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  1. The British Army Guide

    Heyman, Charles
    Pen and Sword

    In 1984 the first edition of the British Army Guide was published and in May 2011 the 12th edition will be on sale. This invaluable information resource which deals with all aspect...

  2. Cook's Encyclopaedia

    Stobart, Tom
    Grub Street

    Here in almost 500 pages is a descriptive compendium of just about everything we eat and how we cook it. Arranged alphabetically from Abalone to Zampone, the majority of entries in...

  3. Riflemen Form

    Beckett, Ian F.W.
    Pen and Sword

    Lt.-Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley commented that history would record the formation of the Volunteers Movement as one of the most remarkable events in the century. In this study of the...

  4. Armed Forces of the United Kingdom 2007-2008

    Heyman, Charles
    Pen and Sword

    This comprehensive pocket guide includes full and up-to-date details of all British military organizations and structures. This edition includes detail regarding all of the UK MoD’...

  5. Keeping Short-necked Turtles Emydura species

    Green, Darren
    ABK Publications

    This book covers all known Short-necked Turtles in the genus Emydura, but may also be applied to other "short-necked" turtles such as Elseya and Elusor. A must for anyone intereste...

  6. Keeping Australian Geckos

    Porter, Rob
    ABK Publications

    There are a large number of fascinating gecko varieties in Australia and Rob Porter's book brings greater knowlegde and understanding. The book covers not only basic keeping and ma...

  7. A Guide to Zebra Finches, their Colour Varieties, Management and Breeding

    Lewis, Milton; Lewis, Joan
    ABK Publications

    This title features 96 pages of easy-to-read, highly informative text covering such topics as History and Ecology, Housing, Feeding, Health, Choosing Stock, Exhibiting, and all cur...

  8. Royal Corps of Signals, Supplementary Volume

    Lord, Cliff
    Helion and Company

    With the interest shown in "The Royal Corps of Signals: Unit History (1920-2001) and their Antecedents", it was decided to extend the work to include some of the principal Commonwe...

  9. Yorkshire VCs

    Whitworth, Alan
    Pen and Sword

    Today the Victoria Cross remains the supreme British award for bravery. It takes precedence over all other awards and decorations. During its 160-year history, since the first of t...

  10. The British Army Guide

    Heyman, Charles
    Pen and Sword

    In 1984 the first edition of the British Army Guide was published and in September 2015 the 13th edition will be on sale. This invaluable information resource which deals with all...

  11. A Guide to Australian Monitors in Captivity

    Brown, Danny
    ABK Publications

    Detailed information on all aspects of captive husbandry relating to the most commonly kept species of Australian monitor species including individual chapters on Large Terrestrial...

  12. 'Theirs Not To Reason Why'

    Winton, Graham
    Helion and Company

    Nominated for the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Book Prize 2013 Nominated for the NYMAS Arthur Goodzeit Book Award 2013Nominated for the SAHR Templer Medal 2013 This book pro...

  13. How to Undertake Surveillance and Reconnaissance

    Prunckun, Henry
    Pen and Sword

    How to Undertake Surveillance and Reconnaissance offers you a systemic way to learn about these fascinating subjects—what they are and what they are not. In doing so, it will teach...

  14. Boeing 747: A History

    Bowman, Martin W.
    Pen and Sword

    There is perhaps no other commercial airliner as iconic as the Boeing 747. A presence in our skies for over forty years, it has transported hundreds of thousands of passengers acro...

  15. Panzer III at War 1939-1945

    Thomas, Paul
    Pen and Sword

    With comprehensive captions and text this superb book is the latest in the best selling Images of War Series and the second instalment of the Author’s pictorial history of the Germ...

  16. The Great Boer War

    Farwell, Byron
    Pen and Sword

    The Great Boer War (1899 - 1902) – more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War – was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the i...

  17. A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume II

    Gibb, E. J. W.
    Gibb Memorial Trust

    The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time...

  18. Tahafut al Tahafut

    , Averroes
    Gibb Memorial Trust

    Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Córdoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical traditi...

  19. Military History on the Web

    Fowler, Simon
    Pen and Sword

    There are thousands of websites devoted to all aspects of military history from ancient Greece to the modern Gulf. This unique book helps you find the ones that will help with your...

  20. Napoleonic Lives

    Divall, Carole
    Pen and Sword

    Two hundred years ago the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars convulsed the whole of Europe. These were key events in the history of the continent, and for Britain, and they are a fa...