This definitive work details the commissioning of regiments, recruitment, individual military careers, and the disbanding of units. It is an indispensible aid to anyone interested in the Covenanting armies.

A world famous story of guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in Malaya.

Pillar of Fire is the epic story of the journey of the British Expeditionary Force from hope to despair, to triumph in the midst of defeat - a triumph that may have saved Britain from Nazi tyranny.

Gods and Generals is the epic story of great military leaders of the American Civil War.

Flodden is widely regarded as one of Scotland's most ignominious military defeats; a battle that need never have been fought and a historical event that has been firmly engraved in Scotland's national consciousness ever since.

In one year Admiral Kolchak fell from being Supreme Ruler of All the Russias to the victim of a show trial.

A Gripping tale by one of the few men who risked his life breaking east through the Iron Curtain.

Trevor Royle is one of Britain’s major military historians and this is the first study to show the massive importance of Scotland in the defeat of the Kaiser’s Germany.

A great collection of tales from an exciting period of history retold by one of Scotland’s most well-known storytellers.

This lavishly illustrated book explores the impact of the First and Second World Wars on the city of Glasgow, its people and its industries.

Crucial to control of the North Atlantic during the Second World War was knowledge of the weather: for the wolf packs and German raiders that lurked in these bitter seas this was the vital ingredient that would enable them to cut the vital arteries t

During the two world wars, the chain of island groups ­ Orkney, Shetland, the Faroes and Iceland ­ linking Europe to North America, acquired great strategic significance.

This book presents all of Hitler's directives, from preparations for the invasion of Poland (31 August 1939) to his last desperate order to his troops on the Eastern Front (15 April 1945), whom he urges to choke the Bolshevik assault 'in a bath of bloo

'There is not much to say about this book by way of introduction. It describes an undeservedly successful attempt to travel overland from Peking in China to Kashmir in India. The journey took seven months and covered about 3,500 miles . . .'

This is a true story of romance and escape during World War Two.

Scottish military offensives against England from 1369 were largely the product of government policy, were launched with careful timing and in the reign of Robert II Involved close co-operation with France.

This is the story of the Russian fleet's seven-month 18,000-mile odyssey from Kronstadt to the Far East, a venture which began in 1904 and turned into a mission of heroic futility after the fall of Port Arthur and, with it, the entire Russian pacific

This is the dramatic story of the deadly competition in Dreadnought battleships between Great Britain and Imperial Germany in the years before the First World War; a story of two great empires set on a collision course to the Armageddon of 1914.

The sequel to Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Killer Angels.

Including a unique selection of war-time photography, Osborne and Armstrong draw on a wide variety of sources in writing this fascinating and moving book.

David Ascoli's account of Britain's crucial contribution to the opening months of the Great War is a worthy monument to those who gave so much to save France.

On 29 June 1900 the foreign legations at Peking were attacked by troops of the Boxer rebellion and Imperial Chinese troops. The ensuing siege lasted fifty five days and shook the world.

William Manchester fought his way from Guadalcanal to Okinawa in the front line of the American war in the Pacific. His account of this war combines searing observation and powerful commentary.

This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War's most unusual animal heroes – a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global mascot for the Royal Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom and inspiration for Allied troops throughout Europe.

Evan Mawdsley’s lucid account of this vast and complex subject explains in detail the power struggles and political manoeuvres of the war, providing a balanced analysis of why the Communists were victors.

After his passing, Ray Ward’s son discovered his father’s memoirs of the Second World War in the basement of their family home. The Mirror of Monte Cavallara is a very personal, poignant and revealing account.

To War with the Black Watch is a sharp, witty and moving insight into Scots–Italian relations in the latter part of the Second World War.

The Siege of Vienna in 1683 was one of the major turning points in European history. The hot September day that witnessed the last great trial of strength between Cross and Crescent opened an epoch in European history that lasted until the cataclysm of the First World War in 1914.

This book illuminates an event often over-shadowed by the tragedy of Dunkirk in the Second World War - that of the capture and valour of the 51st Highland Division in St Valery.

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