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The Founding of Israel

The Journey to a Jewish Homeland from Abraham to the Holocaust

by Martin Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

A chronological history of the Jewish people—from the earliest attempts to establish a homeland during Biblical times to the creation of Israel. More than seventy years ago in 1948, the State of Israel came into being amidst great controversy. How did the state arise? What led to the founding...
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Jewish Lives

Britain 1750–1950

by Melody Amsel-Arieli
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

“Offers a guide to family historians who want to reconstruct their family trees. Invaluable . . . to other Jews in search of their roots” (Jewish Renaissance).   Jewish Lives presents the life-stories of ten individual Jews who immigrated to Britain between 1750 and 1950, based on actual genealogical...
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Fighting Nazi Occupation

British Resistance 1939–1945

by Malcolm Atkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015

“Everyone knows about the Home Guard but what about the other Secret Intelligence Services (SIS and M16)? You can read about them in [this book].” —This England   When Winston Churchill made his “we shall never surrender” speech in 1940, he was speaking in the knowledge that Britain’s...
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by Peter Liddle
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018

How can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile...
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Mary Queen of Scots' Downfall

The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley

by Robert Stedall
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

The story of the Scottish ruler—and the mysterious death of her ambitious and controversial husband. In the early hours of February 10, 1567, a large explosion ripped through the lodgings at Kirk o’ Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scotland’s consort, Henry, Lord Darnley, was staying....
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1000 Days on the River Kwai

The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

by H C Owtram
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017

Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving reading but Colonel Owtrams account of his years of captivity has a special significance. After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway he was appointed the British Camp Commandant...
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by Rachel Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017

Profiles of twelve trailblazing Regency Era women—from Jane Austen to Madame Tussaud—who took charge of their destinies and changed the world.   In the nineteenth century, women faced challenges and constraints that many of us would find shocking by today’s standards. What Regency Women Did...
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The Anglo Zulu War - Isandlwana

The Revelation of a Disaster

by Ron Lock
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017

In 1878, H.M. High Commissioner for Southern Africa and the Lieut. General Commanding H.M. Forces, clandestinely conspired to invade the Zulu Kingdom. Drastically underestimating their foe, within days of entering the Zulu Kingdom the invaders had been vanquished in one of the greatest disasters ever...
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Infamous Aircraft

Dangerous designs and their vices

by Robert Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005

Many aircraft, some famous and some rare, gained a reputation for being difficult to fly and sometimes downright dangerous. This book looks at some of the worst culprits over a period spanning World War One to the age of supersonic flight. The following aircraft are included. BE.2 - The RFC...
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Mosquito Mayhem

de Havilland's Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII

by Bowman, Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010

“The flak started about four or five minutes before the target and immediately it was apparent that it was intense and extremely accurate. Oboe entailed the pilot flying dead straight and level for ten minutes on the attack run. Suddenly a tremendous flash lit up the sky about 50 yards ahead of...
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Flying the Buccaneer

Britains Cold War Warrior

by Caygill , Peter
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008

Originally conceived as a carrier-born maritime attack aircraft, the Blackburn design included many original features such as Boundary Layer Control, a system which blew hot air over the flying surfaces to increase lift when landing.
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by Geoffrey Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010

The spectacle of Alan Cobham’s Flying Circus and the Fleet at anchor in Weymouth inspired the author’s lifelong passion for aeroplanes, flying and the Royal Navy. World War Two provided the opportunity to fulfill his ambition and at eighteen he volunteered for the Fleet Air Arm as a pilot. Training...
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Mosquito: Menacing the Reich

Combat Action in the Twin-engine Wooden Wonder of World War II

by Bow], Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008

'On 15 November it came suddenly out of nowhere inches above the hangars with a crackling thunderclap of twin Merlins. As we watched, bewitched, it was flung about the sky in a beyond belief display for a bomber that could out perform any fighter. Well-bred whisper of a touch down, a door opened and...
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On and Off the Flight Deck

Reflections of a Naval Fighter Pilot in World War II

by Adlam, Henry
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009

Hank Adlam began his naval flying career in 1941, his first operational posting was to the newly-formed No. 890 Squadron. The squadrons first operational role was to protect a convoy sailing from New York and bound for Greenock. Their major task was to protect the ships squadron of Fairey Swordfish...
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