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Hitler's Fighter Pilot
Thu 31st OctoberPhilip Kaplan describes the actions of one of the best known and greatest German fighter pilots of the Second World War, Adolf Galland, during the Battle of Britain.
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Sailor in the Desert
Wed 16th OctoberOrdinary Seaman Phillip Gunn, who served in the Royal Navy during the First World War, left an unpublished account of the WW1 Mesopotamia campaign and its battles, from which his son David has written Sailor in the Desert.
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Operation Source - 70 Years On
Thu 19th SeptemberSeventy years on from Operation Source, Paul Watkins, author of Midget Submarine Commander - the Life of Godfrey Place VC, describes the events of September 1943.
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Operation Market Garden - 17 September 1944
Tue 17th SeptemberAn overview of Operation Market Garden by renowned battlefield guide authors Major and Mrs Holt, focusing on the first day of the operation
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The Battle of Britain - The Magnificent Poles
Fri 30th AugustOn the afternoon of 30 August 1940, 303 Kosciuszko Squadron, still undergoing training at RAF Northolt, was carrying out an exercise in escorting a group of Blenheim bombers when a formation of German planes came into sight. Adam Zamoyski reports.
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Guy Gibson: Dambuster
Tue 13th AugustStill a household name almost 70 years after his death, Guy Gibson was awarded the Victoria Cross for his work planning, preparing and leading the Dambuster Raid in May 1943. Geoff Simpson reports.
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Allied air power lays the foundation for the conquest of Sicily
Wed 7th AugustBryn Evans, author of With The East Surreys in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy 1942-45, looks back to 70 years ago, when Allied air forces took their revolutionary new strategy for air warfare into the invasion of Sicily.
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Invincible Luftwaffe
Fri 12th Julyby Chaz Bowyer. In May 1940, flushed with the palpable successes in Poland, Denmark and Norway, the German air arm felt indomitable.
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Here Comes the Luftwaffe
Wed 10th JulyOn 2 July 1940 the German Air Force Supreme Command issued instructions for the campaign against Britain; the Battle of Britain. Derek Wood and Derek Dempster describe the early days of the fight for the skies.
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The Writing of The First Day on the Somme - part 2
Fri 28th JuneThe second part of bestselling First World War writer Martin Middlebrook's story of his journey from 'accidental author' to multi-published military authority.
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