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Photographic history of the POW camp that inspired the film The Great Escape.

Key work built on interviews with dozens of former prisoners and relatives of the 50 prisoners of The Great Escape who were shot. Updated for the 75th anniversary of the mass breakout

The sinking of the Lusitania is an event that has been predominantly discussed from a political or maritime perspective. For the first time, The Lusitania Sinking tells the story in the emotive framework of a family looking for information on their son's death.

First-hand contemporaneous notes and diaries of a German soldier form the basis of an authentic and powerful memoir.

This is the memoirs of Bram Vanderstok, number 18 of 76 men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III. The 1963 film The Great Escape, made this breakout the most famous of the Second World War: this is the true story of one of only three successful escapees.

Honest account by one of only three successful escapees from Stalag Luft III.

The Sniper Encyclopaedia is an indispensable alphabetical, topic-by-topic guide to a fascinating subject.It is intended as a companion volume to John Walter's Snipers at War (Greenhill Books, 2017) and is another addition to the Greenhill Sniper Library which includes a series of first-person memoirs.This is a comprehensive work that covers virtually every aspect of sniping. The work contains personal details of hundreds of snipers, including world-renowned gurus such as Vasiliy Zaytsev and Chris Kyle as well as many crack shots generally overlooked by history. Among them are some of more than a thousand Red Army snipers, men and a surprising number of women, who amassed sufficient kills to be awarded the Medal for Courage and, later, the Order of Glory. Some of the best-known victims of snipers are identified, and the veracity of some of the most popular myths is explored.The book pays special attention to the history and development of the many specialist sniper rifles - some more successful than others - that have served the world’s armies since the American Wars of the nineteenth century to today’s technology-based conflicts. Attention, too, is paid to the progress made with ammunition—without which, of course, precision shooting would be impossible and the development of aids and accessories, from camouflage clothing to laser rangefinders.Finally, The Sniper Encyclopaedia examines place and specific campaigns - the way marksman have influenced the course of the individual battles and locations which have played a crucial part in the history of sniping, from individual sites to sniper schools and training grounds.The book contains authors’ biographies, a critical assessment of the many books and memoirs from the world of the sniper, and a guide to research techniques.

The most comprehensive account available on the final years of the crusading military order, the Teutonic Knights.

First-person account of the SBS Mediterranean campaign.

A new understanding and perspective to 'Operation Tabarin', Britain's clandestine and vitally important wartime Antarctic expedition.

Insights from three of Hitler's subjects on his daily life providing intimate details of Hitler's habits, health and behaviours.

Comprehensive biography of 'Silent Otto' from his English schooling to his death in 1998

The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England and America.In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, she left her university studies, ignored the offer of a position as a nurse, to become one of Soviet Russia's 2000 female snipers.Less than a year later she had 309 recorded kills, including 29 enemy sniper kills. She was withdrawn from active duty after being injured. She was also regarded as a key heroic figure for the war effort.She spoke at rallies in Canada and the US and the folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote a song, 'Killed By A Gun' about her exploits. Her US trip included a tour of the White House with FDR. In November 1942 she visited Coventry and accepted donations of £4,516 from Coventry workers to pay for three X-ray units for the Red Army. She also visited a Birmingham factory as part of her fundraising tour.She never returned to combat but trained other snipers. After the war, she finished her education at Kiev University and began a career as a historian. She died on October 10, 1974 at age 58, and was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

A retelling of the Battle of Waterloo based on plausible alternate decisions

Detailed study of the five great phases of the Battle of Waterloo

Biography of Wolfgang Luth, one of only seven men to win Germany s highest combat decoration

First-person accounts from the Eastern Front, illustrated with contemporary photos taken by the author

A guide to the machine-gun. After tracing the rise of the weapon and its development, John Walter presents a directory of the key models and variants produced after 1945 and provides statistical data and evaluation reports.