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This work by a recognized expert on the period highlights why the legacy of Alexander is built on very shaky foundations.

David Mather has brought together a collection of his images which represents York's railway heritage from its earliest days through to the present and which shows the city to be still justified in claiming the title 'Railway Centre'.

Andrew Field, in this the latest of his series of pioneering books on Waterloo, makes a powerful contribution to this continuing debate by analyzing in forensic detail the records of these allied forces throughout the campaign.

Ian Castle tells the full story of the 1916 raids on Britain in unprecedented detail in what is the second book in a trilogy that will reveal the complete story of the 'Forgotten Blitz'.

This is a detailed account of the Falklands war, in particular the siege of Stanley, from an islander's point of view.

The railway lines of the heavily industrialized Black Country were of considerable commercial importance to the fortunes of the Great Western Railway and its successor, the Western Region of British Railways.

Titanic. The Marilyn Monroe of ocean liners. A sleek, sultry beauty, taken out way before her time.

Many aspire to serve with the Special Air Service, arguably the world's most prestigious regiment, but few achieve their aim. In this inspiring memoir the author describes how he left school without any qualifications and embarked on a 30 year career much of it spent in Hereford, including four years in 'The Regiment'.

Denis Pack was one of a phalanx of senior Anglo-Irish officers who served with great distinction in the British army in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, earning a reputation as one of the Duke of Wellington's most able brigade commanders.

Having flown an astonishing 400 different aircraft, as a licensed Category 1 test pilot and flight test instructor for both airplanes and helicopters, Chris Taylor is arguably one of the best qualified and widely experienced test pilots working today anywhere in the world.

The Franco-Prussian War did not end with the catastrophic French defeat at Sedan on 1 September 1870 when an entire French army surrendered, the Emperor Napoleon III was captured, and his regime collapsed. The war went on for another five agonizing months, and resolved itself into a contest for Paris.

This book is unique among thousands of books on the subject. None before has explored the Civil War's related and enduring conflicts of ideas and principles through four centuries of a nation's history.

This is a thought-provoking account of lost and fulfilled potential and unswerving loyalty at a time of political and religious turmoil.

This well written and thoroughly researched biographical account of the life and times of a South African WW2 pilot is sure to appeal widely.

This is a semi-autobiographical account of a fighter pilot in the RAF from 1962 to 1994.

For two years in the mid-thirteenth century, England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country came close to unseating the monarchy, and the outcome changed the course of English history.

As there was no clear victor at the conclusion of the Korean War, no war crime trials were held. But, as this book reveals, there is evidence of at least 1,600 atrocities and war crimes perpetrated against troops serving with the United Nations command in Korea.

Famously dubbed 'Bandit Country' by a UK government minister in 1975, South Armagh was considered the most dangerous part of Northern Ireland for the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary during the years of violence known as the 'Troubles'.

The author gave up his medical studies at Freiburg University in 1914 to enlist in the German Army. He was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fighting against the French before moving to the Russian front.

Yvonne Pope Sintes only ever wanted to fly. But in the 1950s, very few women were allowed into the male dominated world of aviation. while many women were consigned to the role of house-wife, Yvonne chose a different path. Her dream was to join the ranks of the Royal Air Force, crisscrossing international skies.

Crime and Corruption at The Yard is a gripping, shocking and instructive insiders account of sharp end police work. Salutary lessons are learnt about the effect of PC and human rights on the preservation of law and order.

Every year, an untold number of articles and books are published, and television programs and internet pages are produced on Adolf Hitler. One of the consequences of this continuous flow of stories is that, over time, increasing numbers of falsehoods and fabrications have emerged. This book clinically dissects many of these myths.