The Overlord plan called for the use of airborne troops to secure the flanks of the D Day landing and to form a buffer to keep the German counter-attacks away, thus allowing 3rd Divis...
95th Rifles 1809 to Salamanca is the second DVD in 95th Rifles trilogy of films and part of The Peninsular Collection from BHTV and Pen and Sword Digital. The DVD explores the history of ...
Following the Great Victory at Salamanca in July 1812 the Anglo- Portuguese Army, with the 95th Rifles to the fore, marched to liberate Madrid. While Wellington advanced to Burgos the ...
A Clear Case of Genius : Room 40s Code Breaking Pioneer
In 1933 the Admiralty banned `Blinker' Hall from publishing his autobiography, but here, for the first time, those chapters that survived are presented in full. Se...
The date: 14 October 1918 - a misty early morning, east of Ledegem, Belgium. Young British Army officer Lieutenant Walter Lancelot Merritt MC carries a large red flag to indicat...
A Guide To British Military History : The Subject and the Sources
What exactly is military history? Forty years ago it meant battles, campaigns, great commanders, drums and trumpets. It was largely the preserve of milit...
Handful Of Heroes : Rorkes Drift : Facts, Myths And Legends
Thanks to newly discovered letters and documents, A Handful of Heroes updates the history of the Defence of Rorke's Drift, which will forever be one of the mos...
Liddell Hart's History of the First World War first appeared in 1930 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most cogent accounts of the conflict ever published. A leading militar...
This is a unique study of the First World War on land, sea and in the air, through maps, diagrams and illustrations. Within the scope of some 250 maps, Arthur Banks has presented ...
Prayer for Gallipoli : The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campa...
A Rabble of Gentility : The Royalist Northern Horse, 1944-45
General George Monck once described the Royalist horse as "a rabble of gentility". Modern research has largely dispelled this image of the King's cavalry. How...
A Shaky Do! The Skoda Works Raid 16/17th April 1943
A detailed account of a Bomber Command raid on the Skoda arms factory at Plzen Czechoslovakia. The book gives numerous personal accounts by veterans who flew on the ra...