Battle Story
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Battle Story: Tet Offensive 1968
By Andrew RawsonThe CH54 was nicknamed the Sky Crane or the Flying Crane. The ARVN sometimes used the smaller CH34C Choctaw–Sikorsky, which could only carry eighteen men. Four types of fixedwing fighter aircraft provided most of the close support for ...
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Battle Story: Arnhem 1944
By Chris BrownSS Battalion 'Mattusch' SS Battalion 'Oelkers' SS Battalion 'Eberwein' Battle group 'Knoche' SS NCO training unit 'Kraft' was transferred to the Spindler Battle group by midnight of the 17th. Battlegroup '3 Holland Airfield Area' Panzer ...
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Battle Story: Bosworth 1485
By Mike IngramThe Crowland Chronicle tells us that Strange then revealed to Richard that he, William Stanley and Sir John Savage had joined Henry. Lord Strange, probably under duress, then wrote to his father, describing his plight and expressing the ...
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Battle Story: Singapore 1942
By Chris BrownThe Fall of Singapore remains a crushing defeat that sent shockwaves around the British Empire during the Second World War.
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Battle Story: Omdurman 1898
By William WrightThe battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan.
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Battle Story: Verdun 1916
By Chris McNabHistorian of Verdun William Martin has noted that: By the end of the First World War the battalion was no longer the manoeuvre unit. Nor was the company. It was the platoon, itself an 'allarms' formation that included four discrete ...
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Battle Story: Hastings 1066
By Jonathan TriggSimilarly, it would be William's tactical genius that would prove the difference at Hastings. The tactics employed by the opposing armies were also one of the great mysteries of Hastings. Harold Godwinson was an experienced commander ...
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Battle Story: Bulge 1944-45
By Andrew RawsonThe Bulge had been created, and as the fortunes of battle were reversed, the Allies struck back. This book gives a clear, concise account of those dramatic days at the end of 1944, supported by a timeline of events and orders of battle.
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Battle Story: Battle of the Bulge 1944-45
By Andrew RawsonThe Bulge had been created, and as the fortunes of battle were reversed, the Allies struck back.This book gives a clear, concise account of those dramatic days at the end of 1944, supported by a timeline of events and orders of battle.
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Battle Story: Iwo Jima 1945
By Andrew RawsonOperation Detachment, the US invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific.
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Battle Story: Passchendaele 1917
By Chris McNabPasschendaele 1917 is the story of one of the most pitiless and iconic battles of the First World War, known today as Third Ypres.
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Battle Story: Loos 1915
By Peter DoyleThrough quotes and maps the text explores the unfolding action of the battle and puts the reader on the frontline. If you truly want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story.
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Battle Story: Rorke's Drift 1879
By Edmund YorkeThe small garrison based at Rorke's Drift in South Africa is forever immortalised in British history as one of the Army's most glorious moments.
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Battle Story: Maiwand 1880
By Edmund YorkeHe went on to warn that 'the deep-seated animosity of the Afghan towards the English has been mainly ascribed to ... out on foot with provisions for only five days – a stark contrast to the First Anglo-Afghan War baggage extravaganza.
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Battle Story: Mafeking 1899-1900
By Edmund YorkeA cryptic observation of the scenes in the aftermath of the battle, however, shows how BadenPowell may well have known ... lying inquantities sothat the losses had evidently been heavy' (BadenPowell, 13May1900, Staff Diary, BPP).
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Battle Story: El Alamein 1942
By Pier Paolo BattistelliOn the other hand, infantry were well down the requirements list with the consequence that, between June 1940 and October 1942 only some 195,000 men were sent to North Africa (which was about onefourth of the total strength sent to ...
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Battle Story: Iwo Jima 1945
By Andrew RawsonBatley, Lieutenant Colonel Whitman S., Iwo Jima: Amphibious Epic (USMC, Historical Section, Division of Public ... 2006) Haynes, Major General Fred and James A. Warren, The Lions of Iwo Jima (Holt Paperbacks, 2009) Kakehashi, Kumiko, ...
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Battle Story: Bannockburn 1314
By Chris BrownIt was the greatest defeat the English would suffer throughout the Middle Ages, and a huge personal humiliation for Edward. Chris Brown’s account recreates the campaign from the perspectives of both the Scots and English.
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Battle Story: Isandlwana 1879
By Edmund YorkeOn 22 January 1879 a 20,000-strong Zulu army attacked 1,700 British and colonial forces.
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Battle Story: Waterloo 1815
By Gregory Fremont-BarnesOn 18 June 1815 the armies Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, each of approximately equal strength, faced one another in southern Belgium to fight one of the most decisive battles in history, while elements of a third, Prussian, army ...