Category: Book

Richard Hargreaves In January 1945, the Red Army unleashed its long-awaited thrust into Germany with terrible fury. One by one the provinces and great cities of the German East were captured by the Soviet troops. Breslau, capital of Silesia, a city of 600,000 people stood firm and was declared a fortress by Hitler.A bitter struggle […]

By Alan Cate Stalingrad By Jochen Hellbeck PublicAffairs, 512 pp., $29.99 Yorktown and Gettysburg rank highest among American martial epics of valor and victory. Most Brits would probably choose the World War II aerial Battle of Britain as their “finest hour.” To the French, Verdun – with its defiant cry, “they shall not pass” – […]

The Men who fired the V2s against England Murray R. Barber and Michael Keuer Buy Online ‘We V2 soldiers fulfilled our tasks with the knowledge that every firing meant innocent people lost their lives…’ This substantial book provides an invaluable contribution to the operational history of the A4 (V2) rocket. Little has been written about […]

Since the days of Nelson, Malta has stood a faithful British sentinel guarding the narrow and vital sea corridor through the Central Mediterranean, its strategic importance was never higher than in this the latest war. The needs of the large armies we were building up in Egypt made the free passage of the Mediterranean for […]

The dictator’s paramilitary machine … the Strum Abtellung (brown shirts) return from manoeuvres on a Sunday in Nuremberg. Malcolm Brown November 27, 2010 JOHN RISCHBIETH, then a pupil at St Peters College, Adelaide, was awestruck when, as a 17-year-old in Germany in 1935, he became surrounded by beaming members of the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) […]

AMAZON BOOKS Samuel Hawley taught English in East Asia for many years. His books include Speed Duel, about the land speed rivalry in the 1960s between Craig Breedlove and Art Arfons; I Just Ran: Percy Williams, World’s Fastest Human, about one of Canada’s greatest yet least known sports heroes; the companion volumes America’s Man in […]

Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth (Retinue to Regiment) Paperback – October 30, 2019 by Mike Ingram (Author) This is the story of two very different men, Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England, and Henry Tudor and how they met in battle on 22 August 1485 at Bosworth Field. The Battle of […]