A History of Police Firearms Units

Agent Carter

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This is a book of two stories. The first is the sad tale of how at least 749 American servicemen ...

Before the outbreak of the First World War, the Channel Islands were viewed as they are today; sc...

With the outbreak of the First World War, it was not surprising that a number of individuals who ...

The Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield was famous for producing the Lee Enfield .303 Rifle, the ...

This book isn't a story it's an historical account of what life was like for the German POW's who...

The Shetland Bus was not a bus, but the nickname of a special operations group that set up a rout...

When did the Allies know about the Holocaust and why didn't they act earlier.

During the First World War, Etaples, a coastal fishing port situated on the North-East French coa...

This book examines life in Stalag 383, the escapes that were undertaken from there, and includes ...

Operation Dynamo, the successful evacuation of Belgian, British, Dutch, French and Polish troops ...

History of the Victoria Cross. The story of the Gold Victoria Cross. First one awarded during the...

Walter Tull would have been a remarkable individual no matter when he had been born, but to achie...

A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea looks at the hospital's beginnings, with its Royal patron...

Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for noncommissioned officers located in Nazi oc...

Englandspiel Nordpol, or Operation North Pole, was a successful Second World War counterintellige...

A fascinating insight into how the people of Chatham coped with the problems of the First World War

Explores the effects of war on the Isle of Thanet

History has recorded that the first ever powered flight took place at Kitty Hawk in America, on 1...

The story behind the sinking of the Lancastria comes in two parts: the sinking of the ship itself...

Canterbury had been a garrison town for many years before the war, and when hostilities began bet...

The question is, how did a once great nation that built an empire lose it all? From the Meiji Res...

Throughout the First World War, London played a major part in Great Britain's war effort, both at...

This book looks at the invaluable work carried out by members of the Air Transport Auxiliary duri...

Struggle and Suffrage in Chelmsford is a comprehensive account of what life was like for women in...

Reveals the war effort of this pioneering island on the home front, alongside its remarkable defe...

The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefiel...

Folkestone became one of the most important British towns during the First World War. Through its...

Following the Geneva Accords in 1954, Vietnam found itself separated into North and South, with c...

The book looks at the effects of war on the City of London, including the damage caused by the 8 ...

The Korean War (1950-53) is often referred to by many British and Commonwealth veterans who took ...

The raid on St Nazaire has gone down in history as one of the most daring commando raids of all t...

Gordon Frederick Cummins: Blackout Ripper, or convenient patsy?

The Shetland Bus was not a bus, but the nickname of a special operations group that set up a rout...

Following the double murder of John and Harriet Colver, Ryan Carter of the U.S. Marshal's office ...

The Colvers Report

HMS Turbulent was a Royal Navy T-class submarine. From its launch in May 1941 to when it was lost...

Did lessons learnt at Dieppe help save lives during the Normandy D-Day landings? Why did the raid...

Account of The Battle of Itter Castle, 1945 - one of only two known times in the Second World War...

Until the late 1930s, Singapore was noted as a popular stop-off point for wealthy European travel...

Stalag Luft lll was where Germany sent all its habitual Allied escapers, and the first British an...

Lost Treasures of World War II

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