Product Description: The Welsh Guards have been at the forefront of British military history over the past hundred years. Bearskins, Bayonets & Body armor traces them from their foundation in the First World War and their baptism of fire at the Battle of Loos in 1915, through their fighting at Dunkirk, in the Western Desert, Italy and Normandy in the Second World War, the Cold War and the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Falklands War (when heavy casualties were suffered when the Sir Galahad was bombed and sunk in controversial circumstances), the Balkans, up to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 21st century...read more

Acclaimed military historian Trevor Royle examines Scotland’s role in the Second World War. The country’s geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war material and reinforcements, for conducting naval and aerial operations against the enemy and for training regular and specialist SOE and commando forces. Scotland also became a social melting pot with the arrival of Polish and eastern European refugees, whose presence added to the communal mix and assisted postwar reconstruction.In addition to the important military aspects – the exploits of the army’s renowned 15th Scottish and 51st Highland Divisions in Europe and North Africa and the role played by the RAF and the Royal Navy from Scottish bases – Scotland was also hugely important as an industrial power house and the nation’s larder.The war also had a huge impact on politics, with national centralization achieved through the creation of the Scottish Office and the Scottish Grand Committee. With the emergence of the postwar Labor government and the welfare state, nationalism went into decline and the arrival of socialist hegemony, especially in the west, paved the way for the command politics which dominated Scotland for the rest of the century.Based on previously unseen archives in the Scottish Record Office, A Time of Tyrants is the first history of the unique role played by Scotland and the Scots in the global war to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.Trevor Royle is a broadcaster and author specializing in the history of war and empire. His most recent books include Patton: Old Blood and Guts and Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638–1660. He is an associate editor of the Sunday Herald and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Product Description: Winston Churchill described Wingate as a ‘man of genius who might well have become a man of destiny’. Tragically, he died in an jungle aircraft crash in 1944. Like his famous kinsman Lawrence of Arabia, Wingate was renowned for being an unorthodox soldier, inclined to reject received patterns of military thought...read more

Product Description: South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds and treacherous intrigues are afoot—all bound up with the mysterious primeval kingdom of Prester John...read more

Product Description: In May 1968, as part of cutbacks to the British Army, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was disbanded at a moving ceremony held at Douglas in Lanarkshire at the same spot it had been raised in 1689. And yet, although the regiment is no more and is unlikely ever to be restored to the Army list, its place in history is unassailable...read more

Product Description: The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is one of the best-known regiments in the British Army. In a previous incarnation as the 93rd Highlanders, its soldiers were famed for being the "thin red line" that repulsed the Russian heavy cavalry at the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War...read more

Product Description: The King’s Own Scottish Borderers is one of only two Scottish regiments never to have been amalgamated until it joined forces with The Royal Scots to form the 1st battalion of The Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006. It is also unusual in that it lost its Scottish status between 1782 and 1887 when it served as the 25th (Sussex) Regiment of Foot...read more

Product Description: A celebratory account of the long and distinguished history of the Gordons, a British military regiment, this compendium highlights the origins and evolution of this group. Detailing a wide array of battles and service throughout the world—from scrapes in Afghanistan in the 19th century to heroic deeds in both World Wars—this collection is ideal for anyone with an interest in history or the military...read more

The Royal Highland Fusiliers came into being in 1959 as a result of the amalgamation of two regiments: The Royal Scots Fusiliers and The Highland Light Infantry, or HLI. Two distinctive infantry traditions can be found in the names of these regiments, which have helped to form the line infantry regiments of the British Army.

Product Description: The Royal Scots are Scotland’s oldest infantry regiment with a history stretching back to 1633 when they first entered service under King Louis XIII of France. In 2006, the Royal Scots were amalgamated into the new Royal Regiment of Scotland...read more

An analysis of the civil wars of Great Britian compares them to that of the United States to discuss how the battles of Lexington and Concord were extensions of the British Civil War, cite the roles of such figures as Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, and more.

Shrewdly analytical & brilliantly descriptive - this is a general history of the English Civil War from its outbreak in 1638 to the last battle in 1659

A definitive history of the Crimean War includes coverage of the Charge of the Light Brigade and Florence Nightingale, and identifies a link between its developments and twentieth-century mass warfare as well as the current affairs of Eastern Europe. Reprint.

Product Description: On a spring morning in 1903, Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of Britain's greatest military heroes, took his life in a hotel room in Paris. A few days later he was buried hastily in an Edinburgh cemetery as his fellow countrymen tried to come to terms with the fact that one of Scotland's most famous soldiers had ended his life rather than face charges against his character...read more

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Product Description: India's declaration of independance on 15 August 1947 was a momentous occasion. For the British, who had ruled there for over 200 years, it was the start of a process to discard its world empire. This text explores, through the voices and memories of both the British and Indians, the drama and tensions of the years leading up to, and following, Independance...read more

Product Description: Presents the memories and experiences of some of the two million 18-year-olds who were conscripted between 1945 and 1963. The author examines both good times and bad of those who were forced to oversee the dismantling of an empire and to garrison West Germany at the start of the Cold War...read more