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The Great Crimean War, 1854โ1856
The definitive history of the Crimean War from world-renowned historian Trevor Royle. The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It...
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660
One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to ...
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The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
The Best Years of Their Lives
More than 2 million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed forces during the period of National Service, which began after World War II and ...
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660
The entirety of the British Civil War has never been covered in a single volume--until now. While it is usually seen as an English conflict, Royle pai...
The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916
In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener's latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to...
The Story of Literary Edinburgh
Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful of the world's cities, a place of splendor whose craggy skyline brings together two entirely different worlds. ...
The Downfall of Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald
On a spring morning in 1903, Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of Britain's greatest military heroes, took his life in a hotel room in Paris. A ...
A Concise History
The Black Watch was formed at Aberfeldy in Perthshire in the early eighteenth century as an independent security force, or 'watch', to guard the appro...
Lessons in Leadership from the Soldier's General
The unique leadership and lasting legacy of the greatest British army commander of the Second World War and one of the most professional and well-like...
Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces suppo...
Scotland and the Second World War
Trevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country's geographical position gave it great str...
The War Correspondent's View of Battle from the Crimea to the Falklands
Whenever man has gone to war in modern times there has been no shortage of men and women to write about his exploits. They were known as war correspon...
The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earlies...
Scotland and the First World War
On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built shi...
The caves and dramatic limestone scenery of the Slovene karst have attracted visitors for centuries. The great stalagmites and roaring underground riv...
Scottish Writing from the First World War
As in the rest of Britain, the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 was met in Scotland with excitement and relief. In the field of literature too, the ini...
The Royal Highland Fusiliers came into being in 1959 as a result of the amalgamation of two regiments, both of which had strong connections with Glasg...
A Man of Genius 1903-1944
Winston Churchill described Wingate as a ยman of genius who might well have become a man of destinyย. Tragically, he died in an jungle aircraft cras...
Scottish Poetry and Prose of the First World War
This anthology is the first ever acknowledgement of Scotland's unique contribution to the literature of the First World War. Here are gathered togethe...
This is a collection of tales of adventure, romance and wrong-doing....
A Soldier's Memoir
When Ray Ward died in 1999, his sons discovered an old and dusty manuscript in an Afrika Korps ammunition box in the cellar of the family home in Glas...
The Royal Scots are Scotland's oldest infantry regiment, with a tradition that stretches back to 1633. This first concise history of the regiment is b...
The King's Own Scottish Borderers is one of only two Scottish regiments never to have been amalgamated until it joined forces with The Royal Scots to ...
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is one of the best-known regiments in the British Army. In a previous incarnation as the 93rd Highlanders, its s...
The Gordons recruited from the north-east of Scotland and the regiment's character was moulded by men from the farming counties of Aberdeenshire, Mora...
Created in 1961 as a result of the amalgamation of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and the Seaforth Highlanders, the Queen's Own Highlanders embod...
In May 1968, as part of cutbacks to the British Army, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was disbanded at a moving ceremony held at the same spot in Do...
Old Blood and Guts
General George Smith Patton came to the fore in the fighting in North Africa and Sicily in 1942 and 1943 as a tough and inspirational field commander ...
The Impertinent Saga of Scottish Fitba'
'It has to start somewhere for everyone, this daft, wild, extraordinary notion that happiness is a Scottish lap of honour and that the greatest, most ...
Scotland and the Cold War
The author of Culloden explores Scotlandโs history during the Cold War. Between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of Communism, confr...
The True Story of Fighting Mac
The history of the British Army is really the story of its regiments and the men who served in them. From the very beginning they formed the backbone ...
A Biography of James Kennaway
The National Service Experience, 1945-63