Eisenhower's Armies is the story of two very different armies learning to live, work, and fight together even in the face of serious strategic disagreements. The Anglo-American relationship from 1941-1945 proved to be the most effective military alliance in history. Yet there were also constant tensions and disagreements that threatened to pull the alliance apart. This book highlights why the unprecedented level of cooperation between the very different American and British forces eventually led to victory but also emphasizes the tensions and controversies, which inevitably arose. Based on considerable archival research on both sides of the Atlantic. The book also looks back and demonstrates how the legacy of previous experience shaped the decisions of the war.

Product Description: An enlightening history of the Anglo-American alliance in the Second World War, from high command down to the soldiers on the ground.     In the mid-twentieth century the relationship between America and Britain had a chequered past...read more

An accessible account of the pivotal World War II African campaign that helped turn the tide for Allied forces describes the failed offensive of the British Eighth Army in June 1942, the controversial decisions attributed to the campaign's commanders, and the army's subsequent transformation into a battle-winning unit. Reprint.

Product Description: In the years following World War I, the British Legion became a symbol for service, tradition, and stability in British life. In the war's aftermath, many veterans organizations on the continent became violently politicized. However, the competing groups in Britain came together in 1921 to form the unified and overtly non-political British Legion, the mission and identity of which was founded upon its members' experience of the Great War...read more

Based on extensive original research, the author paints a vivid picture of the fighting during the Battle of El Alamein. From the early and desperate days of July 1942 to the final, if costly, victory in November later that year, this is the story of an army that learnt from its mistakes.

Product Description: This infamous battle was the scene where Scotland’s “rose nobill”—James IV—lost his life to Henry VIII’s army as he courageously, and perhaps recklessly, led his own into the battlefield. While Niall Barr looks at the revolutionary nature of the battle in terms of the way it was fought, he also examines the political and social forces that caused these two old enemies to clash once more...read more

Product Description: Barr (defense studies, Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham) views Flodden as important because the battle lay on the cusp of several developments: a new Renaissance understanding of the past, profound military developments in the 16th century, and the Reformation...read more

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