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This work presents the story of flight and the human endeavour through this collection of almost 400 memorials which others have erected to the memory of those who have made aviation history. It charts the progress of aviation, from the hazardous beginnings of the pioneers to space exploration.

THE GREAT NORTH ROAD-- since 1922 classified officially as the A1 has been the main route between London and Edinburgh since earliest times, but roads change, and so much of the original has since been bypassed leaving an intriguing trail of discovery for author Chris 'Wolfie' Cooper. As we travel the 400 miles, we follow every twist and turn of the old road, past the remains of bygone carriageways, forgotten byways, dead ends, and wayside res...

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Investigates 150 years of murder and presents it through a 'then and now' theme of comparison photographs. This title includes many of the 'headline' murderers like Jack the Ripper, Dr Crippen, Kennedy and Browne, the 'Black-out' Ripper, John Haigh, John Christie, Donald Hume, Ruth Ellis, Ronald Marwood, and Guenther Podola and the Roberts Gang.

Documented with facts, figures and eyewitness accounts, the period in question began quietly with the Luftwaffe busy elsewhere through the 1944 "Baby Blitz" and the fearsome V1 and V2 robot bombs. The three volumes of this series are dedicated to those British civilians who died or were injured.

Following the successful landing by the Allied armies in Normandy in June 1944, Hitler's forces battled for two months to contain the bridgehead. However, his armies in the West had been defeated. This book takes up the story from that starting point, following in the footsteps of the Germans as they retreat across France.

This book illustrates the battles by the western Allies to liberate western Europe during the Second World War and follows the fighting, month by month, beginning with D-Day in Normandy until signatures on a document in Berlin eleven months later denoted the final defeat of Nazi Germany.

In this book Gail Ramsey sets out to show how the Western Front has been transformed over the past hundred years by juxtaposing aerial photographs, trench maps of the period, with present-day matching comparisons, courtesy of Google Earth.

Following Mussolini's declaration of war in June 1940, Italy faced only those British troops based in the Middle East but as the armed confrontation escalated, other nations were drawn in. Jean Paul Pallud begins his account when the initial shots were fired at the 11th Hussars as they approached Italian outposts near Sidi Omar in Libya.

Peter Cornwell tells the story of the greatest air battle of the Second World War when six nations were locked in combat over north-western Europe for a traumatic six weeks in 1940. He describes the day-to-day events as the battle unfolds, and details the losses suffered by all six nations involved: Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and, rather belatedly, Italy. As far as RAF fighter squadrons in France were concerned, it was an all-H...

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This text illustrates and details the graves, memorials, crash sites and pilots of both the RAF and Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. Twenty famous fighter aerodromes have been explored and there's a listing of "The Few" in its entirety.

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The story of the attack on the Mohne and Eder dams in the Ruhr has been recounted many times before but not from the German side. The author has spent over a third of a century studying the raid and its consequences, and this book collects an archive of documents and photographs.

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In this work, the author presents the precise spots where the battle at Gallipoli took place with a range of contemporary photographs. It provides a link between past and present, from one century to the next, that the deeds of those whose bones lie buried in a foreign field shall not be forgotten.

Stations of Coastal Command Then and Now 700 illustrations

Wing Commander Stanford Tuck was one of the RAF's top-scoring aces until taken prisoner in 1942. This work offers an extract facsimile of his flying log book covering his flying career. Readers also have the opportunity to own a Battle of Britain pilot's log book, each with a numbered certificate.