New paperback edition - 'Here are two peoples almost identical in blood – the same language and religion; and yet a few years of quarrelsome isolation have so separated their thoughts and ways that not unions nor mutual dangers, not steamers nor railways, seem able to obliterate the broad distinction.' Robert Louis Stephenson
If Hitler had succeeded in developing a nuclear bomb, that could have been both the end of the Second World War and of civilisation as we know it. A handful of commandos stopped him.
An accessible and entertaining new history of the Long Range Desert Group, forerunner of the SAS, famous for their exploits in the Desert War, and full of memorable characters and archetypal British heroes.
Biography of Sir Henry Percy, one of the most remarkable noblemen of medieval England.
Lucid study of the struggle between king and nobility in thirteenth-century England.
In-depth account throwing fresh light on the dark side of one of Oliver Cromwell's most famous military campaigns.
Examines the Gurkhas and their experience of service life through war and peace in the 21st century. Uses interviews, unpublished diaries and correspondence.
A new history of the centuries of Anglo-Scottish border conflict. This is a deeply personal view based on fifty years of living on, walking, exploring, teaching, writing about and re-enacting the borderers.
New in paperback - How British soldiers took Sword and Gold beaches on D-Day. This is the story of the British soldiers' experience of the beach landings on that fateful morning - the spearhead of Operation Overlord. číst celé
'We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.' (Attributed to Winston Churchill). Exploring the history of military museum collections around Britain.