Pen and Sword Aviation, 2014. — 210 p. This enthralling new release from Martin Bowman details all the varied and dynamic operations at sea carried out by RAF Coastal Command against the U-boats and the German Navy during the Second World War. Beginning with the disastrous Norwegian Campaign, it takes in the numerous attacks on the bustling German submarine base at Lorient, the...
The History Press, 2008. — 320 p. The siege of Tobruk (1941-1942) was the longest in British military history. The coastal fortress and vital deep-water port of Tobruk was of crucial importance for the battle for North Africa as the key that would unlock the way to Egypt and the Suez Canal. For more than a year, the isolated garrison held out against all attempts to take it....
Knopf, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-96263-8. The exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed the new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines — revolutionizing the way wars are waged and won. In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War...
Pen & Sword Military, 2013. — 341 p. In 1944 the V-1s and V-2s, Hitler’s ‘vengeance’ weapons, were regarded by the Allied leaders in London as the single greatest threat they had faced. It was feared that these flying bombs and rockets might turn the tide of war once again in Germany’s favor. Yet, little more than half of these missiles hit their targets, some failing to...
Pen & Sword Military, 2013. — 341 p. In 1944 the V-1s and V-2s, Hitler’s ‘vengeance’ weapons, were regarded by the Allied leaders in London as the single greatest threat they had faced. It was feared that these flying bombs and rockets might turn the tide of war once again in Germany’s favor. Yet, little more than half of these missiles hit their targets, some failing to...
New York: Norton/Bantam, 1959 (reprint 1978). - 233 pgs. The classic account of armored warfare in North Africa. Major Robert Crisp D.S.O., M.C., gives his personal story of two weeks in the Sidi Rezegh battles during Operation Crusader. He commanded Honey (U.S. Stuart) tanks in 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. For him the battle was not an even match as the Germans had several...
Coda Publishing Ltd. 2015. — 224 p. — ISBN: 9781473866898. In 1944-45, Capt. G.H. Davies served with the hard-fighting 53rd Welsh Division. He was an artillery officer in command of a battery of 25-pdr field guns and saw action from Normandy to the final surrender of Nazi Germany. Capt. Davies was present at the Normandy battles, the fierce fighting for s'Hertogenbosch and the...
NY: Basic Books, 2013. - 542 p. Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of...
London: Bounty Books, 2000. - 384 p. George Forty OBE served for thirty years as a British army officer in the Royal Tank Regiment before becoming curator of the Bovington Tank Museum, where he was the inspiration for its growth in the 1980s and 1990s. His first book was on the Desert Rats (with whom he served postwar) and were published by Ian Allan in 1976; since then he has...
Alfred A Knopf eBook, New York, 2010. A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston’s War captures the full range of Churchill’s endlessly fascinating character. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings’s Churchill comes brashly to life as never before. Beginning in 1940, when...
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2014. — 430 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4976-2256-2. For years, the story of the World War II codebreakers was kept a crucial state secret. Even Winston Churchill, himself a great advocate of Britain's cryptologic program, purposefully minimized their achievements in his history books. Now though, after decades have passed, the true scope of the British...
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2014. — 366 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4976-2256-2. vector PDF For years, the story of the World War II codebreakers was kept a crucial state secret. Even Winston Churchill, himself a great advocate of Britain's cryptologic program, purposefully minimized their achievements in his history books. Now though, after decades have passed, the true scope of...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 242 p. The tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: in September 1939, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were massacred in Britain. The government, vets, and animal charities all advised against this killing. So why would thousands of British citizens line up to voluntarily euthanize household...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 287 p. This is a new examination of the politics of strategy and the background to them during Churchill's first year as Britain's wartime leader. It draws extensively both on official archives and on the private papers of many of the political and military leaders. Among the individual topics considered and reinterpreted are Churchill's...
Routledge, 1999. — 256 p. While it lasted, the Second World War dominated the life of the nations that were involved and most of those that were not. Since Britain was in at both the start and the finish her people experienced the impact of total ar in full measure. The experience was a test of the most comprehensive kind: of the institutions, of the resources, and the very...
FW Media, Inc., 2007. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4463-5659-3. This book takes a comprehensive look at the undercover war, revealing just how much of WWII was won away from the battlefields. From the British cryptologists to the European resistance fighters, this book uncovers the stories of extraordinary people and their chance finds, lucky accidents, dogged determination and...
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