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Dictionary of British Naval Battles
Dictionary Of Naval Battles
This very substantial, comprehensive dictionary contains entries on all the battles fought at sea by British fleets and ships since Anglo-Saxon times. Major battles, such as Trafalgar or Jutl...
Dilly
Dilly : The Man Who Broke Enigmas
The highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known simply as 'Dilly', was one of the leading figures in the British codebreaking successes of the two world wars. During the first, he was t...
Disaster At D-Day
Disaster At D-Day : The Germans Defeat the Allies, June 1944
It is June 1944. The Allied armies are poised for the full-scale invasion of Fortress Europe. Across the Channel, the vaunted Wehrmacht lies waiting for the s...
Disaster Before D-Day
Disaster Before D-Day
This is a book of two stories. The first is the sad tale of how at least 749 American servicemen lost their lives on a pre-D-Day landing exercise, code-named 'Operation Tiger', on the evening of 23...
Disaster In The Desert
Disaster In The Desert An Alternate History of El Alamein and Rommel's North Africa Campaign
Summer 1942 and the war in the Middle East is in the balance; Rommel's Axis forces are posed on the borders of Egypt and all ...
Disputed Earth
Disputed Earth : Geology and Trench Warfare on the Western Front 1914-18
An understanding of terrain has been the mark of a great commander from at least the time of Sun Tzu, and most campaigns can be interpreted and un...
Disrupt And Deny
Disrupt And Deny : Spies, Special Forces and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy
The untold story of Britain's covert military and intelligence operations since the end of World War II, and its secret scheming ...
Dogs of Courage
Dogs of Courage : When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939 - 45
In Bonzo's War, Clare Campbell told the fascinating story of what it was like for Britain's pets when the world was at war. This time, she follows the incredib...
Doing Their Bit
'Doing Their Bit' : The British Employment of Military and Civil Defence Dogs in the Second World War
The Second World War allowed for the utilisation of an unprecedented number of dogs for military duties both internat...
Dorset In Wartime
Dorset in Wartime : the Diary of Phyllis Walther 1941-42
Phyllis Walther wrote this Mass Observation Diary as she worked during the war for the WVS as a volunteer. She was responsible for the welfare of evacuees, partic...
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Dunkirk
Dunkirk : Fight To Last the Man
This is a special 75th Anniversary Edition. Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat...
Dunkirk
Dunkirk
This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships. Mr Divine, who was himself with the small boats, writes with the au...
Dunkirk Little Ships
Dunkirk Little Ships
In May 1940, following the rapid advance of German troops through Holland, Belgium and France, the British Expeditionary Force and French army retreated to Dunkirk. Operation Dynamo was instigated i...
Dunkirk Nine Days That Saved An Army
Dunkirk Nine Days That Saved An Army
The epic of Dunkirk has been told many times, but the numerous accounts from surviving soldiers and sailors were often a blur of fear and fighting with the days mingling into each o...
Dunkirk: The Real Story In Photographs
Dunkirk : The Real Story in Photographs
The Second World War saw heroic efforts made by the Allied forces from its very outset, but in May 1940 disaster befell the British Expeditionary Force in France. Isolated from th...
Duty Nobly Done
Duty Nobly Done : The South Wales Borderers at Gallipoli 1915
While the main emphasis of the Great War was on the Western Front of France and Belgium, the British Army also took part in what was a lesser known conflict,...
Dying For The Truth
Dying for the Truth : The Concise History of Frontline War Reporting
War correspondents are crucial to democracy and the public's discovery of the truth. Without the media, the temptation to manipulate events with prop...
Eighth Army in Italy 1943-45
Eighth Army in Italy 1943 - 45 : The Long Hard Slog
Eighth Army, Britain's most famous field army of the twentieth century, landed in Italy in September 1943 and fought continously until the defeat of the Germans in ear...
El Alamein 1942
El Alamein 1942
The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposing sides, there was a real risk that Rommel s Afrika Korps...
Elegy
Elegy : The First Day of The Somme
On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Som...
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