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Janet Macdonald
During the Second World War, how were the multitude of items required by the soldiers in the front line selected, ordered and delivered, and how were they produced? In this…
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Gabriele Esposito
The Hundred Years' War is one of the most famous conflicts in British history, featuring such renowned battles as Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt. It is a period littered with such…
Alistair Nichols, Hughes de Bazouges
French Emigre Armies of the Revolutionary Wars tells the story of these counter-revolutionary forces for the first time in English. Their origins, organisation, uniforms, and fates are described in detail…
Alexey Tarasov
Among all the branches of the Red Army during the Second World War, self-propelled artillery is probably the most overlooked and misinterpreted. Attention has focused on the tanks the Red…
John M Curatola
How the US services prepared for the largest amphibious operation in history,
American forces storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, is one of the most famous…
Simon Clarke, Alasdair Harley
Renatio et Gloriam is a set of tabletop miniature rules that allows you to fight large-scale battles from the Renaissance. It brings to life the epic battles between the formidable…
Shelby L Stanton
A one-stop reference for details on the thousands of American units fighting in WWII. Tables, charts, dates, campaigns, and valuable narrative histories of the divisions and regiments enable the reader…
Benjamin Lai, Zhao Guoxing
Featuring full-color artwork, this book describes and illustrates the Chinese and North Korean troops who fought US and UN forces in Korea during 1950-53.
Steven W. Hill
Military flag expert Steven W. Hill displays and explains the flags of the regiments who fought in North America in the French and Indian War and the American War of…
Robert Mackowiak
This study of the evolving uniforms and personal equipment used by US ground forces in the Korean War features new full-color artwork and previously unpublished photographs.
Robert F. Williams
"This book focuses on the relationship between organizational culture, operational behavior, and institutional change in military institutions, particularly during the Cold War. The 'airborne mafia' refers to the cadre of…
Penny Parker Klostermann
Perfect for kids who are fascinated by insects and American history, here is the story of Nan Songer, a little-known hero of World War II, who collected and bred spiders…
War Office The General Staff
An early war periodical manual from December 1940, for use in the field. The manual looks at every aspect of the "Blitzkrieg" German Army and gives details as known at…
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Mieke Kirkels
When he returned to the Netherlands in 2009, decades after World War II, Jefferson Wiggins realized that no one he met knew about the segregated US Army during the war…
War Office
This Pattern had its origins in two requirements for lighter patterns of web equipment, one for temperate zones, the other tropical. The result appears to have been a convergence of…
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Produced for direct allied operational value in the run up to D-day and beyond, this handbook covers the complex subject of the organisation of transportation by road, rail and waterways…
The stated object for the distributing of this War Office manual was as "A guide and help to troops who have the determination and nerve to destroy tanks at close…
Chapter and verse official guide to qualifying areas and dates for the various WW2 campaign stars and medals.This is one of the most useful guides that any medal collector can…
B F Fisher
In a world where information reigns supreme, the legacy of the Signal Corps, as documented in this brief report about its activities in 1865, speaks directly to our innate human…
War Department United States Army
This detailed guide from 1914 is dedicated to bringing the fighting forces of the US Army up to exacting physical fitness standards. The volume represents the major fitness themes of…
Cynthia Ren Doss
As a child, Cynthia Ren Doss asked her father what he did each day he reported to work as a United States Army soldier. He would reply with quips she…
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Us Army War College Team Sensing
A dramatically underrated publication in 2020 from the US Army War College, a Rosetta's Stone for anyone interested in the dramatic evolution of warfare that has characterized war in the…
Francis B Heitman
By: Francis B. Heitman, Pub. 1914, 698 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-163914-222-4. This book is considered a standard reference work on the officers of the Revolutionary War. These officers…
Melody Foreman
For decades the classic, evergreen BBC comedy Dad's Army has entertained millions of viewers around the world. But the farcical antics of Walmington-on-Sea's bumbling Home Guard platoon camouflage the true…
Harry Spiller
Nine US Army combat medics share their captivating experiences during the Vietnam War, told in their own words. Their accounts relate why they joined the Army during wartime and why…
Stephen R Taaffe
A new analysis of the performance of the twenty U.S. Army divisions deployed to the Pacific during WWII.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Bojan Dimitrijevic
The book describes the Bosnian Serb Army in the Bosnian War 1992-1995. It provides a detailed account on organisation, personnel, equipment and combat activities during the years of war.
A comprehensive guide to the equipment and weapons used by the British Army for those interested in military history or current military affairs.
This work has been selected by scholars…
Remy De Gourmont
Un coeur virginal, est un livre classique et rare, qui a ete considere comme important tout au long de l'histoire de l'humanite, et pour que cet ouvrage ne soit jamais…
Dr. Seuss's imaginative, whimsical children's tales are in fact packed with insights on national security and military strategy. Theodor Geisel's anti-totalitarian and pro-democracy views coming out of his WWII experiences…
Ian Cardozo
This volume recounts India's contribution to World War I.
Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Stephane Thion
French Armies of the Thirty Years' War presents the development of the French army, one of the first standing armies in Europe, from 1617 to 1648. It shows how Louis…
Helen Frost
Great War Land Girls were all very different individuals - they radiated vitality, resolve and determination. In this book, their sense of fun and infectious humour shines through the myriad…
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Office War Office
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
The War Office
Published halfway between the new Polish Army’s surprise humbling of the vast but untrained Red Army in 1920 and its obliteration at the hands of Hitler’s Wehrmacht in 1939, this…
Informative list of army pensions in the 40 years between the Battle of Bunker Hill and Waterloo. Drawn up on the orders of Lord Palmerston, it is a remarkable insight…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Rene Chartrand
The various French East India companies had private armies that campaigned in overseas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This study reveals very numerous and largely unknown battles, actions, organisation…
David Alan Wilson
The Sardinian-Piedmontese Army in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748 is a comprehensive and fully illustrated study of the uniforms, colours, standards, and equipment of the army during the…
Laura Gutman
The lives of Army brats have always been a core component of the US military. Scarcely described until now, Army Brat: World War II is an essential account that fills…
The Tommy’s cookbook of everyday trench cuisine.
At the end of the Second World War, it quickly dawned on the West that the defeat of one totalitarian enemy - Hitler’s Germany - had left another, our late…
The monthly Army List is the official list of all army officers, regular, territorial or reserve, as at the end of the month immediately prior to the date of publication…
