The author shares his unique experience of digging up this previously unrecognized WW2 battlefield and he walks the reader through trench after trench and bunker by bunker.
In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army...
“If you're looking for a tactical WWII battle in a French village, this provides a top-rate resource.” — Historical Minatures Gaming SocietyVillers-Bocage remains lodged in the imagination of...
A Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War
by Rose E. B. Coombs
Edited by Karel Margry
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781870067621
Pub Date: 2023-05-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: After the Battle
248 Pages
From the Belgian coast, across the fields of Flanders, over the valley of the Somme and down the line to the Argonne: all the major battlefields of the First World War — Ypres, Arras, Cambrai, Amiens, St Quentin, Mons, Le Cateau, Reims, Verdun and St Mihiel — are criss-crossed in this book over more than thirty different routes.
This atlas covers the history of the British Isles from earliest times to the present day. The first hunter-gatherers, who crossed into what would become our familiar islands by the land-bridge, and...
The People, Places and Battlefields of the Yorkists and Lancastrians
by Paul Kendall
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781399097512
Pub Date: 2023-03-03
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Frontline Books
224 Pages
This book is an exploration of the buildings, monuments, towns and battlefields of that turbulent era across both England and Wales – places that can still be visited and experienced today.
The story of 144 Brigade’s defense of Wormhoudt and Bambecque must rank in importance alongside the defense of Cassel and Hazebrouck by 145 Brigade; however, what is often forgotten in the uncertainty that surrounded Wormhoudt and Bambeque is the heroic defense of West Cappel and Vwyfeg...
Mœuvres and Bourlon, Cantaing and Graincourt to Flesquières, Masnières, Gouzeaucourt and Gonnelieu
by Jerry Murland
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781399017435
Pub Date: 2022-12-14
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
192 Pages
The 1917 Battle of Cambrai featured the first massed tank attack in military history and provoked the biggest German counter-attack against the British since 1914. The British aimed to break through the German Hindenburg Line, then threaten the rear of the German positions to the north.
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