The Story Behind Your First World War Family Treasures
by Martin Mace
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781473895485
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-01-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Frontline Books
248 Pages
The First World War touched every community and almost every home in the UK. In its wake, it left behind memories and mementos of loved ones. For every casualty there was a scar, for every death there...
The Royal Navy of Nelson’s time was such a huge organisation, that it is sometimes hard to comprehend its full scope. Indeed, during the Napoleonic Wars it was by far the largest employer in the entire world.
Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was the outstanding British individual of the nineteenth century. His victories at Seringapatam and Assaye extended British control in India and his famous campaign in Spain and Portugal helped to drive Napoleon into exile.
The First World War ushered in many new and increasingly deadly weapons, along with strategies for using them. No more so than Germany’s sustained aerial bombing campaign against Britain, which opened an entirely new theater of war — the Home Front. It was a shocking awakening to 20th Century warfare for the military and civilians alike.
For almost two decades, Napoleon Bonaparte was the most feared, and revered, man in Europe. At the height of his power, the land under his control stretched from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, and encompassed most of Western Europe.
‘The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,’ wrote Winston Churchill in his history of the Second World War. ‘I was even more anxious about this battle than I had been about the glorious air fight called the Battle of Britain.
The Fascinating World of the Samurai as Seen Through Arms and Armour, Places and Images
by Stephen Turnbull
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781473850385
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2017-07-10
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Frontline Books
248 Pages
From lowly attendants (samurai literally means ‘those who serve’) to members of one of the world’s most powerful military organizations, the samurai underwent a progression of changes to reach...
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