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Taking the reader from the colossal surviving fort at Portchester in Hampshire to the empty, windswept site of Brancaster on the north Norfolk coast, Seeking the Saxon Shore is both a practical guide to locating and exploring these ancient Roman forts and a handbook for bringing them to life.

English-language historiography traditionally disregards Italian military history with sweeping generalizations about ineptitude, cowardice, and an ethnic/cultural aversion to warfare. This dismissive and demeaning approach obscures thoughtful analysis and discourse on the strengths, weaknesses, and ways in which Italy's military history is not dissimilar from other nations. Italy experienced two anti-insurgent operations, two conventional wars against European powers, a civil war, and two colonial campaigns during its first fifty years as a nation. These encounters forced versatility. Italy entered World War One as a young nation with a fledgling industry and limited raw materials. Nevertheless, it progressed along the tactical learning curve of modern industrial warfare like other belligerents. The country's strategic aspirations in World War Two, like those of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, exceeded its war-making capabilities. The Italian Way of War synthesizes previous scholarship with original research to provide a balanced narrative and assessment of Italian military history from 1866 to 1943.

AC/DC is a band that defines rock music. From their early beginnings playing on Australia's pub circuit to the platinum-selling albums and stadium tours of today, they have never strayed from their unique, instantly recognizable formula. In fifty years of albums and performances, through the tragic deaths of singer Bon Scott and, more recently, rhythm guitarist and founder Malcolm Young, AC/DC has defied the odds to become one of the world's most successful rock bands, surpassing 200 million album sales globally.Illustrated with rarities, collectibles, and other highlights from their discography, this book explores every album, song by song, from the first Australia-only single to their latest #1 platinum album Power Up. So come on a journey to celebrate the classics, to uncover the lesser-known gems, and to explore in magnificent detail the small beginnings, the emphatic career, and the world-conquering legacy of one of the greatest rock bands of all time.

Edmund Gosse, author of 'Father and Son', kept a diary from 1904 to 1906 of his life at Westminster when librarian of the House of Lords. From his privileged position he gives an unrivalled inside view of parliament and its many characters, including A. J. Balfour, Asquith and Haldane, in this hitherto unpublished journal.

With 290 colour images, almost all previously unpublished, 'RAF Fast Jets in Colour: The Cold War and Beyond' shows the evolution of one of the most technologically advanced air forces in the world.

An entertaining biography of The Merry Monarch's fourteen illegitimate children, their place at the royal court and in history.

This is an account of the life of barnstorming author Ernest Hemingway. Aubrey Malone has immersed himself in recent research to discover what led the author through a tumultuous personal life to the psychological collapse of his final years.

A meticulously researched new history of the Essex Yeomanry, a volunteer cavalry and artillery regiment, from its inception in the late eighteenth century through two world wars

From training for the operation to the evacuations after D-Day, this is the story of the Glider Pilot Regiment's role in the first stage of the airborne assault in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. Operation Tonga was vital to the success of D-Day. It included the famous attacks on the Merville Battery and the bridges over the Orne River and Caen Canal, as well as the lesser-known, though equally important provision of an anti-tank screen to protect the southern and eastern flanks of the invasion beaches from German counterattacks. This account, the product of several years of research, is told through the eyes of those who were there-glider pilots, paratroopers, pathfinders, tug crews and passengers. It includes the stories of the crews that evaded capture by the Germans and pays tribute to the help they received from local resistance fighters. The contribution of the nine gliders that took part in the 'Coup de Main' landings has been well documented, but little has been written of the other eighty-nine gliders that participated. Operation Tonga - The Glider Assault: 6 June 1944 tells the full story.

The four volumes of The Complete Medal of Honor present the full citations of the 3,537 awards granted to 3,517 men (nineteen were double recipients) and one woman between the start of the Civil War in 1861 and the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021.This first volume gives the citations of the 1,522 men and one woman whose courageous exploits during the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865 were deemed worthy of their country's highest award for bravery.

The atom bombs dropped on Japan opened the door to the nuclear age. In an ambitious programme, the US Navy paired missiles with nuclear-powered submarines resulting in the Polaris fleet of forty-one deterrent submarines with the first leaving on patrol in 1960. Agreement was later reached to supply the missiles to the Royal Navy.

The first ever biography of legendary British film actor Jack Hawkins. From cult classics 'The Cruel Sea' and 'Lawrence of Arabia', to 'Bridge on the River Kwai', Hawkins became one of the most bankable stars of the 1950s. This gripping story of a true cinema great tells his tale and his long brave fight against throat cancer.

A full-bodied celebration of Birmingham's iconic dish-its origins, its influence, its enduring popularity and its greatest recipes

A comprehensive operational and technical account of the Luftwaffe's famous Zerstörer, from its inception as a new type of combat aircraft to its service on all fronts in defence of the Reich.

'Sir William A. Stanier FRS' is a photographic celebration of the life and work of renowned railway engineer Sir William A. Stanier. His steam and diesel locomotives are iconic, and predominated in Britain from the 1930s to the end of steam in 1968.

Oxfordshire's strategic position in the Thames Valley has meant that the county boasts many historic sites of battles, sieges, hillforts, castles, airfields, anti-invasion defences, barracks and munitions plants. All are described in this book and placed in their social, political and military context.

Following the investigation of a twentieth-century detective into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England, Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time is an undisputable classic of crime fiction. In 1990, it was voted the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writer's Association.

RAF Coningsby played an integral part in the strategic bombing campaign of WWII. With the average age of aircrew being barely 21, the conflict demanded unimaginable dedication. The human experience of this colossal effort is told through the experiences of squadron and station personnel, those who survived and those who paid the ultimate price.

A history of the first two decades of the Air National Guard as it evolved from a post-war “flying clubâ€? for WW2 veterans to an operational force integral to U.S. aerial strength.

A forensic examination of what lay behind the exceptional heroism exhibited by the 28th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge.

'Fascist Italy at War: 1939-1943' examines in depth Mussolini's expansionist aims in the Balkans and North Africa; Italy's brazen seizure of Albania; Italy's belated entry into WWII; Italy's disastrous military operations in Egypt, Greece, Yugoslavia, and the U.S.S.R.; the Allied invasions of Northwest Africa and Sicily; and the fall of Fascism.

This first volume presents the lives and careers of 13 men who held the two highest ranks in Hitler's Sturmabteilung from its inception in 1920 until the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945. It is the first and only comprehensive examination of the senior SA leadership. Sir Ian Kershaw writes of the series: "I know of no comparable compilation."

A remarkable eighty-year adventure spanning the golden age of twentieth-century mechanical and motor-vehicle engineering. One of the three-man team that designed the iconic 3-litre Bentley, fifty-seven years later Harry Varley created a new engine for the same car. He died, aged ninety-three, two days after being told it met its design objectives.