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A New Edition – On Earlybird A descriptive account of the various Offer regiments now comprising the Queen’s Forces & Indian and Colonial Forces This is a much sought-after three-volume set – the first two are devoted entirely to the British Army, with the third to India and the Colonies, all from their first establishment to the ‘present time’, c.1888. The author’s main aim was to describe the organisation and condition of each unit as it was in the 1880s. Consisting of written sketches of the various regiments, they contain much useful information on their battles, campaigns and prior fighting achievements, complemented with 41 excellent, full-page chromolithographic uniform plates. The plates in the first two volumes are by G.D. Giles who saw service with the British Army in India, Afghanistan and Egypt; those of the Indian and Colonial forces volume are by H. Bunnett. This work was originally published c.1888 by J.S. Virtue & Co Ltd, a London publishing business, the main feature of which was the production of illustrated works.

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Hardback edition in 3 volumes 1210 pages in total + 41 colour uniform plates printed on 70lbs paper Product code: 28703HB Published at £120.00 Our Earlybird offer price is £85.00 Over 7000 military books available online at www.naval-military-press.com Telephone : 01825 749494 A WARGAMER’S GUIDE TO AIR WAR OVER NORTH THE DESERT WAR 1940-1943 VIETNAM Daniel Mersey Operation Rolling Thunder Softback, 118 pages Stephen Emerson Published Price £12.99 Softback, 198 pages 27504 £3.99 Published Price £14.99 Continuing this exciting new series of 28604 £4.99 guides for wargamers, Dan Mersey gives a Emerson does an outstanding job of wargamer’s perspective on the North outlining the complicated flashpoint of African campaign of World War II. Of Vietnam, well-written he articulates to value to the beginner but also some useful history buffs by remaining focused on tips and ideas for more experienced Operation Rolling Thunder, and the fight players. for air supremacy.

THE 1914 CAMPAIGN: BRITISH AIR BATTLES OVER THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE BALTIC 1941 Andrew Rawson THE 43rd WESSEX DIVISION AT The Air War on 22 June 1941: The WAR 1944-1945 Hardback, 267 pages Battle for Stalin’s Baltic Region Published Price £25 Mikhail Timin, Kevin Bridge Compiled by Major-General H Essame 25415 £4.99 Hardback, 448 pages with 48 pages A briskly well-written narrative of the 2020 N&M Press reprint (original of colour plates (maps & aircraft BEF’s crucial opening actions during the pub 1952). SB xi+292 pp with 21 profiles), 490 B&W photos, 13 tables, first year of the Great War. Beginning maps & 35 illustrations 1 B&W illustration, 1 B&W map with the opening battles at Mons and Le 28280 £22.00 Published Price £55 Cateau, we follow the great retreat to the This is the story of the 43rd Division from 27513 £12.99 Marne; the counter attack on the Aisne, its arrival in France during Operation and the move north in the race to the sea Overlord in June 1944 through to the end This volume will serve as a valuable and the First Battle of Ypres .Great of the war with Germany. It relates how reference for all with a serious interest in the lead up and opening rounds of what research, you can find what happens in the the division fought and where, and is ACCRINGTON PALS AIR WAR VARSITY action day by day and who fought where, illustrated with 21 maps. The division was The 11th (Service) Battalion would become a clash of giants. It enables vital when trying to locate where certain engaged on the River Odon, and at Hill history enthusiasts to follow stage by stage Martin W. Bowman (Accrington) East Lancashire the condition of the Red Army Air Force; soldiers were wounded or killed 112, then in the Seine crossing, the Regiment Hardback, 256 pages attempted relief at Arnhem, at Groesbeek, their preparations to counter aggression on Published Price £25 3-PARA William Turner the part of fascist Germany; and the battle in Operation Blackcock and the advance to 27795 £5.99 Mount Longdon - The Bloodiest Goch and Xanten. It also took part in the Oversized Softback, 256 pages in the air on the first day of the Great Battle Patriotic War. Bowman in his now familiar style Battle of the Rhineland and in Operations Published Price £17.95 describes the story of the "Jump across the Jon Cooksey Plunder and Varsity and made its final 27019 £3.99 Rhine", Operation Varsity. This was the Softback 111 pages move to capture Bremen in 1945. A very This book is a small slice of history in it’s successful airborne forces operation Published Price £14.99 readable, and an important Divisional self, the very first modern “Pals” battalion launched by Allied troops that took place 28104 £3.99 History. history, a book that spawned a whole toward the end of World War II. Involving Tells the story of 3 Para and the often- military genre, and a military publishing more than 16,000 paratroopers and several neglected struggle for Mount Longdon. It empire. Now re-released due to demand in thousand aircraft, it was the largest was a battle which tested the discipline, it’s original large newspaper size format. airborne operation in history to be comradeship and professionalism of the conducted on a single day and in one paras to the limit; it was a battle which location. witnessed another posthumous VC; it turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the AGINCOURT 1415 entire Falklands Campaign. A Tourist Guide to the Campaign Anne Curry, Peter Hoskins Softback, 192 pages Published Price £14.99 25427 £3.99 A compendious guide to one of the most famous battles in English history, immortalised by Shakespeare, when Henry V’s tattered army destroyed a French force several times its size. Tailored for the modern visitor, the book traces the route of Henry’s army to the battlefield, describing the action, the topography, and the aftermath. AIR WAR ARCHIVE: DORNIER DO 17 AIR BATTLE OF THE RUHR The Luftwaffe’s Flying Pencil RAF Offensive March-July 1943 Chris Gross Alan W. Cooper Softback, 128 pages A FRENCH SOLDIER’S WAR SB, 228 pp Published Price £14.99 DIARY 1914-1918 Published Price £12.99 28597 £3.99 24291 £3.99 This title in the “Air War Archive” series Henri Desagneaux The Ruhr valley was the heartland of is a good photo monograph devoted to the Hardback, 112 pages German industry in the Second World Dornier Do 17. While the type was the Published Price £19.99 War. Bomber Command dealt heavy Luftwaffe's principal light bomber at the AIRLINES AT WAR 25440 £2.99 blows to Nazi productivity in a series of outbreak of war, helping to spearhead 5TH INFANTRY BRIGADE IN devastating raids in the Spring and British Civil Aviation 1939-1944 A classic account of a French soldier’s Germany's Blitzkrieg in Poland and then THE FALKLANDS Summer of 1943 which are described in France and the Low Countries, heavy Simon Wills role in the trenches of the Western front. this moving and important contribution to Nick van der Bijl, David Aldea Henri Desagneaux writes with anger and losses at the hands of Fighter Command in Hardback, 197 pages the history of the RAF’s most gruelling the Battle of Britain saw the type largely Published Price £19.99 Softback, 256 pages compassion of the suffering and losses he campaign. Published Price £14.99 and his increasingly mutinous comrades superseded by the Ju 88. 28521 £6.99 26275 £2.99 endured as they tried to execute orders This book is an real eye-opener, it For many people it was 3 Commando issued by a distant High Command from explores the war history of British Brigade, commanded by Major General their HQ miles behind the front. commercial aviation, when it linked up the Julian Thompson, and made up of Royal battlefronts, many cut off from any direct Marines and Paras that recaptured the land or sea contacts with the Home Front, Falklands. Yet 5th Infantry Brigade played and was transporting supplies through a key and until now little acknowledged new, dangerous and often uncharted role in this extraordinary saga. regions of the air. With the Speedbird symbol or the Union Flag emblazoned on its aircraft BOAC really did fly the flag for Britain throughout WW2.

Military history at your finger tips www.nmarchive.com Over 7000 military books available online at www.naval-military-press.com Telephone : 01825 749494 ALDERSHOT IN THE GREAT AN ANZAC ON THE WESTERN WAR FRONT Murray Rowlands The Personal Reflections of an Softback, 176 pages Australian Infantryman from 1916 Published Price £12.99 to 1918 25832 £2.00 H. R. Williams IThe first book written about Britain's HB, 208 pp premier army base in the First World War. Published Price £19.99 The book contains and explores the 24367 £4.99 following: * The first published record of Harold Williams was an Anzac volunteer the troops in Aldershot on 4 August 1914. who enlisted in 1915, and arrived in * The first published list of officers and France in June 1916 - just in time for the men from Aldershot killed in the war. * disastrous battle of Fromelles, a Lists the dead from WWI in Aldershot catastrophic prelude to the Somme which Cemetery. * Outlines the activities of Williams describes in truly shocking crucial figures in the War such as Smith- clarity. Surviving Fromelles, the Somme Dorrien, Haig and French in Aldershot in itself, and a subsequent gas attack the period before the War. * Traces the Williams went through the mud of the growth development of aircraft Ypres salient; the German Spring manufacture at Farnborough under the offensives of 1918 - and the Australian-led guidance of Mervyn O'Gorman from a Allied counter-attack before Amiens. balloon factory to major aircraft Wounded at Peronne, he was invalided to manufacture. * Highlights the changes in Britain and returned to Australia in 1919. the social fabric of Aldershot during the ARMY. THE EVACUATION OF His account of his horrific experiences is NORTH RUSSIA 1919 war. * Records the experience of both well-written and utterly terrifying. BATTLE BENEATH THE Aldershot as a premier training base Presented to Parliament by TRENCHES through the eyes of Anthony Eden, ARMAGEDDON ROAD Command of His Majesty AUSTRALIA IN THE GREAT WAR The Cornish Miners of the 251st Wilfred Owen and men of all ranks. A VC’s Diary 1914-1916 HMSO 1920 Tunnelling Company Billy Congreve, edited by Terry Norman Philip Payton AMATEUR GUNNERS 2020 N&M Press reprint (original Robert Johnss The Adventures and Letters of a Hardback, 223 pages pub 1920). SB 45 pp with 2 maps (In Hardback, 224 pages Published Price £20 Hardback, 208 pages Soldier in France, Salonika and Published Price £19.99 colour) Published Price £25 Palestine 25455 £3.99 28283 £16.99 28473 £4.99 A useful insight into Australia's role in the Ian Ronayne The diaries of Great War hero Billy The British War Office sent General 27103 £5.99 Hardback, 224 pages Congreve who, by the time of his death on Henry Rawlinson to North Russia to conflict and in the years that followed. the Somme had amassed a DSO, MC, assume command of the evacuation out of A most informative and well researched Published Price £19.99 AUSTRALIA’S FEW AND THE book. The Cornish Miners were one of Legion d’Honneur and would receive a both Archangel and Murmansk. General BATTLE OF BRITAIN 25450 £3.99 posthumous VC. Brainy as well as brave, Rawlinson arrived on August 11. On the these specialist units recruited from the tin Amateur Gunners is a rare and very full Congreve’s writing as a staff officer who morning of September 27, 1919, the last Kristen Alexander mines of Cornwall. This is their story. In memoir of Great War artilleryman served in the trenches, edited by esteemed Allied troops departed from Archangel and Hardback, 409 pages February 1915, eight Tunnelling Alexander Thorburn who served at Vimy historian Terry Norman, offers a unique on October 12, Murmansk was abandoned. Published Price £25 Companies were created and operational in Flanders from March 1915. By mid Ridge, Salonika, Palestine and in the final perspective on the war. 25371 £3.99 advance to the Armistice in France. This -1916, the British Army had around This government “Blue Book” was The story of eight Australian pilots in the new edition of Thorburn’s book, first originally published after the close of 25,000 trained tunnellers, mostly published in 1933, contains additional Battle of Britain. It is a tragic tale, for of volunteers taken from mining. operations to provide a full account of the the eight only one came home. letters he wrote from active service to his measures taken and the military reasons family. for them. This is essential reading for AVRO VULCAN students of the Archangel campaign. Design and Development David W. Fields Softback, 487 pages Published Price £25 28585 £5.99 The Avro Vulcan was the last V Bomber to see active service in its primary role during the Falklands conflict This book examines the origins of the design, the prototypes and experimental aircraft and goes on to explain the modifications that were made to the last of the breed. The Fildes had access to many previously unpublished photographs and experimental design plans. THE BABY KILLERS German Air Raids on Britain in the First World War Thomas Fegan ARMIES OF EARLY SB, 192 pp COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA Published Price £12.99 1607-1713 History, Organization and 24976 £3.99 A BATTLE OF BRITAIN Air raids on British cities were a new and SPITFIRE SQUADRON Uniforms terrifying dimension of conflict in the First Gabriele Esposito The Men and Machines of 152 World War. At first the menace came from Squadron in the Summer of 1940 Hardback, 180 pages the Zeppelin airships, followed by the AN ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IN AT WAR WITH THE 16th IRISH Danny Burt Published Price £19.99 DIVISION 1914-1918 Gotha and Giant bombers. In this PORTUGAL BETWEEN Don 28074 £4.99 definitive account Thomas Fegan details Hardback, 282 pages PEDRO AND Don MIGUEL The Letters of J H M Staniforth the attacks, and the frantic efforts to thwart Published Price £25 In 2 Volumes Esposito presents a detailed overview of Edited by Richard Grayson them made by the authorities . His 28516 £7.99 the military history of Colonial North Hardback 256 pages research also recounts the effects of the America during its earliest period, from Throughout the Battle of Britain, the men Published Price £25 raids on popular opinion, and how they and machines of 152 Squadron, call sign the first colonial settlement in Jamestown were presented in propaganda. to the end of the first continental war 24000 £5.99 Maida, defended the Warmwell sector, Charles Napier fought in the Americas. Ample John ‘Max’ Staniforth volunteered in 1914 BATTLEFIELD BOMBERS: which included the vital Royal Navy base at Portland, as part of 10 Group. It is the 2020 N&M Press reprint (original illustrations, including colour art works, and after rising through the ranks served as DEEP SEA ATTACK show the first military uniforms ever worn an officer with the 16th Irish Division on Martin W. Bowman period from 12 July to 28 November 1940 pub 1836). Softback xvi+369pp+xi that the author examines in great depth and in North America, as well as interesting the western front from 1915 until he was Hardback, 206 pages +336 bound in one volume details of weaponry and equipment used. gassed in 1918. His weekly letters home detail in this definitive account. This, then, Published Price £35 give an unflinching account of the drama, Published Price £25 is the story of one squadron’s part in the 28459 £18.99 terror and cruelty of war in the trenches. 25443 £3.99 struggle to defend Britain during those A rare and lucid account by a key British A unique selection of the experiences of dark days in the summer of 1940. participant of the Portuguese Civil War British and Commonwealth Bomber (the War of the Two Brothers), this post- Command aircrew in the second World Napoleonic conflict between liberal War, this book details the deep sea constitutionalists and conservative bombing raids carried out by the RAF, absolutists in Portugal over royal including operations against the Tirpitz. succession that lasted from 1828 to 1834. Embroiled parties included the Kingdom of Portugal, Portuguese rebels, the United Kingdom, France, the Catholic Church and Spain.

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In the first special steels to Britain through the instance officers and men came from the blockaded Skagerrak, where German air other Guards regiments and from the strength was dominant and where the recruits at Caterham. The new regiment Royal Navy dare not trespass. Despite mounted guard at Buckingham Palace on Admiralty gloom and in the face of St David’s Day, three days after the political objections that were overcome by publication of the Royal Warrant. Binney's persistence, five ships carrying a year's supply of valuable materials for the BEN BENNIONS DFC expanding British war industries were Battle of Britain Fighter Ace successfully sailed to Britain in January Nick Thomas 1941. Hardback, 256 pages BATTLEGROUND EARLY Published Price £19.99 BRITISH CAMPAIGNS IN THE BATTLES: RETREAT OF I 25930 £3.99 THE BLACK PHALANX SOUTH ATLANTIC 1805-1807 CORPS 1914 George Herman Bennions, DFC., A History of the Negro Soldiers John D. Grainger nicknamed "Ben", was one of the leading of the United States in the wars Hardback, 277 pages Jerry Murland Battle of Britain Spitfire pilots. of 1775-1812 & 1861-1865 Published Price £19.99 Softback, 139 pages 25395 £5.99 Published Price £12.99 Joseph T. Wilson late Louisiana Native A fascinating account of one of the least 25437 £3.99 Guard Volunteers & 54th Massachusetts known episodes of the Napoleonic wars. A re-examination of one of the most Regiment The book chronicles Britain’s subjection controversial episodes in the BEF’s retreat SB 528 pp with 64 B&W illustrations of the Dutch colony in South Africa - with from Mons to the Marne and in the career 2020 N&MP Reprint of 1888 Edition. its long term consequences; and the far of Sir Douglas Haig. The book looks at Published Price £28 less successful occupations of Buenos Haig’s decision to speed his I Corps’ Aires and Montevideo in present day retirement while Sir Horace Smith- 28223 £15.99 Argentina and Uruguay. Dorrien’s II Corps fought the Battle of Le The bulk of Wilson's compelling book Cateau. concerns African Americans military service during the American Civil War, including the free Blacks who served in the Confederate army: "Descriptions of a number of the battles in which Negro troops took part in the late war of the Rebellion, are given to call attention to the unsurpassed carnage which occurred, and to give them proper place in the war's history rather than to present a critical BLOOD AND IRON account of the battles.” Letters from the Western Front Hugh Montagu Butterworth, Jon Cooksey Hardback, 256 pages Published Price £19.99 THE BETRAYAL OF AN ARMY 28020 £4.99 This book is built around a series of letters Mesopotamia 1914-1916 written by Hugh Montagu Butterworth, an Norman Nash officer in the Rifle Brigade during his Hardback, 300 pages with maps and short time in France, which lasted from photographs late May 1915 until his death in the Ypres Published Price £25 salient on 25 September 1915. The letters 27392 £5.99 themselves are the true purpose of the book, and they don't disappoint. A well written and compelling chronicle of political and military ineptitude. The BRITAIN GOES TO WAR guilty men walked away and, as ever, it How the First World War Began to was the soldiers who paid the price. British Expeditionary Force: THE BATTLEGROUND GALLIPOLI: Reshape the Nation FINAL ADVANCE Peter Liddle ANZAC SARI BAIR Aside from oil, a major British interest in September-November 1918 Stephen Chambers Mesopotamia, especially in the minds of Hardback, 311 pages + plates Andrew Rawson Softback, 244 pages politicians like Austen Chamberlain Published Price £25 Hardback, 224 pages Published Price £14.99 (Secretary of State for India) and former 25971 £2.99 Published Price £19.99 Viceroy Lord Curzon, was in maintaining A group of distinguished historians looks 25184 £3.99 British prestige in the eyes of India's back, with the clarity of a modern 28496 £6.99 The tragic story related in this book, one Muslim population. perspective, at the issues that were critical This is the story the British Expeditionary of a series on Gallipoli, tells how the to Britain's war effort as the nation Force's part in the final days of the ambitious August 1915 offensive of Gen. The British viewed the loss of Kut as a embarked on the most intense and Advance to Victory. It starts with the Sir Ian Hamilton, designed to seize the humiliating defeat. It had been many years damaging struggle in its history. In a series massive offensive against the Hindenburg Peninsular’s commanding heights, failed Line at the end of September 1918. since such a large body of British Army BOMB DISPOSAL IN WORLD of penetrating chapters they explore the despite the heroic efforts of the fighting soldiers had surrendered to an enemy. reasons for Britain going to war, the Second Army launched the first of the men, because of the battle plan’s tortuous Also this loss followed only four months WAR TWO official preparations, the public reaction, British attacks in Flanders on the 28th, complexity, and ferocious Turkish after the British defeat at the Battle of Chris Ransted the readiness of the armed forces, followed by Fourth Army the next day resistance orchestrated by Mustapha Gallipoli. Nearly all the British Hardback, 296 pages internment, the impact of the opening along the St Quentin Canal. Both First and Kemal. 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Heathcote Published Price £19.99 subjects, such as the role of the Home SB, 384 pp Guard and conscientious objectors in Published Price £14.99 25928 £2.99 bomb disposal work. The enigma that surrounds Bill' Lancaster 24362 £3.99 life and death and trial for murder. A well Since the rank of Field Marshal has been told account as exciting as the age it is set effectively abolished in today’s much in, its unique denouement leaves the diminished British Army, Dr Tony reader free to pronounce his own verdict Heathcote’s roll call of our highest- on a pioneer flyer and adventurer. ranking soldiers is likely to be definitive. This may be a reference work, but it is far from dry, and the author’s accompanying commentary is both knowledgeable and readable.

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CAMPAIGN IN EUROPE The Story of The 10th Bn. The BRITISH SUBMARINES AT Highland Light Infantry (City of WAR 1914-1918 THE CAMBRAI CAMPAIGN Glasgow Regiment) 1944-1945 Edwyn Gray BUSH FIGHTING 1917: BRITISH RT Johnston - DN Steward - Rev A Ian Illustrated by Remarkable Softback, 224 pages EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Dunlop Actions and Incidents of the Andrew Rawson 2020 N&M Press reprint (original Published Price £12.99 Maori War in New Zealand 27261 £3.99 Hardback, 200 pages pub 1950.) Softback 78 pp with 12 Published Price £25 maps (In colour) Originally published in 1970 and was out Major-General Sir James Edw. Alexander of print for many years, this book has 27826 £5.99 28354 £18.00 earned its place as a classic of submarine SB xv+326 pp with B&W maps, From the well thought out “BRITISH This is good fighting Battalion history, history by an author with an international plans, & woodcuts 2020 N&MP EXPEDITIONARY FORCE” series, this covering the 10th Battalion HLI during the reputation for being second-to-none in Reprint of 1873 Edition. title covers the British attack that was advance from Normandy to the Elbe via evoking the claustrophobic horror of war Published Price £18 followed by the biggest German Holland, the Ardennes and on to the defeat beneath the waves. counterattack against the British of Germany. 28227 £9.99 A very readable, and useful WW 2 This is an authoritative book, both as a Expeditionary Force since 1914. The initial British success showed that even the Highland Battalion History. Complete military history of the second Maori War with 12 colour maps (based on the official of 1860-66 and also serving as a useful strongest trench defences could be overcome by a surprise attack, using a sheets). THE CHESHIRE BANTAMS instruction in the art of Bush Fighting. 15th, 16th and 17th Battalions of During this campaign the Maoris proved combination of new methods and equipment, reflecting a general increase in the Cheshire Regiment to be a formidable enemy, with their Stephen McGreal knowledge of the bush and well-fortified the British capacity to combine infantry, ‘pahs’ (fortified settlements). British and artillery, tanks and aircraft in attacks. Softback, 224 pages Colonial casualties were heavy; the British Published Price £19.99 catastrophe at Gate Par is given coverage. Usefully for the medal collector and 27104 £4.99 genealogist, many officers and men are Concentrating on a little known, but brought to our attention for their courage unique Great War organisation, this is a and discipline. major study of 'The Bantams'. Raised in Birkenhead in 1914, the Bantams were unique as the average height of the volunteers was a mere five foot. Despite their lack of stature, they fought with honour on the Somme before being decimated. McGreal explains well how the battalions began to lose their bantam nature, as drafts were not of the same ilk as the original volunteers and once conscription came in, the official bantam status was dropped. It goes without saying BRUTUS: CAESAR’S ASSASSIN that his coverage of movements and Dr. Kirsty Corrigan actions in France is exemplary. There are Hardback, 192 pages many stories of individuals and acts of Published Price £25 gallantry, too, which is rounded off in a comprehensive listing of awards, which 27396 £4.99 CARACALLA includes citations where they could be As the first dedicated biography in over 30 A Military Bibliography found. The book also includes a roll of years, this full and balanced Ilkka Syvanne honour. reconsideration of this significant Roman CAMEL COMBAT ACE Hardback, 348 pages A CHRONOLOGY OF ANCIENT republican is long overdue. The Great War Flying Career of Published Price £25 Edwin Swale CBE OBE DFC GREECE 28611 £6.99 Timothy Venning CAPTURED AT KUT Barry M Marsden This excellent biography is a much needed Prisoner of the Turks Hardback, 100 pages examination of the military history of the Hardback, 272 pages Colonel R. A. 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From describes the suffering of British and starting in Vietnam, but also as an ECM No. 210 Squadron RAF. as to how the Roman military system had the Persian Wars onwards, a year-by-year Indian troops under his care with great aircraft, on psychological warfare duties, changed from the cohortal legion of chronology is constructed from the ancient compassion, providing eloquent testimony and even as a rather impromptu bomber! Marius, Caesar and Trajan to something historical sources. Where possible a day- to the triumph of the human spirit. This book also covers the C-130's service akin to a Greek phalanx, how the by-day narrative is given. with Australia, New Zealand and Great segmented armour, Gallic helmet, short Britain. gladius and pilum of the past gave way to new gear that would be with Roman troops until the start of the Dark Ages.

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CONSTANT VIGILANCE THE CRIMEAN WAR THEN THE COLDITZ HOSTAGES DEBORAH AND THE WAR OF Hitler’s VIP Pawns The RAF Regiment in the Burma AND NOW Campaign David R. Jones THE TANKS 1917 Giles Romily, Michael Alexander Nigel W. M. Warwick Hardback 390 pages Illustrated John Taylor Hardback, 256 pages Hardback, 304 pages Published Price £25 Softback, 302 pages throughout Published Price £16.99 Published Price £35 Published Price £25 28507 £6.99 25463 £3.99 27804 £5.99 28615 £6.99 Giles Romilly and Michael Alexander The RAF Regiment’s part in the Burma An extremely useful 'Then and Now' Deborah's story is a fascinating one, both were amongst a select group of prisoners her wartime service and eventual recovery. of war who were segregated from the other campaign fought by the 14th Army in the survey of the actions on the Crimean Second World War was a distinguished peninsula. The locations of the great This book covers the tank's crew and the prisoners and were labelled the battalion to which it belonged. Prominente. The authors recount their one. Originally formed to protect and battles of the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman varied experiences in captivity. Romilly, a defend RAF bases, the regiment by 1945 and the Allied batteries and encampments journalist covering the Norway Campaign, was capable of both defensive and of the siege lines in front of Sevastopol are was captured at Narvik in April 1940. offensive action. all presented in impressive full colour and Alexander was taken in August 1942 when have detailed explanations of the engaged in a raid behind the German lines significance of each set of images. in North Africa. In due course, because of their family connections to people of influence, both of them ended up in an isolation area of Colditz Castle.

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As is to be expected, the book was sent to Lisbon with the mission of Britain alive, and the measures taken to FAITH, HOPE AND RICE and the coastal strips of Libya. In every features accounts of cruelty and violence Private Cox’s Account of Captivity battle, every manoeuvre, the terrain was persuading the Germans he was a traitor counter their threat. of all kinds and also of extreme sexual the limiting or enabling feature – and it and then extracting crucial secrets. 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In each chapter, the historical as a PoW of the Germans, but crowned events surrounding a battle form the with the happy ending of a successful backdrop for multiple later interpretations, escape, a miraculous journey back to which, consciously or unconsciously, Blighty and a joyful reunion with the carry political agendas, some for further author’s fiance Sybil. bloodshed and sacrifice, but others for the more recent and laudable phenomenon of reconciliation over the graves of the dead.

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The Scots Guards 1914‑1919 Well produced, well researched and in Their Own Words readable, taken from the Official War Diaries, and surviving accounts, this history’s intention is to tell the story as it Volume 1: ʹGreat Shadowsʹ, August 1914 – July 1916 happened with the loss of command the Volume 2: ʹVast Tragedyʹ, August 1916 – March 1919 central theme. At 09.35 hours on Thursday, 21 March The Complete Two‑volume Set 1918, one million German soldiers left This is a work that did not have the usual editing their trenches to attack the British constraint evident in so many similar publications. Expeditionary Force along a front of nearly fifty miles. It was Germany’s last The Scots Guards 30 Great War battle honours range from the Retreat from major effort to win the war, and it very Mons to the Sambre – via Ypres, Loos, the Somme, Cambrai, Arras and the nearly succeeded. Facing the onslaught Hindenburg Line. Randall Nicol’s two deeply researched volumes of Till from more than forty German divisions the Trumpet Sounds Again record the events at all of these locations and stood just a dozen British divisions. many others. The author, a former Scots Though overwhelmed and compelled to retreat, the British fought a Guards officer, employs tenacious rearguard action which hampered the German attack, the regimentʹs own allowing other BEF and Allied units to take up new defensive positions. extensive archives, During the retreat three British divisions bore the brunt of the fighting, its war diaries and suffering crippling casualties. One of those was the 66th (East much previously Lancashire) Division which lost more than 7,000 men. Effectively unpublished destroyed, the division had to be withdrawn from the line to be rebuilt. contemporary correspondence; both Product code: 28049 that of officers and those in the ranks. Published at £19.99 • Our price: £3.99 Included are the generally ignored experiences of POWs, those wounded, missing The Battleship Holiday and who died in action. The author offers The Washington Naval Treaty, was signed readers a comprehensive during 1922 by the major nations that had day‑by‑day, trench‑by‑trench, billet‑by‑billet account of the regimentʹs won World War I, Great Britain, the United Great War service. The realities of battle are supported records of the ‘rush States, France, Italy, and Japan it agreed to to wait, tedious and wearing days in the trenches, in reserve, at rest, on prevent an arms race by limiting naval long marches, in billets and fatigues in foul conditionsʹ, in these hardback construction. 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It returned to a century after its original publication". naval strategy, as well as describing the right hand man until his assassination in the UK and underwent training before 1979, was one of those who fought, was crucial encounters between the rival fleets taking part in the Madagascar operation. FIRST WORLD WAR TRIALS and the single ship actions which provided AND EXECUTIONS wounded and captured there and his Then it went to India and Persia before account remains the classic. the press with a constant flow of news moving to the Middle East Theatre in 1943 Britain’s Traitors, Spies and Killers stories for its readers. where it took part in the conquest of Sicily 1914-1918 FOREVER VIGILANT before moving into Italy. 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IMAGES OF WAR: THE IN MEMORY AND IN IN MEMORY AND IN BRITISH AT FIRST AND MOURNING: LIJSSENTHOEK MOURNING: MENIN GATE SECOND YPRES MILITARY CEMETERY SOUTH Bob Carruthers Paul Chapman Paul Chapman Softback 128 pages Hardback, 416 pages Hardback, 416 pages Published Price £14.99 Published Price £25 Published Price £30 27977 £3.99 26212 £4.99 26208 £4.99 This volume in the long-running Images of Detailed biographies of some of the Detailed biographies of some of the War series features the actions of the casualties whose names appear on the casualties whose names appear on the British Army at Ypres from 1914-15. graves in the Lijssenthoek Military Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, which bears Cemetery. 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Several times 1928, the Last Post has been sounded level crossing on the road from It also shows what this gruelling conflict Passchendaele to Broodseinde, and around was like for the Soviet soldiers, the Great War. wounded, he went to Flanders in 1914 every evening at 8pm under the memorial. with the 2nd Battalion and commanded Only during the Second World War has it were a number of blockhouses. King guerrilla fighters and the Afghan George V visited Tyne Cot cemetery in population, successively a platoon, a company, a this ceremony been interrupted. Territorial battalion and a Regular 1922 during his visit to the cemeteries of battalion, ending the war as a lieutenant- the First World War. He chose a colonel of twenty-eight, having survived blockhouse as the site on which the Cross the battles of First, Second and Third of Sacrifice was placed. Ypres, Arras, Cambrai and the final triumphs of 1918.

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When in the words of the men who took part. in Central Africa (Uganda) 1893-94, took part in the final advance to victory, news reached the Royal Navy's South with glorious pictures of the Bicorne English Civil War miniature figure range. written by the force commander & Acting- their three years in France had cost them American station at Rio de Janeiro, HMS Governor Sir Henry Colvile,Grenadier 733 men killed, 1,861 wounded and 776 Phoebe was sent off in pursuit. So began THE JOURNEY’S END The rules have been extensively developed BATTALION from the author's and friends' house rules. Gds. The award of the scarce “Central missing or captured. one of the most extraordinary chases in Africa Medal” was extended to cover naval history. The 9th East Surrey in the Great These were purposefully designed to LIGHT DRAGOONS provide a fast, fun and challenging game service during this Expedition. 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This is a Plunkett of the 95th Rifles in an exhibition from the British perspective of the officers insurrection & war of 1861-63 & finally to of superb marksmanship.) valuable and incisive account. and men trapped inside Kut, revealing the Uriwera Campaign on the East Coast shortfalls in logistics and planning that of the North Island, following the sealed their fates. massacre at Poverty Bay, of which this is the most authoritative, detailed account, by the force commander.

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In addition to providing a valuable Peter Burness here describes the bloodbath retired surgeon, captures both the seen alongside the political events within insight into what life was really like for in a vivid book that has become a classic. background and the nature of the patients, the city itself, which were often equally as the men at the sharp end of Napoleon's Updated with new information added since the experience of wounding and the violent. The book ends with the demise of ambitions. From the optimism of the early its original publication in 1996. training of surgeons. 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THE UNDERGROUND WAR VICTORIA CROSSES ON THE VOICES IN FLIGHT: RAF Vimy Ridge to Arras WESTERN FRONT 1914-1915 VICTORIA CROSSES ON THE ESCAPERS AND EVADERS IN TRIUMPHS AND DISASTERS WESTERN FRONT THIRD Eyewitness Accounts of the Phillip Robinson, Nigel Cave A Guide to the Locations – From WWII Mons to Hill 60 YPRES 1917 Martin Bowman Netherlands Campaign 1813-1814 Softback, 269 pages 31st July 1917 - 6th November 1917 Andrew Bamford Paul Oldfield Published Price £14.99 Paul Oldfield Hardback, 236 pages Hardback, 256 pages 25422 £3.99 Hardback, 352 pages Published Price £25 Published Price £25 Hardback, 848 pages Published Price £25 The war beneath the trenches was an Published Price £40 25411 £3.99 important feature of the Great War, and 27434 £3.99 Astonishingly, 156 RAF flyers escaped 27432 £5.99 27821 £9.99 In the closing months of 1813, with has always fascinated visitors to the The first in the very well regarded and almost 2,000 successfully evaded the Napoleon’s forces largely expelled from western front - particularly with the recent ‘Victoria Crosses on the Western Front’ A massive addition, with 848 pages, to the clutches of the Germans in western Europe Germany and the allied armies advancing opening up of previously hidden series, military historian Paul Oldfield has the very well regarded ‘Victoria Crosses during the Second World War. Martin towards the Rhine, insurrection began to subterranean systems. This book, drawn made good use of newly emerging on the Western Front’ series, It covers the Bowman has drawn on the stories of just a break out in the Netherlands. With Britain from British, French and German sources, information to produce a valuable update costly and controversial Battle of few of these escapers and evaders to having a keen interest in this part of the focuses on mining operations in Artois on previously produced works. A Passchendaele a campaign that epitomises compile a brilliant history, showing their world, and placing some importance on its around Arras, and in particular features the chronological history of events, providing the tragedy of the Great War. Much more courage and resourcefulness at every turn. being retained in friendly hands, it was tunnels beneath Vimy Ridge. good battle context, and detail of the than a book about VC recipients. decided to dispatch an armed force of actions for which the various VCs were around 7,000 men in order to aid the awarded is followed the biographical insurgents. Carefully researched and detail of each man recorded. Well expertly compiled by historian Andrew illustrated with maps, photographs and Bamford, this is a valuable and absorbing thoroughly indexed this and it’s new source, which will be of great interest companion volumes are another very to Napoleonic students. good additions to any VC library.

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WANTON TROOPERS Buckinghamshire in the Civil Wars THE WAR WITH HITLER’S A WARGAMER’S GUIDE TO WELLINGTON AND THE THE WELSH AT WAR 1640-1660 NAVY THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE SIEGE OF SAN SEBASTIAN 1813 The Grinding War, the Somme and Ian F. W. Beckett Adrian Stewart Daniel Mersey Bruce Collins Arras Hardback, 204 pages Hardback, 244 pages Softback, 136 pages Hardback, 268 pages Steven John Published Price £25 Published Price £19.99 Published Price £12.99 Published Price £25 Hardback, 311 pages 27571 £4.99 28504 £5.99 27505 £3.99 28058 £7.99 Published Price £25 None of the best-known battles or sieges Adrian Stewart appears to be the first The Roman army of the early empire is The siege of San Sebastian in 1813 was 28601 £6.99 took place in Buckinghamshire, but there author to compile secondary sources to one of the most instantly recognisable messy, expensive of casualties, and This book covers all of the major actions was destructive combat in the county on a create a comprehensive British perspective armies and enjoys a reputation for resulted in the brutal and widely criticised and incidents in which each of the Welsh smaller scale because its location placed it on the Royal Navy’s war with the excellence. 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His analysis gives us an on major subjects from the rise of Hitler’s the many conflicts and offers advice on units of the British Armed Forces. While insight into the experience of local Navy to its ultimate demise. His book is how to recreate these on the gaming table. chronicling a history of the war through communities and the county as a whole - organised in the form of nine topical A WASTE OF BLOOD AND the events and battles that Welshmen took and it reveals much about the experience chapters of a dozen to twenty-five pages part in, the stories of individual casualties of the conflict across the country. each plus two indices: “Index” and a TREASURE are included throughout, together with valuable “Index of Ships”.Therefore, this The 1799 Anglo-Russian Invasion many compelling photographs of the men compendium fills a need in of the Netherlands and their last resting places. historiographical studies. 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Military history at your finger tips www.nmarchive.com W.E. Fairbairn’s THE SOLDIERS’ PEACE Demobilising the British Army Complete Compendium of Armistice in 1918 presented the British government with an enormous challenge how could the British army that had been built up on an unprecedented scale during the war be Lethal, Unarmed, Hand-to-Hand cut back to a peacetime size and how could millions of soldiers be returned to civilian life? In November 1918, the last Combat Methods and Fighting month of the war, the British army numbered 3.75 million. One year later that number was reduced to 890,000. This was a remarkable feat of demobilisation but, as Michael Senior shows, it was by no means a trouble‑free process. He describes in vivid detail how demobilisation took place, the acute NEW difficulties that arose, W.E. Fairbairn’s and how they were Complete Compendium of dealt with. The obstacles that Lethal, Unarmed, Hand-to-Hand had to be overcome Combat Methods and Fighting were legion, and urgent, for the task had to be completed rapidly to prevent social unrest. At the same time prisoners of war had to be repatriated, the wounded and maimed had to be cared for and permanent cemeteries had to be laid out for the battlefield dead. In addition, war material had to be disposed and the army had to be reorganised into a force suitable for the challenges of 1919. The task was immense, as were the All six of WE Fairbairn’s works in one binding to risks, and Michael Senior’s study makes fascinating reading. create the ultimate compendium. Re‑incorporating the demobilised troops into the civilian The fully illustrated distilled knowledge of W.E. workforce gave rise to serious concerns in government circles. Fairbairn, legendary SOE instructor in unarmed Aside from the logistical problems involved, returning combat, and co‑inventor of the Sykes‑Fairbairn knife, soldiers were seen as a possible rallying points for labour unrest and Bolshevism. During 1919, 2.4 million British who learned his deadly skills in 30 years on the workers were involved in strike action – 300,000 more than in Shanghai waterfront. It has been suggested that Germany, widely regarded as the likeliest home of the next Fairbairn was the inspiration for Q Branch, in Ian Communist revolution. Although the Bolshevik influence in Fleming’s fictional books about the British Secret Britain was, in fact, negligible, army chiefs were still working Service agent James Bond. on a plan ‘in the event of Soviet government at Liverpool’ in January 1920. 2020 N&M Press reprint Many ex‑servicemen, promised a ‘land fit for heroes’ by the Lloyd George government, suffered when unemployment Hardback 790 pages. illustrations throughout rose rapidly and the ambitious wartime programme of Price £38.00 Product code 28751HB ‘reconstruction’ was shelved during the 1921 economic slump.

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