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by Pook MBE DFC., Sqn Ldr Jerry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
During the Falklands war Jerry Pook, a pilot in No. 1(F) Squadron RAF, flew air interdiction, armed reccon, close-air-support and airfield attack as well as pure photo-reccon missions. Most weapons were delivered from extreme low-level attacks because of the lack of navigation aids and in the absence...
Phantom from the Cockpit
Flying the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom was the outstanding aircraft in many of the Western World's air forces during the 1960s and 70s. It played a key role in the 'Cold War' and saw action in Vietnam. It first flew in 1958 and went into operation with the US Navy in 1960. During its long front-line life...
The Escape From Elba
The Fall & Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty armies back to Paris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his comrades-in-arms and sets sail for his new domain - the tiny, poverty-stricken, pestilential island of Elba. Yet within...
Captured Memories 1930-1945
Across the Threshold of War: The Thirties and the War
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In this sequel to his successful first volume Peter Liddle brings his years of Oral History experience to the Thirties and the Second World War. He was the founder/Director of a new archive in 1999 specifically dedicated to the rescue of evidence of the Second World War which now documents the lives...
Tigers at Dunkirk
The Leicestershire Regiment and the Fall of France
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
In this compelling new study of the disastrous 1940 campaign in France and Flanders, Matthew Richardson reconstructs in vivid detail the British army’s defeat as it was experienced by the soldiers of a single battalion, the 2nd/5th Leicesters.
These men typified the ill-equipped, under-trained...
Massacre on the Marne
The Life and Death of the 2/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Massacre on the Marne is a graphic reconstruction of the experiences of a small closely knit group of fighting men - the 2/5th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment - in the Great War.
These men were not elite regular troops or Kitcheners' Men - they were Territorials. In many ways they...
Missing Believed Killed
The Royal Air Force and the Search for Missing Aircrew 1939-1952
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
During the early years of WW2 it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the remains of R.A.F. aircrew deemed Missing Believed Killed was totally inadequate. The Missing Research Section (M.R.S.) of the Air Ministry was set up in 1941 to deal with this problem. It collected and collated intelligence...
Tyneside Irish
24th, 25th, 26th and 27th (Service) Battalions of Northumberland Fusiliers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The ‘Pals” battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby’s scheme, and in response to Kitchener’s famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front. Their...
by Michael O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
The Battleground Europe series has helped create a new audience for the story of the desperate battles of World War I, But up to now the series has largely been concerned with the ground war. Popular demand has inspired the editors to create a new series of guides to the air war 1914-1918. The first...
by John Sheen
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1998
Although called the Tyneside Scottish, very few of the men who made up this Brigade were of Scottish descent. Many came from local villages or were from the Northumberland pits. They saw action at the Battle of the Somme and after it were allowed to put tartan behind their cap badges because of their bravery.
From Sapper to Spitfire Spy
The WWII Biography of David Greville-Heygate DFC
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
David Greville-Heygate was one of the few men who served in both the army and the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but it was in the sky that he really earned his stripes. Stalking the skies flying photo-reconnaissance missions with No. 16 Squadron over Northern France, he was to win the...
by Michael O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
Manfred von Richthofen became a fighter pilot on the Western Front in August 1916. By January 1917, Richthofen had shot down fifteen aircraft had been appointed commander of his own unit. He painted the fuselage of his Albatros D-III a bright red and was nicknamed the Red Baron. In June 1917, Richthofen...
The First Blitz
The German Air Campaign Against Britain 1917–1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
“An interesting account of the German air raids of the First World War, with a better focus on the human face of the raids.” —HistoryOfWar.org
In 1917, the Germans launched a major air campaign against the British mainland, which shocked the whole nation and terrorized the southeast of England.
These...
by Dare Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
General Dare Wilson saw action in France 1940 (Dunkirk), Italy and North West Europe (where he won his MC) with the Northumberland Fusiliers and later the Recce Regiment. He then served in Palestine and Korea which he rates as the most vicious war he fought in. He was picked to command 22 SAS and...