E-böcker / Memoarer & Biografier
![Omslagsbild för Sparta’s Kings](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129437/1129437_202102231207.jpg?height=160)
Sparta’s Kings
In ancient Greece, Sparta was unique in having a dual kingship – two kings from different clans, the Agiads and the Eurypontids, reigning simultaneously. The institution was alrea ...
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Special Forces Commander
Early in the Second World War, Peter Wand-Tetley volunteered for ‘special service’. He saw action first with the newly formed Commandos raiding the North African coast and then in ...
![Omslagsbild för The British Army Guide](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129451/1129451_202102231133.jpg?height=160)
The British Army Guide
In 1984 the first edition of the British Army Guide was published and in May 2011 the 12th edition will be on sale. This invaluable information resource which deals with all aspect ...
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The Fear in the Sky
The young men who flew with RAF Bomber Command in World War Two were a complex mixture of individuals but they all shared the gift of teamwork. A crew of seven may have comprised a ...
![Omslagsbild för The Four Geniuses of the Battle of Britain](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129460/1129460_202102231136.jpg?height=160)
The Four Geniuses of the Battle of Britain
Had it not been for the vital contributions of the four men and their inventions described in this book the Battle of Britain could not have been won by the Royal Air Force. Each o ...
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The Kaiser’s Reluctant Conscript
As a conscript from Alsace, Dominik Richert realized from the outset of the First World War that his family was likely to be at or near the front line. He was a reluctant soldier ...
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The Last Great Cavalryman
Dick McCreery was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1915 and served on The Western Front, winning the MC and surviving wounds.In 1938 he joined the staff of 1st Division ...
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The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman
Vasily Grossman (1905-64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was p ...
![Omslagsbild för The Lords of War](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129470/1129470_202102231217.jpg?height=160)
The Lords of War
In this compelling study of leadership, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines how th ...
![Omslagsbild för The March to Kandahar](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129471/1129471_202102231451.jpg?height=160)
The March to Kandahar
The book describes the role of Frederick Roberts in the 2nd Afghan War, culminating in his famous march in 1880 with 10,000 picked British and Indian soldiers, 300 miles in twenty- ...
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The Nazis’ Nuremberg Rallies
This book describes the background to and the development of the Nazi Party Rallies held at Nuremberg each September from 1933 to 1939. These Reichsparteitage (National Party Days ...
![Omslagsbild för The Quiet Gunner at War](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129474/1129474_202102231137.jpg?height=160)
The Quiet Gunner at War
In 1939 Dick Gorle was already a professional soldier but stationed in India. After the Dunkirk disaster he was recalled and initially involved in training recruits at Plymouth be ...
![Omslagsbild för The Sterling Redemption](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129480/1129480_202102231219.jpg?height=160)
The Sterling Redemption
The untold true story of James Edmiston who suffered an extraordinary miscarriage of justice in 1983 when senior officials blocked vital witnesses coming to his trial which led to ...
![Omslagsbild för The US Eighth Air Force in Europe](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129485/1129485_202102231221.jpg?height=160)
The US Eighth Air Force in Europe
This book describes the period when the American daylight offensive faltered and nearly failed and recalls the terrible losses suffered by Liberators on the low-level attack on the ...
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The Yompers
Called to action on 2 April 1982, the men of 45 Commando Royal Marines assembled from around the world to sail 8,000 miles to recover the Falkland Islands from Argentine invasion. ...
![Omslagsbild för They Shall Not Pass](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129491/1129491_202102231108.jpg?height=160)
They Shall Not Pass
This graphic collection of first-hand accounts sheds new light on the experiences of the French army during the Great War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions and emotio ...
![Omslagsbild för Through the Barrier](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129492/1129492_202102231208.jpg?height=160)
Through the Barrier
Clive Evans had a lengthy front-line flying career in which he flew Hunters, Canberras and Lightnings. Apart from his personnel experiences he describes all these types in conside ...
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Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers
In 2009, the Sri Lankan government forces literally eradicated the Tamil Tiger insurgency after 26 years of civil war. This was the first time that a government had defeated an in ...
![Omslagsbild för Unearthing Churchill’s Secret Army](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129512/1129512_202102231211.jpg?height=160)
Unearthing Churchill’s Secret Army
The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many o ...
![Omslagsbild för The Wars of Alexander's Successors 323-281 BC. Volume 1](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129519/1129519_202102231506.jpg?height=160)
The Wars of Alexander's Successors 323-281 BC. Volume 1
When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied 'to the strongest'. There ensued a long series of struggles between his ge ...
![Omslagsbild för Warsaw 1944](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129520/1129520_202102231221.jpg?height=160)
Warsaw 1944
‘Authentic, dramatically realistic, showing the tragedy of a generation thrown into a hopeless battle. A priceless treasure against which other memoirs pale in comparison.’ ...
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Winged Scalpel
In this fast-paced narrative, ex-SAS surgeon Richard Villar provides ‘a very personal insight into the difficulties, dangers and occasional virtual impossibility of providing medic ...
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Winged Warriors
Paul McDonald is a former RAF fast-jet pilot whose flying career spanned 34 years. He is not a typical senior RAF officer having been brought up on a council estate in a bleak nort ...
![Omslagsbild för Winston Churchill](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129528/1129528_202102231059.jpg?height=160)
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was an extraordinary person - a politician, a statesman, a man of letters and a soldier but it was for his wartime leadership during the Second World War that he ...
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With Napoleon’s Guard in Russia
Major Louis Joseph Vionnet’s memoirs of Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdote and vivid glimpses into the life of the ...