Media: BOOK - paperback, 222 pages
Author: S. Fowler
Year: 2007
ISBN: 9781844156061
Other: b&w photos, appendixes
Publisher: Pen & Sword

There are thousands of websites devoted to all aspects of military history from the ancient Battle of Hastings to the modern Gulf. This unique book helps you find the ones that will help with your research, whether you are checking out a soldier ancestor, an airman or researching a naval campaign.

It also features sites that are entertaining or controversial. Sections cover the British armed services and their long military history, and the author also describes in detail websites that focus on American and Canadian forces. "A Guide to Military History on the Internet" is a companion volume to Pen and Sword's best-selling "Tracing Your Army Ancestors" by the same author.

Includes websites relevant for researching British, American, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian Forces.

Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
- Accuracy
- Using Search Engines Effectively
- Technical Requirements
1. General Resources
- Websites
- Overseas Websites
- Books
- Archives, Libraries and Museums
- Films
- Maps
- Paintings and Photographs
- Artefacts and Collectables
- Professional Researchers
- Creating Your Own Website
- Recent Technology
2. Researching Individuals
- Starting Out
- Mailing Lists
- Websites That Charge
- Free Resources
- Medals
- Tracing Sailors
- Local History
- Further Reading
3. War Memorials and Rolls of Honour
- National Records
- Local and Regional Surveys
- First World War Memorials
- First World War Memorials - Local
- Second World War Memorials
- Non-British War Memorials
4. Military Museums
- Finding Museums
- National Museums
- Museums in Scotland
- Army and Regimental Museums
- Naval Museums
- Aviation Museums
5. The Army
- Background Information
- Uniforms and Equipment
- Badges
- Regimental Histories
6. The Royal Navy 1700-1919
- Naval and Maritime History
- Background Information
- Royal Navy Ships
- The Eighteenth Century and Napoleonic Wars
- The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- First World War
7. Aviation and the Royal Air Force: General Sites and First World War
- British Aviation
- Air Forces Worldwide
- Royal Air Force
- Aviation Archaeology
- First World War
8. Wars and Campaigns 1066-1914
- Medieval and Tudor Warfare
- English Civil War
- Eighteenth Century Wars
- Napoleonic Wars
- Crimean War
- Colonial Wars
- Anglo-South African War 1899-1902
- India
9. First World War: Introduction
- Background Information
- Documents and Images Online
- Tracing Soldiers
- Blogs
- Battlefield Tourism
- Miscellaneous Sites
10. First World War: Campaigns and Battles
- Western Front
- Photographs and Maps
- Flanders, Ypres and Passchendaele
- France and The Somme
- Other Theatres of Operation
- Unit Histories
- The Experiences of Individuals
11. Second World War: Introduction and Campaigns
- Background Information
- Operations, Campaigns and Battles
- Arnhem/Operation Market Garden
- D-Day and North West Europe
- Dunkirk
- Mediterranean and Italy
- South East Asia
- Special Operations
- Prisoners of War
- Prisoners of War: Europe
- Prisoners of War: The Far East
- Escape and Evasion
12. Second World War: British Army and Royal Navy
- British Army
- Orders of Battle
- Armoured Vehicles
- Regimental and Unit Histories
- The Experiences of Individual Soldiers
- Royal Navy
- Background Information
- The Battle of the Atlantic
- Named Ships
- The Experiences of Individual Seamen
13. Second World War: The Royal Air Force
- Background Information
- Organisational Structure and Commands
- Aircraft
- Air Operations
- Battle of Britain
- Squadrons and Units
- RAF Stations
- The Experiences of Individual Airmen
14. Second World War: The Home Front
- Preparations For a German Invasion and the Home Guard
- The War Locally
- Miscellaneous Sites
- Memories
- Photographs and Posters
- Links
15. Post War Conflicts and Experiences
- National Service
- Post-1945 Conflicts
- Korea
- Malaya and Borneo
- Suez
- The Falklands
- Royal Navy
- The Experiences and Individual Seamen
- Royal Navy: Miscellaneous
- Royal Air Force
- Aircraft
- RAF Stations
- The Experiences of Individual Airmen
- Miscellaneous Sites
16. English-Speaking Allies
- First World War
- Australia
- Canada
- New Zealand
- Fiji
- United States
- Second World War
- Australia
- Canada
- New Zealand
- United States
17. European and Other Allies
- First World War
- Second World War
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- France
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Soviet Union (Russia)
- Yugoslavia
18. Enemy Powers
- First World War
- Second World War
- Germany
- Wehrmacht
- Kriegsmaring
- Luftwaffe
- Prisoners of War
- Home Front
- Axis Forces
- War Crimes
Appendix 1: Top Ten Military Sites
Appendix 2: Weird and Odd Websites