The First World War came to an end at 11.00am on the 11th of November, 1918 after four long years of fierce battles under the horrific conditions. ...

So great was the reputation of Scottish combat troops in the trench warfare of World War I that an unnamed commentator told Haldane, author of the ...

This historical guide retells the story of nine of the most important battles to be fought in Scotland south of the Highland Line, stretching from ...

Many books have been written about the Jacobite rebellions - the armed attempts made by the Stuarts to regain the British throne between 1689 and 1...

The Boy Scouts Association was just seven years old when war broke out in 1914\. With its members brought up with a strong ethos of duty and loyalt...

After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to s...

How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gr...

Although also known as the Third English Civil War, the author makes it clear that this was the last war between the Scots and English as separate ...

First published in 1966, Douglas Haig as I Knew Him is a memoir by G.S. Duncan, a Church of Scotland minister with whom Haig felt such an affinity ...

During the Second World War a number of industries in Dundee were of importance to the war effort. The jute industry, which had previously dominate...

In 1914, the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry Regiment was a cavalry regiment with its headquarters in Kirkcaldy and squadrons based in Dunfermline, Cupar,...

At the beginning of the twentieth century the then civilised world had everything to look forward to: the industrialisation of the previous hundred...

A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families. Letters from the Trenches reve...

This ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-361, this book covers the period 284-361, ...

The SAS burst onto the stage of public awareness in highly dramatic style. Thirty years ago families returning home after a day's outing on Bank Ho...

This is the fifth fully revised edition of a book first published in 1970. This longevity is testimony to its enduring value as a reference work--i...

An Army, 15,000 strong, reached the river barrier only to discover that the bridge had been broken. Engineers bridged the gap and an advanced force...

The Sword of Scotland is the story of Scotlands military heritage. Scotlands fighting men have played a part in shaping the history of our world, a...

The wars fought in Scotland's northern and western highlands between the ninth and fourteenth centuries were a key stage in the military history of...

Most people are familiar with references to Scottish battles such as Bannockburn and Flodden but know little if anything about those events. Rugby ...