“Despite its grim detail it is still a very interesting book and one which will prove enlightening even to those already well-read on the Bomber Command actions of WW2.
Congratulation to Craig Armstrong on producing one of the most balanced works of this still controversial subject”.
Philip Styles – Archivist, The Shackleton Assn
“Despite its grim detail it is still a very interesting book and one which will prove enlightening even to those already well-read on the Bomber Command actions of WW2.
Congratulation to Craig Armstrong on producing one of the most balanced works of this still controversial subject”.
Philip Styles – Archivist, The Shackleton Assn
Article: Beyond the Iron Curtain
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FlyPast, May 2021
Article: Beyond the Iron Curtain
As featured by
FlyPast, May 2021
Buy this book if you want to settle down to pass time with the deeds and misadventures of some distinguished RAF fighter pilots. Lockdown reading perhaps. Any obsessive (I raise my hand) who has read the memoirs and biographies of most of the pilots involved will find much which is familiar, but the author has collected varied material in one place.
Click [link=https://www.battleofbritainmemorial.org/blog-remembering-the-few/]here[/link] for the full review
Battle of Britain Memorial Trust website
Buy this book if you want to settle down to pass time with the deeds and misadventures of some distinguished RAF fighter pilots. Lockdown reading perhaps. Any obsessive (I raise my hand) who has read the memoirs and biographies of most of the pilots involved will find much which is familiar, but the author has collected varied material in one place.
Click [link=https://www.battleofbritainmemorial.org/blog-remembering-the-few/]here[/link] for the full review
Battle of Britain Memorial Trust website
More from the sword: Forthcoming WWI related titles from Pen and Sword
Cher Ami from the International Plastic Modellers Society
More from the sword: Forthcoming WWI related titles from Pen and Sword
Cher Ami from the International Plastic Modellers Society
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it gave a great overview of the air war of world war two. Alongside the statistics were veteran comments giving a nice human touch.
It was fascinating how the war unfolded and how each side strived to improve their air forces and to also counter each others improvements. Once the USAAF joined the war, the GAF was simply overwhelmed and combined with over-politicising by the Nazis led to their downfall.
I recommend this book to all avid military historians.
NetGalley, Kevin Stabler
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it gave a great overview of the air war of world war two. Alongside the statistics were veteran comments giving a nice human touch.
It was fascinating how the war unfolded and how each side strived to improve their air forces and to also counter each others improvements. Once the USAAF joined the war, the GAF was simply overwhelmed and combined with over-politicising by the Nazis led to their downfall.
I recommend this book to all avid military historians.
NetGalley, Kevin Stabler
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On Spartan Wings
Rarely has an air force gone into combat as poorly prepared and outgunned as the Royal Hellenic Air Force had to when Mussolini’s Italy dragged Greece into war on 28 October 1940. Without warning, as Italian forces poured over the frontier from Albania, the RHAF’s paltry effective lineup of 128 battleworthy aircraft, most of them obsolete, were… Read more...
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Lifeline in Helmand: RAF Front-Line Air Supply in Afghanistan
Lifeline in Helmand tells the story of the Royal Air Force tactical transport force operating in one of the most dangerous regions in the Afghanistan campaign – Helmand province. The Chinook helicopters of 1310 Flight fly heavy-lift and trooping missions to remote Forward Operating Bases and in direct support of Deliberate Ground Operations. They… Read more...
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Target Leipzig
Seventy-nine heavy bombers failed to return from the catastrophic raid on the industrial city of Leipzig on the night of 19/29 February 1944. Some 420 aircrew were killed and a further 131 became prisoners of war. It was at that time by far the RAF's most costly raid of World War II. The town was attacked in an attempt to destroy the Messerschmitt… Read more...
One moment the sky would be full of aircraft wheeling and positioning for the best shot at the enemy; a sky full of danger and menace. The next instant there would just be a clear blue empty sky with the sun shining down on a calm and beautiful landscape. Such was the phenomenon experienced by pilots who fought in the key battles of France and Britain… Read more...
Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF. Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command, and had led the now-famous Dam Busters raid against the dams of the Ruhr Valley in May 1943. He died aged 26 in 1944,… Read more...
We Seek the Highest has been the motto of the thousands of Officer Cadets who, over ten decades, have passed through the rigorous training regime at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire. The words embody the College ethos: to strive to reach the tough standards demanded by the RAF, in the air and on the ground. This book tells the 100-year… Read more...
Lifeline in Helmand: RAF Front-Line Air Supply in Afghanistan
Lifeline in Helmand tells the story of the Royal Air Force tactical transport force operating in one of the most dangerous regions in the Afghanistan campaign – Helmand province. The Chinook helicopters of 1310 Flight fly heavy-lift and trooping missions to remote Forward Operating Bases and in direct support of Deliberate Ground Operations. They… Read more...
