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Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1939-1942
Tobruk, Crete, Syria and East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The Middle East Command in the Second
World War covered a vast region, stretching
across Egypt, Libya, Malta, Palestine and
Transjordan, Cyprus, Sudan, Eritrea, most of
Syria and a small part of Iraq, and included
some forty different languages. At one point
it also oversaw operations in Greece, Kenya
and...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Despatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham; the despatch on operations in Hong Kong between 8 and 25 December 1941, by Major-General C.M. Maltby, General Officer Commanding British Troops in China; the...
The Zulu War
The War Despatches Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The events at Rorke's Drift, the iconic defence of a mission station by a small force of British and colonial troops, were immortalised in the 1964 film Zulu. In January 1879, a small garrison of just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended the mission against a force of 3,000 to...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Despatches in this volume include that on the Battle of Britain, and air fighting 1940-1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C.T. Dowding, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command, Air Operations by Fighter Command between November 1940 and the end of December 1941, the anti-aircraft defence...
by Wragg, David
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2004
Without the aircraft carrier, the Japanese would not have brought the United States into the Second World War through their attack on Pearl Harbour; without the carrier, the United States could not have rolled back the Japanese forces spread across the wide reaches of the Pacific and carried the war...
Secret Flotillas Vol 1
Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany 1940-44
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
As the fall of France took place, almost the entire coastline of Western Europe was in German hands. Clandestine sea transport operations provided lines of vital intelligence for wartime Britain. These "secret flotillas" landed and picked up agents in and from France, and ferried Allied...
The Battle for Kharkov 1941 - 1943
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, yet they were critical stages in the struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for control of the southern Soviet Union.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this volume...
The Southwold Railway 1879–1929
The Tale of a Suffolk Byway
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
A delightful example of one of East Anglia's minor railways: A 3ft gauge railway, single track, just over 8 miles long from Halesworth (connections to London) across the heathland and marshes of East Suffolk to the seaside resort and harbor of Southwold. This book collates the research and memories...
Viriathus
and the Lusitanian Resistance to Rome 155-139 BC
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In the middle years of the second century BC, Rome was engaged in the conquest and pacification of what is now Spain and Portugal. They met with determined resistance from several tribes but nobody defied them with more determination and skill than Viriathus. Apparently of humble birth, he emerged...
B-29: Superfortress
Giant Bomber of World War 2 and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engined heavy bomber flown primarily by the United States in World War Two and the Korean War. The B-29 remained in service in various roles throughout the 1950s. The British Royal Air Force flew the B-29 and used the name Washington for the type, and the Soviet...
Boeing B-17
The Fifteen Ton Flying Fortress
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Boeing B-17 was the first American heavy bomber to see action in World War when it was supplied to the RAF. The design originated in 1934 when the US Air Corps was looking for a heavy bomber to reinforce their air forces in Hawaii, Panama and Alaska. For its time, the design included many advanced...
V Bombers
Vulcan, Valiant and Victor
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Britain’s desire to stay at the leading edge in the design and development of modern jet powered aircraft was born in the later stages of World War Two. The RAF sent requests to the leading aircraft manufactures for a variety of specifications, amongst which was one for a long-range heavy bomber....
The Airbus A380
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Every 7 minutes, an A380 takes off or lands somewhere in the world...
The Airbus was initially designed and developed in order to provide a contender to the Boeing's growing monopoly of the skies in the biggest large-aircraft market in the world. Ambitious in design, the undertaking seemed mammoth....
Naval Aviation in the Korean War
Aircraft, Ships, and Men
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The first part of this book covers the role of US aircraft carriers and aircraft in stopping the North Korean initial push to the south and also their role in the famous Inchon Landing and Pusan Perimeter Break out. The last part of the first chapter deals with naval operations during the Marine's...