A British territorial battalion during the First World War The Sherwood Foresters were described before the outbreak of the Great War as part of the ...

A war without pity on the South African veldt George Witton was a member of the Bushveldt Carbineers-a mounted, highly mobile unit trained to hunt down ...

Georges Guynemer, Knight of the Air by Henry Bordeaux The Chevalier of Flight: Captain Guynemer by Mary R. Parkman 'Until one has given all, one has ...

The second nightmarish volume of the author's collected weird and supernatural fiction Robert W. Chambers most famous and most highly regarded work is ...

The second volume of the Colonial Frontiers series-more adventures of the border wars During the eighteenth century the American frontier traversed the ...

The hill men with kukris at war in Afghanistan, 1841 The Ghurkhas-the irrepressible warriors from Nepal-were, soon after their own war with the British ...

Napoleon Bonaparte-his life as a soldier While a pupil at military school Napoleon wrote to his mother that to carve his way in the world all he required ...

A two volume masterpiece on ancient warfare Little needs to be said here about the fascinating era of the Roman Empire of the first century B. C., or ...

A complex and controversial Victorian's account of war It is fatal to project the attitudes of the modern (or any) age onto those of another time or ...

An authentic journal of a French soldier through many campaigns The young Charles François rushed to fight for the cause of revolutionary France ...

The first campaign in which British Army cavalry fought with the lance Napoleon’s light cavalry taught its enemies, in harshly learned lessons ...

The Knights of the white cross The Order of Knights Hospitallers-or Knights of St John-originated in the times of the Crusades in 1119, though the foundation ...

The long legs of the law George Barr McCutcheon, the author of this special Leonaur two-in-one edition of the Anderson Crow stories, is perhaps better ...

The story of Japan’s premier naval commander and his greatest victory Togo Heihachiro was a gensui (admiral) of the fleet of the Imperial Japanese ...

The astonishing last days of the Russian imperial dynasty The principal work in this special Leonaur edition caused a sensation when it was first published ...

The second volume of an eight book collection from 'the grandfather of the ghost story' Whilst many highly regarded writers have created collections of ...

Experiences of the wife of an officer in green Mrs Fitz Maurice's book, The Rifleman's Wife is often quoted in Cope's History of the Rifle Brigade, the ...

Volume two of the cases of Joseph Müller The success of stories of mystery, crime and detection rely inevitably and heavily on the persona of the ...

Caught between the red and the black-Quatermain at war! In this, the fourth volume of Allan Quatermain's adventures in the turbulent world of nineteenth ...

Dangerous by name-dangerous by nature All three volumes of George Augustus Sala's rollicking adventures of Captain Dangerous have been brought together ...

M. R. James is widely acknowledged as having been one of the finest exponents of the literary ghost story. Almost everyone who enjoys or has an interest ...

A notorious commander of Union cavalry and his infamous raid into the Confederacy The subject of this book, Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, claimed the dubious ...

In the hands of the Turks during the Great War The author of this book, John Still, was an officer in the 6th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment ...

With the Iron Brigade on campaign and battlefield For students of the American Civil War, the name Rufus Dawes will be forever associated with the famous ...

The third volume in this stunning series of adventures in the distant past Rider Haggard is one of the most famous authors of adventure fiction in the ...

The collected Gestes-the first volume of a four volume set There are some works of fiction and their characters, that are familiar to practically everyone-whether ...

An edition specially enhanced with many photographs and maps There remains an abiding interest and enthusiasm among many military history students of ...

Mosby and his Gray Raiders ride out for a final time This unique Leonaur book is the final volume of three that gather together the accounts of the ...

Volume 2-the investiture of Badajoz to the Campaign in Southern France, 1814 The author of this history of Wellington's Peninsular War, Captain Lewis ...

The Blue Jackets who fought on land The time of Nelson was not only notable because of the success in nautical warfare of the man himself, but also ...