BOOKS

Part of the Oxford University Press Great Battles Series. El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, fought by armies and air forces on the cutting edge of military technology.

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.

A visual record of wartime Britain during the attack on London between 1939 and 1945.

Rupert Wieloch explores the second battle of El Alamein, its key events and its importance in the context of the Second World War.

There have been numerous books about the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior and about Revd David Railton but none so poignant as this. A modest and selfless man who served as a Chaplain on the terrifying battlefields of Flanders.

Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium, Ukraine finally won independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

On 19 March 2003, a combined force from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq. The British effort was codenamed Operation Telic and saw the largest gathering of British troops since the Second World War.

Dominiek Dendooven explores how Indians and Chinese experienced the Western Front and how this affected these men and their home societies.