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First Through The Clouds

First Through The Clouds

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The early years of aviation were marked by flimsy, unreliable machines and daring adventurous young men. One of the pioneer aviators leading the way in Britain was F. Warren Merriam who, following Louis Blériot’s first… Read more...

ShipCraft 14: Yamato Class Battleships

ShipCraft 14: Yamato Class Battleships

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The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, then moves to an… Read more...

The Battle of the Lys 1918: North

The Battle of the Lys 1918: North

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The second of two Battelground Europe titles covering this highly significant battle of spring 1918. The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in… Read more...

Dunkirk Nine Days That Saved An Army

Dunkirk Nine Days That Saved An Army

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The epic of Dunkirk has been told many times, but the numerous accounts from surviving soldiers and sailors were often a blur of fear and fighting with the days mingling into each other, leaving what… Read more...

Locomotive Builders of Leeds

Locomotive Builders of Leeds

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The history of commercial railway locomotive manufacture in the Leeds is a fascinating story, covering a period of nearly two centuries, which commenced during the Napoleonic period and only came to an end in 1995.… Read more...

Collectable Names and Designs in Women's Shoes

Collectable Names and Designs in Women's Shoes

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Full with innovative, sculptural and outrageous footwear this book celebrates all shoes from the pump to the platform and the court shoe to the stiletto. Shoes are no longer regarded just for their practical purpose… Read more...

Cecily Neville

Cecily Neville

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Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous ‘Kingmaker’, Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century… Read more...

A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War

A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War

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Naval power played a vital role in the Peloponnesian War. The conflict pitted Athens against a powerful coalition including the preeminent land power of the day, Sparta. Only Athens’ superior fleet, her ‘wooden walls’, by… Read more...

A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War

A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War

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Naval power played a vital role in the Peloponnesian War. The conflict pitted Athens against a powerful coalition including the preeminent land power of the day, Sparta. Only Athens’ superior fleet, her ‘wooden walls’, by… Read more...

JUNKERS Ju 88: The Early Years – Blitzkrieg to the Blitz

JUNKERS Ju 88: The Early Years – Blitzkrieg to the Blitz

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Designed as a fast bomber that could out-run the fighters of the era, the twin-engine Junkers Ju 88 became one of the most versatile aircraft of the Second World War. Such was the success of… Read more...

Fight, Dig and Live

Fight, Dig and Live

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The Korean War, which began with an unprovoked attack by North Korea in 1950, went on for three long years. Over 100,000 soldiers of the United Nations forces, including those of the Republic of Korea,… Read more...

The Battle of North Cape

The Battle of North Cape

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Transcribed from a hand-typed manuscript, this is a poignant eye-witness account of the Battle of North Cape, as witnessed by a young signal-boy aboard the British warship HMS Belfast. This crucial battle to protect the… Read more...

24 Hours at Agincourt 25 October 1415

24 Hours at Agincourt 25 October 1415

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Agin Court was an astonishing clash of arms, a pivotal moment in the Hundred Years War and the history of warfare in general. King Henry V's exhausted troops were preparing for certain defeat as they… Read more...

Grunt

Grunt

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This new title from Mary Roach, author of other books such as Gulp, Stiff, Bonk, Spook and Packing for Mars, offers a fresh look at the aspects of war that not many people talk about;… Read more...

X Platoon

X Platoon

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For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon. Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number… Read more...

A Dying Breed

A Dying Breed

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Kabul, Afghanistan. William Carver, a veteran but unpredictable BBC hack, is thrown into the unknown when a bomb goes off killing a local official. Warned off the story from every direction, Carver won't give in… Read more...

Socket Bayonets

Socket Bayonets

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Socket Bayonets is a richly informative title covering the history of the socket bayonet. Graham Priest uses clear and detailed images to explore the role of the bayonet, showing common examples and rarer versions to… Read more...

Over There: America in the Great War

Over There: America in the Great War

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More than 400 photographs detail the American military experience in World War I on the ground, in the air, and at sea, from recruitment to the Armistice. This richly informative new release features the infamous… Read more...

Sniper on the Eastern Front

Sniper on the Eastern Front

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This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi invasion of Russia. Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger was an Austrian conscript… Read more...

Nachtjagd, Defenders of the Reich 1940-1943

Nachtjagd, Defenders of the Reich 1940-1943

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This new volume from Martin Bowman examines the first three years of the Second World War, consolidating first-hand accounts from German fighter pilots caught up in some of the most dramatic night time conflicts of… Read more...

Dates in History

First tank-to-tank combat

24th April 1918

On 24th April 1918 the first ever tank-to-tank combat occurred at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.

Further Reading

Tank Action in the Great War
(Hardback - 224 pages)
by Ian Verrinder

Harry Moon and eight fellow members of the Royal Sussex Regiment all volunteered to transfer to B Battalion, Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps in January 1917, (later the Tank Corps) to serve in the revolutionary Mk IV Tanks. After describing his experiences, training and fighting on the Somme with the… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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