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  • Ops: Victory at All Costs

    Operations over Hitler's Reich with the Crews of Bomber Command 1939-1945, Their War - Their Words

    by Andrew R.B. Simpson ...
    'Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.'J.G. Magee's celebrated poem of 1941 offers what could be taken as a somewhat over-romantic view of operational flying in the wartime RAF. From 1939 to 1945, of 125,000 men who volunteered for operations with Bomber Command, 55,573 were killed, the slaughter being at the almost unprecedented level of 41 ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Another Life: Lawrence After Arabia

    Lawrence After Arabia

    by Andrew R.B. Simpson ...
    T.E. Lawrence found global recognition for his leadership of the Arab Revolt during World War I, preparing the ground for the final Allied offensive in 1918. He was hailed as a hero, but little is known about this mysterious and charismatic man after those events. Here is Lawrence's life after Arabia, his service in the RAF and the Tank Corps as a mere ranker, and how he became an expert in the ... Read more

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  • Flying Start

    A Fighter Pilot's War Years

    by Hugh Dundas ...
    "A personal and vivid view of the Royal Air Force's (RAF) engagement of the Luftwaffe in World War II . . . Exciting, valuable, and good reading." — Library JournalThis is the autobiography of Group Captain Sir Hugh Dundas CBE, DSO, DFC, who was one of the most distinguished fighter pilots of World War II. He writes of his wartime experiences, and particularly of his period as Squadron Leader and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Hitler's Rockets

    The Story of the V-2s

    by Norman Longmate ...
    In Hitler’s Rockets Norman Longmate tells the story of the V-2, the technically brilliant but hated weapon, the ancestor and forerunner of all subsequent ballistic missiles. He reveals the devious power-play within the German armed forces and the Nazi establishment that so influenced the creation of the rockets. He shows through contemporary documents and protagonists’ accounts how the British ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Dowding of Fighter Command

    Victor of the Battle of Britain

    by Vincent Orange ...
    An extensive biography of the life and distinguished military career of the Scottish air chief marshal.Making full use of archival sources, studies by other scholars, and information provided by family members, Vincent Orange has completed the first biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding to cover his entire life.Soldier, pilot, wireless pioneer, squadron commander, spiritualist, champion ... Read more

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  • Shute the Messenger

    by Graham Fricke ...
    A fascinating study of successful author, pioneering aviator, and skilful engineer, Nevil Shute. Shute the Messenger traces his early life in the UK describing his lifelong passion for air travel from early airships to fixed wing machines. His engineering and organisational skills made him an asset to the growing industry and kept him grounded during the Second World War. Eventually with Shute as ... Read more

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  • Bloody Belfast

    An Oral History of the British Army's War Against the IRA

    by Ken Wharton ...
    Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first hand. Bloody Belfast is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfast's streets.Wharton's work is based on first hand accounts from the soldiers. The reader can walk the darkened, dangerous streets of the Lower Falls, the Divis Flats and New Lodge alongside the soldiers who braved ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blitz

    The British Under Attack

    by Juliet Gardiner ...
    In a series of powerful accounts drawn from diaries, letters, sound archives and interviews recorded during the period of devastation, discovery and transformation that make the blitz such an outstanding event in Britain's recent past, "The Blitz" brings to life the intense experiences, as they happened all over Britain.The blitz proved to be a highly effective laboratory constructed out of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Sir, They're Taking the Kids Indoors

    The British Army in Northern Ireland 1973–74

    by Ken Wharton ...
    The British Army veteran and oral historian presents vivid firsthand accounts of soldiers on the frontlines of the Troubles in the early 1970s.This volume in Ken Wharton's series of oral histories chronicling the conflict in Northern Ireland looks at the bloody period of 1973/4. As with all of Wharton's books, it combines painstaking research with numerous contributions from British soldiers who ... Read more

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  • National Service

    From Aldershot to Aden: tales from the conscripts, 1946-62

    by Colin Shindler ...
    Permission to speak, Sah!In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services. Some were sent abroad and watched their friends die in combat. Others remained in barracks and painted coal white. But despite delivering such varied experiences, National Service helped to shape the outlook of an entire generation of young British males ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Wartime

    by Juliet Gardiner ...
    Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front. The book has been commended for its inclusion of many under-described aspects of the Home Front, and alongside familiar stories of food shortages, evacuation and the arrival of the ... Read more

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  • Snapshots of Welsh History

    Without the Boring Bits

    by Phil Carradice ...
    A fascinating collection of stories from Welsh history collected from Phil Carradice's popular BBC Wales blog, gathered together for the first time in a book.Among the incredible stories are...The man from Clydach who invented a Death RayThe Welsh aristocrat whose parrot once bit Herman Goering on the noseThe witch who cursed the launch of a warship at Pembroke DockyardThe battle that was won by a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD