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In the Ranks of Death

When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion in the Army. During the war this rose to over ...


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The Ironclads of Cambrai

When tanks, the newly invented British weapon, were used for the first time in a mass attack on November 20 1917, they not only achieved one of the most remarkable successes of the ...


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Japan’s Gestapo

This disturbing book reveals the extent of the truly shocking activities of the Kempeitai, Japan’s feared military and secret police. The book opens by explaining the origins, orga ...


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K Boat Catastrophe: Eight Ships and Five Collisions

On 31 January 1918 nine K Class steam-powered submarines sailed with the Grand Fleet to Exercise in the North Sea. The ships left the Firth of Forth at a speed of 21 knots on a col ...


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Lawrence of Arabia’s Secret Air Force

X Flight was designated the task of giving close air support to the desert army formed and commanded by Lawrence of Arabia. It flew from advanced desert landing grounds on reconnai ...


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Legend of the Lancasters

This book is a riveting account told in ten big chapters of the young RAF crews who flew Lancasters in RAF Bomber Command from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe in April 1945. I ...


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Lifeline in Helmand: RAF Front-Line Air Supply in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is the theater where 1310 Flight’s role is to provide the heavy-lift support helicopter element within the British Forces’ Joint Helicopter Command. Its Headquarters ar ...


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Lightning Up

Alan White served in the RAF from 1953 to 1987 – roughly the period of the Cold War. His introduction to flying came in his University Air Squadron. This seduced him into dropping ...


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Machine-Guns and the Great War

The machine-gun is one of the iconic weapons of the Great War – indeed of the twentieth century. Yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. During a four-year war that generated ...


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Magnum! The Wild Weasels in Desert Storm

This book is based upon a journal Jim Schreiner kept during his deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. Building upon that record and ...


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Major and Mrs Holt’s Pocket Battlefield Guide To Normandy

This guide book covers the present-day battlefield, and the actions that took place on and immediately behind the D-Day beaches, and Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Guide to Normandy h ...


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Malta GC

The Siege of Malta during World War II was one of the greatest dramas of the conflict. Bereft of vital defending aircraft, guns and ammunition this small island endured a successio ...


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Man Who Ran London During the Great War

In 1913 Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd was appointed to the supreme position reserved for Guardsmen, the command of the London Districts. The war saw an extension of his res ...


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Marching with the Tigers

As the definitive final volume of the history of The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Marching with The Tigers covers events in that Regiment and its successor, the 4th Battalion The ...


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The Medieval Soldier

The author outlines the development of the undisciplined barbarian war bands of the Dark Ages into the feudal armies of the early Middle Ages. It deals with the arms and equipments ...


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Meteor from the Cockpit

The Meteor is remembered as the first British jet fighter to enter squadron service and the only jet powered Allied fighter to see action in WW II. Subsequent development was limit ...


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Middle East Airpower in the 21st Century

The Middle East is potentially the world’s major and most dangerous trouble spot. This book looks at why airpower is of such strategic and tactical importance in the area. It provi ...


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MIG Menace Over Korea

Nikolai Vasil'evich Sutiagin, the top-scoring Soviet air ace of the Korean War, flew his MiG-15 in lethal dogfights against American Sabres and Australian Meteors. He is credited w ...


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Mons, Anzac and Kut

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Aubrey Herbert was one of the most interesting figures of his age. He was twice offered the Albanian throne! Born almost blind, his sight even after surgery precluded him from of ...


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Mosquito Mayhem

“The flak started about four or five minutes before the target and immediately it was apparent that it was intense and extremely accurate. Oboe entailed the pilot flying dead strai ...


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Tracing Your Personal Heritage

Family history is only one part of your personal heritage - there's more to your background than who your ancestors were. This differs from most books on the market as it places t ...


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On the Deck or in the Drink

Brian Allen first went to sea as a naval aviation officer cadet aboard HMS Indefatigable in 1952, bound for Gibraltar. In 1954 he was appointed to Lossiemouth for fighter training ...


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Operation Banner

The book opens by setting the historic backdrop to The Troubles.In summer 1969 the annual Loyalist marching season sparked violence in Londonderry which spread rapidly. After thre ...


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Operation Dragoon

Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in the south of France in August 1944, is often seen as a sideshow supporting Operation Overlord, the crucial D-Day landings in Normandy. And ...


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Operation Bluecoat

After seven weeks of bitter fighting there was a desperate need to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. In late July 1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey’s Second Army moved ...