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Captain Kidd
The Hunt for the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The execution of Captain William Kidd on 23 May 1701 is one of the most controversial and revealing episodes in the long history of piracy. The legend that has grown up around Kidds final voyage, his concealed treasure and the dubious conduct of his trial, has made him into one of the most intriguing...
The Rhodesian War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
This book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial rule, through the period of UDI (unilateral declaration of independence) by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power. There are vivid accounts of the operations against...
British Aerospace Hawk
Armed Light Attack and Multi-Combat Fighter Trainer
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
For many years the world’s finest aerobatic team, the RAF’s Red Arrows, have thrilled millions with their demonstrations of this fine aircraft's agility and maneuverability. Black Hawks can also be seen in the valleys of Wales, flying ground-hugging flight paths along the valleys. These are the...
by Doug Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
This book describes how the United States Air Force tactical reconnaissance units operated from the end of World War II until the 1970s. This was an immensely active period that also included major conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. It was also a period of rapid technological development in aircraft...
Das Reich
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich – Drive to Normandy, June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
The infamous SS Das Reich Division was resting in Montauban, South West France when the Allies invaded Normandy in June 1944. When ordered to rush North, they ran into a series of French Resistance, SAS and SOE delaying actions. This ruthless Division reacted violently and their reprisals culminated...
Unearthing Churchill’s Secret Army
The Official List of SOE Casualties and Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many of its agents was not revealed to the general public other than the bare details carved with pride upon the headstones...
Oradour
The Massacre and Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
The destruction of the French village of Oradour and the massacre of its population in June 1944 by the SS Das Reich Division ranks as one of the most notorious atrocities of the Second World War. The scars that were left will never fully heal and there are those that would argue that they should...
Undercover Operator
An SOE Agent's Experiences in France and the Far East
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
Memoirs of SOE agents have always been rare - so many were either killed in action or executed - and today they are almost unheard of. But Sydney Hudson's story, which he has waited nearly sixty years to tell, is just about as dramatic and thrilling as any to have ever appeared. After volunteering...
by Stewar Kent, Nick Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The exceptional exploits, courage and leadership of British SOE Agent Trotobas have long been recognised in France but not in his own country despite being recommended for the Victoria Cross.
Captured on his first mission, Trotobas led a mass break-out from Mauzac Internment Camp and eventually...
by Dr K G Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
A collection of authoritative and often controversial essays that will hold the attention of even the most informed reader. This fascinating book covers such important and relevant topics as Churchill and the Secret Services, ULTRA codebreaking and Soviet espionage and much more.
Fighting with the Commandos
The Recollections of Stan Scott No3 Commando
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Fighting With The Commandos tells what the Second World War was like for a fighting soldier. After enlisting under-age, he was 'found out', joined the Home Guard and then a Young Soldiers Unit (for those too young to serve overseas). He managed to get out to Iraq but was again sent home. He then joined...
Escape to Freedom
An Airman's Tale of Capture, Escape and Evasion
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
The author was shot down in his Wellington bomber on his third operational mission. Captured shortly after, he was interrogated in Dulag Luft before being sent to Stalag Luft 1 on the Baltic where he stayed from April to September 1944. As the noose tightened on Germany, Tony and his fellow kriegies...
Flying to Norway, Grounded in Burma
A Hudson Pilot in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Gron’ Edwards joined the RAF in 1936 on a Short Service Commission and went solo on his eighteenth birthday. After gaining his wings he joined No 233 General Reconnaissance Squadron of Coastal Command based at Thornaby in Yorkshire. The aircraft he flew was the Avro Anson, a small twin engine aircraft...
Warsaw 1944
An Insurgent's Journal of the Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
“Built around a journal written in the months just after the Warsaw uprising by . . . a teenage fighter in the Polish underground . . . a compelling account.” —HistoryOfWar.org
This remarkable journal, written shortly after the event, describes not only the author’s own experiences...