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FALKLANDS WAR
A veteran mortarman’s deep guide to Falklands campaign terrain: peat, ridges, roadless movement, observation, helicopter limits, artillery ammunition, the San Carlos–Stanley routes and why a short distance on a map could become...
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Surgeon James Henry Reynolds VC, focusing on medical care, casualty management and professional duty under fire during the defence of Rorke’s Drift.
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Private John Williams VC, born John Fielding, focusing on his role in opening escape routes through the hospital walls and saving patients at Rorke’s Drift.
FALKLANDS WAR
The political and diplomatic road to the 1982 Falklands War: the sovereignty dispute, failed negotiations, South Georgia crisis, Argentine junta, Thatcher government, UN Resolution 502, Haig shuttle diplomacy, US policy and the...
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Private William Jones VC, focusing on his joint defence of the hospital ward at Rorke’s Drift and the evacuation of patients under direct attack.
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Private Robert Jones VC, one of the hospital defenders at Rorke’s Drift, focusing on the ward fighting and evacuation of patients.
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Private Alfred Henry Hook VC, one of the hospital defenders at Rorke’s Drift, focusing on close-quarter fighting and the rescue of patients.
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Private Frederick Hitch VC, focusing on his role in the hospital fighting and his continued service after being wounded at Rorke’s Drift.
NAPOLEONIC WARS
A comprehensive veteran-led guide to Waterloo, 18 June 1815: the Hundred Days political context, Ligny and Quatre Bras, battlefield terrain and attack axes, Anglo-Allied, French and Prussian orders of battle, commanders, detailed...
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Corporal William Wilson Allen VC, one of the defenders of the hospital at Rorke’s Drift, focusing on his role in keeping the evacuation route open despite serious wounds.
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Ntshingwayo kaMahole, senior Zulu commander at Isandlwana, focusing on concealment, deployment and the command achievement behind the Zulu victory.
NAPOLEONIC WARS
A complete field guide to Napoleon’s Hundred Days and the 1815 Belgian campaign: the return from Elba, mobilisation, Charleroi, Ligny, Quatre Bras, the retreat in rain, Waterloo, Wavre, orders of battle, command...
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