Luftwaffe aerial reconnaissance photographed all of Great Britain. In June 1945 a British intelligence unit stumbled upon 16 tonnes of pictures, dumped in a barn in the Bavarian forest. The original Luftwaffe archive was destroyed at the end of the war, and this discovery was an incomplete German Intelligence copy. This book reproduces 220 images
41 Squadron RAF, August 1942-May 1945: a Biographical History
41 Squadron is one of the oldest RAF Squadrons still in existence and has seen service from the First World War, policing the Middle East in the 1930s, throughout the Second World War, and more recently in the First Gulf War and Yugoslavia. This is the first comprehensive study, concentrating on its Second World War between August 1942 - May ......
The focus of this work is on a selection of pilots who fought during that long summer and autumn of 1940, when everything depended on the RAF achieving air superiority to prevent an invasion of Britain. These exceptional pilots are remembered for their evocative stories which are ripe with gripping combat experiences and gruelling sacrifice.
The full story of the aeroplane that formed the backbone of the RFC during World War 1. It was outclassed by the Fokker Eindecker and its defenceless crews quickly became known as 'Fokker Fodder'. Piloted by German aces such as Immelmann and Boelcke, Fokkers made short work of the B.E.2c in the aerial bloodbath coined as the 'Fokker scourge'
The Life and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster Afterwards Duchess of Devons
Bess was the other Duchess, Georgiana's best friend, who with Georgiana and her husband, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, formed the infamous menage a trois at Devonshire house
An Enthusiast's Photographic Record of British Aviation in the 1930s
During the 1930s two young men spent all their spare cash on film and petrol travelling around England photographing aircraft. This profusely illustrated account of their travels is interspersed with dates of important events that took place in British aviation and literally provides a snapshot of the Golden Age of British Aviation.
Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositions created by the official exclusion of banned sexual practices and the resistance to that exclusion through widespread acceptance of those outlawed practices at an interpersonal level. At different times and in different places, state legislation ......
Published to mark the 60th anniversary of the launch of the Official Singles Charts in 1952, The Million Sellers tells the story of every million-selling single in the history of the UK music industry.
