British airfields of the second world war

British Airfields of the Second World War

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Suffolk Airfields in the Second World War

This illustrated, action-packed book contains a full account of the part played by Suffolk's airfields during the Second World War.

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Cumbria Airfields in the Second World War

Presented in an illustrated format, this book provides a detailed history of the wartime airfields of the North West of England, including Cark, Crosb

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Berkshire Airfields in the Second World War

Robin Brook's action-packed book describes the military airfields of Berkshire during the last war, including Greenham Common, Membury, Welford, and W

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History of the Second World War in 100 Maps

In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conflic

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Guests of the Third Reich

More than 170,000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Guests of the Third Reich will

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British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War

"British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War".

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Shropshire Airfields Through Time

Looking at the fascinating history behind the airfields of Shropshire, which was particularly popular during the Second World War.

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Italian Partisans and British Forces in the Second World War

This book proposes a significant new interpretation of the relations between Italian partisans and British forces during the Italian campaign of 1943-

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British Way of War

How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914—but shaped Britain’s success in the Second World War and beyond

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Second World War Tank Crisis

In-depth investigation of the problems of British tank design in the interwar years and during the war.

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Second World War Tank Crisis

In-depth investigation of the problems of British tank design in the interwar years and during the war.

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History of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit in the Second World War

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History of the British Army Film a Photographic Unit in the Second World War

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ShipCraft 27 - British Sloops and Frigates of the Second World War

Full details of types, variations and modifications.

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Nicole's War

Against the backdrop of France during the Second World War, Nicole, a young British woman, must face her own challenges. As the Nazi forces advance, N

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Feeding the Nation in World War II

The first integrated study from a bottom up perspective of the feeding of the British people during the Second World War.

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Sing Me Who You Are

This is a timely reissue of a 1960s novel that deals with the lingering trauma of the Second World War and the dark secrets that families carry, as we

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Captives of War

A pioneering study of the experiences and emotional lives of British prisoners of war in Germany and Italy during the Second World War. Clare Makepeac

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Forgotten Voices of the Secret War

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in the Second World War to encourage resistance and carry out s

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Storming Hitler's British Fortress

Tells the full story of all the Commando raids undertaken against the Channel Islands in the Second World War.

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War Diary

A brief diary from the time of the Second World War, accompanied with letters written to Ingeborg Bachmann by a British soldier named Jack Hammesh, wh

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The Second Midnight - Andrew Taylor

<p>From the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author comes a World War Two tale of one boy's fight for survival in Nazi Europe A secret mission... 1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the British Intelligence Service. Travelling to Prague, he takes his troubled young son, Hugh, as cover. A terrible...

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The Second Midnight - Andrew Taylor

<p>From the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author comes a World War Two tale of one boy's fight for survival in Nazi Europe A secret mission... 1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the British Intelligence Service. Travelling to Prague, he takes his troubled young son, Hugh, as cover. A terrible...

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The Second Midnight - Andrew Taylor

<p>From the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author comes a World War Two tale of one boy's fight for survival in Nazi Europe A secret mission... 1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the British Intelligence Service. Travelling to Prague, he takes his troubled young son, Hugh, as cover. A terrible...

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Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel

A study of the literature of the Second World War and its aftermath, focusing on the welfare state and wartime visions of rebuilding Britain.

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British Family Cars of the 1950s and '60s

With the end of the Second World War it was not long before increasing wealth, cheaper cars, and social pressures made a family car the aspiration of

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Nazi Prisons in the British Isles

What was it like to be a prisoner of the Nazis in Britain during the Second World War? The first systematic study of the sources relating to prisons i

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Hitler’s British Traitors

The first authoritative account of a well-kept secret: the British Fifth Column and its activities during the Second World War.

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Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1939-1945

Fully illustrated complete history of British armoured warfare during the Second World War.

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British Exploitation of German Science and Technology, 1943-1949

This ground-breaking book tells the full story of British exploitation for the first time and sheds new light on the legacies of the Second World War.

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Armoured Warfare in the British Army, 1914-1939

Fully illustrated complete history of British armoured warfare from the pioneering tanks for the First World War through to the start of the Second Wo

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Conscience, Government and War

This book, first published in 1982, is a systematic and detached analysis of the 60,000 British conscientious objectors in the Second World War, formi

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Britain's War Machine

The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. This title shows the conflict in a ne

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Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific

A Day of Infamy Strategic Command - WWII: War in the Pacific and its flagship 1941 Day of Infamy campaign comes with an impressive 36,000 hex map, providing you with the opportunity to wage war from India and Burma in the west, via the Dutch East Indies, Malaya, the Philippines, Guadalcanal, the Kokoda Trail, Iwo Jima, Tarawa and Midway to the west coast of North Ame...

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Empire of the Sun

The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an intr

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The Lives of Brian - Johnson Brian

Anotace: `It wasn`t me. I didn`t do it. And I`ll never do it again!` says Brian Johnson of The Lives of Brian. That AC/DC`s legendary front man got to do it all is one of the most cheering and entertaining stories in rock `n`roll history.The son of a British army sergeant-major and Italian mother, Brian grew up in Dunston, Tyne and Wear, as it emerged from the shadow of...

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Letters from the Blitz

When Britain stood alone in the early years of the Second World War, a British woman began a letter-writing campaign to prove her nation remained stro

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Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific (PC)

A Day of InfamyStrategic Command - WWII: War in the Pacific&nbsp;and its flagship 1941 Day of Infamy campaign comes with an impressive 36,000 hex map, providing you with the opportunity to wage war from India and Burma in the west, via the Dutch East Indies, Malaya, the Philippines, Guadalcanal, the Kokoda Trail, Iwo Jima, Tarawa and Midway to the west coast of North ...

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Sudden Strike 4 - Africa: Desert War

Sudden Strike 4: Africa – Desert War features two new mini-campaigns with six new singleplayer missions based on the events of the North African campaign during World War II. In the Axis campaign, you will start the Italian advance on Egypt to take the city of Sidi Barrani, besiege the city of Tobruk and take over its harbor, as well as...

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Sudden Strike 4 - Africa: Desert War (PC)

Sudden Strike 4: Africa &ndash; Desert War&nbsp;features two new mini-campaigns with&nbsp;six new singleplayer&nbsp;missions based on the events of the North African campaign during World War II.In the Axis campaign, you will start the Italian advance on Egypt to take the city of&nbsp;Sidi Barrani, besiege the city of&nbsp;Tobruk&nbsp;and take ...

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Fall of Malaya and Singapore

Covers the most humiliating British surrender of the Second World War. The campaign remains hugely controversial.

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1939: The Last Season

A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.

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Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace

The author explores a large number of the British spigot weapons designed and used during the Second World War.

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Prague Papers on the History of International Relations 2015/2

<p>Articles<br /> Metternich and the Italian League Myth in 1833 (Miroslav Šedivý)<br /> Great Powers and the Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895 (Aleš Skřivan, Sr. - Aleš Skřivan, Jr.)<br /> Japan and Korea at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century (Veronika Krištofová)<br /> The Establishment of the Committee of Imperial Defence and the British-Domi...

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Behind the Enigma : The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain´s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency - Ferris John

Anotace: You know about MI5. You know about MI6.Now discover the untold stories behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever authorised history of GCHQ.For a hundred years, GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters - has been at the forefront of innovation in national security and British secret statecraft. Famed for its codebreaking ac...

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Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age

This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult E

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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5´s Secret Nazi Hunter - Hutton Robert

Anotace: June 1940. Britain is Europe`s final bastion of freedom - and Hitler`s next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second World War, Britain`s defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a former bank clerk from Epsom. Equipped wit...

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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5´s Secret Nazi Hunter - Robert Hutton

<p>June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second World War, Britain's defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a former bank clerk from Epsom. Equipped with...

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Hunting the Hangman - Howard Linskey

Anotace: TWO MEN. . . ONE MISSION. . . TO KILL THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART Based on true events, this gripping historical thriller is the culmination of Howard Linskey's fifteen-year fascination with the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust. With a plot that echoes The Day of the Jackal and The Eagle Has Landed, Hunting the Hangman...

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The Bitter Twins (The Winnowing Flame 2) - Jen Williams

<p>**Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel** The electrifying second book in the award-winning Winnowing Flame trilogy - the sequel to The Ninth Rain. Epic fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb and Adrian Tchaikovsky.'An absolute joy to read... jam-packed with breath-taking inventiveness' James Oswald'Incredible heroines... incredible fantasy... Escap...

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A History of Modern Britain - Marr Andrew

Anotace: A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and...

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Cromwell and Centaur Tanks

Highly illustrated history of the most successful British cruiser tank of the Second World War.

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Eighth Army in North Africa

Photographic history of the British Eighth Army during the Second World War in North Africa.

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Resistance Heroines in Nazi- and Russian-Occupied Austria

The dazzling and brave story of Herti Bryan's experiences of supporting British prisoners of war during the Second World War.

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Tank Commander

A British tank commanders classic eyewitness account of the Second World War.

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A History of Modern Britain, 1. vydání - Andrew Marr

<p>A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and ...

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Abram Games: His Wartime Work

The daughter of the only official British War Poster Artist of the Second World War explores his incredible legacy, with a fascinating variety of wart

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Mosquito Men

The story of one of the most remarkable – and feared – British aircraft of the Second World War: the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito fighter-bomber.

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Mosquito Men

The story of one of the most remarkable – and feared – British aircraft of the Second World War: the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito fighter-bomber.

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