Jon Sutherland: 16 books

The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album that belonged to a member of the elite German Paratroopers. First Sgt Wilhelm Plieschen served with Fallschirmjager Machine Gun Battalion 7, which suffered very heavy losses in the invasion of Crete, then saw bloody conflict as Hitler’s...

From the Declaration of War by Britain and France on September 3rd 1939 to the horrific atomic conclusion of the war against Japan in August 1945, the Second World War drew every country into its grasp. Bloody campaigns in Europe, the Pacific, the East and the Middle East created a scale of carnage...

U Boats were the scourge of the seas for Allied shipping during both World Wars – almost bringing Britain to the brink of starvation on several occasions. This book contains unseen photographs taken by German submarine crew and captains during each war. The World War One selection features...

Horrifying, yet strangely intriguing, the world of crime has been fascinating people for centuries. This compelling new ebook is a comprehensive guide to the most bloody crimes and criminals in history, with detailed discussion of their minds and motivations and the methods that were used to track...

Working with prestigious archives of contemporary photographs, the authors chart the history of Britain's farming heritage with 120 rarely seen photographs. Nearly eleven thousand years ago humans moved away from hunting and gathering and began to raise livestock and plant crops. Our nostalgia for...

In June 1948, Joseph Stalin halted all road and rail traffic in to and out of the Allied sector of Berlin and cut off all electricity to the city. The only route into Berlin was by means of three twenty-mile-wide air corridors across the Soviet zone of Germany. Thus the wartime allies of Britain,...

Working with prestigious archives of contemporary photographs, the authors chart the history of Britain's fishing heritage with 120 rarely seen photographs. Fishermen were hardy individuals with a precarious existence dictated by the changing rhythm of the wind and the waves. While at sea, their womenfolk...

At the beginning of World War II the French faced the German invasion with 4,360 modern combat aircraft and 790 new machines currently arriving from French and American factories each month. When the phony war finally ended, some 119 of 210 squadrons were ready for action on the north-eastern front....

The Royal Naval Patrol Service, or Harry Tate’s Navy as it was commonly known, was a unique service with its own rules and regulations. The officers and seamen were mainly ex-fishermen who had manned trawlers in Icelandic waters. The service was armed mostly with obsolete weaponry and suffered heavy...

Between 1918 and 1986 the marine branch of the Royal Air Force provided rescue facilities, support and other services to this armed service. In its pre-1941 guise as the Air Sea Rescue service, the RAF had an inventory of over 200 motorboats, supported by float aircraft engaged in rescue, towing,...

This little known campaign against the Italian invasion of British Somalia was bravely fought by a small force of elderly RAF and Commonwealth aircraft against almost overwhelming odds. This, against a backdrop of Britain’s meager assets being in demand in the much more prominent and important theatres...

AUSGEZEICHNET MIT DEM RPC JURY AWARD 2012 Erlebe die spektakulärsten Momente der Weltgeschichte und habe aktiv teil daran. In der Spielbuchreihe "ABENTEUER WELTGESCHICHTE" entscheidest du über den Verlauf der Geschichte! Die "INVASION DER NORMANNEN" führt dich in die Zeit der Schlacht von Hastings,...

Erlebe die spektakulärsten Momente der Weltgeschichte und nimm aktiv daran teil. In der Reihe SPIELBUCH-ABENTEUER WELTGESCHICHTE entscheidest du über den Verlauf der Geschichte! "DIE SPANISCHE ARMADA" führt dich zurück in die Zeit der Segelschiffe und Kriege auf hoher See. Zwei Großmächte des 16....

The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval engagement of the First World War, if not any war. Admiral Scheer had adopted a policy of launching attacks against the British coast. What he did not know was that the British had broken his naval codes and that they knew of his plans. Consequently, when...