World War Two

  1. Dieppe by Henry Buckton

    As we once again approach November and our thoughts turn towards Remembrance I would like to talk about a battle during the Second World War which for the Allies, particularly Canada, was one of its costliest in terms of the percentage of men and equipment taking part, that were lost. The battle in question was an assault on the German-occupied...
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  2. Understanding the Me 110 circles early in the Battle of Britain by Patrick G. Eriksson

    So-called defensive circles of German Me 110 twin-engined fighters are quite commonly reported for the Battle of Britain, particularly for July and August 1940. The circles are often misunderstood as ‘defensive circles’ reflecting a perceived vulnerability for the Me 110s. However, these circles were actually there to provide a higher-flying presence of a formidable force of fighters above or close...
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  3. The History of MI14 by Andrew Cook

    On 15 May 1940, five days after becoming Prime Minister, Churchill ordered the creation of a new intelligence agency to focus entirely on Germany. M.I.3’s Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Strong, and the small staff of three regular officers that had comprised M.I.3’s ‘German section’ immediately had conferred on them the status of a full-blown intelligence department, that would henceforth be known as...
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  4. 'Oswald John Job' - Britain's Forgotten Traitor by Ed Perkins

    My character, you could say, is unscrupulous, selfish, disloyal, given to lying and drawn to criminal behaviour. Well, not my own, though some who know me might disagree with that, but the character of Oswald John Job, the subject of my book, Britain’s Forgotten Traitor. Job was born in London to German immigrant parents, married at Deptford, then ditched his...
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  5. Barbarossa Through German Eyes by Jonathan Trigg

    Was butter the real reason Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa to conquer the Soviet Union? Napoleon Bonaparte allegedly once said “An army marches on its’ stomach”, but to paraphrase him there is a strong case to say that the Germans who invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 were “an Army marching for its stomach.” Ever since the Nazis launched the largest...
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  6. Secret World of Chester’s John Dolphin by Adrian and Dawn L. Bridge

    The role of technical experts such as engineers, scientists, and mathematicians in modern warfare, is often indispensable. John Robert Vernon Dolphin, born in 1905 in the small village of Christleton, just outside Chester, was just such a technical expert. He was born into a well-to-do scientific family, with a father who worked as a metallurgist for a copper refining company...
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  7. Luftwaffe Pilots - Alarmstart South and Final Defeat by Patrick G. Eriksson

    This book completes the trilogy on Luftwaffe fighter pilot experiences from World War Two, based on personal reminiscences of 69 eyewitnesses. While examining the last year of the war in the West, and the painful imprisonment that awaited most Luftwaffe survivors, it focuses on fighter combat in the greater Mediterranean theatre. Here, missions over the sea exposed pilots to the...
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  8. Through Adversity - 'Lives of Three Operational Pilots' by Alastair Goodrum

    The Story of Life in the RFC and RAF Through Three Operational Pilots My seventh and latest book tells the stories of three pilots from widely differing places: Lincolnshire, Warwickshire and South Africa, and social backgrounds: sons of a country JP, a market gardener and a vet. They are typical of the composition of the RAF and their individual military...
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  9. Police in Nazi Germany by Paul Garson

    The Third Reich officially ended with the signing of the unconditional surrender on May 7, 1945, only after Nazi Germany had been reduced to a smoldering heap of ashes, its borders breached by the Allies from the west and the Soviet Army from the east. Although Hitler and Goebbels were dead by suicide in the Berlin Fuhrerbunker, his henchmen sought...
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  10. Photographers of the Third Reich by Paul Garson

    Images from the Wehrmacht, Third Reich What is it about photos that mesmerize us? When even life and death enemies find themselves smiling for their captor’s camera. A group of army officers struggle with various types of cameras, likely in France. (Photographers of the Third Reich, Amberley Publishing) What power do these images hold that in some cases linger with...
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