Decisive battles of the twentieth century: Land, sea, air

Engineering & Transportation

Frankland, Noble

Engineering

SIDGWICK JACKSON

Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester

History

Europe

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Bomber Offensive: The Devastation of Europe

Military

Ballantine Books

Prince Arthur was Queen Victoria's favourite sone, the Duke of Wellington's Godson, Edward VII's brother, George V's uncle and the great-uncle of Edward VIII and George VI. His life holds a mirror to personalities and developments of nearly a century from the Crimean War to the Battle of Alamein. Highly sociable, an accurate observer and inveterate correspondent and diarist, his view is of a unique spectrum of peple from President Taft to the Emperor of Japan, Lord Wolsely to Arabi Pasha, Ethel Smyth to Melba, Gladys Deacon to Nancy Astor, Rudyard Kipling to Lord Esher, Gladstone to John Brown. He fought at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, served in India and was a principal actor in the drama of the Esher army reforms. As Governor-General of Canada (1911-16) he calmed tensions between British and French Canadians and resolved disputes between Canada and USA through his easy access to the White House. He inaugurated the Indian constitutional reforms in 1921. His life also offers an insight into the development of the monarchy and the ways of the Sovereign in relation to the political and social life of the nation over a long period. His descendants are the King of Sweden and the Queen of Denmark.

Witness of a century: The life and times of Prince Arthur Duke of Connaught, 1850-1942

Shepheard-Walwyn

The theme of this first of four volumes of the official British history of the Second World War devoted to the RAF's strategic bomber offensive against Germany is in its sub-title 'Preparation'. Beginning with the lessons learned from air bombing in its infancy during the Great War, the authors divide their book into three parts: strategy; operations; appreciations and results. No aspect of Britain's role in the war, as the authors acknowledge in their preface, has been and remains more controversial than the air war against German cities. These books, the product of ten years' research, are an essential repository of facts, based on official documents - then still secret - in the archives of the Cabinet Office, the Air Ministry and Bomber Command. Other papers on which this account is based include the official despatches of the Chief of Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, the writings and interrogations of Germany's armaments minister, Albert Speer, and papers from the Air Historical Branch. In addition to written sources, the authors consulted many of the air chiefs, scientists and other officials who directed and led the offensive. - including those of the USAF.From an initial reluctance to bomb German forests because they were private property, Britain's bombing offensive, one of the few weapons available to it in the dark early days of the war, escalated after the battles of France and Britain and the opening of the Luftwaffe's Blitz on Britain, from precision targets to mass area bombing of cities. This book takes the story up to the opening of 1943 with the first thousand bomber raids, the creation of the Pathfinder Force, and the beginning of daylight bombing. The narrative is accompanied by diagrams, six maps and 20 photos of the leading figures behind the offensive, the aircraft involved, and 'before and after' pictures of the raids and their results. This calm, dispassionate book is essential reading for all who are interested in a subject which remains burningly relevant in the 21st century.

Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939-1945. Volume I: Preparation. Parts 1, 2 and 3.

Webster, Sir Charles

Naval & Military Press

Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939-1945: Endeavour v. 2 (Vol 2)

Webster, Charles

Naval Military Press Ltd

Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939-1945: Victory v. 3 (Vol 3)

Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939-1945 (Vol 1,2,3,4)

Belling's War

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

Book Guild Ltd

This volume tells the true story of a historian's lifetime struggle to reveal the truth about crucial aspects of World War II and other international confrontations of the 20th century. Due to the recent release of secret documents relating to World War II and its aftermath, which included the authors own PhD thesis, Noble Frankland is now able to give a detailed account of his experiences in the RAF during the War and as an historian in conflict with officialdom and developing new techniques for recording history, for the first time.

History at War: The Campaigns of an Historian

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Giles De La Mare Pub Ltd

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