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This work tells the story of the weapons, including planes, tanks, and ships, that America produced during the war to defeat the Axis powers and how they were "sold" to those at home through the many advertisements that appeared in popular magazines. The story behind them, many of them stunning visuals, is a unique aspect of World War II history.
An authoritative and illustrated look at the ships of the King George V-class from the drawing board, through the Second World War. As Britain's most modern battleships during the conflict, these ships participated in some of the most famous engagements of the war from the sinking of the 'Bismarck' in 1941 to the surrender of Japan in 1945.
A photo-book covering railways around Worcester from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s consisting mainly of unpublished images in both colour and black and white together with an informative commentary. All were taken by railway enthusiast Ellis James-Robertson who died in 2015, and this book has been written by film-maker and author Michael Clemens.
The Vickers Wellington seen in RAF bomber design, development, production, and combat service. The Wellington crews served with distinction in this versatile aircraft from before the Second World War until the 1950s, throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Chillingham-its location not only contributed some of the best archaeology in Northumberland but also a herd of wild white cattle unique in the history of the natural world, immortalised in songs, books, poems, and art. Chillingham castle with its famous and infamous inhabitants have combined to make this an interesting and fascinating tale.
This is the story of the USAFE Tactical flying units that were resident in the United Kingdom during the Cold War from 1952 to 1992. An extensive text includes 'from the cockpit' memoirs and is supported by illustrations. Also included are details of deployed aircraft and units, support aircraft, maps, and tables.
The first of a massive two-volume B-24 Liberator set is the ultimate look at the B-17's stablemate from the drawing board to its emergence as America's preeminent blue-collar bomber. This book and Volume 2 provides the definitive look at the Liberator, detailing and illustrating every facet for the air enthusiast, historian, and modeler.
Employed by the European Community in Yugoslavia the author was tasked to report on the breaking of the arms embargo. Danger lurked as he conducted a beach and airport reconnaissance and interviewed war criminals. Closing in on the embargo busting he was ordered to falsify his daily reports in order to hide the evidence. He refused and resigned.
This volume details the influence of Second World War aviation development, experience and subsequent technological advances in shaping American choices in military aircraft development and weapons. It shows how air warfare weapons were carried forward and altered, how new systems evolved from these, and how the choices fared in the next war-Korea.
The 1990s were a decade of change on the railways with colliery closures and privatisation. This is a potted history of Worksop train crew depot, with photos of collieries, trains and power stations. There are maps, descriptions of each colliery and power station featured, diagrams, tables and coal plans to show where power station coal originated.
Nigel Kennedy changed the course of classical music in 1989 with his multi-million selling Vivaldi 'Four Seasons'. Instead of an Introduction, the virtuoso violinist opens his new Uncensored Memoir with a tongue-in-cheek 'Warning'. It sets the tone for a truly original memoir that is as playful, unconventional and carefully executed as his music.
Using official WW2 documents this book provides the reader with the same information on the Panzer VI Ausf. E Tiger I that was available to British and Commonwealth officers and tank crews during the war. As soon as intelligence reports confirmed the existence of the Tiger tank the hunt was on to find reliable information on how to knock it out.
A senior non-commissioned officer in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry describes the final years of mounted cavalry in the British Army. The regiment's campaigns in the Middle East, El Alamein, and the fight through Italy in 1944 are described by the author who is later commissioned; always working tirelessly to keep his regiment supplied in war.
Scholars, historians, and general readers occasionally share a misconception about their knowledge of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany and where it fitted in the regime. This extends to other parts of the German intelligence agencies. This book uses Allied Intelligence reports to extend our understanding of how these Nazi agencies operated and worked.
During the last months of the war, the wasted Japanese industry could not manufacture fighters that were sufficiently advanced to face the Superfortress. They destroyed 67 towns and half of Tokyo in a nine months' bombing campaign. The book describes 42 little known projects of Japanese unbuilt super fighters designed at the end of the war.
Combat gliders were called by some as Death Crates, Purple Heart Boxes, Flying Coffins and Tow Targets. This work is dedicated to those brave men under impossible odds from the British and American servicemen on D-Day, the doomed Operation Market Garden in Holland and Hitler's radical commando raid to rescue Mussolini.
The lives and mutually supportive friendship of Queen Ena (Victoria Eugenia), consort of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and her cousin Bee, Infanta Beatrice, wife of his cousin Infante Alfonso, set to a background of bitter court intrigues during the unsettled monarchical and then republican era of a country in which divisions led to civil war.
Celia Sandys' charming autobiography paints a remarkable picture of her exceptional life. It also includes a unique window on the life and death of her grandfather, Winston Churchill. Married three times during an eventful life, she became a renowned author and presenter of stories of the incredible Churchill dynasty.
This is how it feels to be a Cold War front-line fighter pilot. Fly in the Phantom with the author and follow him into the bar for some epic nights of drinking. The triumphs and the disasters are all laid out here in a completely open and honest way as the author looks back with a certain sense of nostalgia and mild embarrassment. What a blast!
Rodolfo Graziani, commander of the armies of Mussolini's Fascist Italy. From humble beginnings in the mountains of Lazio to the conquest of Italy's Empire, Graziani was the Fascist regime's choice when hard work needed to be done. His impetuous character and his staunch loyalty to the Duce have made him one of Italy's more controversial figures.
The story of General Stanislaw Skalski, VM & bar, KW & 3bars, DSO, DFC & 2bars, the leading Polish fighter ace, who gallantly served from the first to the last day of the Second World War. Back in communist Poland, he was arrested for spying for Britain, sentenced to death but finally released following eight years in prison.
Peter Owen, one of the last of the great emigre publishers, recalls his remarkable life and career from his lonely Jewish boyhood in Nazi Germany to maturity as acclaimed London publisher of many distinguished international writers, including Anais Nin, Salvador Dali, Paul Bowles, Yukio Mishima and Anna Kavan, many of whom were personal friends.
Stunning pictures bring to life a remarkable model of a late Victorian landscape. The towns and villages of Amberdale, the countryside, and the people who might live there, are revealed and explored as the story unfolds. Here is a pastime open to anyone with imagination, enthusiasm and a little determination, which can be a lot of fun.
Bedfordshire has always been strategically important. From Iron Age hillforts to medieval sieges and battles it has seen significant military action. In WWI the county contributed to the birth of the RAF. In WWII its bases despatched RAF and USAAF bombers over Germany, but the major activity was the secret war associated with the Bedford Triangle.
When this story begins passengers then as now were the main business of the railways in southern England. Since then electrification has been the priority. Diesels appeared in the 1950s, steam ended in 1967, branch lines closed with Beeching, but in compensation the south has a remarkable network of preserved steam and diesel operated railways.
The Macchi C.202 was probably the most successful Italian fighter in WW2, the aircraft of almost all Italian top scoring aces. Mc.202 was fast and manoeuvrable, on par with, or better than the allied fighters of the same period. However, there were too few machines to exert a determinant role during the war due to inadequate planning and resources.
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