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Alexander the Great - Conqueror, Commander, King by John Sadler; Rosie Serdiville
Category: Biography | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
Alexander was perhaps the greatest conquering general in history. In just over a generation, his northern Greek state of Macedon rose to control the whole of the vast Persian Empire. It was the legacy of his father, Philip, that launched Alexander on a spectacular career of conquest that planted Helleni ...Show more
Cromwell's Convicts - The Death March from Dunbar 1650 by John Sadler; Rosie Serdiville
Category: History
On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour - but the aftermath, the forced march of 5,000 prisoners from the battlefield to Durham, was one of the cruellest episodes in his career. ...Show more
D-Day: The British Beach Landings by John Sadler
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe, began on the night of June 5-6 1944. At 07.00 hours on the 6th, Britain's First Corps and XXX Corps came ashore on Sword and Gold beaches, to withering fire from the entrenched German forces. Within the initial and critical couple of hours some 30,000 soldiers, 300 ...Show more
El Alamein: The Story of the Battle in the Words of the Soldiers by John Sadler
Category: Military
The epic battle in Egypt between Britain's 'Desert Rats' and the Axis forces led by Rommel, the 'Desert Fox'.
Fighter Aces : Knights of the Sky by Rosie John; Serdiville Sadler
Category: Military History | Series: Casemate Short History
Knights: Chivalry and Violence by John Sadler
Category: European History | Series: Casemate Short History
Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularised in medieval European literature. Knights were expected to fight bravely and honourably and be loyal to their lord until death if necessary. Later chivalry came to encompass activities s ...Show more
The Casemate Short History of Tommies by John Sadler; Rosie Serdiville
Category: Military | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
The Casemate Short History Series presents readable and entertaining introductions to military history topics. British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the nickname is particularly associated with the British infantryman in the trenches of World War I. In August 1914, a small profe ...Show more
The Heavy Water War - Beating Hitler to the Bomb by John Sadler
Category: Military
If Hitler had succeeded in developing a nuclear bomb, that could have been both the end of the Second World War and of civilization as we know it. A handful of commandos stopped him. During the course of the Second World War, the Allies mounted a series of attempts to prevent Germany from manufacturing ...Show more
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