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Author : Fred Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955043185
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Duxford to Karachi; a Raf Armourer's War written by Fred Roberts and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dilip Sarkar
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445609819
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book How the Spitfire Won the Battle of Britain written by Dilip Sarkar and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally lays to rest the myth that the Hurricane won the Battle of Britain rather than the numerically inferior, yet more glamorous, Spitfire.
Author : Jacky Hyams
Publisher : John Blake
ISBN 13 : 1789463505
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (894 download)
Download or read book The Day The War Ended written by Jacky Hyams and published by John Blake. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuesday, 8 May 1945: Victory in Europe Day. A day of joyous celebration, as the end of a conflict which had engulfed the world came within touching distance. Millions of people celebrated in the streets throughout Britain. Yet not all was right in the world. Struggles remained ahead - war still raged on between the Allies and Japan. Agreements and treaties were yet to be forged. Lives continued to be lost around the world. Meanwhile in Britain, although the pressure of supporting active military campaigns was reduced, lives were irrevocably changed in other ways. Bonds forged by the momentum of struggle, by hardship, unity and common purpose would begin to fade, and give way to the wounds of sorrow, upheaval and trauma that six years of conflict had riven. What was it really like to be living in Britain as the war drew to a close, giving way to a new era of hope, but also of deep uncertainty? In The Day the War Ended, bestselling author Jacky Hyams delivers a sweeping story, weaving together illuminating untold stories with contemporary records and photographs. The result is a moving, personal insight into hearts and minds across the home front right through the momentous year of 1945, as war ended and 'everything after' took root, shaping the world we know today.
Author : Dilip Sarkar
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1399056387
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Battle of Britain The Gathering Storm written by Dilip Sarkar and published by Air World. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dilip Sarkar has studied the Battle of Britain period for a lifetime and is renowned for his meticulous research and evidence-based approach, setting events within the broadest possible context. In doing so, he has helped enrich our appreciation and understanding of the past. In this, the first of a new seven volume series on the Battle of Britain, we have the background to the aerial conflict of the summer of 1940 revealed in great detail and told comprehensively as never before. No stone has been left unturned, no angle unexplored. This meticulous approach the research, combined with the human stories and events, many revealed for the first time, tells what Dilip calls ‘the Big Story’. The development of air power, the creation of Britain’s defenses, the German side, the Home Front and political events are all covered – and much more. After considering the background threads prior to the outbreak of war in 1939, this book then describes the developing conflict on land, sea and in the air. The German invasion of Norway, the Fall of France and the air fighting over Dunkirk are all explored, along with Hitler’s actual preferred policy towards Britain, which at first was one of blockade – not invasion. The author, with justification, questions the validity of the Battle of Britain’s official start-date being 10 July 1940, evidencing the fact that the fighting actually began eight days earlier. From that date onwards, a day-by-day, hour-by-hour, account of the fighting is provided, giving due recognition to those aircrew lost or wounded before 10 July 1940, and whose names are not, therefore, found amongst ‘The Few’. Due accord is also given to the Royal Navy, and efforts of both Bomber and Coastal commands, emphasizing just what a ‘big’ story this actually is – far from simply concerning a handful of Spitfire and Hurricane pilots. Through diligent research with crucial official primary sources and personal papers, Dilip unravels many myths, often challenging the accepted narrative. This is not, however, simply another dull record of combat losses and claims, far from it. Drawing upon unique first-hand accounts from a wide-range of combatants and eyewitnesses, along with the daily Home Intelligence Reports and the papers of politicians such as Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, this really is an unprecedented approach to understanding the build-up to and times of the Battle of Britain.
Author : Dilip Sarkar
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526732823
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Spitfire! written by Dilip Sarkar and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A really excellent, detailed, comprehensive and moving history of 19 Squadron, RAF during the Second World War” from the author of Arnhem 1944 (Clash of Steel). As a child, Dilip Sarkar was fascinated by the haunting image of an anonymous RAF Spitfire pilot. Taken minutes after landing from a Battle of Britain combat, this was Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC, the commander of 19 Squadron, based at Fowlmere. Deeply moving was the discovery that, in 1942, Brian was reported missing after a futile nuisance raid over the Dutch coast. During the mid-1980s, Dilip began researching the life and times of both Brian Lane and 19 Squadron, forging close friendships with many of the unit’s surviving Battle of Britain pilots and support staff. Nearly thirty years later, sadly all of the survivors are now deceased, but Dilip’s close relationship has provided a huge archive of correspondence and interviews in addition to a unique photographic collection. Furthermore, the author, a retired police detective, has thoroughly investigated the life—and death—of Squadron Leader Lane. This completely new Spitfire! covers everything we would ever need to know about such a unit during the critical pre and early war period: the social, political, aviation and military history all in one volume—emphasizing the human experience involved and the stories of casualties. With an immense photographic collection—many published here for the first time—this book is destined to become a classic. “The most thorough book about any squadron in RAF service during the Battle of Britain . . . an impeccable source of information and a gripping story—Most Highly Recommended.” —Firetrench
Author : Leo McKinstry
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848545037
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Spitfire written by Leo McKinstry and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands,' said Churchill. The future of Europe depended on Britain. A self-confident Herman Goring thought that it would be only a matter of weeks before his planes had forced Britain to surrender. The courage, resourcefulness and brilliant organisation of the RAF were to prove him wrong. By late September 1940, the RAF had proved invincible, thanks to the Vickers Supermarine Spitfire. It exceeded anything that any other air force possessed. RJ Mitchell, a shy and almost painfully modest engineer, was the genius behind the Spitfire. On the 5th March 1936, following its successful maiden flight, a legend was born. Prize-winning historian Leo McKinstry's vivid history of the Spitfire brings together a rich cast of characters and first hand testimonies. It is a tale full of drama and heroism, of glory and tragedy, with the main protagonist the remarkable plane that played a crucial role in saving Britain.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Flypast written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Cambridge, England)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, with Communications Made to the Society written by Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Cambridge, England) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aviation News written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915850
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth G. Wynn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473847680
Total Pages : 3288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Men of The Battle of Britain written by Kenneth G. Wynn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 3288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 1989, Men of the Battle of Britain has become a standard reference book for academics and researchers interested in the Battle of Britain. Copies are also owned by many with purely an armchair interest in the events of 1940.The book records the service details of the airmen who took part in the Battle of Britain in considerable detail. Where known, postings and their dates are included, as well as promotions, decorations and successes claimed flying against the enemy. There is also much personal detail, often including dates and places of birth, civilian occupations, dates of death and place of burial or, for those with no known grave, place of commemoration. There are many wartime head-and-shoulders photographs. Inevitably the high achievers who survived tend to have the longest entries, but those who were killed very quickly, sometimes even on their first sortie, are given equal status.The 2015 third edition will include new names and corrected spellings, as well as many new photographs. Plenty of the entries have been extended with freshly acquired information. The stated nationalities of some of the airmen have been re-examined and, for example, one man always considered to be Australian is now known to have been Irish.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Air Pictorial written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1667602764
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)
Download or read book No Highway written by Nevil Shute and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Secret is set during World War II and follows the story of a British scientist named Dr. Philip Raven, who is working on a top-secret project to develop a new type of explosive. Raven is also a double agent, working for the British intelligence agency while also providing information to the Germans. As he carries out his mission, Raven must navigate the dangerous waters of espionage and counter-espionage, while also dealing with the moral complexities of his actions. Along the way, Raven falls in love with a woman named Helen, who becomes embroiled in his mission and must also make difficult choices about her own loyalties. "Most Secret" is a thrilling tale of espionage and wartime intrigue, and a thought-provoking exploration of the costs and consequences of individual actions during times of war.
Author : Richard Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140254266
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Cheshire written by Richard Morris and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this superb and detailed biography, Richard Morris, drawing on a vast array of previously unpublished papers, examines the life and profound character of Leonard Cheshire: a man whose war career brought him the highest military distinction and whose peacetime work of compassion earned him the Order of Merit. Who, as Group Captain Cheshire, was awarded the Victorian Cross after flying 100 operations in the Second World War, and witnessed the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. And whose efforts on behalf of the disabled in peacetime led to the establishment of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation (now known as Leonard Cheshire), the world's leading disability care charity.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465421181
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Reference World Atlas written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully clear, detailed, and fully revised and updated guide, DK's Reference World Atlas gives a superb overview of all the world's regions. Providing a detailed reference map set, the atlas also features computer-generated terrain-modeled maps and the landscapes, bringing an all-new dimension to cartography. This ninth edition of DK's respected Reference World Atlas includes all recent border, place name, and flag changes from around the world, including the emerging state of South Sudan.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Probert
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848329679
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Bomber Harris: His Life and Times written by Henry Probert and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of the Second World War. Sir Arthur Harris remains the target of criticism and vilification by many, while others believe that the contribution he and his men made to the Allied victory is grossly undervalued. Harris has been condemned, in particular, for his Area Bombing tactics which saw civilians and their homes become legitimate targets along with industrial and military installations. This is explored by the author and placed fully within its context, and just as importantly, within the instructions he received from Churchill’s administration. Henry Probert’s critical but highly sympathetic account draws on wide-ranging research and, for the first time, all of Harris’ own papers, to give an outstanding insight into a man who combined leadership, professionalism and decisiveness with kindness, humour and generosity.
