Books from Spellmount
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The Hazy Red Hell: Fighting Experiences on the Western Front 1914-18
By Tom DonovanThis text is a collection of first-hand experiences of battle and trench fighting on the Western Front in World War I, from battles and operations in August 1914 through to...
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Armies of 1812: The Grand Armeé and the Armies of Austria, Prussia, Russia and Turkey
By Digby George SmithThis is an in-depth analysis of all the armies involved in the epic tragedy, part of which was originally published in 1977 to critical and public acclaim. This fuller version...
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Robert Redford
By Bruce CrowtherRobert Redford
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In the Shadow of the Swastika: Life in Germany Under the Nazis, 1933-1945
By John McDonald, Matthew S. SeligmannWritten by experts on 20th century and German history, this is a well illustrated account of what it was like to live under the Nazi regime. It looks at all...
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Directing Operations: British Corps Command on the Western Front 1914-18
By Andy SimpsonThis book sets out the true role of British Corps (and their commanders) and crucially their control of artillery, which led to their becoming the principal operational level of command...
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All the King's Armies: A Military History of the English Civil War, 1642-1651
By Stuart ReidA military history of the English Civil War which offers a detailed and lucid examination of the principal campaigns and battles; commenting upon the development of tactics and the extent...
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Hot Blood and Cold Steel: Life and Death in the Trenches of the First World War
By Andy SimpsonUsing a unique approach of weaving anthology with a continuous commentary, Hot Blood and Cold Steel describes what it was really like to live and fight in the trenches during...
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Grasping Gallipoli: Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915
By Peter Doyle, Peter Chasseaud"The failure of the Gallipoli campaign was instantly blamed on a great untruth - that the War Office was unprepared for Dardanelles operations and gave Sir Ian Hamilton little in...
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The Peninsular War: Aspects of the Struggle for the Iberian Peninsula
By Ian FletcherA unique collection of original essays by distinguished British and American authors published to mark the 190th anniversary of the Peninsular War, the book provides an analysis of aspects not...
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SS: Hell on the Eastern Front: The Waffen-SS War in Russia, 1941-1945
By Christopher AilsbyGives an account of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, its battles, organisation, tactics and equipment.
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Alexander the Great at the Battle of Granicus: A Campaign in Context
By Rupert MatthewsOne of the most famous generals all time, Alexander was just 20 when he led his army into battle at Granicus. Despite his youth and his army being heavily outnumbered,...
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None Bolder: The History of the 51st Highland Division in the Second World War
By Richard Doherty"One of the most famous infantry divisions of the Second World War was the 51st (Highland) Division, a Scottish Territorial Army formation that first saw service in the Great War....
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Hitler Youth: The Hitlerjugend in War and Peace 1933-1945
By Brenda Ralph LewisA military and social history of the Hitler Youth and Nazi Germany between the years 1933 to 1945.The author describes the corruption and training of Germany's youth in order to...
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Hitler's Renegades: Foreign Nationals in the Service of the Third Reich
By Christopher AilsbyExamines the motivation and reasons as to why two million foreign volunteers joined the German Army and Waffen-SS from countries as far as India to the Balkans.
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SS-Steel Rain: Waffen-SS Panzer Battles in the West, 1944-1945
By Tim RipleyThis miltary history gives the reader an account of the battles fought by the panzer divisions of the Waffen-SS, amongst one of the finest units in Germany. The author takes...
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Two Flights to Victory: From the Doolittle Raid to the Enola Gay
By David G. StylesWhen it was deemed necessary to drop the atomic bomb, it was Doolittle who put forward his 12th Air Force comrade Paul Tibbets, the pilot who flew the Enola Gay with its deadly cargo to Hiroshima.In Two Flights to Victory, historian David ...
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Germany's Secret Weapons in World War II
By Roger FordOversigt over tyske våbensystemer udviklet under 2. Verdenskrig.
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Dizzy Gillespie and the Be-bop Revolution
By Raymond HorricksDizzy Gillespie established himself with the big bands of Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald and Earl Hines, before spearheading the bebop era in the company of Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk....
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Wellington's Regiments: The Men and Their Battles from Roliça to Waterloo, 1808-1815
By Ian Fletcher'The most complete machine for its numbers now existing in Europe' was how Wellington described his army in November 1813, shortly after the Battle of the Nivelle which took him...
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A Desperate Business: Wellington, the British Army and the Waterloo Campaign
By Ian FletcherA 'desperate business' was how the Duke of Wellington described the Battle of Waterloo following the Allied victory there on 18 June 1815. Here, historian Ian Fletcher tells the story...