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German Soldiers in the Great War
Letters and Eyewitness Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI.
German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences...
Monitors of the Royal Navy
How the Fleet Brought the Big Guns to Bear
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Monitor warships mounted the biggest guns ever deployed by the Royal Navy, and played an undeniably important part in Allied efforts during World War One and Two. They were built as cheap "disposable" ships made out of redundant bits and pieces which the Admiralty happened to have available...
by Canwell, Diane, Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
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...
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,...