The Good Soldier: The Biography of Douglas Haig
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Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the...
William Howe and the American War of Independence
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The first major work on this enigmatic British general for more than 40 years, William Howe and the...
Yorkshire's War: Voices of the First World War
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At 7.30 a.m. on Saturday 1 July 1916, the British Expeditionary Force rose from its trenches and...
Last of the Few: The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won it
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After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated...
A Motorcycle Courier in the Great War: The Illustrated Edition
W.H.L. Watson and Bob Carruthers
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W.H.L. Watson was a British Army, motorcycle despatch rider in the First World War. He saw active...
German Infantryman vs British Infantryman: France 1940
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When Hitler's forces poured into France and the Low Countries in 1940, the uneasy peace of the...
Great War: The Countdown to Global Conflict
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On 7 August 1914 the first British troops - 120,000 highly trained members of the regular Army...
A Marine at Gallipoli and on the Western Front: First in, Last Out - The Diary of Harry Askin
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Harry Askin was 22 when he enlisted at Nottingham in September 1914 and was sent to train with the...
Jack and Hopit, Comrades in Arms: An Officer of the 9th Lancers in the Great War and His War Horse
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A chance discovery of the existence of the gravestone carved with the battle honours of Hopit - the...
1940: Britain Stands Alone
John Christopher and Campbell McCutcheon
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1940 As the period of the 'Phoney War' came to an end, the Nazis unleashed their Blitzkrieg tactics,...