Many thousands of Royal Naval seamen and Royal Marines fought in the trenches of the Great War alongside soldiers from a
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In contrast to the voluminous literature on trench warfare, few scholarly works have been written on how the First World
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This book makes five original documents relating to the work of Britain’s Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) during the Firs
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The involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against
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Nicknamed the "Ghost Division" because of its speed and habit of turning up where its enemies least expected,
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At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes
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War girls shares the stories of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), a group of audacious middle- and upper-class Brit
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"Send the Alabamians" recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their
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