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Presents profiles of five German night fighter pilots--Wolfgang Falck, Hermann Greiner, Werner Hoffmann, Peter Spoden, and Paul Zorner.

A revised and updated edition of the book "Damned By Destiny", which took stock of all of the great ships constructed but never put into service, indicating these as having potentially been some of the greatest liners conceived.

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Day fighters, hunters of the Reich

At the outbreak of war in September 1939 no one in the German High Command had envisaged a long and protracted campaign, for which reason the possibility of having to fight at night had not seriously been considered. However, the shortcomings in the Luftwaffe's night-time defences became all too apparent when Bomber Command, having sustained appalling losses during the day, switched to night attacks. It was only as the bombing of the German ho...

J. Samuel White & Company was the oldest firm on the Admiralty List and built 252 ships for the Royal Navy alone. The yard's closure in 1966 ended 300 years of shipbuilding during which time the company had gained acclaim from mercantile and naval customers alike. Famed early on for fast Revenue cutters and naval brigs, in its final years Royal Navy destroyers earned it great distinction. Highly innovative, it developed and patented many pione...