Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England by C. Firth (1900)
Soldiers of Parliament: The Creation and Formation of the New Model Army During the English Civil War by C. Firth (2015)
Naseby 1645: The Triumph of the New Model Army by M. M. Evans (2007)
THE DUTCH MARINE CORPS
1666: Plague, War and Hellfire by R. Rideal (2016)
A Distant Storm: The Four Days’ Battle of 1666, The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail by F. L. Fox (1996)
Neptune and the Netherlands: State, Economy and War at Sea in the Renaissance by L. Sicking (2004)
The Dutch on the Medway by C. Macfarlane (1897)
The Dutch on the Medway by P. G. Rogers (1970)
The Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars, 1652–1674 by R. Hainsworth and C. Churchers (1998)
The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th Century by C. R. Boxer (1974)
The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century by J. R. Jones (1996)
THE BRITISH LIGHT INFANTRY
British Light Infantry in the Eighteenth Century by J. F. C. Fuller (1925)
General Craufurd and His Light Division by A. Craufurd (1906)
How England Saved Europe: The Story of the Great War, The War in the Peninsula by W. H. Fitchett (1900)
Rifles at Waterloo by R. Cooper and G. Caldwell (1995)
The Peninsular War, 1807–1814: A Concise Military History by M. Glover (1974)
The Waterloo Campaign: June 1815 by A. A. Nofi (1998)
Wellington’s Peninsula Regiments: The Light Infantry by M. Chappell (2004)
THE IRON BRIGADE
Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade by A. T. Nolan and S. E. Vipond (1998)
The Iron Brigade by J. Selby (1971)
The Iron Brigade: A Military History by A. T. Nolan (1961)
Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign by L. J. Herdegen (2008)
THE STORMTROOPERS
Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914–1918 by B. I. Gudmundsson (1985)
Storm Troops: Austro-Hungarian Assault Units and Commandos in the First World War by C. Ortner (2006)
The Blitzkrieg Campaigns: Germany’s ‘Lightning War’ Strategy in Action by J. Delaney (1996)
Storm of Steel by E. Junger (1920)
THE RAF AND THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by L. Deighton (1977)
Spitfire: A Very British Love Story by J. Nichol (2018)
The Battle of Britain by K. Moore (2010)
The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II by R. Hough and D. Richards (2005)
The Narrow Margin: The Battle of Britain and the Rise of Air Power 1930–1940 by D. Dempster and D. Wood (1961)
THE COMMANDOS
Commando by C. Terrill (2008)
Into the Jaws of Death: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on Saint-Nazaire by R. Lyman (2013)
St Nazaire 1942: The Great Commando Raid by K. Ford (2001)
The Raiders: Army Commandos 1940–1946 by R. Neillands (1989)
The Royal Marine Commandos: The Inside Story of a Force for the Future by J. Parker (2007)
The Royal Marines: From Sea Soldiers to a Special Force by J. Thompson (2004)
HITLER’S BRANDENBURGERS
Behind Soviet Lines: Hitler’s Brandenburgers Capture the Maikop Oilfields 1942 by D. Higgins (2014)
Brandenburg Division: Commandos of the Reich by E. Lefevre (1999)
German Special Forces of World War II by G. Williamson (2009)
Hitler’s Brandenburgers: The Third Reich’s Elite Special Forces by L. Paterson (2018)
Kommando: German Special Forces of World War Two by J. Lucas (2014)
THE PARATROOPERS
Airborne: World War II Paratroopers in Combat by J. Guard (2007)
Arnhem, Jumping the Rhine, 1944 and 1945: The Greatest Airborne Battle in History by L. Clark (2009)
Paratrooper! The Saga of Parachute and Glider Combat Troops During World War II by G. M. Devlin (1979)
The Paras: The Birth of the British Airborne Forces from Churchill’s Raiders to 1st Parachute Brigade by W. F. Buckingham (2008)
The Paras: The Inside Story of Britain’s Toughest Regiment by J. Parker (2000)
THE SAS
Heroes of the SAS: True Stories of the British Army’s Elite Special Forces Regiment by B. Davies (2007)
The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS in Their Own Words by G. Stevens (2005)
The SAS at Close Quarters by S. Crawford (1993)
The SAS in Action by P. Macdonald (1990)
The SAS: The Official History by P. Warner (1988)
Who Dares Wins: The SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege by P. Winner and G. Fremont-Barnes (2009)
THE GREEN BERETS
12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers by D. Stanton (2009)
Green Berets at War: US Special Forces in Southeast Asia, 1956–1975 by S. L. Stanton (1999)
Inside the Green Berets: The First Thirty Years by C. M. Simpson III (1985)
Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces by L. Robinson (2004)
United States Special Operations Forces by C. Lamb and D. Tucker (2007)
THE US NAVY SEALS
No Easy Day: The Only First Hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by M. Owen (2013)
The Operator: The Seal Team Operative and the Mission that Changed the World by R. O’Neill (2017)
US Navy Seals by M. Bahmanyar (2005)
US Special Operations Forces in Action: The Challenge of Unconventional Warfare by T. Adams (1998)
INDEX
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Abbasid Caliphate, 132
Abbottabad, 328, 331–3, 336, 339
Abrocomes, 28
Abwehr, 258–62
Abwehr II, 260, 261, 262
acemi oğlan, 136
Acre, 90, 90–3, 96–8
Acre, Siege of, 92
Adoo, 25–6, 104, 321
Aemilius Regulus, 64
Aeschylus, 28–9
Afghanistan, 11, 48–9, 115, 225, 263, 307, 308–27, 331, 333, 336
Soviet invasion of, 314
Agesilaus, King, 30, 31, 32, 36–7, 40
Agincourt, Battle of, 155
Ain Jalut, 132
Air Ministry, 233, 274
Airborne Forces Depot, 280
Airborne (parachute) School (US), 310
Al-Andalus, 129
al-Durr, Shajar, 131
al-Kuwaiti, Abu Ahmed, 328
Al-Mansurah, 130
al-Maqrizi, 129–30
al-Mulk, Nizam, 99, 101, 103
al-Qaeda, 102, 308, 323–5, 327, 328, 336
Alamut Castle, 101
Albany, Duke of, 153
Albert Canal, 273
Aldershot, 7
Aleppo, 87, 105, 132
Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon), 42, 43–56
birth of, 44–5
Roxana marries, 55
Alexander IV of Macedon, 56
Alexandria, 63
Alexius Comnenus, 81
Alfonso of Aragon, 140
algorithms, 340
Allen, Maj. Thomas, 210
Alps, 51
Amasis II, Pharaoh, 14, 17
Amazon Echo, 339
American Civil War, 207, 208–16
Amnesty International (AI), 314
Amu Darya, River, 319
Anapa, 267
Anaxandridas II, 23
ancient Egypt, 14–17, 19, 61, 63
a
ncient Greece, 15–23, 26–9, 30–42, 43–9, 71–4, 76–7
ancient Rome, see Roman Empire; Roman Republic
Andover, 230
Anglo-Dutch Wars, 182, 183
Anicus Ceralis, 64
Anio Novus, 62
Annius Minucianus, 64
Antarctica, 48, 116, 119, 149, 199, 322
anti-aircraft commands, 230, 285, 288, 313
anti-Nazis, 259–61
anti-tank guns, 321
anti-tank positions, 268, 281, 287
Antioch, 96, 133
AP, 340
Apis calf, 17
Apollo, 63
apple counterbalances, 12
Apries (pharaoh’s daughter), 14
Apschetousk, 269
Aqua Claudia, 62
aqueducts, 62
arabaci, 137
Arabia, 11
archers/archery, 13, 28, 49, 51, 87–8, 127–8, 135–6, 144
Archias of Thebes, 31–2, 46
Arctic Ocean, 48
Arethusa, HMS, 282, 287, 289, 290
Armavir, 267
Armed Forces High Command (Germany), see OKW
Armenia, 11, 73, 87
Army Air Corps (Britain), 278
Army Group South (Germany), 264
Army Special Forces (US), 310
Arnold, Hugh, 254
Arnórsson (skáld; poet), 76
arquebusiers, 148, 149, 152, 156
Arras, Battle of, 217
Arrian of Nicomedia, 49
Arsuf, Battle of, 93–5, 133
artillery, 134, 136, 152, 209, 215, 217, 219, 221–4, 230, 269, 277
Ascalon, 90, 96
Asia Minor, 71, 76, 81, 140
Askari people, 259
assassination, 8, 47, 56, 57, 64–5, 101–9 passim, 125, 162, 164–5, 270, 295, 340
Assassins, 98–109, 159, 162
assault cannons, 219
Assyria, 115
Astyages, King, 9, 10
Athenian democracy, 30
Athens, 18, 23, 30–1, 36–7, 39, 43, 46
Attic helmets, 57
Auchinleck, Gen Sir Claude, 293–4
Augustus, Emperor, 57–8
Australia, 234
Austria, 196, 220, 222, 259, 265
autonomous systems, 341
axes, 52, 70, 79, 136
Aybak, Izz al-Dīn, 107, 131
Ayyubid dynasty, 87, 88, 93–5
Azerbaijan, 11, 117
Azov Sea, 122
Azuchi Castle, 163
Babylon, 9, 11, 12, 14
Bachait bin Shemtot bin Samra, 35
Bactria, 48, 49
Badger State, 213
Baghdad, 103, 131, 133, 338
Bagram airbase, 333, 336
Baha ad-Din, 92
Bahriyya Regiment, 128
Baibars (Mamluk commander), 126–33
Baird, Gen. David, 197
Baku, 269
Baldwin de Boulogne, 82
Balkans, 71, 217, 263
balloon commands, 230
Baltic Sea, 124
Baltic states, 265, 266
Baluch people, 34, 35
Banbury, 169
Banbury, Sir Henry, 195–6
Bangalore torpedoes, 247, 288
Bank, Col. Aaron, 310
barbarian hordes, 28, 43, 203
barrage ballons, 276
Basil II, 71–2, 73, 76
Bastet (goddess), 15, 16
Bataillon Ebbinghaus, 259
Baxter, Richard, 171–2
BBC World Service, 293, 301
Beaverbrook, Lord, 233–4
Beirut, 90
Bela IV, 124
Belgium, 1, 83, 263, 273, 341
Benavente, 201
Benouville, 280, 284, 290
Bentley Priory, 231, 237
Bergen, 183
B52s, 319
Bicocca, La, 151–2
Biggin Hill, 236, 238
bin Laden, Khalid, 334–5
bin Laden, Osama, 308, 309, 313, 323, 327, 328–9, 331–6, 339
Bismarck, SMS, 243–4
Blachernae Wall, 142
Black Band (see also German Landsknechts; Landsknechts)
Black Band Landsknechts, 151, 154
Black, Cofer, 309
black crows, see Halifax bombers
Black Death, 125
Black Hats, 214
Black Hawks, 332, 333, 336
Black Sea, 123, 126
Black September Organisation, 297
Blackwater, 337, 338
Blakeney, ENS Robert, 204
Blessed Gerard, 86
Blue Teams (SAS), 300, 301, 302, 305
Boar Snout manoeuvre, 73
body armour, 22, 57, 106, 221, 299, 303, 333
bodyguards, 12, 57–69, 71, 104, 106–7, 128, 150, 162, 163
Boeotia, Greece, 33, 46
Boer War, 245
Bohemia, 121
Bolli, 74–5
Bolsheviks, 260
Bomber Command (Britain), 230
bombs/bombing, 4, 139, 166, 218, 228, 230, 232, 235–41, 244, 248, 251–3, 276, 280, 283, 285, 289, 290, 296, 309, 314, 316, 318, 320–1, 323–6, 337–8
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1, 97, 192, 194, 196–7, 200–2, 206
Booth, Patrick, 119
börks, 136
bots, 340
Bowers, Lt Col. Max, 312, 323–4
bows and arrows, 104, 158
brainwashing, 101–2, 104
Brakel, Capt. James van, see van Brakel, Capt. James
Brand, Quentin, 234
Brandenburg, 260, 262
Brandenburg Regiment, 261
Brandenburgers, 258–71, 341
Brawner’s Farm, 210
Bren guns, 283
Britain, Battle of, 227–42, 243, 338
British Army, 7, 193–208, 218, 225 (see also Light Infantry; Paratroopers; SAS)
British Rail (BR), 192
Broccoli, Cubby, 263
Bromley, 241
Brotherhood of the Spoon, 136
Broughton Castle, 169
Brown, Dan, 85
Browning, Brig. Frederick, 277
Browning Hi-Power (9mm), 304
Brussels, 83
Buckingham Palace, 227, 239
BUD/S, 330
bugging devices, 339
Bulgaria, 73, 126
Burgoyne, Capt. J. F., 200
Burgundian Wars, 145–8
Burgundy, Duke of, see Charles the Bold; Charles V, Emperor
Burntisland, 250
Burton, Charles, 48
Bush, President W, 308
bushidō, 157–8
Bushmen, 183
Byzantine Empire, 71–3, 75–80, 81–2, 134–5, 138–43
Cacabelos, 203
cadet schools, 7, 136
Cadmea, Thebes, 36
Caen Canal, 279, 290–1
Caesonia, 65
Cairo, 4, 99, 105, 127–8, 130, 132, 133, 293
Calais, 240
California, 330
Caligula, Emperor, 57, 58–9, 60, 61–3
death of, 64–5
caliphates, 127, 132, 144
calories, 116
Calsow, Maj., 219
Cambrai, 218, 222
Cambridge, 171, 181
Cambyses II, 14–17
camouflage, 160, 262, 284
Campbeltown, HMS, 249, 251–3, 256
Canada, 234, 283
Canaris, ADM Wilhelm, 258–61, 264, 270–1
cannons, 77, 138–40, 142, 152, 154, 187–8, 219, 232, 234–5, 249
canoeing, 191, 192, 211
Canterbury, 238
Cape Agulhas, 183
Cape Town, 182
Capitol, US, 209
Capitoline Hill, 61
Caporetto mountains, 222
Capri, 60, 61
Cardiff, 250
Carnwath, Earl of, 179
Carpathian mountains, 110, 124
carri
er pigeons, 282, 289
Caspian Sea, 99, 115, 116–17
Cassander, King, 45
Cassius Chaerea, 58–9, 60, 62, 64–6
Cassius Dio, 58, 62, 66
Castle Combe, 284
Castra Praetoria, 59, 61, 66
Catholic Church, 84, 168–9
cats, ancient Egyptians revere, 15–16, 17
Caucasus mountains, 117–19, 123, 264
Caucasus oilfields, 264
Cavaliers, 167, 169
Cebeci corps, 136, 137
Cemetery Hill, 215
Cemetery Ridge, 215
Central Landing School, 275
ceremonial battle helmets, 166
Cessnas, 277
Chaeronea, 43, 45, 47
Chaeronea, Greece, 43, 45, 47
Chancellorsville, 214
Chant, Lt, 254–5
chaplains, 136, 150
Chapman, Roger, 119
chariot races, 61
Charisian Gate, 140
Charles the Bold (Duke of Burgundy), 145, 146
Charles I, 167–9, 172–3, 176–7, 179–80
Charles II, 180–1, 182, 184–5, 189
Charles V, 187
Charles V, Emperor (King of Spain; Duke of Burgundy), 97, 151–5
Charles V, HMS, 187, 188
Charles VIII of France, 146
Charon of Thebes, 31
Chase, Prof. Kenneth Warren, 137
Chatham Dockyard, 184–8 passim, 191
‘check-ins’, 339
Cherry-Garrard, Ashley, 198
Chesterfield, 274
China, 7, 115, 123, 125, 137, 341
Chinooks, 313, 333, 336
Christian Crusaders, see Crusades
Christine (cook), 138
Churchill, Sir Winston, 3, 4, 229, 240, 242, 244, 245, 249, 271, 273–4, 278
CIA, 309–10, 315, 325, 328–9, 334, 339
Cincinnati Daily Commercial, 214
Circus of Gaius, 61
Citadel of Cairo, 127
civil war, 66, 157, 166, 167–81, 207, 209, 216, 228
clandestine missions, 263, 338
Clarke, Lt Col. Dudley, 244–5
Claudius, Emperor, 65
Clement V, Pope, 97
Clement VII, Pope, 152
Cleombrotus, King, 30, 40–1
Cleomenes I, 23
climate change, 341
Clinton, Hillary, 340
close-quarters battle (CQB), 298, 299, 311
clubs, 136
Coastal Command (Britain), 230
code words, 282, 289, 302
Colbert-Chabanais, Gen. Auguste François-Marie de, 203–4
Cold War, 7, 192, 310
Colditz, 294
Colonna, Prospero, 151–2
Columbus, Christopher, 80
Combined Operations, 245, 248
commandos, 243–57
uniform set of standards for, 246–8
Commission of Array, 169
Commonwealth, 182, 183, 234
compagnie, 145
Companion Cavalry/Companions, 45, 56