The Battle of Britain: five months that changed history, May-October 1940 Those with a special interest in the Battle of Britain or air war more generally will enjoy this book. It is a lively, detailed, not to say exhaustive narrative of the entire battle. Careful attention is given to both sides. The story is told […]
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu : a Military Times Classic
A classic text on the conduct of warfare, and one of the oldest and most successful of all military treatises. Is war profoundly varied and changeable, or are its basic principles eternal? The answer, as any reading of Sun-Tzu’s The Art of War makes clear, is both. No general today need concern himself with the […]
The Last of the Few, by Max Arthur
The Battle of Britain, was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and marked the first defeat of Hitler’s military forces. It was a long, vigorously fought battle, in which 2,500 RAF pilots were pitted against the larger and more experienced forces of the German Luftwaffe. Despite their apparent disadvantages, the […]
Berlin at War, by Roger Moorhouse
Berlin at War: life and death in Hitler’s capital, 1939-45 Remarkably, although there have been many studies in English of how London stood up to the Blitz, Roger Moorhouse’s is the first on the German capital at war. Much of Berlin’s experience mirrors that of London. There is, for example, a familiar sounding chapter on […]
British Army Cap Badges, by Peter Doyle and Christ Foster
British Army Cap Badges of the First World War This is one of the best books on cap badges that I have seen for a long time. The book is superbly illustrated throughout, with images not only of the badges themselves, but also of soldiers wearing them. As the authors themselves state, it is impossible […]
Military Times Book of the Month : Main Battle Tank by Niall Edworthy
Free with the latest issue of Military Times on sale today, we are giving away a free extract from Nial Edworthy’s Main Battle Tank It is the first book join the Military Times Book Club, and we would like to invite you to pick up a copy and let us know what you think about […]
Battleground Prussia: the Assault on Germany’s Eastern Front 1944-45 – By Prit Buttar
Pritt Buttar’s look at the Soviet assault on Prussia focuses on the brutality and vengeance of the Red Army’s merciless campaign. Through previously unseen testimony and sagacious analysis by the author, the chilling events of 1944-45 Prussia are brought to life. Buttar assumes the perspectives of both those at command level and of the soldiers […]
A Waterloo Hero: The reminiscences of Freidrich Lindau
Edited and presented by James Bogle and Andrew Uffindell More than 150 years after its first publication in German, this English translation of Frederich Lindau’s memoirs is long overdue. The recollections of Lindau were not recorded until thirty years after the events and were dictated to his pastor, Franz Schläger, who has written the forward […]
Gun Button to Fire: A Hurricane Pilot’s Dramatic Story of the Battle of Britain
by Tom Neil Desperate to join the RAF from the age of 12, Tom Neil makes no bones about the fact that the war was ‘a very exciting business for a 19-year-old’. He acknowledges in the foreword to this, his sixth book on his experiences as a fighter pilot, that some may consider his approach […]
Conquer or Die! Wellington’s Veterans and the Liberation of the New World
by Ben Hughes Conquer or Die documents the encounters of 6, 000 British volunteers who sailed across the Mediterranean to aid Simon Bolivar in the wars of South American independence. With the smoke still clearing from the 1815 Battle of Waterloo and the country still drunk on victory, these volunteers set sail for Gran Columbia, […]
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