Edward Spears, the author of this volume, was the liaison officer between the French and the British forces from August 1914 and dealt with Clemenceau, Petain, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. This is his account of the first few months of World War I.

Liaison, 1914

Edward Spears

Cassell Military

The author brings to life every major campaign fought by the British Army in the Second World War: from the momentous defeats in France, Belgium and the Far East in the early stages of the war, through to the final victories against Germany and Japan in 1945. All aspects of the conflict are described, from grand strategy at the highest levels right down to the experience of infantry, gunners and tankers in the field as the British army battled its way through the war. The book shows how the seeds of World War II were sown at the end of the previous war, twenty-one years earlier, and how successive governments in the twenties and thirties failed to safeguard Britain from the building threat from Germany. It describes how by the beginning of the conflict Hitler's armies were superior in every respect. But as the catalogue of defeats mounted, the British army were learning hard lessons, and painfully acquiring the skills needed to turn the tables. It is therefore a story which moves from triumph to tragedy, and then upward again to triumph at the last.

And We Shall Shock Them : British Army in the Second World War

David Fraser

An international bestseller, this is a German soldier's first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of the Second World War. When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he quickly finds that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger, fatigue and constant deprivation

The Forgotten Soldier

Biographies & Memoirs

Guy Sajer

Leaders & Notable People

CROSS OF IRON is the thrilling story of a German platoon cut off far behind Russian lines in the second half of World War II. A resourceful and cynical commander somehow manages to coax his men through the bitter hand-to-hand fighting in forests, trenches and city streets until eventually they regain the German lines. But safety is only temporary. After the tension of waiting for the last overwhelming Russian advance the platoon is forced into futile counter-attacks and murderous house-to-house fighting until its final decimation becomes inevitable. A modern classic of war fiction both as a book and a film, this is a strikingly realistic story of action on the Eastern Front, where the grimness of combat seems to have neither pity nor end.

Cross of Iron

Literature & Fiction

WILLI HEINRICH

Contemporary

A unique approach to the history of air combat in the jet age. Contains previously unseen first hand accounts from all major post-war conflicts Analysis of how air combat has been influenced by the East/West political divide

Splash One (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

Engineering & Transportation

Ivan Rendall

Engineering

The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby

In 1944, having distinguished itself in the North Africa campaign, Rifleman Bowlby's battalion of Greenjackets was sent to Italy. But instead of being used in the specialised role for which it had been trained, most of the battalion's vehicles were taken away on arrival, and the riflemen were told that they were to be used as ordinary infantry. Stripped of its hard core of regulars, the battalion suffered one disastrous defeat after another until its hard-won reputation fell in tatters. 'Quite extraordinary realism in this worm's eye view ...The sweating, slogging, frightened infantryman in conditions of extreme stress and horror. It is a book to bring a shiver to the most grizzled veteran.' Sunday Times

Alex Bowlby

A famous account of one of the most dramatic and tragic episodes of the Second World War Published to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the outbreak of World War II

Carrier 'Glorious : The Life and Death of an Aircraft Carrier

History

WINTON, JOHN

Military

Few military careers have rivalled the drama of those 26 officers who became Napoleon's marshals. First published in 1987, and written by a team of military historians, this text records these individual careers with verve and accuracy.

Napoleon's Marshals

DAVID CHANDLER

As a First World War memoir this is almost unique, in that it was written by a private soldier Continuing interest in the First World War

With a Machine Gun to Cambrai

George Coppard

A brilliant and definitive account of great military genius at work.

Hitler's U-Boat War the Hunters, 1939-42

BLAIR, Clay

World

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