From the English Civil War to today's War on Terror: in this sweeping account of nearly 500 years of military history, former soldier Allan Mallinson looks at how the Army's dramatic past has made it one of the most effective fighting forces in the world today.

The sequel to 'The Black Jackals' is set in the turmoil of the eastern Mediterranean in 1941, with the Brits struggling to hold their line in Greece against the powerful German and Italian forces.

The Battle of the Somme was the bloodiest battle of the First World War. Here, the author has collated all the information gathered, to produce a comprehensive compendium of the exact movements of every battalion involved in the battle.

This text reveals the story of the 40,000 men sacrificed in the rearguard battles - on the beaches and sand dunes. It reveals the plans drawn up to send a substantial formation across to France after Dunkirk and lifts the curtain on a highly controversial political/military drama.

This title provides a unique account of the millions of colonial troops who fought in the First World War, and why they were later air-brushed out of history. Every major battle fought on the Western Front, from the First Battle of Ypres to the Second Battle of the Marne, was fought by Allied armies that were multi-racial and multi-ethnic. Yet from the moment the guns fell silent the role of non-white soldiers in the 'Great War for Civilization' was...

The remote and rough terrain of the Scottish Highlands came into its own as a training ground for special service training during the Second World War. This book looks at the variety of training establishments set up and how use was made of the landscape and coastline and specialist civilian skills such as stalking and mountaineering.

More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts and dangers, was going to be like. This social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were...

Professor Travers explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. Drawing on unpublished diaries, letters, memoirs, and Government papers, he emphasises the influence of pre-war social and military attitudes, and examines the early life and career of Sir Douglas Haig.

Providing an insight into the British soldier's experience in World War II, this book documents many of the items and equipment belonging to British soldiers, which have now become highly collectable.