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These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, written from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War.The author’s daughter, Cl ...

The Thiepval Memorial commemorates over 72,000 men who have no known grave; all went missing in the Somme sector during the three years of conflict that finally ended on 20 March 1 ...

The Japanese advance through Thailand, Malaya and Burma appeared unstoppable and the fate of India looked utterly precarious.The garrison of the Kohima outpost numbering some 1500 ...

Commodus is synonymous with debauchery and megalomania, best remembered for fighting as a gladiator. Ridiculed and maligned by historians since his own time, modern popular culture ...

David Greville-Heygate was one of the few men who served in both the army and the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but it was in the sky that he really earned his strip ...

Story of the 7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. With the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908 the battalion was re-designated as the 7th Battalion. It went to France in Apri ...

In December 1916 General Robert Nivelle was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French armies fighting the Germans on the Western Front. He had enjoyed a meteoric rise to high comm ...

Fred Cox, a young soldier in the East Surrey Regiment, was taken prisoner by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in February 1942. The next three and a half years were spent in a ...

Whilst a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world apart from 1914 to 1919, there was one factor that united millions of people across all nations ...

Small in physical stature Colonel, later Brigadier, Patsy Pagan was seen as a giant by the men of the Gloucestershire Regiment, whom he commanded for over three gruelling years of ...

This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta's survival in the Second World War. It was a battle which decided the outcome of the ...

The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite t ...

Like Ypres, Arras was a front line town throughout the Great War. From March 1916 it became home to the British Army and it remained so until the Advance to Victory was well under ...

'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few' – Seventy-five years on the unforgettable words of Winston Churchill ring as powerfully as they did in ...

The exceptional exploits, courage and leadership of British SOE Agent Trotobas have long been recognised in France but not in his own country despite being recommended for the Vict ...

The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often seen from a strategic point of view, or in terms of military organization and battlefield tactics, or through officers' memoirs. It ...

Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Ch ...

Ensimmäistä kertaa julkaistava sensaatiomainen silminnäkijäkuvaus Kansainliiton puheenjohtajan päivällisistä syksyllä 1938Valtakunnankansleri Adolf Hitler piti Berliinissä 26.9.193 ...

 När Hunter Biden var två år gammal blev han allvarligt skadad i en bilolycka, hans mamma och hans lillasyster omkom. 2015 förlorade han sin älskade storebror Beau, som dog i hjärn ...

Reflexer - från de ordlösa erfarenheternas domän Det här är en bok om mina egna och andras transpersonella erfarenheter. Mina egna erfarenheter och insikter är hämtade från inre oc ...

Tove Jansson blev världsberömd för sina böcker om Muminfamiljen. som hon både skrev och illustrerade. Böckerna har översatts till mer än femtio språk och nått en världspublik. Berä ...

"Alla som varit på magnetröntgen vet att det tar sin tid. Jag ligger där och lyssnar på den klassiska musiken som jag valt. Så blir det mera aktivitet bakom glaset. Läkaren kom- me ...

Vem var Sophie Sager? Hon var misshandelsoffret som blev kvinnorättskämpe, sömmerskan som blev författare, kvin­nan på barrikaden som blev husmodern i Brooklyn. Hon blev riksbekant ...

Lukten av desinfektionsmedel hänger tung i luften. Tystnaden är total, nästan hörbar. Spända koncentrerade blickar möter varandra över munskydden. Tiden står stilla. - Patienten so ...

This book focuses on the delicate connection between the head of Swiss Intelligence, Colonel Roger Masson, and the German Chief of Espionage, SS General Walter Schellenberg. The a ...