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For 200 years, the have been studied and analysed as no conflict before. The wars also produced memoirs and diaries on an hitherto unparalleled scale, allowing readers to experience warfare through the eyes of privates and generals alike for the first time. The result has been a vast body of work, including some of the finest and most detailed military history books ever produced. In addition to the great classic works, The Napoleonic Library also presents more recent and entirely new studies.

NAPOLEON’S SHIELD MARCH OF DEATH AND GUARDIAN Sir John Moore’s Retreat to The Unconquerable Corunna 1808–1809 NOW NOW £3.99 General Daumesnil £3.99 Christopher Summerville. Edward Ryan. Hardback 288 pp Hardback, 256 pages Order No: 29341 Published Price £35.00 Order No: 25967 Published Price £19.99

LIFE IN NAPOLEON’S ARMY ON THE ROAD The Graphic Memories of WITH WELLINGTON Captain Elzear Blaze The Diary of a War Commissary NOW in the Peninsular Campaigns NOW Elzear Blaze, Philip Haythornthwaite, £3.99 Sir Charles James Napier. A. L. F. Schaumann. Hardback, 448 pages £3.99 Hardback, 198 pages Order No: 25969 Published Price £25.00 Order No: 25326 Published Price £19.99 HISTORY OF THE WATERLOO LETTERS WATERLOO CAMPAIGN A Collection of Accounts from The Classic Account of the Last Battle Survivors of the Campaign of 1815 of the Napoleonic Wars H. T. Siborne. Hardback, 415 pages William Siborne. Hardback, 256 pages Order No: 25338 Published Price £25.00 Order No: 26203 Published Price £25.00 NOW NOW £3.99 FROM CORUNNA £3.99 NAPOLEON’S TO WATERLOO MERCENARIES The Letters and Journals of Foreign Units in the French Army under Two Napoleonic , 1801-1816 the Consulate and Empire 1799 to 1814 Gareth Glover. Hardback, 256 pages Guy C. Dempsey. Hardback, 256 pages Order No: 25357 Published Price £25.00 Order No: 29833 Published Price £25.00

MEMOIRS OF BARON VON MUFFLING NOW NOW A Prussian Officer in £3.99 £3.99 NOW Napoleonic Wars £3.99 Baron Carl von Muffling. Hardback, 560 pages Order No: 25360 Published Price £30.00 VOICES FROM WITH NAPOLEON’S GUNS THE PENINSULA The Military Memoirs of an

Eyewitness Accounts by Soldiers of NOW Officer of the First Empire Wellington’s Army, 1808-1814 £3.99 Jean-Nicholas Auguste Noel. NOW £3.99 Ian Fletcher. Hardback, 256 pages Hardback 231 pages Order No: 26340 Published Price £25.00 Order No: 27123 Published Price £19.99

CHARGE! CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO Great Cavalry Charges The Classic Account of of the Napoleonic Wars Napoleon’s Last Battles Digby Smith. Hardback, 304 pages NOW Sir John Fortescue. £3.99 Order No: 22309 Published Price £19.99 Hardback, 256 pages NOW £3.99 Order No: 27125 Published Price £19.99 IN THE PENINSULA WITH A FRENCH THE JENA CAMPAIGN Memoirs of the War of the The Classic Study of Napoleon’s French in Spain Total Defeat of the Prussian Army A. J. M. de Rocca. Hardback, 256 pages F. N. Maude. NOW Hardback, 208 pages Order No: 27352 Published Price £19.99 £3.99 Order No: 27160 Published Price £19.99 NOW 1805 AUSTERLITZ £3.99 Napoleon and the Destruction WITH GUNS TO of the Third Coalition THE PENINSULA William Webber, Goetz. Hardback, 208 pages edt. Richard Henry Wollocombe. Order No: 27334 Published Price £19.99 Hardback, 192 pages NOW £3.99 Order No: 27278 Published Price £19.99 DECLINE AND FALL OF NAPOLEON’S EMPIRE MEMOIRS OF A FRENCH NOW How the Emperor Self-Destructed NAPOLEONIC OFFICER £3.99 Digby Smith. Hardback, 240 pages Jean-Baptiste Barres. Order No: 27004 Published Price £19.99 Hardback, 220 pages

Order No: 27282 Published Price £19.99 IN THE LEGIONS OF NAPOLEON NOW Henrich von Brandt. £3.99 Hardback, 256 pages Order No: 27283 Published Price £19.99

NAPOLEON’S CAMPAIGN NOW NOW IN POLAND 1806-1807 £3.99 £3.99 From Stalemate to Victory: Battles of Eylau, Heilsberg and Friedland F. Lorraine Petre. Hardback, 256 pages NOW £3.99 Order No: 27122 Published Price £25.00

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21 DAYS IN NORMANDY 5TH INFANTRY BRIGADE IN A FRENCH SOLDIER’S WAR ACCIDENTAL AGENT 1 GROUP SWIFT TO ATTACK Maj. Gen. George Kitching and the THE FALKLANDS DIARY 1914-1918 Behind Enemy Lines with the Bomber Command’s Unsung 4th Canadian Armoured Division Nick van der Bijl, David Aldea Heroes Angelo Caravaggio Softback, 256 pages Henri Desagneaux John Goldsmith Patrick Otter Hardback, 288 pages Published Price £14.99 Hardback, 112 pages Hardback, 192 pages HB, 368 pp Published Price £25 26275 £2.99 Published Price £19.99 Published Price £19.99 Published Price £25 27386 £3.99 For many people it was 3 Commando 25440 £2.99 28179 £4.99 24317 £3.99 The author uses new information to Brigade, commanded by General A classic account of a French soldier’s Although this refreshingly modest account An accurate and well-researched account demonstrate the unit did show flexibility Julian Thompson, and made up of Royal role in the trenches of the Western front. does not admit to it, Goldsmith's of the forgotten heroes of 1 Group of RAF and adapted to the battlefield quickly, Marines and Paras that recaptured the Henri Desagneaux writes with anger and extraordinary war is best summed up by Bomber Command in the Second World despite being thrown into battle during one Falklands. Yet 5th Infantry Brigade played compassion of the suffering and losses he his DSO, MC, three Croix de Guerre and War. Accompanied with maps and of the Norman Campaign's critical phases. a key and until now little acknowledged and his increasingly mutinous comrades Legion d'honneur. photographs, this is a record of bravery His arguments are detailed and based upon role in this extraordinary saga. endured as they tried to execute orders above and beyond the call of duty shown in-depth research. The book has many issued by a distant High Command from by young pilots who carried out their detailed maps to help the reader follow the their HQ miles behind the front. missions against overwhelming odds. action.

A CENTURY OF AIR WARFARE ACCRINGTON PALS WITH NINE (IX) SQUADRON The 11th (Service) Battalion RAF (Accrington) East Lancashire THE 1915 CAMPAIGN - Still Going Strong A GUIDE TO WARTIME Regiment BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY 50TH AT BAY: THE YEARS OF Gordon Thorburn COLLECTABLES William Turner FORCE DEFEAT Hardback, 286 pages Arthur Ward Oversized Softback, 256 pages Andrew Rawson A History of the 50th Published Price £25 HB, 163 pp Published Price £17.95 Hardback, 272 pages Northumbrian Division 1939 to Published Price £19.99 27019 £3.99 September 1942 28174 £3.99 Published Price £25 Number 9 Squadron is the oldest dedicated 25004 £3.99 This book is a small slice of history in it’s B. S. Barnes 27589 £5.99 Bomber Squadron of the Royal Air Force. With the advent of the Internet, such shop self, the very first modern “Pals” battalion Softback, 276 pages Formed in December 1914, saw service windows as e-bay offer unlimited history, a book that spawned a whole This is a good, no-nonsense, approach to military genre, and a military publishing the 1915 campaign in and Flanders Published Price £19.99 throughout the First World War, including opportunities for collectors of militaria to at the Somme and Passchendaele. During advance their hobby. However, buyers empire. Now re-released due to demand in waged by the BEF; it details the slow 27524 £5.99 it’s original large newspaper size format. destruction of the already largely This good regimental covers the history of the Second World War it was one of two should beware of fakes, frauds, and decimated regular army, and the vicious the celebrated 50th (Northumbrian) units specialising in heavy extortionate prices. This easy-to-use guide blooding of the new arrivals from the Division from 1939 and the precision bombing, aircraft from this tells the wannabe and the experienced Territorial Force and Kitchener's through the desperate , squadron sank the battleship Tirpitz on 12 collector alike what to look for, where to battalions. Dunkirk, Defensive activity on the South November 1944. find it and how to avoid the pitfalls that AGENT MICHAEL TROTOBAS can snare the unwary. 60 YEARS OF COMBAT Coast, shipping to the Middle East, Syria, THE ALEXANDER MEMOIRS AND SOE IN NORTHERN Egypt, The Western Desert, up to 1940-45 ALAN BRISTOW: FRANCE AIRCRAFT: WORLD WAR ONE September 1942. TO VIETNAM WAR Earl Alexander of Tunis HELICOPTER PIONEER Stewart , Nick Nicholas Bruno Pautigny HB 256 pp The Autobiography Hardback, 288 pages AIR WAR OVER THE Published Price £19.99 Alan Bristow Published Price £25 Hardcover, 164 pages, Illustrated ATLANTIC Published Price £37.50 22248 £2.00 Hardback, 384 pages 27038 £4.99 Manfred Griehl Published Price £25 25725 £5.99 The long out-of-print memoirs of General One of the best books on the activities of a Softback, 72 pages Alexander, overall Allied commander in 26228 £2.00 circuit within the French Resistance. From the Battle of the Marne to the end of Published Price £12.99 Trotobas is relatively unknown in Britain, the Vietnam War, this ‘first half’ of the North Africa when Montgomery fought The life and times of Alan Bristow, who 27541 £3.99 the battle of El Alamein. Alex’s command founded one of the world's largest but he is highly celebrated in Lille where 20th century must be considered his Farmer/Sylvestre circuit was based. He representative of aerial warfare. With the In this volume of the outstanding also covered the invasion of Sicily and the helicopter service companies, Bristow at War series, Manfred Griehl Italian campaign, and his memoirs are one Helicopters Ltd, but is most remembered paid the ultimate price, fighting to the 400 profiles and illustrations contained in death rather than undergo capture. This is this book, Bruno Pautigny, the world showcases a photo-history of the of the key documents of the Second World for The Westland affair in 1985–86. development of the airborne War. a major addition to the bibliography of the famous illustrator, paints the technical SOE and French Resistance. portraits of the most famous fighters and capability from the early Condor missions bombers of all the great conflicts of the to the introduction of Me 262 A-1a jet previous century: the First and Second fighters in 1944. World Wars, Indochina, Korea and Suez, Algeria, Vietnam, etc.

Military history at your finger tips www.nmarchive.com Over 7000 military books available online at www.naval-military-press.com Telephone : 01825 749494 ACCRINGTON’S PALS: THE FULL STORY The 11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment (Accington Pals) and the 158th (Accrington and Burnley) Brigade, Royal Field (Howitzers) Andrew Jackson Hardback, 271 pages Published Price £25 27102 £5.99 Andrew Jackson’s new history tells the story of the Great War as it was experienced by the men of the 11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment (Accrington Pals), the 158th (Accrington and Burnley) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Howitzers) and their families. Using information gathered from years of painstaking research in national and local archives and in private collections, he reconstructs, in vivid detail, the role played by these men on ADMIRAL HIPPER CLASS AIR BATTLE FOR BURMA ALBUERA 1811 Allied Pilot’s Fight for Supremacy The Bloodiest Battle of the 'ALLIES ARE A TIRESOME Steve Backer Bryn Evans LOT'. THE IN Softback, 64 pages Hardback, 256 pages ITALY IN THE FIRST WORLD Published Price £14.99 Published Price £25 Guy C Dempsey WAR 27091 £3.99 26977 £4.99 Softback, 336 pages The subject of this volume is the largest An oral history that is essential reading for Published Price £15.99 John Dillon and most sophisticated German any student of the Burma campaign, the 26246 £2.99 HB 216 pages 15 b/w photos, 6 class of WW2. The five ships suffered forgotten 14th army and its RAF On 16 May 1811, the small town of tables, 3 B&W maps very different fates. Blucher was sunk counterparts hanging on by a thread in Albuera was the setting for one of the Published Price £29.95 during the invasion of in 1940, Burma & India in 1942, were able to wrest Peninsular War’s most bloody and whereas Admiral Hipper fought right control of the air from the seemingly desperate battles. A combined Spanish, 24604 £5.99 through the war. The most famous, Prinz invincible Japanese due in no small part to British and Portuguese force of more than The Italian front is a theatre of the Great Eugen, escaped when Bismarck was sunk the tenacity of a small band of RAF pilots. 30,000 men, under the command of Lord War woefully neglected by historians. and survived to be expended in a postwar Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march This book goes far to correcting that view, Atomic bomb test. Seydlitz was intended AIR RAIDS ON SOUTH-WEST and goes beyond the sub-title to consider ESSEX IN THE GREAT WAR of the French field marshal Soult, who was to be converted to an aircraft carrier, but trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, 12 how Italy entered the war on the Allied never finished, while Lutzow was sold to ‘Looking for Zeppelins at Leyton’ miles north. Beresford, who defended side, and why Britain had to send her and sunk by her erstwhile owners. Alan David Simpson himself with his bare hands against a soldiers south of the Alps to rescue their Hardback, 224 pages Polish lancer, was victorious, but at the ally from an Austro-German attack. Published Price £19.99 cost of 6,000 Allied deaths and 7,000 27387 £3.99 French in just four hours. This book Focusing in particular on Leyton and balances the traditional Anglo-centric bias by paying equal attention to Spanish, ACES AIRMEN AND THE Ilford, this is the first book to ever examine what happened before and after Portuguese, French, Polish and German BIGGIN HILL WING the raiders reached and bombarded the soldiers who fought there. A Collective Memoir 1941-1942 capital. The author has included a wide Jon Tan range of contemporary letters, diaries and Hardback, 250 pages newspaper reports from local sources, plus Published Price £25 several previously unseen photographs. To 27536 £5.99 set the story in its wider context, the book also contains a wealth of information Far from being a dry account of daily about the defence of the London area operations, this narrative seeks to engage generally and vivid reports from the reader emotionally. Bringing together combatants on both sides. a considerable amount of evidence and oral history, it tells the story of one twenty-one year old and his comrades, thrown into the howling gale of the Second World War and the intensity of the conflict as experienced by front-line RAF personnel. THE AMERICAN SHARPE The Adventures of an American AGINCOURT 1415 Officer of the 95th Rifles in the THE AMIENS RAID Peninsular and Waterloo A Tourist Guide to the Campaign Anne Curry, Peter Hoskins Secrets Revealed Campaigns ALESIA 52 BC Jean Pierre Ducellier, Simon W. Parry Gareth Glover Softback, 192 pages The Victory of Roman Published Price £14.99 Hardback, 392 pages Hardback, 272 pages Organization Published Price £40 Published Price £25 25427 £3.99 Frederic Bey A compendious guide to one of the most 28176 £2.99 26972 £4.99 Softback. 20 pages The legendary 'Operation Jericho' was one Sharpe and his adventures has made the famous battles in English history, Published Price £14.99 immortalised by Shakespeare, when Henry of the most famous precision bombing 95th Foot renowned again and the 25727 £3.99 raids of World War 2. It has taken a discovery of an unpublished diary by an V’s tattered army destroyed a French force several times its size. Tailored for the This book is a good accessible concerted effort by a leading French American from Charleston South Carolina introduction to Caesar's conquest and historian to reveal the truth behind the who served, despite his father's objections, modern visitor, the book traces the route of Henry’s army to the battlefield, gives a good overview of events. It raid, and in doing so he has turned the as an officer in this elite regiment has chronicles everything from the prelude to accepted facts upside down. caused great excitement. James Penman describing the action, the topography, and the aftermath. the siege, to how the outnumbered Gairdner was born in Charleston, South Romans managed to prevail, and the Carolina, but he was sent back to the 'Old AIR BATTLE FOR ARNHEM ALBERT BALL VC battle's aftermath. Maps, engravings, Country' for his education, receiving his Alan W. Cooper Fighter Pilot Hero of photographs of the terrain and schooling at Harrow. After school, rather Hardback, 256 pages Colin A. Pengelly reconstructions, along with wonderful than joining his father's merchant business colour illustrations, make this book he decided to become a soldier, receiving Published Price £19.99 Softback, 224 pages 26906 £3.99 Published Price £14.99 attractive to both history buffs as well as a commission in the famous 95th Rifles. hobbyists seeking ideas for modelling He subsequently served, without a break, The operation to take the bridges at 27532 £3.99 figures, building dioramas or war-gaming. from the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in Arnhem was given the code name A decent biography of Albert Ball who January 1812 until the end of the war in '', Market being rose from obscurity to the top rank of 1814. the air side of the operation and Garden Great War fighter pilots in only 15 the subsequent ground operation. The months. In that period he had been main problem was communications awarded the MC, DSO and two Bars and between the ground forces and the re- was credited with at least 44 victories. He supply aircraft of the Royal Air Force. Its was posthumously awarded the Victoria their efforts and the courage on evident Cross. display at Arnhem that the book is based upon.

Military history at your finger tips www.nmarchive.com Over 7000 military books available online at www.naval-military-press.com Telephone : 01825 749494 AN ANZAC ON THE WESTERN FRONT The Personal Reflections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918 H. R. Williams HB, 208 pp Published Price £19.99 24367 £4.99 Harold Williams was an Anzac volunteer who enlisted in 1915, and arrived in France in June 1916 - just in time for the disastrous battle of Fromelles, a catastrophic prelude to the Somme which Williams describes in truly shocking clarity. Surviving Fromelles, the Somme itself, and a subsequent gas attack Williams went through the mud of the salient; the German Spring offensives of 1918 - and the Australian-led Allied counter-attack before Amiens. Wounded at Peronne, he was invalided to Britain and returned to Australia in 1919. His account of his horrific experiences is ANATOMY OF THE ZULU ANTIGONUS THE ONE-EYED ARCTIC WARRIORS both well-written and utterly terrifying. ARMY Greatest of the Successors A Personal Account of Convoy ASSASSINATIONS From to Cetshwayo, 1818 Jeff Champion PQ18 ANTHOLOGY -1879 Hardback, 240 pages Alfred Grossmith Mason Plots and Murders that Would Ian Knight Published Price £19.99 HB, 214 pp Have Changed the Course of WW2 Softback, 282 pages 27040 £5.99 Published Price £19.99 Martin Mace Published Price £14.99 Telling the story of the life and career of 24611 £3.99 Hardback, 188 pages Antigonos the One-Eyed is one of the best Few theatres in the Second World War Published Price £19.99 27112 £3.99 ways to present the rather complicated, were more fraught with danger and death 27806 £4.99 “Know your enemy” is a fundamental long and very tumultuous Wars between than the Arctic convoys supplying British A masterpiece of alternate history,a mantra of soldiering. Lack of knowledge, the Successors following the death of aid to the hard-pressed . In number of key individuals are examined or under-estimating capabilities, can have Alexander. Jeff Champion narrates the this remarkable and harrowing memoir, all of whom were involved in attempts on disastrous consequences as the British career of this titanic figure with the focus Alfred Mason, an officer on the ill-fated their lives, or strange incidents, which had discovered following the opening salvoes squarely on the military aspects. Convoy PQ18, conveys the fear, heroism it led to their deaths might have changed of the Anglo-Zulu war in 1879. Despite and even the humour of the men in the the outcome of WW2. his extensive campaign experience on the most demanding conditions imaginable. continent of Africa, the British commander Lord Chelmsford had failed to comprehend that the Zulu were unlike any of the foes he had encountered on earlier wars. In “The Anatomy of the Zulu Army” Ian Knight explains what made the Zulu such an effective fighting force.

ARTILLERY OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS Artillery in Siege, Fortress, and Navy, 1792-1815 Kevin Kiley Hardback, 320 pages Published Price £30 27550 £4.99 An ambitious account of artillery during the Napoleonic wars, covering every major action of the period. Detailing engagements as well as technical details this volume chronicles the story of the APACHE OVER LIBYA guns and men during the twenty-three Will Laidlaw years of almost continuous warfare from AT CLOSE QUARTERS Hardback, 200 pages ARISTOCRATS GO TO WAR 1792-1815. SOE Close Combat Pistol Published Price £19.9 Uncovering the Zillebeke Cemetery Instructor Hector Grant- 27232 £3.99 Jerry Murland BLOODLINE Taylor This book describes the pioneering sea- HB, 192 pp The origins and Development of the David Armstrong based use of the Apache helicopter to fly Published Price £19.99 Regular Formations of the British SB, 175 pp, Illustrrated ARMIES OF EARLY very hazardous missions over the well- 23798 £3.99 Army Published Price £18.99 COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA defended Libyan desert in the summer of This moving account of the upper-crust 24544 £3.99 2011. Unlike Afghanistan and Iraq, the soldiers who went to war in 1914 and are Iain Gordon 1607-1713 enemy here had every antiaircraft weapon The subject of this enthralling book, Col. History, Organization and all buried in Zillebeke cemetery near Landscape Hardback 167 pp Hector Grant-Taylor, was the senior SOE dreaded by pilots; in this account the Ypres offers a history of the war on the Uniforms quality of the aircraft and the fantastic Published Price £19.99 Instructor in the deadly arts of killing at western front in its early months in 23622 £3.99 close quarters during the Second World Gabriele Esposito training and skill of the pilots was tested to microcosm. The dead of Zillebeke the absolute limits. Using easy-to-follow, family-tree type War. Although he taught SOE agents their Hardback, 180 pages represent a whole landed and leisured lethal skills, the man’s own life was a Published Price £19.99 Edwardian way of life that died with them. tables, Bloodline shows the origins and BATTLEGROUND YPRES: development of every regular formation in mystery. This thrilling book finally 28074 £5.99 BOESINGHE THE BOY AIRMAN the British Army including the latest unravels the mystery. Esposito presents a detailed overview of Stephen McGreal An Absolute Stranger to Fear amalgamations and changes brought about the military history of Colonial North SB, 240 pp Richard Petty within the ‘Future Army Structure’. America during its earliest period, from Published Price £12.99 Hardback, 192 pages The charts illustrate clearly how, in some the first colonial settlement in Jamestown 24984 £2.99 cases, up to 25 original regiments of the to the end of the first continental war Published Price £19.99 line have, over the centuries, by successive fought in the Americas. Ample One of the brilliant Battleground guides 27533 £3.99 disbandments and amalgamations, been illustrations, including colour art works, series, this volume features Boesinghe, a A Great War, Royal Naval Air Service reduced to a single regiment in today’s show the first military uniforms ever worn village north of Ypres that saw fierce biography, recording an age when young superb but shamefully overstretched army. in North America, as well as interesting fighting in both the second and third men rushed to try new skills and offer details of weaponry and equipment used. battles (Passchendaele). themselves for duty in their country's defence.

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THE BATTLE OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFLGAR BATTLEGROUND GALLIPOLI: AT THE HEART OF THE BELLEWAARDE 1805 ANZAC SARI BAIR REICH June 1915 Every ship in both fleets in Stephen Chambers profile BATTLEGROUND EUROPE: The Secret Diary of Hitler’s Army Carole McEntee-Taylor Softback, 244 pages Adjutant Florian Richter &Peter Dennis CASSINO Hardback, 328 pages Ian Blackwell Published Price £14.99 Major Gerhard Engel Published Price £25 Paperback 48 pages 24pp colour 25184 £3.99 artwork, including dozens of ships Softback, 192 pages Paperback, 208 pages 25459 £3.99 The tragic story related in this book, one Published Price £16.95 Published Price £9.99 Published Price £12.99 The account of the battle is detailed and of a series on Gallipoli, tells how the 27338 £3.99 quotes from many individual accounts of 27991 £4.99 27696 £2.99 ambitious August 1915 offensive of Gen. participants and of their units, this in itself I was quite surprised as to the level of A very good overall account of the Sir Ian Hamilton, designed to seize the Gerhard Engel served as the army adjutant battle that will be particularly useful for to from March of 1938 until takes up around a fifth of the work, and detail the two authors had gone into. Peninsular’s commanding heights, failed after a 25 page summing up, 120 pages list There is even an index of ship's flags; those intending to visit the site of the despite the heroic efforts of the fighting March of 1943. During those five years he battle. was present for some of the most in detail the individuals, British and indicating what flags were flown and men, because of the battle plan’s tortuous momentous occasions in the history of the German, who fell. The book is as much a on what mast, for each ship...For the BATTLEGROUND FRENCH complexity, and ferocious Turkish Third Reich, however much of this “diary” memorial to all who fought in the battle as novice wargamer, this is a good COAST: COCKLESHELL RAID resistance orchestrated by Mustapha introduction. Great for wargame clubs Kemal. It was the Allied last gasp at written after the war, the reader must thus a history of it. Paul Oldfield be very sceptical in evaluating any and all to play Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls. Gallipoli. claims in this book which make Engel Softback, 240 pages Published Price £14.99 THE BATTLES OF ST ALBANS himself look good, especially when it is at Peter Burley, Michael Elliott, Harvey his late and unlamented Führer's expense. 26239 £3.99 Watson This book covers the whole of the Operation ‘Frankton’ story including the Paperback, 160 pages development of the Royal Marines Boom Published Price £14.99 Patrol Detachment, the planning and 27651 £3.99 preparation for the raid, its aftermath and Explains well these battles that were an account of the horrific war crimes fought during the Wars of the Roses, along inflicted on those who were captured. It with the topography of St.Albans and the also includes the epic escape by Haslar surrounding land, also gives some very and Corporal Bill Sparks across occupied good walking tours. France into Spain.

THE 1759 BATTLEFIELD BOMBERS: The Miraculous Victory of the DEEP SEA ATTACK Seven Years War Martin W. Bowman AXIS WARSHIPS Stuart Reid Hardback, 206 pages As Seen on Photos from Allied Published Price £25 Intelligence Files Hardback, 256 pages Published Price £19.99 25443 £3.99 Roy M. Stanley A unique selection of the experiences of Hardback, 256 pages 27223 £3.99 Reid offers a well researched narrative of British and Commonwealth Bomber Published Price £25 the campaigns fought between the French Command aircrew in the second World BATTLESHIPS OF THE 27475 £3.99 and their British and German allies, that War, this book details the deep sea SCHARNHORST CLASS For his latest book Colonel Roy Stanley range from coastal France to Western bombing raids carried out by the RAF, Gerhard Kopp, Klaus-Peter Schmolke presents aerial photographs of the German , carefully following events that including operations against the Tirpitz. Softback, 176 pages and Italian fleets that were selected as led up to the key British victory at Minden BATTLEGROUND EARLY Published Price £16.99 important six decades ago and have long in 1759. BATTLES: RETREAT OF I lain dormant, unindexed and unexplained. 28210 £4.99 : THE CORPS 1914 BATTLEGROUND GALLIPOLI: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the subject of Extensive use of aerial and other ANZAC - THE LANDING Intelligence imagery from long retired GERMAN VIEW this volume, were the product of a long, files would be enough to make this book a Perspectives from Hitler’s High Jerry Murland Stephen Chambers involved and politically determined design must for those intrigued by World War II Command Softback, 139 pages Softback, 208 pages process that saw them develop from an intelligence and naval history. But it is the Published Price £12.99 Published Price £14.99 improved Pocket Battleship to what many Danny S. Parker described as a battlecruiser, although they author's commentary that makes this work Softback, 256 pages 25437 £3.99 28215 £3.99 truly unique, thanks to his aerial photo were really fast battleships. They were the Published Price £12.99 A re-examination of one of the most An excellent contribution to the most active, and successful, of the interpretation experience, ability to controversial episodes in the BEF’s retreat Battleground series,focussing almost provide Intelligence analysis, and 27556 £2.99 Kriegesmarine's major warships, taking from Mons to the Marne and in the career exclusively on the 24 hours of the allied part in numerous famous operations, academic background. This very good book brings together a landings and missed opportunity at Anzac wealth of primary source material - of Sir Douglas Haig. The book looks at including the infamous 'Channel Dash'. Haig’s decision to speed his I Corps’ Cove on the Gallipoli peninsular on 25 including German documentation and April 1915. debriefs of German generals - to tell the retirement while Sir Horace Smith- story of this famous campaign from the Dorrien’s II Corps fought the Battle of Le German point of view. It examines Cateau. preparations for the offensive, the progress of the operation and assessments of the 's performance from leading figures in German high command.

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THE BLOOD TUB BRITAIN AND THE WIDENING BRITANNIA’S NAVY ON THE General Gough and the Battle of WAR 1915-1916 WEST COAST OF AMERICA THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY Bullecourt 1917 BOMB DISPOSAL IN WORLD From Gallipoli to the Somme 1812-1914 1917-1918 Jonathan Walker WAR TWO Peter Liddle Barry Gough John Wilks, Eileen Wilks Hardback, 220 pages Chris Ransted Hardback, 320 pages Hardback, 336 pages SB, 226 pp Published Price £19.99 Hardback, 296 pages Published Price £25 Published Price £25 Published Price £12.99 25400 £5.99 Published Price £25 27393 £3.99 26979 £3.99 24988 £3.99 A penetrating and unsparing account of 28053 £4.99 In a series of concise, thought-provoking The enthralling story of how the Royal A fine study of the neglected Italian front the battle of Bullecourt in 1917, when For this valuable work Ransted has chapters, the authors summarise – and Navy created, developed and sustained its in the First World War, this book tells the controversial British General Sir Hubert researched some of the lesser known make accessible – the latest scholarship on Pacific station, which became the largest story of how British troops were rushed to Gough ordered repeated attacks by events and personalities relating to the the middle years of the Great War – 1915 in the during the nineteenth Italy in the wake of the catastrophic Italian Australian forces on a fortified village early years of Explosive Ordnance and 1916 – and cover fundamental issues century. These farsighted actions not only collapse at Caporetto through to the final near Arras despite mounting casualties., Disposal in the UK. The book has many that are rarely explored outside the developed the Esquimalt naval base but defeat of the Austrian army in the Alps in which earned Bullecourt the well-deserved illustrations, and covers little known specialist journals. they also secured the settlement of British 1918. This was the first full account since nickname ‘the blood tub’. subjects, such as the role of the Home The 21 chapters cover a review of the Columbia in the face of threats from the official campaign history way back in Guard and conscientious objectors in Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaign, Russian territorial expansion. 1945 and is definitive. bomb disposal work. firepower and equipment in use with the British Army, German command and BRAVE LIVES control during the Somme fighting, facial The Members and Staff of the surgery, the effect of war on faith, Travellers Club who Fell in the teenagers in war, and the Indian Army and Great War the Mesopotamia campaign. Hardback, 177 pages Published Price £20 27811 £4.99 This book was the result of a team effort with members of the club and descendants of the deceased adopting a warrior and, under the guidance of an expert Editorial Board, researching and writing up their lives .A good example of a modern memorial book that was published to coincide with the recent centenary of the Great War.

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FATAL CHARGE AT FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT FIGHTER! FIGHTER! FACT FILE: PANZERS OF THE FALLEN EAGLES Voices of Faith from the First CORKSCREW PORT! Airmen Who Survived the Great GALLIPOLI WEHRMACHT 1933-1945 The Story of One of the Bravest World War Vivid Memories of Bomber War only to Die in the Peace John Broom Aircrew in World War Two Softback, 128 pages Norman Franks and most Futile Actions on the Published Price £12.99 Dardanelles Campaign: The Light Hardback, 240 pages Pat Cunningham Hardback, 226 Ppages Published Price £19.99 Hardback, 256 pages 27421 £2.99 Published Price £25 Horse at the Nek, August 1915 This Fact File edition provides a concise John Hamilton 27247 £2.00 Published Price £19.99 technical history of German WW2 tanks. 27345 £3.99 The book is well researched and tackles a 26223 £3.99 Fascinating biographies of the men known Hardback, 280 pages Published Price £25 difficult but relevant topic; the relationship Fascinating individual stories of a as the Fallen Eagles, pioneers of the Royal between war and religion, and the collection of characters who flew with Flying Corps who saw action in the Great 25392 £2.00 Christian attitudes to fighting evil and RAF Bomber Command. War and survived, but perished during the The courageous charge of the 3rd Light ultimately taking another's life. The author war years doing what they knew best - Horse Brigade at the Nek in August 1915 is more than qualified on the subject, flying. Norman Franks is an eminent was one of the most futile actions in the having previously written articles for the writer in this field. whole futile Gallipoli campaign. Two Bible Society, while much of the research waves went in and were massacred, before is based around letters, diaries and the commander begged in vain to have the biographies. attack abandoned. Journalist John Hamilton reconstructs the whole tragic story.

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FIGHTING NAZI OCCUPATION FIRST WORLD WAR TRIALS FIXER AND FIGHTER FIGHTING FOR THE NEWS British Resistance 1939-1945 AND EXECUTIONS The Life of Hubert de Burgh, Earl The Adventures of the First War Malcolm Atkin THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE Britain’s Traitors, Spies and Killers of Kent 1170-1243 Correspondents from Bonaparte to Hardback, 224 pages FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918 Brian Harwood the Boers Published Price £19.99 Alsace-Lorrainn Simon Webb Hardback, 176 pages Brian Best 27250 £5.99 Terence Zuber Karl Deuringer Hardback, 176 pages Published Price £19.99 Hardback, 256 pages A major reassessment of the plans to Hardback 400 pages Published Price £19.99 27060 £4.99 Published Price £19.99 organise guerrilla warfare and longer-term Published Price £25 Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent in 1216-17, 27401 £3.99 resistance in the case of a Nazi invasion of 24880 £4.99 25956 £2.99 twice successfully defended Castle The first special correspondent employed Britain. It tells the story of competition by Too often overlooked, the opening ‘Battles Investigates all those the state put to death against Prince Louis of France. In August by a newspaper to gather information the Secret Intelligence Service (M16) and of the Frontiers’ in Alsace-Lorraine in the for various reasons and gives a short 1217 he struck the final blow against the about a current war was Henry Crabb War Office to organise irregular warfare in first month of the Great War took a heavy picture of the reason why and how they French invasion, which still held London, Robinson. In 1807, the proprietor of The the country and the result is a new vision toll of the French advancing to win back were executed. What Webb does tell us when he defeated a powerful fleet carrying Times, John Walter II, sent this 32-year- of the murky and Machiavellian world of their lost provinces and expel the German that during World War 1 the number of French reinforcements at the naval Battle old lawyer to act as their man in Germany, wartime British intelligence. This is a invaders. Germanophile US historian executions fell, and that in all a total of 51 of Sandwich. Incredibly, this is the first ostensibly to follow and report the most useful addition to a fascinating Terence Zuber here presents a more men were executed in England. The book full-length biography of this remarkable movements of Napoleon’s Grande Armée. subject, backed by extensive research. manageable version of Karl Deuringer’s neatly brings those with similar crimes man. He was almost arrested, escaping from the official history of the battles. together in one chapter, so those that used Continent in disguise – the first of many THE FLATPACK BOMBERS cut-throat razors for example, seven men, The Royal Navy and the Zeppelin exploits and adventures this bold group of told who they were, who the crime is individuals undertook to bring news from committed against and where their Menace the seat of war. This included William execution was carried out. There are also Ian Gardiner Russell in the Crimean War, whose reports short chapters about the Executioners Softback, 163 pages helped bring down the Government, and which is rather interesting. For those of a Published Price £12.99 perhaps the most famous correspondent of gorier bent there is also a chapter on The 25233 £2.99 all, , who reported on Mechanics of Hanging. conflicts in Cuba, the Indian frontier, The Flatpack Bombers recounts the birth Sudan and the Boer War. of aerial bombing and Naval aviation on the outbreak of the Great War. First conceived by Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, the original idea was to hit Zeppelins on the ground, but they became the forerunner of all bomber raids and aircraft carrier strikes since.

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THE HOOD BATTALION ILLUSTRATED WAR HITLER’S GREY WOLVES HITLER’S STORMTROOPERS HMS GLOUCESTER Royal Naval Division, Antwerp- REPORTS: THE GREAT WAR U-Boats in the Indian Ocean The SA, The Nazis Brownshirts, The Untold Story Gallipoli-France 1914-1918 AT SEA: THE OPENING Lawrence Paterson 1922-1945 Ken Otter Leonard Sellers SALVOS Softback, 288 pages Jean-Denis Lepage Softback, 206 pages Softback, 334 pages Contemporary Combat Images Published Price £14.99 Hardback, 297 pages Published Price £14.99 Published Price £16.99 from the Great War 26976 £3.99 Published Price £25 27499 £3.99 25412 £3.99 Bob Carruthers This is a very thorough account of U-boats 26980 £4.99 This book explores the ship’s history and A very fine unit history of one of the most Softback, 128 pages B&W Images operational successes from her launching colourful and unique battalions of the in the area around southern Africa and the Superb, a very informative book on the SA throughout Far East, clearly written and informative, in 1937 to her tragic demise. It includes Great War. The Hood Battalion of Published Price £12.99 which is a much neglected area of the vivid firsthand accounts from the Winston Churchill’s creation, the Royal telling the story of this forgotten campaign Third Reich in English. With many good 25990 £1.00 through La incisive analysis, eyewitness surviving crew and the author s Naval Division, numbered war poet clear B&W illustrations. painstaking research has revealed the Rupert Brooke, Prime Minister Asquith’s This collection, depicting the events of testimony and an extensive collection of the Great War at sea, showcases the work contemporary photographs. awful truth about one of the Royal Navy s son ‘Oc’ and Bernard Freyberg VC - later greatest disasters during the Second World a WW2 General - among its officers, and of the contemporary combat artists and War. saw heroic service at Antwerp, Gallipoli, illustrators from the Great War era. The on the Ancre and at Passchendaele before result is a vivid graphic record of life and its dissolution- job done- at the war’s end. death on the high-seas from 1914-18, as reported to contemporary audiences at a time when the events of the Great War were still unfolding.

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If Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, which bears frigate USS Essex set sail on the most her people with the means to stay alive. In you want to know exactly how units the names of more than 54,000 soldiers remarkable voyage in the early history of this, the first volume of a history of the manoeuvred, or the figures for artillery who died before 16 August 1917 and have the US navy. After rounding Cape Horn, Merchant Navy’s struggle, due tribute is performance, nation by nation, this minor no known grave, this is the most well- she proceeded to systematically destroy paid to the courage of the men who masterpiece is the book for you. known war memorial in the world and an the British South Seas whaling fleet. When resisted the U-boat threat at the cost of important place of pilgrimage for visitors news reached the Royal Navy's South 30,000 of their lives. to the battlefields. From October 1914 to American station at Rio de Janeiro, HMS October 1918, five major offensives Phoebe was sent off in pursuit. So began occurred at Ypres in Belgium, and by the one of the most extraordinary chases in time the last shells fell nearly 200,000 naval history. servicemen had been killed. Since 1928, the Last Post has been sounded every evening at 8pm under the memorial. Only during the Second World War was this ceremony interrupted. IN THE SHADOW OF BOIS HUGO The 8th Lincolns at the Nigel Atter, Peter Simkins Softback, 144 pages,10 maps in colour, Illustrated throughout. Published Price £16.99 26171 £2.00 Nigel Atter has produced a thorough and rather eye-opening account of the battalion’s experience at Loos in 1915. 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Lijssenthoek was the location IN THE NAME OF 'Ironclads' is both fluent and to the point, for a number of casualty clearing stations LYKOURGOS this classic remains a good place to start during the First World War and is the The Rise and Fall of the Spartan for anyone wishing to learn about second largest CWGC cemetery in Revolutionary Movement 243-0146 Cambrai, a battle increasingly being seen Belgium after Tyne Cot Cemetery. It was as a turning point in British tactical BC development during the war. one of the cemeteries visited by King Miltiadis Michalopoulos George V during his 1922 pilgrimage to the battlefields of the First World War. Hardback, 272 pages Published Price £25 27280 £5.99 This is a fascinating look at an often neglected period, tracing the political and military chaos caused by Sparta's last attempts to regain her lost glories. 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From October George V visited Tyne Cot cemetery in journalist arrested by the Germans as they either through eventual loss or the ending author’s research has unearthed the lineage 1914 to October 1918, five major 1922 during his visit to the cemeteries of occupied Belgium in 1914 on the of the war, did achieve a large number of of King Arthur and untangled the myth offensives occurred at Ypres in Belgium, the First World War. He chose a outbreak of the Great War on suspicion of operations. Pictures of these have been and legend from the historical facts. and by the time the last shells fell nearly blockhouse as the site on which the Cross being a British spy. On his release he added so that their achievements, as well Starting with Arthur’s ancestors he 200,000 servicemen had been killed. 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THE KINGDOM IS OURS KAMIKAZE KEEPING THEIR BEACONS Fast Play Rules for Wargaming the LAST STAND AT ZANDVOORE LAUNCH PAD UK To Die for the Emperor ALIGHT English Civil War Period 1914 Britain and the Cuban Missile Peter C. Smith The Potter Family of Bransley and James Daniels Lord Hugh Grosvenor’s Noble Crisis Hardback, 224 pages their Service to our Country Softback, 88 pages Sacrifice Jim Wilson Published Price £19.99 Jane Ainsworth, Jean Copley, Ian Potter Published Price £16.99 Mike McBride Softback, 208 pages 27092 £4.99 Softback, 304 pages 25763 £4.99 Hardback, 234 pages Published Price £14.99 A chronological history that lays out out Published Price £25 With the Bicorne English Civil War Published Price £19.99 26965 £3.99 the genesis, development, combat actions, 27775 £4.99 Catalogue and Rules the reader is given a Thor nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles countermeasures, and the continual An account of the Potter family through very simple and enjoyable insight into the 27212 £3.99 stood on a round-the-clock wartime state evolution of the Kamikaze and the the generations with at its centre the English Civil War. A compellingly Grosvenor was the commander of C of alert ready to be fired; these were the attempts to stop them. sacrifice of the two sons, Frank and Eddie playable set of fast play rules provide Squadron, 1st Life Guards, and was killed 'other' missiles of the Cuban Missile in the First World War. entertainment and challenge for both the in action, aged thirty, during the action at Crisis, which made Britain, in effect, America's launch pad. During the height INSIDE THE AFRIKA KORPS novice and veteran players alike, entwined Zandvoorde 1914. At about 0700 hours with glorious pictures of the Bicorne heavy artillery opened up on the trenches of the crisis both RAF Bomber Command The Crusader Battles, 1941-1942 English Civil War miniature figure range. in front of Zandvoorde. These were held and the US Strategic Air Command were Bruce Gudmundsson The rules have been extensively developed by the 1st and 2nd Life Guards of the 7th poised at the highest states of readiness. Softback, 332 pages from the author's and friends' house rules. Cavalry Brigade. Situated on the forward Both were ordered to a level of war Published Price £14.99 These were purposefully designed to slopes of the hill the makeshift trenches readiness unparalleled throughout the 26973 £2.99 provide a fast, fun and challenging game were soon devastated and although the whole of the forty years of Cold War. for wargamers of all abilities, whilst four hundred or so defenders hung on for There is evidence to suggest that, had the Colonel Kriebel’s debrief undertaken by US needed to launch an air strike against the US Army Intelligence Service forms encouraging the education of the readers an hour they were quickly overwhelmed into the troops and the realities of warfare when the Germans launched their infantry Russian missiles in Cuba, President the basis of this book, which has been Kennedy might have been willing to edited and placed in context as part of the in the 17th Century. assault with over a Division of men. Orders for retirement were given but it absorb a Soviet nuclear assault on a American military historical programme. NATO ally without retaliation, if it would His account highlights the German was too late and a squadron of each Life Guard Regiment as well as the Royal have avoided escalation to World War response to the Allied Crusader offensive Three. and the brilliant series of actions that Horse Guards machine guns were cut off followed, and analyses the potent genius and killed or captured. The bodies of Lord and fatal flaws of Erwin Rommel s Hugh and his men were never found - it generalship. was as if they had never existed.

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LOOKING DOWN ON WAR: MAGNUM The Wild Weasels in THE MARCH TO KANDAHAR MEDIEVAL MERCENARIES LIGHT DRAGOONS EVOLUTION OF AIRBORNE Desert Storm Roberts in Afghanistan The Business of War The Making of a Regiment OPERATIONS 1939-1945 The Elimination of Iraq's Air Rodney Atwood William Urban Defence Allan Mallinson Colonel Roy Stanley SB, 224 pp Softback, 256 pages Softback, 384 pages Hardback, 272 pages Braxton R. 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A RABBLE OF GENTILITY PIONEERS OF ARMOUR IN THE PLOT TO KILL LLOYD POSTCARDS OF THE ARMY THE PLATOON The Royalist Northern Horse, 1644 THE GREAT WAR GEORGE SERVICE CORPS 1902-1918 An Infantryman on the Western -45 David A. Finlayson, Michael K. Cecil The Story of Alice Wheeldon and Coming of Age Front 1916-18 “Century of the Soldier” Series Hardback, 392 pages the Peartree Conspiracy Michael Young Joseph Steward, Andrew Robertshaw, John Barratt Published Price £30 Nicola Rippon Hardback, 271 pages Steve Roberts Softback, 120 pages 27816 £5.99 Hardback, 224 pages Published Price £30 Hardback, 224 pages Published Price £19.95 This Australian perspective has been well- Published Price £19.99 26966 £5.99 Published Price £19.99 researched and provides a view of all types 27467 £5.99 of armoured vehicles employed during 25834 £2.00 Simply fantastic stuff from Curator of the 25944 £3.99 The "Northern Horse" were the die-hard WWI. 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UNIFORMS OF THE GERMAN VCs OF THE NORTH THE VICTORIA CROSS WARS VICTORIA CROSSES ON THE U-BOATS BEYOND BISCAY SOLDIER Cumbria, Durham and Battles, Campaigns and Conflicts of WESTERN FRONT 1914-1915 Donitz Looks to New Horizons An Illustrated History from 1870 to Northumberland All the VC Heroes A Guide to the Locations – From Bernard Edwards the Present Day Alan Withworth Brian Best Mons to Hill 60 Hardback, 208 pages Alejandro M. de Quesada Hardback, 224 pages Hardback, 574 pages Paul Oldfield Published Price £19.99 HB, 416 pp Published Price £19.99 Published Price £25 Hardback, 352 pages 27502 £5.99 Published Price £45 25959 £1.00 27367 £5.99 Published Price £25 24709 £4.99 Alan Whitworth, in this carefully The “Victoria Cross Wars “explains 27434 £3.99 This book traces the evolution of the researched account, describes in graphic Britain's involvement in little known and The first in the very well regarded German Army uniform from 1870 to the detail the exploits and the lives of this elite forgotten colonial campaigns, as well as ‘Victoria Crosses on the Western Front’ present day, using nearly 800 photographs band of heroes. Within this group of the greater conflicts of the twentieth series, military historian Paul Oldfield has to offer the reader an unparalleled Northern VC recipients are a number of century. It details the battles and made good use of newly emerging analysis. Each image is accompanied by a outstanding names, including Richard engagements that resulted in the granting information to produce a valuable update detailed caption, explaining interesting Annand who gained the first VC of the of the most highly regarded award for on previously produced works. A aspects of the soldier's uniform, insignia Second World War and Roland Bradford valour in the face enemy. A good addition chronological history of events, providing and equipment. who was one of only four sets of brothers to any VC library that well written by the good battle context, and detail of the to have secured the VC. He also had the founder of the Victoria Cross Society, actions for which the various VCs were distinction of becoming the youngest Brian Best. awarded is followed the biographical general in the British army. But among the detail of each man recorded. Well roll of the brave whose gallantry and self- illustrated with maps, photographs and sacrifice are celebrated in these pages the thoroughly indexed this and it’s reader will find the names and companion volumes are another very extraordinary deeds of many other men good additions to any VC library. who were either born or bred or lived and died in the North. They will also find the story of the youngest Victoria Cross recipient who won his award aged just nineteen.

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