E-böcker / Historia
![Omslagsbild för 617 Dambuster Squadron At War](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129768/1129768_202102231142.jpg?height=160)
617 Dambuster Squadron At War
No. 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command is world-famous for its daring raids on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe Dams, the Dortmund-Ems Canal and the attacks on the German ship Tirpitz. This ...
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6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment in the Great War
The 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, was a prewar Territorial unit. Many of its members held “white collar” positions employed by the City’s legal, financial and stockbroki ...
![Omslagsbild för A Century of Naval Aviation 1909-2009](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129770/1129770_202102231332.jpg?height=160)
A Century of Naval Aviation 1909-2009
Above the Waves is the history of the first century of British Naval aviation, with personal accounts adding color to the achievements both in technology, such as angled flight dec ...
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A Tour of the Arnhem Battlefields
Although the Battle of Arnhem was fought over sixty years ago. It still evokes such interest that it would seem to rank with the great victories of Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo a ...
![Omslagsbild för A Wander Through Wartime London](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129772/1129772_202102231237.jpg?height=160)
A Wander Through Wartime London
Through a series of five walks this book discovers the sights, sounds and experience of the capital at war; it details the remaining tangible evidence of the dark days via air raid ...
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Admiral Byng
Born the son of George Byng, a favorite of the king and himself an admiral and member of the admiralty board (and later First Lord of the Admiralty), John Byng seemed destined for ...
![Omslagsbild för Aircraft Wrecks:The Walker’s Guide](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129774/1129774_202102231126.jpg?height=160)
Aircraft Wrecks:The Walker’s Guide
This book gives readers a direct link to crash sites that can be visited, with accurate grid references, site description and current photographs. It covers some 450 selected sites ...
![Omslagsbild för Alan Bristow: Helicopter Pioneer](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129775/1129775_202102231436.jpg?height=160)
Alan Bristow: Helicopter Pioneer
Alan Bristow, founder of Bristow Helicopters, died on April 26, 2009, seven days after completing his autobiography. He was a truly remarkable man; his full-page obituary was publi ...
![Omslagsbild för Albert Ball VC](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129776/1129776_202102231511.jpg?height=160)
Albert Ball VC
Albert Ball’s individuality and his insistence on fighting alone set him apart from other fighter pilots during World War One. His invincible courage and utter determination made h ...
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Alone I Fly
After several years at sea, Sgt Bill Bailey arrived in Cairo in 1942 as a new recruit to the RAF, hoping to fulfill his ambition to fly bombers. Within hours of his arrival he is s ...
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Aristocrats Go to War
Zillebeke’s small churchyard military cemetery provides the inspiration for this charming piece of military and social history. The author has researched into the exploits and bac ...
![Omslagsbild för Armies of the Napoleonic Wars](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129779/1129779_202102231128.jpg?height=160)
Armies of the Napoleonic Wars
The armies of the Napoleonic Wars fought in a series of devastating campaigns that disturbed the peace of Europe for twelve years, yet the composition, organization and fighting ef ...
![Omslagsbild för Arnhem 1944](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129780/1129780_202102231412.jpg?height=160)
Arnhem 1944
Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. The Germans were in retreat from Normandy and seemed to be beaten. Three airborne divisions were to seize the bridges across the great ...
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Auschwitz Death Camp
The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the site of the single largest mass murder in history. Over one million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in its ...
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Awards of the George Cross
Early in WW2, King George VI was deeply impressed by the heroic deeds of servicemen out of the front line and civilian non-combatants in acts connected with the war such as bomb di ...
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Back Bearings
Eric Cropper’s RAF career started in 1943 and ended in 1968. It covered a period when the navigation of aircraft changed from astro, dead reckoning and drift bearings all plotted b ...
![Omslagsbild för Berlin](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129784/1129784_202102231155.jpg?height=160)
Berlin
In April and May 1945 the city of Berlin was the site of the final destructive act of the Second World War in Europe. The German capital became a battleground. After three weeks of ...
![Omslagsbild för Best of Fragments from France](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129785/1129785_202102231103.jpg?height=160)
Best of Fragments from France
Bruce Bairnsfather (BB) was the most famous cartoonist of the First World War and his soldier characters Old Bill, Bert and Alf, faced with sardonic good humor everything that the ...
![Omslagsbild för Blitzkrieg in the West](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129786/1129786_202102231119.jpg?height=160)
Blitzkrieg in the West
This superbly illustrated book captures the dramatic action of May and June 1940. The speed and ferocity of the German onslaught took the Allies by surprise as Hitler’s land and a ...
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Blitzkrieg Poland
These photographs are taken from three unpublished albums featuring the German invasion of Poland in 1939. One set was taken by an SS officer, another by a regular officer and a th ...
![Omslagsbild för Bloodline](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1129788/1129788_202102231356.jpg?height=160)
Bloodline
Using easy-to-follow, family-tree type tables, Bloodline shows the origins and development of every regular formation in the British Army including the latest amalgamations and cha ...
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Boesinghe
In the aftermath of the War, the war-ravaged countryside was restored and the trenches of the Western Front were filled in. 75 years after the War a group of Belgians, known as the ...
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The 2nd Norfolk Regiment
The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded ...
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An Emotional Gauntlet
Stuart J Wright tells the gripping story of a World War II American aircrew flying missions from Old Buckenham, England in a B-24 Liberator bomber they nicknamed Corky. This is a t ...
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Bastogne
By Christmas 1944, the Allies were on the threshold of victory, having remorselessly rolled the Germans back to the very borders of "The Fatherland". Then, the shock of a massive N ...