It was a war that shaped the modern world, fought on five continents, claiming the lives of ten million people. Two great nations met each other on the field of battle for the fi...
From Gaza To Jerusalem : The campaign for Southern Palestine 1917
The Palestine campaign of 1917 saw Britain's armed forces rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory. After two failed attempts in the spring, at the ...
From The Frontline: The Extraordinary Life of Sir Basil Clarke
Sir Basil Clarke was a courageous and intrepid First World War newspaper correspondent. In late 1914 he defied a ban on reporters by living as an 'outlaw' i...
At Fromelles in July 1916 two divisions one British and one Australian within a few weeks of arriving in France went into action for the first time. Their task was to prevent the Germans from moving troo...
Fromelles 1916 : No Finer Courage The Loss of An English Village
This book is much more than the local chronicle of a grievous period on our history. For those who, so many years later, find it difficult to comprehend t...
This is a gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy, the battle of Gallipoli. 'The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the flames spared nothing. As for our young men, a few minutes a...
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fig...
Gallipoli 1915 remains one of the most resounding Allied defeats of the First World War with both the Allied and Ottoman armies suffering in excess of 200,000 casualties. If you want to tru...
The Ottoman Army won a historic victory over the Allied forces at Gallipoli in 1915. This was one of the most decisive and clear-cut campaigns of the Great War. Yet the performance of th...
General Sir Thomas Morland : War Diaries & Letters 1914 - 1918
The British officer class in 1914 benefited from the discipline instilled by public schools. Thomas Morland was one such officer. Born in Canada, he was orp...
I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and if necessary to carry it. - Adolf Hitler, 16 July 1940. Immediately after the fall of France in June 1...
Ghosts of War : A History of World War I in Poetry and Prose
The First World War produced a unique outpouring of prose and poetry depicting the stark realism of a brutal and futile war; no war before or since has been s...
For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain a...