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Britain's Railways in the Second World War
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399003247
Pub Date: 2026-01-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
216 Pages
The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of the twentieth century, the task was to prove a very different one.
Johnnie Johnson's 1942 Diary
The War Diary of the Spitfire Ace of Aces
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781526798237
Pub Date: 2025-08-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Air World
232 Pages
Air Vice-Marshal ‘Johnnie’ Johnson was a character literally from the pages of Boys’ Own: an individual who became the RAF’s top-scoring fighter pilot and wing leader par excellence of the Second World War. A one-time household name synonymous with the superlative Spitfire, Johnnie’s aerial combat successes inspired schoolboys for generations.
The Thames at War
Saving London From the Blitz
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781526768063
Pub Date: 2025-07-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
Between 1940 and 1945 London suffered 101 daylight and 253 nighttime air raids from the Luftwaffe and V1 and V2’s. There were 80,000 fatalities or serious injuries and appalling devastation. Well...
Passchendaele In 100 Locations
Exploring the Third Battle of Ypres 1917
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781473895164
Pub Date: 2025-07-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Frontline Books
Encouraged by the success of an attack on Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917, Field Marshal Haig ordered that his generals should continue their preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres. Delayed due to...
Breaking Seas, Broken Ships
People, Shipwrecks and Britain, 1854–2007
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399003780
Pub Date: 2025-05-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
208 Pages
Following Britain and the Ocean Road, Ian Friel expertly navigates the history of Britain and the sea from the Middle Ages to modern times. With Breaking Seas, Broken Ships, we follow the story of Britain’s maritime history through some of it’s most dramatic shipwrecks.
Supplying the British Army in the Second World War
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399021166
Pub Date: 2025-05-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
240 Pages
During the Second World War, how were the multitude of items required by the soldiers in the front line selected, ordered and delivered, and how were they produced? In this the second volume in her detailed, scholarly study of the army’s logistical system, Janet Macdonald describes the necessity for central advanced planning for each ...
Harrogate Terriers
The 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399075350
Pub Date: 2025-04-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
352 Pages
General Haig accused the Yorkshire Territorials of being ˜too sleep" to fight well on the Somme, but the 1/5th Battalion proved him wrong. Mainly drawn from Harrogate, York, Ripon and the surrounding area, more than 700 lost their lives as they went on to fight successfully at Passchendaele and other key battles of the Great War.
Hawker's Secret Cold War Airfield
Dunsfold: Home of the Hunter and Harrier
Price: $38.95
ISBN: 9781526798008
Pub Date: 2025-03-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Air World
328 Pages
In 1948, Hawker Aircraft, faced with new jet projects that could not use their existing airfield at Langley, began the process of searching for alternative accommodation for their flight-testing requirements.
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Britain's Railways in the Second World War
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399003247
Pub Date: 2026-01-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
216 Pages
Johnnie Johnson's 1942 Diary
The War Diary of the Spitfire Ace of Aces
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781526798237
Pub Date: 2025-08-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Air World
232 Pages
The Thames at War
Saving London From the Blitz
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781526768063
Pub Date: 2025-07-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
Passchendaele In 100 Locations
Exploring the Third Battle of Ypres 1917
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781473895164
Pub Date: 2025-07-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Frontline Books
Breaking Seas, Broken Ships
People, Shipwrecks and Britain, 1854–2007
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399003780
Pub Date: 2025-05-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
208 Pages
Supplying the British Army in the Second World War
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399021166
Pub Date: 2025-05-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
240 Pages
Harrogate Terriers
The 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399075350
Pub Date: 2025-04-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
352 Pages
Hawker's Secret Cold War Airfield
Dunsfold: Home of the Hunter and Harrier
Price: $38.95
ISBN: 9781526798008
Pub Date: 2025-03-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Air World
328 Pages