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Cockleshell Commando
The Memoirs of Bill Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
One of only two survivors of the famous Cockleshell Hero raid, Bill Sparks' war and postwar career has never before been told in full. In this gripping book, he describes not only his part in Operation FRANKTON, the daring Gironde raid, and his escape back to Britain, but how he fought with the Greek...
Lost Souls of the River Kwai
Experiences of a British Soldier on the Railway of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
This is the moving story of a young man who found himself along with thousands of his comrades in the nightmare of Japanese captivity. Unlike so many (it is said that one Commonwealth POW died for every sleeper laid) Bill lived to tell the tale. Indeed it is remarkable that this story has not been...
Periscope Patrol
The Saga of the Malta Force Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
The Malta Force submarines had the vital task of interrupting German and Italian convoys crossing the Mediterranean to resupply Rommel and his Army in North Africa. The outcome of the Desert War depended on this.
Operations from the beleaguered island were hazardous both at sea and in port....
Testimony to Courage
The History of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1969-1992
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
The outbreak of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland in 1968 found many of the local police and army auxiliary units outmoded or discredited. A new and unique force of part-time soldiers was created: The Ulster Defence Regiment.
A Testimony to Courage vividly describes the threat under...
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.