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A Passion for Flying

The story of Group Captain Tom Eeles who served in the RAF for 44 years and totaled over 8000 hours of flying in twenty-eight different aircraft types. Tom entered RAF College Cran ...


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Pyrrhus of Epirus

Pyrrhus was born into the royal house of Epirus, northwest Greece, but his mother was forced to flee into exile to protect his life when he was a mere infant. Yet he prospered in t ...


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RAF Harrier Ground Attack: Falklands

During the Falklands war Jerry Pook, a pilot in No. 1(F) Squadron RAF, flew air interdiction, armed reccon, close-air-support and airfield attack as well as pure photo-reccon missi ...


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RAF Liberator over the Eastern Front

Jim Auton was posted to 178 Squadron who were operating ex-U.S.A.A.F., war-weary Liberator heavy bombers. This squadron he was based in Foggia in Italy, living under canvas without ...


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RAF Top Gun

Edward ‘Teddy’ Mortlock Donaldson was one of three aviator brothers to win the D.S.O. during World War II. He joined his brother in the R.A.F. and was granted a sort-service commis ...


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Red Tobruk

Red Tobruk, the war memoir of the Captain of HMS Eridge from late 1940 until August 1942 is a superb account of wartime action at sea. Frank Gregory-Smith&supl;s war started on the ...


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Royal Navy and the Peruvian-Chilean War 1879 - 1881

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This beautifully presented book captures the spirit of a little known war where the Royal Navy played a peripheral but crucial role. The power of the British Empire was at its heig ...


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Är jag framme snart?

Allt var mörkt. Jag var tonåring, och det enda jag visste om homosexualitet hade jag läst i en läkarbok från 1920-talet. När jag kom hem på eftermiddagen satt jag en bra stund och ...


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En brutalt ärlig historia

Nu hade supandet gått så långt att det inte fanns någon återvändo. Jag hade redan skrivit ihop avskedsbrevet till mina söner. Nu handlade det bara om att hitta rätt tillvägagångssä ...


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Inte bara David, om ett annorlunda föräldraskap

Kent är 29 år när sonen David föds. Till en början verkar allt normalt, men när David är lite mer än ett år visar det sig att han är döv. När han närmar sig sin treårsdag har han s ...


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Bruten tid, om att vara ung och hjärnskadad

Matilda Thuresson var 13 år när hela hennes liv förändrades. På ett ögonblick. Hon och hennes kompis Marjan var på väg hem från skolan i Falun när de blev påkörda bakifrån, på trot ...


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War is War

Alfred Burrage’s War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal con ...


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Wavell

Archibald Wavell’s life and career makes a marvelous subject. Not only did he reach the highest rank (Field Marshal) and become an Earl and Viceroy of India but his character was ...


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Wellington's Peninsular War Generals and their Battles

Wellington's achievements in the Peninsular War cannot be overestimated. At the outset in 1808 Napoleon and his Marshals appeared unstoppable. By the close Wellington and his Arm ...


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Missing: Believed Killed

The uncertain fates of Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson and Glenn Miller have fascinated readers and aviation historians ever since they disappeared. Even today, more than half a centur ...


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Fighting Brigadier

In the 1930s James Hill was forced to leave the Army because he was under 26 when he married. Recalled to the colors, he won his MC with the BEF in 1940. He was one of the first ...


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Night Fighter Navigator

Yorkshireman Dennis Gosling joined the RAF on May 24 1940. Having completed his training he was posted to 219 Squadron flying the night-fighter version of the Beaufighter from Tang ...


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Arctic Convoy PQ8

When Robert Brundle took the SS Harmatris to Russia with Convoy PQ8 he was 47 years of age. Both ship and master were veterans and had already sailed in convoys across the North At ...


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Bombs Away!

This is a unique selection of wide-ranging experiences of British and Commonwealth Bomber Command aircrew during World War II. Their endearing bravery and fortitude and sometimes t ...


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Captain Kidd

The execution of Captain William Kidd on 23 May 1701 is one of the most controversial and revealing episodes in the long history of piracy. The legend that has grown up around Kidd ...


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Captured Memories 1900-1918

Peter Liddle was a pioneer in the recording of memories of personal experience in the First World War and in the social background of those who lived through those years. Later he ...


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Chitral Charlie

Charles Townshend achieved international fame, as a captain, when he commanded the besieged garrison at Chitral (now Pakistan) in 1895. As a result, he became known as ‘Chitral Ch ...


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Diary of a Bomb Aimer

Campbell Muirhead kept a meticulous diary of his wartime RAF service from the day that he set forth to train as a pilot in Canada and the USA in 1942 to the end of his wartime serv ...


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Escape from Arnhem

This is the remarkable true story of a young army glider pilot’s experience of the last days in the defense of Arnhem Bridge, his eventual capture and then escape to be adopted by ...


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Escape, Evasion and Revenge

Peter Stevens was a German-Jewish refugee who escaped Nazi persecution as a teenager in 1933. He joined the RAF in 1939 and after eighteen months of pilot training he started flyin ...