A fascinating record of British military aviation heritage. While
so many books on air force history concentrate on the big events,
"The Royal Air Force Day by Day" examines not just the great air
battles, but also the experiences of the RAF’s, airmen and women
in peacetime and war. The book covers the principal operational
and administrative developments in the RAF’s 90-year history.
Published in association with the Royal Air Force Museum, it is a
compelling mixture of the great and commonplace.
New in d/w - Large format, 418pp,
750 + b/w photos & illustrations
June 1863. The
Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. Harness jingles and
hooves pound as Confederate General James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart
leads his three brigades of veteran troopers on a ride that triggers
one of the Civil War’s most bitter and enduring controversies.
Instead of finding glory and victory—two objectives with which he
was intimately familiar, Stuart reaped stinging criticism and
substantial blame for one of the Confederacy’s most stunning and
unexpected battlefield defeats.
New in d/w - 428pp, numerous b/w
illustrations & maps, biblio, index
A major revision of
our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how
Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and
implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets
rested on widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about
the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability
to aerial bombardment. Combining narrative with analysis, the book
presents the first-ever comparative history of British and
American strategic bombing from its origins through 1945.
New in card cover - 406pp, Index
Princeton University Press,
2002
ISBN 9780691120102
At the age of 22, in search of adventure, the author joined the
Malay police at the height of a bitter ten-year campaign against
communist terrorists. Within a year he had become the youngest
ever commander of a jungle fort and platoon, deep within enemy
controlled territory. He led his platoon through a series of
offensive patrols and carried the war against the terrorists to
their own ground. Stampeding elephants, swarming ants and prowling
tigers competed with the terrorists for the lives of his men.
New in card cover - 208pp, 10 b/w photos, illustrations, map
SHADOWS ON THE HORIZON: THE BATTLE OF CONVOY HX-233
by
W A Haskell
The saga of a German front-line U-Boat, U-175, which, with her
compatriots, very nearly severed Britain's lifeline across the
Atlantic. Her actions culminated in the battle around Convoy
HX-233 in the Spring of 1943. The book is based on first-hand
experience, original documents and eye-witness accounts.
