At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer’s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov. Sajer's German footsoldier’s perspective makes The Forgotten Soldier a unique war memoir, the book that the Christian Science Monitor said "may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited." Now it has been handsomely republished containing fifty rare German combat photos of life and death at the eastern front. The photos of troops battling through snow, mud, burned villages, and rubble-strewn cities depict the hardships and destructiveness of war. Many are originally from the private collections of German soldiers and have never been published before. This volume is a deluxe edition of a true classic.

    The people were not told the truth, and neither was the emperor. Japanese generals, admirals, and statesmen knew, but only a handful of leaders were willing to accept defeat. Most were bent on fighting the Allies until the last Japanese soldier died and the last city burned to the ground.   Exhaustively researched and vividly told, The Fall of Japan masterfully chronicles the dramatic events that brought an end to the Pacific War and forced a once-mighty military nation to surrender unconditionally.   From the ferocious fighting on Okinawa to the all-but-impossible mission to drop the 2nd atom bomb, and from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s White House to the Tokyo bunker where tearful Japanese leaders first told the emperor the truth, William Craig captures the pivotal events of the war with spellbinding authority. The Fall of Japan brings to life both celebrated and lesser-known historical figures, including Admiral Takijiro Onishi, the brash commander who drew up the Yamamoto plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor and inspired the death cult of kamikaze pilots., This astonishing account ranks alongside Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day and John Toland’s The Rising Sun as a masterpiece of World War II history.

    This story, told by a man who was there, was first published in 1967 and appears in mass market for the first time. Dwight D. Eisenhower called this book "a fascinating tale of personal combat".

    Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet. On paper, the Americans had no chance of winning. They had fewer ships, slower fighters, and almost no battle experience. But because their codebreakers knew what was coming, the American navy was able to prepare an ambush of its own. Over two days of savage battle, American sailors and pilots broke the spine of the Japanese war machine. The United States prevailed against momentous odds; never again did Japan advance. In stunning detail, Walter Lord tells the story of one of the greatest upsets in naval history.

    Yet places such as Ypres, the Marne and the Somme can never remain mere names in a chronicle of war - they are heavy with meaning as the setting for the near-destruction of a generation of men.It is this aura of tragedy that makes Huntly Gordon's book - consisting mainly of his own letters written home from the front - such a potent memoir. Gordon was a typical product of his generation - sensitive, intelligent, unpretentious; capable of detached, trenchant and reasoned judgement. As the glorious summer of 1914 drew to a close, it was difficult for the 16 year-old Gordon to realize that the world he had planned and prepared for at Clifton College was a world in which he now had to prepare for war. By 1916 he had left school, and after an intensive and ill-balanced course at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery. In June 1917, he was at the Ypres Salient, getting his 'baptism' at Hell Fire Corner in one of those intensive artillery duels that formed the prologue to Passchendaele in July 1917 before being engaged for six weeks in the havoc of the battle itself. In the opening months of 1918, his battery was to fight a series of rearguard actions near Baupaume during the brutal German offensive of 21 March. A transfer to a quiet sector to rest and refit was eventually possible, but they arrived there just in time to face the final German onslaught of 12 April...In The Unreturning Army Huntly Gordon recalls his experiences of a tumultuous conflict and field of battle that seem almost inconceivable to us now. And his words, for the most part written at the time, have an immediacy, freshness and poignancy that will not fail to enlighten and astonish and move the reader of today.

    Two five-man crews didn't make it back. Landing on Japanese-occupied territory in China, two drowned and the rest were captured one by one. For the Americans, capture meant solitary imprisonment, starvation, torture, and for some death. Only four came home.

    Fall was 40 years old when he was killed by a booby trap in northern South Vietnam on February 21, 1967. By the time of his death he had already authored seven books on Vietnam, most notably Street Without Joy, an indictment of French intrusion into Indochina and a warning to American forces just beginning their involvement. Last Reflections on a War, first published shortly after Dr. Fall's death, is a tribute to his life's work: It contains the only known autobiographical account of his life, several previously unpublished articles, notes for "Street Without Joy Revisited", and transcripts of Dr. Fall's tape recordings, including his last recorded words.

    The fact that he may have had military training and drilled—and that April 19, 1775 was not his first battle—usually goes unmentioned. Winner of the American Revolution Round Table Award, The Minute Men will be of keen interest to those curious about the true history of some of America’s first soldiers.

    

    This biography reveals for the first time, from the full transcript, what was actually said and done. In addition, Mitchell’s lengthy 201 File-his personal military records-has until now been unavailable to any biographer. This file contains frank personal evaluations of Mitchell by his superiors (including a psychiatric examination), his own detailed reports and prophecies, as well as official reaction to them. From such previously classified documents and reports, and numerous interviews and unpublished letters, Burke Davis has finally portrayed in the round one of the most fascinating of American heroes. The Billy Mitchell Affair concentrates on the years between 1919, when Mitchell returned from World War I to lead the crusade he felt was vital to America’s security, and 1925, when the battle was publicly joined in his court-martial. It recounts with authority and fresh detail Mitchell’s fight for a separate air force, and the colorful, controversial figures he encountered-Franklin Roosevelt, General Mason Patrick (who had several wigs, one mussed up for flying), Admiral Moffett, Hap Arnold, Jimmy Doolittle, Alexander de Seversky, Generals MacArthur and Pershing; testimony from closed hearings; the complete story of the dramatic bombing of old battleships in 1921 and 1923; the first accurate picture of Mitchell's behind-the-scenes conflicts with his superiors and his running fight with the Navy, which remains an open wound to this day. Here, too, is the first full account of Mitchell’s remarkable secret reports on European and Japanese aviation-in 1923 he predicted and outlined in detail Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and Clark Field-and how these reports were first ignored and then belittled. Finally, of course, Mitchell’s court-martial is narrated in full, with the most famous military figures of the time testifying on both sides. This extraordinary biography not only reveals at last the true story behind General Mitchell’s dramatic fight for air power, but also brings the man himself to life for the £irst time.

    

    

    

    After ten rejections the eleventh attempt received an offer to publish, provided any loss incurred was guaranteed by me. I decided to keep the work in cold storage.Now it is 1967. It is now or never; possibly prompted by egoism, a decision "to go it alone" is made.Without doubt the story cannot expect wide appeal but I hope that the post-war generations of CHannel Islanders may be interested and that there will be a visitor appeal. To my readers I say thank you. If you like it please tell your friends; f you don't enjoy it please keep quiet.F.S.

    

    What was a British Army doing in this Godforsaken place and how had it all come about?A.J. Barker's masterful retelling of the story of Britain's first Iraq war in 1914 is a masterpiece of military history that provides many answers to the endless problems and realities encountered in Iraq since 2003. Prestige and power played a major role then as they still do today.If the British were dislodged from the Shatt-al-Arab, the effects would undoubtedly have reverberated throughout the whole of the Eastern world.

    Richard Stumpf served in the German navy aboard SMS Helgoland from August, 1914 to the end of the war and kept a diary of his experiences. His memoirs first came to light in 1928 when the German govenment was investigating the naval mutinies of 1917 and 1918. The diaries offered a view of life in the German Navy for the ordinary sailor.

    

    

    Don't miss the courageous British Commando attack on the Rjukan heavy-water factory in Norway. Illustrated with photos and diagrams

    

    'How a battle was fought in the Civil War: artiller, cavalry, infantry, supply, discipline, bravery, cowardice, looting, uniforms, arms, armour, colour, everything is packed into Brigadier Young's exceptional book.' Country Life