
By July 1940, Britain stood alone in Europe. Hitler’s troops had reached the French coast after storming their way across northern Europe and, following the evacuation of the British Expeditionary...
Students from Trinity College Cambridge Who Died During the Great War
by Nigel McCrery
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781399049009
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-06-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
600 Pages
This is the story of just one Cambridge college and the effect the First World War had on it. One college, reflecting the effect of the other thirty. Between 1914 and 1918 over 600 undergraduates from...
The Avro Vulcan is one of the most striking aircraft ever made – its enormous wing stretching back from an improbably thick leading edge marked by cavernous wing root engine intakes. Perhaps even...
Success and Failure Across Five Continents. Proceedings of the 2023 Helion and Company 'From Reason to Revolution' Conference
Edited by Andrew Bamford
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781804516737
Publisher: Helion and Company
Pub Date: 2025-06-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
248 Pages
Britain carried out many amphibious operations during the long-eighteenth century, ranging from raids to the landing of whole armies. British Amphibious Warfare 1739-1815 provides case-studies of some...
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