Military forces and sectors

This new addition to the best-selling Conway pocket-book range features Admiral Nelson's fully preserved flagship HMS Victory, the most tangible symbol of the Royal Navy's greatest battle off Cape Trafalgar on October 21st 1805.

Empire Javelin an American-built LSI (Landing Ship, Infantry) in Royal Navy service, played an important role on D-Day.

For Ireland, the year 1798 saw a major rebellion breaking out against rule from London, a time in which Britain was in its fifth year of a hard-fought war against revolutionary France.

This new addition to the best-selling Conway pocket-book range features Admiral Nelson's fully preserved flagship HMS Victory, the most tangible symbol of the Royal Navy's greatest battle off Cape Trafalgar on October 21st 1805.

A tale of great enterprise and great fortitude, and of wonderful female solidarity and nobility of spirit, in the bleakest of circumstances.

The inclusion of eastern Poland into the Soviet Union by the 1939 MolotovRibbentrop Pact initiated a long and bloody resistance of local Ukrainian population to Soviet rule.

This book offers the reader thrilling, action-packed snapshots of life as a Luftwaffe nightfighter.

An in-depth narrative that stitches together the history and evolution of hang gliding, a pastime enjoyed by hundreds of thousands around the world.

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For armchair admirals, history buffs, and naval enthusiasts everywhere, A Naval Miscellany is an indispensible and entertaining collection of fascinating and little-known facts, anecdotes, lists, curiosities and stories from our naval past.

From 1942 to WWII's end, RAF and US bomber crews faced heavy casualties, harsh POW conditions, and forced marches as Soviet forces advanced.

When the amphibious Duplex Drive (DD) Sherman tanks of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (QMO) touched down on the sand of Sword Beach as the vanguard of the D-Day invasion, ahead of the infantry and Commandos, it was the culmination of an evolution spanning several years.

"e;Sarkar thoroughly researched and constructed this de-tailed narrative after careful deconstruction and forensic analysis of primary sources.

For armchair admirals, history buffs, and naval enthusiasts everywhere, A Naval Miscellany is an indispensible and entertaining collection of fascinating and little-known facts, anecdotes, lists, curiosities and stories from our naval past.

A history of the Second Suffolk, 5th (Indian) Division during World War II's Burma campaign.

At a critical stage of the Texas Revolution a large Mexican army surrounded a makeshift fortification known locally as the Alamo.

The Avro Lancaster was the RAF's most famous and successful heavy bomber of the Second World War.

The Special Air Service was the brainchild of Scots Guards' officer Lieutenant David Stirling, serving with No 8 Commando.

The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd for the RAF.

Charles Sprinkles uses recently declassified documents to argue that President Franklin D.

In the Second World War, Malta was besieged for nearly two and a half years, during which time a decisive air war was waged between Britain, Italy and Germany.

The Special Air Service was the brainchild of Scots Guards' officer Lieutenant David Stirling, serving with No 8 Commando.

The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd for the RAF.

This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews, and those who facilitated their rescue, remembered the experience of their departure and passage across hostile territory to sanctuary in Sweden.

This book delves into the controversial actions of British prisoners of war during World War II, exploring cases of alleged betrayal, collaboration, and espionage.

At the height of the Russian Civil War in 1919 Britain poured in thousands of troops and vast amounts of munitions to assist the White Russian opponents of Lenin’s Communist forces.

On 16 May 1943, 617 Squadron's first mission saw 19 Avro Lancasters deploy bouncing bombs to breach the Mohne and Eder dams, inflicting significant damage on Nazi Germany's industrial Ruhr region.

This book provides a unique and fascinating insight into a little-known aspect of Hitler's life and character.

"e;By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth I managed to prevent Stalins dark and murky ambition from taking root his desire to hide from the world that we had found Hitlers corpse"e; - Elena Rzhevskaya"e;A telling reminder of the jealousy and rivalries that split the Allies even in their hour of victory, and foreshadowed the Cold War"e;- Tom Parfitt, The GuardianOn May 2,1945, Red Army soldiers broke into Hitlers bunker.

Since the release of the first edition of Career Compass more than two decades ago, the landscape of a Navy officer's career has transformed significantly, adapting to societal changes while upholding the Navy's core values of service and excellence.

The memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the Russian woman who was WWII's most accomplished sniper-and a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt.

The story of HM Submarine Upholder, ordered just days before the Second World War started.

Since the release of the first edition of Career Compass more than two decades ago, the landscape of a Navy officer's career has transformed significantly, adapting to societal changes while upholding the Navy's core values of service and excellence.

This book provides a guide to the people, places, artifacts, events, terminology, scientific concepts, groups, critical documents, and code phrases associated with the Manhattan Project.

This book provides a guide to the people, places, artifacts, events, terminology, scientific concepts, groups, critical documents, and code phrases associated with the Manhattan Project.

There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities.

There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities.

"e;Through meticulous research,"e; the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist "e;brings to light the history of aviation weapons"e; in this "e;well written"e; account (Library Journal).

At Sea Against the Soviet Fleet is a history of the evolution of the United States Navys Operational Intelligence culture that informs great power competition with China today.

Award-winning author, Thomas J.

In this vivid account, a young F-100 pilot describes his life in a fighter squadron in the peak year of the Vietnam War.

Escaping certain deathnot once but several timeslies at the core of the riveting, real-life story of an American soldier during World War II.