The author, a young conscript, fought with The Glorious Glosters at the legendary Imjin River battle. Heavily outnumbered by the Chinese and subjected to 'human-wave' infantry attacks, he and his colleagues suffered the trauma of being overrun and the vast majority of those who were not killed became POWs. This serious reverse of fortunes shocked postwar Britain but the bravery of the Battalion caught the public's imagination. The inhuman ...

Amborski presents the voyage, personal accounts, bravery, drama, history, rescue, and survival stories of the men who participated in the battle of the "SS Stone Street" in World War II. ...

The incredible battle waged against Nazi troops by half a million Allied men in the mountains of Italy after VE Day. ...

Compiled from hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, this book tells of the dangers and rigors of life as experienced by the infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. A superbly researched work by an expert historian, it captures the atmosphere of the era with total immediacy made possible only because the writers were actually there. ...

Confederate General Stonewall Jackson defeated three distinct armies during ten weeks in 1862--changing the course of the Civil War. ...

The defense of Calais in May/June 1940 was a superb example of selfless courage and sacrifice. Sent by Churchill to divert the Germans from Dunkirk and so save the British Army from total annihilation and capture, 29th Brigade had orders not to evacuate or surrender. Airey Neave, later to be Margaret Thatcher's right hand man until his assassination in 1979, was one of those who fought, and was wounded and captured there.
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The battle of Gettysburg included many dramatic and controversial moments, several of which involved Cemetery Hill. This book covers in detail the three-day struggle for that crucial high ground from the soldiers' point of view. Using official reports, letters, diaries, and memoirs, it tells how and why the generals made crucial decisions and what it was like to be a soldier involved in the bloody hand-to-hand fighting. ...

In this, his latest work, leading author, Martin Middlebrook tells the story of his home county regiment's experiences in the Great War. ...

This book recounts the development of aviation in the United States Army from April 1861, when the Army first became interested in balloons as a means of observation, to April 1917, when America entered World War I. The origins and organizations of the Army's air arm are told in detail, with particular emphasis on early air force personnel, planes, and experiments. In the process the monograph traces the early development of what today is The ...

Drez ("Voices of D-Day"), a research associate at the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, interviewed World War II veterans, and here compiles 10 accounts of a soldier's 25 yards--the length and breadth of the war for him at any given moment.
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