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From the Riviera, to the Rhine and on to the Colmar pocket, all three operations are covered in this volume by Jean Paul Pallud, and each show the action and locations in our unique then and now style.

Updates this infamous case to concentrate on the 2002 Court of Appeal hearing where Hanratty's guilt was proclaimed based upon supposedly conclusive DNA evidence.

In this long-overdue second biography, the author shows how Portal was one of the men most directly responsible for Allied victory in the Second World War. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: I always think that Peter was the greatest of all the British war leaders - greater even than Churchill.'

This book looks at Shrewsbury itself, the lines that radiate from there, and the trains that ran on them, in the late twentieth and the early part of the twenty-first century.

There are many books which tackle the political developments in Ireland during the nineteenth century. The aim of this book is to show what life was like during the reign of Queen Victoria for those who lived in the towns and countryside during a period of momentous change

Continuing his examination of the events of the Spitfire Summer, in Battle of Britain: The Breaking Storm Dilip provides a day-by-day chronicle of the Battle of Britain s first phase the so-called Kanalkampf which was fought over the Channel-bound convoys between 10 July and 12 August 1940.

This book brings together three After the Battle stories documenting the advance on the Oder and the long-draw-out struggles for the bridgeheads over it.

The only modern biography of Marcus Furius Camillus available in English.

This is the biography of one of the RAF's airmen that Winston Churchill referred to as The Few'.

An in-depth look at criminals from all parts of the country, who, for whatever reason, ended their lives in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.

The first time many of these stories have been told outside of the world's press. The book is separated into sections - people, aircraft and several different types of shipwreck.

Primary sources from inside the Soviet state apparatus, including now-inaccessible Russian archival holdings.

In this book, the author explores how a network of spies spread out across the England, Scotland and Ireland to further the aims of the landings. Written by an acknowledged expert on the era.

Gabriele Esposito describes the organization, equipment and tactics of the Carthaginian forces that fought the three Punic wars with Rome, and analyses the campaigns, battles and sieges. Lavishly illustrated with high-quality photographs of replica weapons and equipment in use by reenactors.

First English translation of the memoirs of Jean-Nicolas Cur ly. Although of lowly birth, Cur ly rose though the ranks; he became hussar at 19 years, second lieutenant at 32, squadron commander at 35, colonel at 38 and general at 40.

The first stand alone book on the Meon Hill murder. Detailed factual analysis debunking the irrelevant (and later) witchcraft angle. A study of how 'the madness of crowds' subverts justice.

The story of the Earl of Warwick's wife Anne Beauchamp and their daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville.

Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs with detailed captions and explanatory text, this dramatic book vividly portrays every aspect of the siege which has the dubious claim of being arguably the most costly in human and material terms of any in recent military history.

In this book, the authors explore the part that the Luftwaffe played in the battle to capture the Soviet Union's second city.

The first full history of the Royal Navy's longest-running commitment. Will be of particular interest to former personnel, as well as to naval historians.

Of all the appalling acts of Nazi Germany, Nordhausen represents the pinnacle of warped depravity. Forced labour on an industrial scale and a litany of the most barbaric war crimes make for harrowing yet compelling reading.

The longest and most harrowing siege of the war on the Eastern Front, Leningrad is the epitome of endurance and fortitude in a battle of both arms and ideology.

A blow-by-blow analysis of the operations to to secure suitable docks to supply the immense needs of the Allied armies on Northwest Europe, 1944.

Accessible study in English devoted to Sassanian armies.

Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) set himself up in the 1890s as an engineer and manager of the complete light railway as evolved by Victorian theorists to serve rural districts as yet bereft of the benefit of cheaper transport. To them, a light railway was not an assemblage of second-hand mainline equipment of dubious merit but of fit for purpose, new material. This ideal theory did not survive the near universal inability to raise sufficient capital to build and equip a light railway that would give a reasonable profit. Recourse was therefore made to the second-hand market.Stephens became a master at the art of building and running railways with the minimum of capital. The history of the mechanical performance of his railways was also nearly always handicapped with inadequate engineering facilities. This left staff struggling, often surprisingly successfully, with a menagerie of locomotive types.Limited standardization was practiced but most often expediency ruled. This gave rise to a glorious kaleidoscope of locomotives the history of each of which is outlined This variety was further colored by Stephens generally regarding a locomotive name as far more important than its number.

In this book the author provides a detailed insight into one part of Bomber Commands operations in the Second World War. This book is the result of four decades of research into the squadrons, men and machines that operated from RAF Grimsby.

Did lessons learnt at Dieppe help save lives during the Normandy D-Day landings? Why did the raid on Dieppe actually take place? Find out the answer to these questions and more in Dieppe - 1942.

This book is a comprehensive history of the four coupled tank engines absorbed by the Great Western Railway - locomotives of nine Broad Gauge companies, nineteen Standard Gauge companies, mainly in the South West which became part of the GWR between the 1870s and 1914, and a further eighteen companies, mainly in South Wales absorbed by the GWR in 1922 and 1923 at the formation of the 'Big Four' Grouping. The locomotives described and illustrated range from the 4-4-0 Broad Gauge saddle tanks of the South Devon and Bristol & Exeter Railways to the large 4-4-4 tank locomotives of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway, not forgetting the numerous and varied 0-4-0 pug saddle tanks of the Swansea Harbour Trust and the Powlesland & Mason company. The book includes thirty-two weight diagrams and nearly 200 photographs, many of exotic and rare locomotives.

The book is comprehensively illustrated with largely unpublished pictures that cover a wide range of locations and locomotive duties.