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| Immelmann: The Eagle of Lille |
| Immelmann was the first pilot to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germanys highest military honor. The medal became colloquially known as the "Blue Max" in the German Air Service in honor of Immelmann.... |
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| King of Airfighters: The Biography of Ma |
| A penetrating study of Britains top fighter ace in the Great War . . .Ira Jones biography of Britains top scoring ace of World War I has become the subject of some controversy over the last few years... |
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| Kitchener's Army: The Raising of the New |
| Peter Simkins describes how Field-Marshal Lord Kitcheneru2019s New Armies were raised and reviews the main political, economic and social effects of the recruiting campaign. He examines the experienc... |
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| Knights of the Black Cross |
| The story about the young German pilots of the First World War, some of who became household names for both the German population and to many of those they pitted their skills against. |
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| Latin American Air Wars 1912-1960 |
| The aircraft were colorful and their crews were often courageous - but virtually unknown beyond the South American Continent. With drawings and a detailed text this volume offers a remarkable histori... |
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| Lost Subs: From the Henley to the Kursk, |
| From the ghostly wreck of the Civil War submersible Hunley to the grave of the Kursk beheath the Barents Sea, here is a riveting saga of life and death that has been played out below the surface of t... |
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| Machine Guns of World War I: Live Firing |
| All the guns examined in this new paperback edition of Machine Guns of World War 1 belong to the class known as "automatic" and seven classic World War 1 weapons are illustrated in some 250 c... |
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| Malice Aforethought: The History of Boob |
| In Italy in 1943 British troops came upon a highly desirable billet abandoned by the retreating Germans, its front door invitingly half open. Entering cautiously through a window, to avoid the likely... |
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| Mannock,VC: Ace with One Eye |
| Edward `Mick Mannock, VC, DSO (2 bars), MC (& bar), officially shot down 73 enemy aircraft in the First World War and, unofficially, nearly a hundred - yet he was blind in one eye. Mannock was not o... |
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| Marines: An Illustrated History: The U.S |
| Born of a resolution of the Continental Congress in 1775, the Marine Corps came into being with the nation it serves--and has been a proud defender of the American ideal ever since. With photographs ... |
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| Mountbatten of Burma: Captain of War |
| Lord Louis Mountbatten achieved great things both in war and peace as a military leader and public servant. The First World War and its aftermath shaped his early life, in mid-career he was a victori... |
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| My Bit: A Lancashire Fusilier at War 191 |
| George Ashurst served with the Lancashire Fusiliers, taking part in First Ypres, Gallipoli and the Somme, and enduring months of trench warfare on the Western Front, making numerous grim and dangerou... |
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| Passchendaele: The Hollow Victory |
| Passchendaele is one of the most evocative names associated with the Great War. For over 80 years, the battle has epitomized pointless slaughter on an unimaginable scale. The bare statistics are shoc... |
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| Plough and Scatter: The Diary-Journal of |
| J.Ivor Hansons personal diary describes his experiences as a gunner on the Western Front in the First World War, which left a deep and lasting impression on him. He wrote about the officers and men w... |
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| Tank Turret Fortifications |
| Tank Turret Fortifications traces the origins of the idea from the development of the first armored turrets in the nineteenth century through to the present day. On the way it covers the inter-war pe... |
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| The Big Red One |
| Greenhills GI Series is the definitive guide to the history of the American soldier, his uniform and his equipment and has so far covered the full range of American history from Custer and the role o... |
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| The Complete Encyclopedia of Warships: 1 |
| This book comprises some 125 warship types, from the start of powered warship design to the modern giants of global power projection. The warships described here are illustrated by the celebrated tec... |
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| The Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood: U.S. Mar |
| Facing massed German machine guns, the Marines made sweep after bloody sweep through Belleau Wood. Repeatedly accosted by the retreating French and urged to turn back, Captain Lloyd Williams of the 2... |
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| The Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the P |
| The Diary of a Dead Officer brings together the private papers of Arthur Graeme West. First published posthumously in 1917, it presents a scathing picture of army life, and Wests poems, which make up... |
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| The German Army on the Somme 1914-1916 |
| By drawing on a very large number of German sources, many of them previously unpublished, Jack Sheldon throws new light on a familiar story. In an account filled with graphic descriptions of life and... |
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