Military forces and sectors

Following the landings in Normandy, one of the Allies main concerns was how to supply the expanding beachhead.

A career pilot's memoir of flying fighter jets through two wars and through the evolution of aviation technology.

The six years of prolonged world-wide conflict spawned some 340 serving generals in the British Army.

To bale out of a stricken airplane is a pilot's or aircrew's final chance to escape death.

This book describes the action of 9 May 1915 when the battalions of the 1st Division, 7th Division and the Indian Army attacked Aubers Ridge.

The Royal Air Force's 11 Group played a leading role in the Battle of Britain.

"e;Takes a seemingly mundane subject as airfields and turns it into a fresh understanding of air combat on the Western Front .

Twenty-three compelling accounts of desperate circumstances and unbelievable survival when planes went down in remote and dangerous locations.

In Spring 1945 one final hurdle faced the American and British Armies under Ike's supreme command - the Rhine.

The fighting on Redan Ridge in 1916 has long been overshadowed by events on each flank, namely Serre on the left and Beaumont Hamel on the right.

Manfred von Richthofen became a fighter pilot on the Western Front in August 1916.

This is a wartime escape memoir that ranks with the finest.

Dramatic photographs of Nazi Germany's shocking Ardennes Offensive that nearly turned the tide of World War II-from the author of In Pursuit of Hitler.

In an overdue attempt to portray the real effect of the war on life at home, David Bilton examines all the major events of the period and charts their effect on everyday life for those trying to live a normal existence.

A graphic account of the defence of Hartlepool, Whitby and Scarborough against German seaborne raiders in 1914 and a detailed history the coastal defences that confronted the German navy.

The third in a trilogy of books, the others being Cambrai -The Right Hook and Bourlon Wood by the same authors covering the battle for Cambrai in November 1917.

A decorated British officer's wrenching and inspiring firsthand account of the worst battle of the Burma campaign.

This is the story of Allied fighter pilots and the part they played in all the principal operational theatres of World War II.

This memoir of a Soviet POW's escape from a Nazi concentration camp is a remarkable account of cruelty and courage during WWII.

A history of four battalions of the Durham Light Infantry raised in the Country during the First World War.

The RAF Regiment was created in the early years of World War II for the active dedicated defense of RAF airfields and installations.

Major General Sir Roy Redgrave has enjoyed an unusual, some might say eccentric, life.

In an attempt to outflank the German Gustav Line running across Italy, Operation SHINGLE was launched on January 22nd 1944.

Airfields and Airmen:Cambrai covers the earliest days of the RFC with the retreat from Mons.

The Battleground Europe series has helped create a new audience for the story of the desperate battles of World War I, But up to now the series has largely been concerned with the ground war.

This is a first-hand account of the authors grandfather, Guy Mainwaring Knocker and his experiences as a pilot in the R.

The Pals battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since.

A history of the World War I engagement between British and German forces in northern France, and a visitor's guide to the battlefield site.

This pictorial history shows the full extent of captured foreign aircraft used by Nazi Germany during WWII.

A history of the Welsh Battalion and its service during World War I in France.

A history and guide to the historic British airfields where American bombers had to be ready to go at a moment's notice-includes photos.

Early in WW2, King George VI was deeply impressed by the heroic deeds of servicemen out of the front line and civilian non-combatants in acts connected with the war such as bomb disposal and rescues after air raids.

The story of the supersonic fighter with "e;interesting insight into the period of the 1950s and early 1960s, the Cold War and of course the war in Vietnam"e; (Military Modelling).

"e;A quite enlightening book that discusses the most important group of heavy cruisers serving during WW2 and how the type evolved.

A celebration of the renowned WWII aircraft and the aviators who flew them-includes rare photographs.

In early 1942, shipping losses in the Atlantic threatened Britain's very survival.

The Blackburn Skua was the first monoplane to be designed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s.

Captain Alan William Frank Sutton's enthralling biography starts when, as a young midshipman he was in command of a small rowing cutter returning a potentially mutinous crew to the battle-cruiser HMS Repulse in which he served.

The inter-war years between 1918 and 1939 saw the newly created Royal Air Force fighting for its very existence politically, being dispatched to the remotest corners of the British Empire and its Protectorates in various policing roles and then finally engaged in a headlong rush to modernize in the face of the new German Fascist regime that was threatening British and European freedom.

A detailed account of "e;the last great set piece operation carried out by the western Allies during the Second World War .

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom was the outstanding aircraft in many of the Western World's air forces during the 1960s and 70s.

A historical reexamination of the infamous World War I battle on the Western Front in Belgium.

Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery and eventual burial of a Lancashire Fuslier who was killed in action in 1914; the research leading to the erection in 2002 of a 'Believed to be buried' headstone in the Strand cemetery of an Australian killed in action at Messines in 1917; the action in 1914 that initiated the birth of the infamous 'Birdcage' on the western edge of Ploegsteert Wood and other stories of interest to enthusiasts of the Great War.

From the New York Times-bestselling author, an analysis of how flight has shaped warfare, politics, diplomacy, technology, and mass culture.

"e;One of Britain's best-known aviation historians .

A comprehensive history of the Allied attack on German-occupied France during World War II, examining its planning, execution, and failure.

Born in 1762, William Hargood's naval career spanned over 30 years, as he rose from humble midshipman to the captain of one of the most powerful warships of the day at Trafalgar.

Follow the infamous 2nd SS Panzer Division on its march through Southwest France to the Massacre at Oradour with this illustrated battlefield guide.

A leading Danish historian presents a detailed account of the epic naval conflict between Denmark and a British fleet led by Vice Admiral Nelson.

Wing Commander Donald Teale Saville DSO, DFC joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1927.