BOOKS

A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939. The Polish campaign is the forgotten story of the Second World War.

The 47th Regiment of Foot served throughout the whole of the American War of Independence. The regiment experienced the transition from peacetime soldiering in Ireland and New Jersey, throughout the deteriorating political situation, to open rebellion.

Counterinsurgency is defined as efforts to defeat and confine a rebellion against a constituted authority. While it has become a buzzword in the last twenty years, it is as old as society itself.

Dr Peter Caddick-Adams explores the final weeks of the Second World War and what it was like to encounter enemy combatants and civilians face-to-face during this closing stage of the Allies' fight against Nazi Germany.

This volume of French eyewitness accounts of Waterloo, published for the first time in full English, completes Andrew Field's pioneering work on the French experience in this decisive battle.

Between January and August 1947 the conflicting political, religious and social tensions in India culminated in independence from Britain and the creation of Pakistan.

Giles Orpen-Smellie writes about his experience as a battalion intelligence officer, of how battlefield or tactical intelligence, was collected and assessed to develop a picture of the Argentine defenders.

British POWs and the Holocaust: Witnessing the Nazi Atrocities Author Russell Wallis

Bestselling military historian, Nick Lloyd, tells the story of the Western Front, not as a symbol of the futility of war but as a triumph against the odds.

Dick Taylor highlights the often-painful process of reducing the size of the British regular cavalry through a series of amalgamations, and then the tortuous process of converting them to armoured cars and tanks prior to the Second World War.

Giving prominence to the deep, personal battles of those left behind, The Searchers brings the legacy of war vividly to life in testament to the bravery, compassion and resilience of the human spirit.

In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories throughout Asia, But change was coming.