Product Description: One of the bloodiest battles fought in military history ― this Battle Story will make you understand what happened and why. The Battle of the Somme raged from July 1 to November 18, 1916, and was one of the bloodiest fought in military history...read more

Product Description: Battle Zones is a new historical series presenting warfare across a variety of historical periods. Every aspect of warfare is explored by looking at the structures of armies and the individual roles of the different ranks within them...read more

Product Description: Why did this war that was supposed to be "over by Christmas" descend into four years of millions of men living in trenches on the Western Front and in other parts of the globe? How were thousands of miles of trenches constructed under the threat of enemy fire? How did men eke out their daily existence amid the mud and grime? Were there differences between the German and British trench lines? Answering all these questions and many more, this easy-to-read guide will tell you everything you need to know...read more

Product Description: Ten million military personnel died during the Great War. Many millions of them experienced horrendous enemy attacks on entrenched positions that stretched across France and Belgium, as well as the Eastern Front. This groundbreaking book relives 24 hours of an actual Platoon under attack, using their War Diary to follow the assault hour-by-hour...read more

Product Description: According to Napoleon, an army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too. Yet, have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed under fire or in the trench lines? During the Great War troops were trained to make meals out of the bare minimum of ingredients, to feed a company of men from only a mess tin and cook curries to feed hundreds only yards from the frontline...read more

Product Description: John Joseph Steward fought in the Great War, from the Battle of the Somme to the final offensives of 1918, and he was an acute, unflinching observer of the conflict he took part in - of life and death on the Western Front. He was a writer, too...read more

Product Description: The diary of the inhabitant of a notorious POW camp reveals shocking breaches of the Geneva convention while highlighting the incredible ingenuity and resourcefulness of Allied soldiers Major Vic Ebbage was a Colonel with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, serving in Hong Kong in 1941, when his garrison was attacked by the Japanese Army...read more

Discusses the major battles and campaigns of the twentieth century, from the Boer War to the Persian Gulf War of 1991, and describes weapons, tactics, uniforms, and gear.

Takes a look at the lives of more than thirty-five individual soldiers through the ages, detailing each soldier in uniform, the weapons he used, the equipment he carried, and the food he ate