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Christine Hallet challenges the myth of allied nurses as self-sacrificing heroines and reveals the true story of the tough, challenging work; which demanded extensive knowledge, technical skill and high levels of commitment.

On 16th April 1746, the Jacobite Rising reached its climax at the Battle of Culloden. The event lasted less than an hour, but it has been of ongoing significance in British History.

This biography tells the fascinating story of how ,in 1943, General W.J Slim brought victory out of defeat, in Burma. Deploying his famous 'forgotten' 14th Army to defeat the Japanese and liberate Burma.

Powerful stories drawn on the front lines of Migration by award-winning artist George Butler

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Jonathan Boff provides a fresh viewpoint on the history of the Western Front. He draws on extensive research in the German archives to offer a history of the First World War from the other side of the barbed wire.

Andrew Richards explores the changing role and nature of the British Army, examining the changing socio-military changes in the 1980s and the transformation the British Army has undertaken since 1990.

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.

Using the previously unpublished journal of Charles Holman of the 52nd Foot, Glover pieces together the sequence of events of the final moments of the Battle of Waterloo and the controversy which ensued.

Spencer Jones explores the British Army's combat experience from the Boer War to World War and how it crucially shaped the British Army's tactical development in the years to come.

Kim Wagner portrays an intimate account of life and death in British India during the largest rebellion of the nineteenth century. This book also gives a critical assessment of British Imperialism, the legacy of Empire and the Myth of the 'Mutiny'.

An account of how British veterans of the Second World War remembered and recounted their experiences of battle throughout the post-war period.