November '98 publication date.

    . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young man, Neville 'Timber' Wood, who, despite fighting in many of the major engagements of the Second World War, including Dunkirk, El Alamein and D-Day, survived to become a much-loved husband and father . . . brilliantly written . . . I highly recommend it'Eleanor TomlinsonThe son of a Hull butcher, Neville 'Timber' Wood volunteered in 1939, at the age of eighteen, to join the British Army's Tyne-Tees 50th Northumbrian Division. Timber was in many ways an entirely unremarkable soldier - he won no medals for gallantry, though he exhibited conspicuous bravery day after day, for years, and he rose no higher through the ranks than Lance Corporal. Nonetheless, he had an extraordinary war. As a driver for the Royal Army Service Corps, Timber's job was to get ammunition and high explosives to the front line. It was a job with a high casualty rate, sometimes higher than front-line troops.The 50th Division was the principal fighting division of the British Army in the Second World War. Four men of the 50th were awarded Victoria Crosses, more than any other division. It was last off the beach at Dunkirk and the first back on it on D-Day; the division was at the heart of El Alamein and the major actions which followed; it took part in the invasion of Sicily and fought all the way from Normandy to Germany, where Timber saw first-hand the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.Timber's story is pretty much the British war experience from the point of view of an ordinary soldier. He was even captured, saw Rommel and escaped. This book, written by his son Mike, is based on Neville's extensive wartime diaries and original documents he retained from the war as well as on long conversations between the two of them when Mike transcribed the diaries as a gift for his father in 2006. Timber died in 2015., ,

    He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague which he described so graphically. Later, as general in 423 he failed to save Amphipolis from the enemy and was disgraced. He tells about this, not in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence of his history of the war that it befell him to be an exile for twenty years. He then lived probably on his property in Thrace, but was able to observe both sides in certain campaigns of the war, and returned to Athens after her defeat in 404. He had been composing his famous history, with its hopes and horrors, triumphs and disasters, in full detail from first-hand knowledge of his own and others.The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace after the first; and Thucydides had not unified them into one account when death came sometime before 396. His history of the first conflict, 431 421, was nearly complete; Thucydides was still at work on this when the war spread to Sicily and into a conflict (415 413) likewise complete in his awful and brilliant record, though not fitted into the whole. His story of the final conflict of 413 404 breaks off (in the middle of a sentence) when dealing with the year 411. So his work was left unfinished and as a whole unrevised. Yet in brilliance of description and depth of insight this history has no superior.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Thucydides is in four volumes.

    In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were against them. But a devastating victory was won and Japan's hopes of regaining the initiative in New Guinea destroyed. More importantly for Australians, the victory decisively removed any possibility that Australia might be invaded by Japanese forces. It was, for us, one of the most significant times in our history - a week when our future was profoundly in the balance. Bestselling author Michael Veitch tells the riveting story of this crucial moment in history - how the bravery of young men and experienced fighters, renegades and rule-followers, overcame some of the darkest days of World War II.

    This is the first time that an attempt has been made to cover the entire salient in order to present the battle in our familiar 'then and now' format. Hundreds of miles have been traveled by the author throughout every corner of the battlefield to search out the scenes of past events -- every known photograph belonging to combatants, civilians, and in public collections and private sources has been sought or considered. all the cine film has been examined frame by frame and certain sequences illustrated and analyzed. In this way a number of classic pictures almost always used -- or misused -- in depicting the Ardennes battle are not only placed in their context in the German advance but are also shown to be not always quite what they seem!

    The glories of the Austrian, Prussian, Russian, and British armies, as well as the smaller German states are all gathered together here in a single work for the first time.

    

    They were all volunteers and this was a very dangerous mission. Sixteen B-25 bombers took off from the deck of the USS Hornet, led by (then Col.) Jimmy Doolittle. They were to fly over Japan, drop their bombs and fly on to land in a part of China that was still free. Of course, things do not always go as planned. The months following the attack on Pearl Harbor were the darkest of the war, as Imperial Japanese forces rapidly extended their reach across the Pacific. Our military was caught off guard, forced to retreat, and losing many men in the fall of the Philippines, leading to the infamous Bataan Death March. By spring, 1942, America needed a severe morale boost. The raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942, certainly provided that – cheering the American military and public. Yet, the Doolittle Raid meant so much more, proving to the Japanese high command that their home islands were not invulnerable to American attacks and causing them to shift vital resources to their defense. Two months later that decision would play a role in the outcome of the Battle of Midway, the American victory that would begin to turn the tide in the Pacific War.

    To this end, experienced commanders compiled practical handbooks of military strategy. Three such manuals are presented here. "The Anonymous Byzantine Treatise on Strategy" was written by a retired combat engineer around the middle of the sixth century, while "Skirmishing and Campaign Organization and Tactics" date from the late tenth century and concern warfare in the mountains along the Syrian frontier and campaigns in the rugged terrain of the Balkans. These treatises provide information not only on tactics and weaponry but also on the motivations of the men who risked their lives to defend the empire.

    

    Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

    A Union assault that began at 4:30 A.M. on May 12, 1864, sparked brutal combat that lasted nearly twenty-four hours. By the time Grant’s forces withdrew, some 55,000 men from Union and Confederate armies had been drawn into the fury, battling in torrential rain along the fieldworks at distances often less than the length of a rifle barrel. One Union private recalled the fighting as a "seething, bubbling, soaring hell of hate and murder." By the time Lee's troops established a new fortified line in the predawn hours of May 13, some 17,500  officers and men from both sides had been killed, wounded, or captured when the fighting  ceased. The site of the most intense clashes became forever known as the Bloody Angle. Here, renowned military historian Jeffry D. Wert draws on the personal narratives of Union and Confederate troops who survived the fight  to offer a gripping story of Civil War combat at its most difficult. Wert’s  harrowing tale reminds us that the war’s story, often told through its commanders and campaigns, truly belonged to the common soldier.

    

    

    

    However, when his last-ditch attempt to recover the initiative with Operation Lüttich - the counter-attack from Mortain on August 7 - failed, it was an implied admission that his armies in the West had been defeated.From that starting point, Jean Paul Pallud takes up the story, following in the footsteps of the Germans as they retreat across France. The next days and weeks were ones of confusion for the German command with staffs and technical services dispersed; command and communication virtually non-existent; roads congested and strafed, and directives to build new stop-lines almost immediately rendered obsolete by the flow of events . . . all within a matter of a few days.Although the Germans lost nearly 300,000 men during the retreat - either killed, wounded, missing, or taken prisoner - nevertheless it was not necessarily an Allied victory as by the beginning of September German forces had turned round and were once more standing firm, this time along the 650 kilometres between Switzerland and the North Sea. This, then, is that story told through hundreds of 'then and now' comparison photographs by the author, and which includes some quite amazing discoveries that he made along the way.

    

    

    Each book chronicles U.S. Army Air Force operations in the European and Mediterranean theaters. First-person accounts and anecdotes are accompanied by more than 400 original World War II color photographs, all compiled by the late Jeffrey Ethell, a noted warbird enthusiast and author.

    

    

    

    Their training, campaigns, successes & failures. 242pp. prof. illus/photos/maps. 16x24c. D.J. fine.

    

    It is an excellent work, which will serve as a useful textbook for military academies who are studying the Indian Army, including details of rank hierarchy, weapons, equipment, operations, and army life. There is a useful glossary of military terms, it is a heavy book to hold in hand, but not heavy to read. The language is simple and keeps the reader's interest throughout. There is useful glossary of military terms."

    

    

    

    

    Although writing (in his native Greek) in the second century AD, Aelian drew heavily on earlier works, such as Asclepiodotus, to put together a comprehensive manual of warfare in the Hellenistic period (late 3rd to early 1st centuries BC). His Tactica thus examines all facets of warfare in the period of Alexander the Great's successors, including the arms and armor of cavalry and infantry, formations, commands and signals. Aelian also provides a discussion of the Roman army of the period. As well as being an invaluable source for modern historians studying the Hellenistic period, the book was very influential on military theory long after Aelian's death. Arrian's work on tactics may merely be a revision of Aelian's; the Byzantine Emperor Leo VI used excerpts in his own treatise and an Arabic translation made around 1350 was used to train Muslim armies. Most significantly it became one of the primary training aids for the pike and musket armies of the 16 and 17th century Europe. A substantial edition published in London in 1616 contained a full direct translation as well as comprehensive notes and a treatise on how to apply Aelian's work to the training of English pike formations in the Macedonian manner. It was well used to train the foot regiments that fought the English Civil War. This unique longevity makes it of interest to anyone interested in warfare from the Hellenistic period right up to the English Civil War. Christopher Matthew's new edition is based on the 1616 edition but written in modern English with new renditions of all its accompanying figures. It has the original 1616 notes as well as comprehensive new notes and cross references to the other ancient manuals (such as Arrian and Leo) that drew upon it. It is without a doubt the most up to date version available in any language of this significant work that was influenced tactical thought for 1,500 years.

    World War 1 was a terrible and wasteful conflict which involved not only armies and navies but whole nations. The industrial revolution of the previous century had armed both side with weapons of a destructive power undreamt of a mere 50 years earlier. Machine guns, tanks, high explosive shells, gas, aircraft and submarines all extracted a terrible toll in human life while many of the military leaders persisted in tactics which were totally obsolete. After four years of bloody trench warfare the exhausted combatants finally signed an armistice which was to be followed by a vindictive peace treaty imposed on Germany by the Allies powers. This was in part responsible for the conditions which enabled the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and ultimately to the outbreak of the next great conflict.World War 2 was the most devastating war in history with more than thirty million dead. Cities were destroyed and whole populations were forcibly removed from their traditional homelands. The evil of Nazism and horror of its deed will never be forgotten. Brigadier Peter young, one of the great heroes of World War 2 and one of its most distinguished historians, covers the war on land, sea and in the air. Clearly and concisely, his text describes the fighting from Europe to the South Pacific, from the deserts of South Africa to the jungles of Burma, and from the skies above Germany to the Battle of the Atlantic. The story ends with the momentous introduction of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The two great conflicts are illustrated by more than 800 photographs, many of them in colour. The books also contains many maps, technical illustrations and tabular charts which will bring home to the reader the scale and intensity of twentieth century warfare.

    

    

    

    

    and becoming the Christian Kingdom of Hungary from 1000 A.D. covered the entire area of the Carpathian basin until 1920, including Croatia being united with the personal union under the holy crown. The series "A milenium in the military" presents the military culture, weaponry and the peculiar warfare made famous by the hussars spanning various historical periods. The book includes reconstructive colour illustrations with captions in Hungarian and English. Historian and graphic artist Győző Somogyi (1942) has spent decades researching Hungarian military history and painting accurate illustrations. He is an experimental archaeologist and an active hussar re-enactor so he has personally tested many of the clothing and equipment presented in the series. More than a dozen of his full colour albums have already been published in Hungarian and German.

    The book comprehensively details the roles played by Kerry men and women in national and local events, leading up to and including the Rising events in Kerry, Dublin and other parts of Ireland.

    Saipan and Tinian Island to the Japanese, were considered the last line of defense for Japan. Saipan would be key to winning the war, Tinian would be key to end it. This is the story of of a young US Marine who finds a Japanese diary on a beach and saves it...

    

    UNITED STATES AIR FORCE...THE COMBAT DIARY OF THE 18TH FIGHTER-BOMBER WING IN THE KOREAN WAR, 1950-1953.273 PAGES

    Navy played in the early years of the Cold War, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood Tide This landmark account of the U.S. Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea, combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure on--and under--the high seas. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the victorious Navy sends its sailors home and decommissions most of its warships. But this peaceful interlude is short-lived, as Stalin, America's former ally, makes aggressive moves in Europe and the Far East. Winston Churchill crystallizes the growing Communist threat by declaring the existence of the Iron Curtain, and the Truman Doctrine is set up to contain Communism by establishing U.S. military bases throughout the world.Set against this background of increasing Cold War hostility, Who Can Hold the Sea paints the dramatic rise of the Navy's crucial postwar role in a series of exciting episodes: - the tests of A-bombs dropped on warships at Bikini Island - the growing science of undersea warfare and invention of sonar - the Korean War as a deadly test of naval superiority - the growth of the modern Navy with its dramatic game-changers: cruisers fitted with surface-to-air missiles, and the invention of the nuclear submarine - lessons learned from the dramatic sinking of the submarine USS Cochino in the Norwegian Sea - the USS Nautilus's dangerous, first-ever cruise underneath the North PoleAs in all of Hornfischer's work, the events unfold in riveting--and often surprising--detail. The story of the Cold War at sea is ultimately the story of America's victorious contest to protect the free world.

    

    and becoming the Christian Kingdom of Hungary from 1000 A.D. covered the entire area of the Carpathian basin until 1920, including Croatia being united with it in personal union under the holy crown. The series " A milenium in the military " presents the military culture, weaponry and the peculiar warfare made famous by the hussars spanning various historical periods. The book includes reconstructive colour illustrations with captions in Hungarian and English.

    

    

    Navy from it's beginnings through WWII, distinguished not only for it's complete narrative account but also it's coverage of the varied peacetimes roles of the Navy. Including extensive treatments of the War of 1812, the Civil War, and WW II, the work remains unmatched for it's acceessible and complete narrative history og the Navy but also it's account of the close relationship that has existed between naval affairs and the political, economic, military, and other broad aspects of national life during peacetimes as well as war. The author, a U.S. Navy Commodore, presents many assessments of the strategies of decisive naval battles. Foreword to this edition by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Introduction by Vice-Admiral WIlliam L. Rogers. Reprint of the revised, 1948 edition. 2006: 730 pages, many illustrations and maps. Index. (Scholar's Bookshelf)

    The Korean Conflict, as it was called, was a real war that the US chose not to declare a war. We are part of the forgotten generation. Born after the depression of the late 20's and spaced between the returning GI's of WW II, the baby boomers and the Vietnam War, which was declared a war, even though it was unpopular. I never remembered a war in history that would kill thousands or millions of people, called popular. The chapters you will read are pulled from conversations and tapes from Cpl. Frank Chimera and put into form with the writer. I didn

    

    

    

    Many photos of uniforms, weapons, and battles.

    His research presents a fascinating and unrevealed insight into the extraordinarily haphazard way in which this form of irregular warfare evolved on both sides of the Atlantic.

    

    Covers Nazi awards comprehensively and chronologically, including: imperial and state awards; veteran and Freikorps awards; military decorations; ribbons; miniatures; medals; citations; makers' marks; how awards were won; where to obtain Third Reich decorations; and a price guide.

    

    

    PRESENTS AN ACCOUNT OF THE ART OF WAR AS KNOWN TO THE ANCIENT HINDUS; STUDY OF THE INSTITUTIONAL LIFE OF ANCIENT INDIA.

    Vol 6 covers the Tiger I, II, StrumTiger, JagdTiger, etc with wartime photos, museum photos and technical drawings

    aircraft entering Swiss airspace and imprisoned the survivors in internment camps, detaining more than a thousand American flyers between 1943 and the war's end. While conditions at the camps were adequate and humane for internees who obeyed their captors' orders, the experience was very different for those who attempted to escape. They were held in special penitentiary camps in conditions as bad as those in some prisoner-of-war camps in Nazi Germany. Ironically, the Geneva Accords at that time did not apply to prisoners held in neutral countries, so better treatment could not be demanded. When the war ended in Europe, sixty-one Americans lay buried in a small village cemetery near Bern." Details of this little-known episode are brought to light by Cathryn Prince, who tells what happened and examines the argument the Swiss used to justify their policy. She shows that while the Swiss claimed they satisfied international law, they applied the law in a grossly unfair manner. No German airmen were interned, and Nazi aircraft were allowed to refuel at Swiss airfields. The author draws on first-person accounts and unpublished sources, including interviews with eyewitnesses and surviving American prisoners, and documents held by the Swiss government and the U.S. Air Force. Although these events have been briefly alluded to in other books, this is the first time that the complete story has been presented.

    military annals there is only the barest mention of the intrepid agents of the Office of Strategic Services who in 1945 lived in the jungles of Vietnam with Ho Chi Minh. Their mission was to train and arm a cadre of his Vietminh guerrillas for combat against the Japanese. This novel is based on that clandestine operation and on OSS interviews with Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam and South China. The story unfolds at an historic moment in the last months of World War II when President Truman was deciding whether to pursue the Roosevelt aim of transforming Vietnam into a U.N. trusteeship leading to independence or yield to Charles De Gaulle's demands for restoration of French suzerainty. On a secret mission to realize President Roosevelt's vision, Travis Duncan, special agent of the OSS, undertakes a perilous journey, eluding Japanese forces and bandits, for a meeting with Ho Chi Minh in his remote headquarters. Duncan becomes witness in North and South Vietnam to the intrigue and brutality of the decisive power struggle between the Vietnamese nationalists and the French colonialists. Two women out of Duncan's past, a Vietnamese who had become a deputy to Ho Chi Minh, and a French Gaullist agent, emerge as key actors in his mission. The reader will recognize the historic figures portrayed in this novel. The other characters are based on real individuals or are fictional. All serve to recall a turning point in history and a lost opportunity in dealing with Ho Ch-Minh that could have spared us the agony of the Vietnam War.

    Over 250 photographs and full color drawingsthe illustrated combat record of the B-24 Liberator and the men and units that flew them in the Second World War