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One of a series of 700 reports produced by the Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee in 1944-45 on the German war machine found at the end of World War Two, this volume details Nazi High Frequency research in such fields as the military use of television, cathode tube rays, and submarine detection.

The Fifth Battalion lasted from 1797-1818 and served with distinction through the whole of the Peninsular War. Its troops were so effective that Sir Arthur Wellesley described them as the "most useful, active and brave troops in the field".

Britain spent much of the 18th century in intermittant warfare with France, its neighbour and chief rival for maritime world domination. Much of this warfare was presided over by King George II who was the last monarch to personally lead a British army into battle - against the French at Dettingen in his native Germany. The King ordered this official inquiry into the total failure of an expedition mounted against the French Atlantic coast in August 1757. The inquiry found that a combination of adverse weather; massive Atlantic waves, strong fixed French defensive positions around the ports of Rochefort and La Rochelle a lack of surprise and consequent enemy readiness to meet the raid had all contributed to its failure. This concise but exhaustive account of the hearings by the three aristocratic officers appointed by the King to report into the failed raid, accompanied by appendices of correspondence between Army and Naval commanders give a vivid picture of 18th century command and control, and also of natural hazards and man-made cock-ups that are a feature of warfare in any age.

Includes full details of all forms of dress worn by officers, with descriptions of helmet plates, cap badges, buttons, collar badges, waist belt plates and pouches. All branches of the service are covered. Many tipped-in and hand written amendments have in 1938 been painstakingly incorporated to the original copy of this title, which was sourced for reprinting from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Flooding, or in military terminology 'inundation', formed part of the Belgian defence plan, and in the first three months of the war inundations were formed at Antwerp in accordance with that plan and had some success in interfering with the German advance. The opening of the sea gates at Nieuport, which allowed the tides to flood the country between Nieuport and Dixmude covered the main defensive line in the coastal area right up to the German retreat in 1918. This book provides an account of the use of inundations by the BEF or preparations for their use at the time of the German advance in 1918. It also describes the German use of inundations. For the benefit of the Royal Engineers it gives advice on the information required for forecasting inundations and it lists a number of deductions on their use drawn from the experience of 1914-18. The map is of the Western Front from the North sea down to the Oise (south of St Quentin) illustrating inundation schemes.