Battle Story - the only books that will ensure you know what happened and why at every battle in history The Fall of Singapore remains a crushing defeat that sent shockwaves around the British Empire during the Second World War.
EXPLORE HISTORY'S MAJOR CONFLICTS WITH BATTLE STORY ISANDLWANA 1879 EDMUND YORKE BATTLE STORY TOBRUK 1941 PIER PAOLO ... 9.99 BATTLE OF THE BULGE 1944-45 ANDREW RAWSON CAMBRAI 1917 CHRIS MINAB BATTLE STORY SINGAPORE 1942 CHRIS BROWN IWO ...
The Gallipoli campaign was in some ways the brainchild of First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, who saw an attack on the Dardanelles as a way to break through the stalemate in supplying the Eastern Front.
... War. The 7.92mm Gewehr '98 introduced into service with the Imperial German Army ... one of the highest velocity rounds of the First World War – the 'S round' had a muzzle velocity of 2,882ft per second (fps). In contrast the British .303 ...
... A Wood Called Bourlon: The Cover-Up After Cambrai 1917 (London, Leo Cooper, 1988) Saunders, Anthony, The Weapons of Trench Warfare 1914–18 (Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 2000) Smithers, A.J., Cambrai: The First Great Tank Battle 1917 ...