Waterloo is perhaps the most famous battle of the 19th century and surely in the top ten of all military engagements in the last 500 years. Many have sought reasons why Napoleon lost the great battle. This book presents the litany of failures by one of Napoleon's key subordinates, General Drouet d'Erlon, which led ultimately to defeat.
Eight days after the start of World War I, four German cavalry regiments charged into glory, history, and disaster at the Belgian village of Halen. These eight separate charges would be the last large-scale mounted cavalry charge on the Western Front.
In the years after the First World War waves of former soldiers were drawn back to their wartime haunts. Pilgrimage to the Western Front is the first collection of its kind to chronicle the experience of veterans who retraced their steps along the old front line offering a fascinating insight into what they found in the words of the men ......
Frontkampfer I: Blitzkrieg 1939-1942 is a collection of rare photographs, many never before published, highlighting the German war machine in the early years of the Second World War, beginning in Poland in 1939, crossing Europe and North Africa in 1940-1942, and culminating in February 1943 with the surrender of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad.
The largest collection of primary Isandlwana accounts, from British officers and men, colonial forces, civilians, and Zulu warriors who attacked the camp to deliver what was deemed a humiliating defeat for the British invading column.
Major Digby Tatham Warter, the major who fought at Arnhem with umbrella and bowler hat, led a remarkable life. Known for his eccentric nature and bravery in battle, he played a prominent part in the ill-fated Operation Market Garden. Escaping from captivity, he devised a miraculous withdrawal through enemy lines before moving to Kenya.
In late 1944, the Second World War in the Pacific was going badly for Japan. The U.S. Pacific fleet had moved to the Mariana Islands in support of General MacArthur's army, which had landed on the east coast of Leyte in October. The U.S. 7th Fleet was near the Surigao Strait off Leyte. The Japanese strategy was to entrap the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet ......
The Allied Operation Mallory Major (northern Italy, July 1944) aimed at the destruction of all bridges across the Po River: the bombers were opposed by a Flak army composed of aging Germans leading young non-German women (who played a major role in the campaign) and men in Wehrmacht service: Czechs (who deserted en masse), Italians, Poles, ......
The book tells the story of the five Battalions of the Norfolk Regiment who served on the Western Front using previously unseen evidence and photos with full access to museum archives, enabling the men who served to tell their story. Fresh maps & advice complement this research with the book serving as a guide for the ground covered in its pages.
