E-böcker / Memoarer & Biografier
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Carve Her Name With Pride
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris Iin 1921 to an English motorcar dealer, and a French Mother. She met and ma ...
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Constant Vigilance
The RAF Regiment was created in the early years of World War II for the active dedicated defense of RAF airfields and installations. This book concerns the Regiments operational hi ...
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Diving Stations
Diving Stations is the inspiring story of Captain George Hunt’s career. Born in Uganda and then educated in Glasgow, he was determined to join the Navy and at 13 years old he ente ...
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Eager for Glory
c(Drusus the Elder) was regarded by the Romans as the first conqueror of Germania (The Netherlands and Germany) and a hero in the mold of Alexander the Great. Yet there has never b ...
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Fight Another Day
As a young subaltern in the Coldstream Guards, the author lost his arm at Dunkirk and was captured but eventually escaped via Lille, Paris, Marseilles, Spain and Gibraltar. He des ...
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Glider Pilots at Arnhem
The fierce struggle between the British 1st Airborne Division and the superior German forces in and around Arnhem is well documented. This book tells of the role played in the bat ...
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Gunboat Command
This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject, Robert Hichens (or ‘Hitch’ as he was universally known).After a brief description of his early life, time at Ox ...
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Guy Gibson: Dambuster
A new assessment of the life of one of the most famous and controversial airmen of the Second World War, this book covers Guy Gibson's sometimes troubled upbringing and the impact ...
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Kampfgruppe Peiper
Kampfgruppe Peiper formed the spearhead of the German drive on the Meuse during the Ardennes Offensive in December 1944 and fought one of the most famous actions of the Second Worl ...
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Life on the Death Railway
As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the experience – the dreadful cond ...
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Luck of a Lancaster
No 9 Squadron of Bomber Command converted from the Wellington to the Lancaster in August 1942. W4964 was the seventieth Lanc to arrive on squadron, in mid April 1943. She flew her ...
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Special Forces Pilot
As a Commando helicopter pilot, the author served with 846 Naval Air Squadron in the Falklands War and was decorated for gallantry (DSC). The author relives his part in operations, ...
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Spirit of Resistance
One of the most determined and courageous secret agents of the Second World War, Harry Peulevé joined the BEF in 1940 before volunteering for F Section of the Special Operations Ex ...
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Tank Commander
Bill Close had a remarkable war. In campaign after campaign, from the defense of Calais in 1940 to the defeat of Germany in 1945, he served as a tank commander in the Royal Tank Re ...
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Teenage Tommy
Benjamin Clouting was just sixteen years old when he embarked with the British Expeditionary Force for France in August 1914. The youngest man in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he took pa ...
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The Great War Handbook
Geoff Bridger’s The Great War Handbook answers many of the basic questions newcomers ask when confronted by this enormous and challenging subject – not only what happened and why, ...
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Fighting the Kaiser's War
Personal accounts of the Great War experiences of British soldiers are well known and plentiful, but similar accounts from the German side of no man's land are rare. This highly or ...
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The Madness of Alexander the Great
Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing him as possibly the greatest general that ever lived. Richard ...
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A Marine at Gallipoli on The Western Front
Harry Askin was 22 when he enlisted at Nottingham in September 1914 and was sent to train with the Royal Marines at Portsmouth. He set sail with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Fo ...
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Tigerhjärtats sånger
'Utan att känna något kan vi gå rakt igenom varandra, som sömngångare med tomma pupiller, luft genom luft, med ögonlock som rycker till i draget när vi går igenom varandra, utan at ...
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Undset, Hamsun och kriget
Både Sigrid Undset och Knut Hamsun upplevde höjden av prestige i Stockholm när de tilldelades varsitt nobelpris. Hamsun 1920 och Undset 1928. Två prominenta norska författare som i ...
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Carl Sandburg
En fyrtioårig amerikansk journalist klev av på Stockholms centralstation i slutet av oktober 1918. Sveriges neutrala ställning i kriget hade gjort Stockholm till ett av Europas cen ...
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Blixen & Blixen: Bror Blixen, kvinnorna och förlusterna
Ett omsusat och skamfilat äktenskap med en mytomspunnen författare, en förkärlek för viltjakt på afrikanska öppna marker och ständiga äventyr. Vem var egentligen Bror, förutom make ...
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The Uncommercial Traveller
"No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me."Let the character of The Uncommercial Traveller take you on a ...
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A Confession
"With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their faith, but I could not do it. I felt that I would be lying to myself, mockin ...