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by Smith, Peter C
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
This is the wartime history of the battleship HMS Royal Sovereign, along with the story of her four sister ships HMS Revenge, HMS Resolution, HMS Royal Oak and HMS Ramillies. These ships were built and launched during World War I and although old and slow, and bitterly criticised by Churchill and...
Stilicho
The Vandal Who Saved Rome
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The period of history in which Stilicho lived was one of the most turbulent in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemingly ever-present internal revolts and...
Bad Girls from History
Wicked or Misunderstood?
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
You won't be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in these pages, but all, familiar or not, leave unanswered questions behind them. The range is extensive, as was the research, with its insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries, different countries, with...
by Pogozhev, Andrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
On 6 November 1942 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andrey Pogozhev. He survived, and this is his story. Pogozhev was caught by the Germans in 1941 and was sent to Auschwitz. The fact that Pogozhev survived the...
Target for Tonight
A pilot's memoirs of flying long-range reconnaissance and Pathfinder missions in World War II.
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
The author was born of a well-to-do Yorkshire family and joined the Auxiliary Air Force on his eighteenth birthday in 1939. On the occasion of Chamberlain's speech to the British nation on September 3 the situation changed dramatically and from being a 'super weekend club', his squadron was assigned...
Night and Day Bomber Offensive
Allied Airmen in World World II Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
For much of World War II England provided the only western European base from which the British and American air forces could take the war into Nazi-occupied Europe and Germany itself. The American Eighth and Ninth Air Forces struck enemy targets by day at great distances, often on raids of eight...
English Electric Canberra
The History and Development of a Classic Jet
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
This amazing airplane first flew in 1949 and is still in front-line service with the RAF. It has served in a variety of roles including those of tactical bomber, photo-reconnaissance, navigational trainer, maritime strike, electronic countermeasures and target-towing. It was manufactured in the USA...
The US Eighth Air Force in Europe
Black Thursday Blood and Oil, Vol 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
This book describes the period when the American daylight offensive faltered and nearly failed and recalls the terrible losses suffered by Liberators on the low-level attack on the Ploesti oilfields in Rumania and by the B-17s on the notorious Schweinfurt and Regensburg raids which entered 8th Air...
Night of the Intruders
The Slaughter of Homeward Bound USAAF Mission 311
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This is the full account of USAAF Mission 311 on 22 April 1944 when American bombers suffered their highest ever loss to German intruders. The German fighters followed the air armada home after the raid, picking individual bombers off on their return over Europe and then over England as the American...
On Laughter-Silvered Wings
The Story of Lt. Col. E.T (Ted) Strever D.F.C
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
This well written and thoroughly researched biographical account of the life and times of a South African WW2 pilot (the author's father) is sure to appeal widely. The story is by necessity highly personal, drawing on family history and changing lifestyles as the central figure fights his way through...
Flight Craft 5: Sukhoi Su-15
The 'Boeing Killer”
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In the late 1950s, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, already an established fighter maker, started work on a successor to its Su-9 and Su-11 single-engined interceptors for the national Air Defence Force. Similar to its predecessors, the new aircraft designated Su-15 had delta wings; unlike the Su-9/Su-11,...
Military Low-Flying in the UK
The Men Who Fly and the Skill of the Photograhers that Capture Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The UK has some of the most dramatic landscapes for NATO pilots to exercise the increasingly important military art of high-speed low flying. It also offers splendid opportunities for photography of close-up dramatic shots taken from the hillsides and mountains of Wales, Scotland and other steep terrain...
by Philip Matyszak
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
This will be the third in the Roman Conquests series (following Italy and Spain) and one of those with the most obvious appeal. While Rome was struggling for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War, Philip V of Macedon attempted to take advantage of their apparent vulnerability...
The Tyrants of Syracuse
Vol 2: 367-211 BC
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival. Situated at the heart of the mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens and then Rome battled to gain control...