Boeing's mighty B-52 Stratofortress has seen continuous
operational service with the US Air Force since its introduction
in 1957. The aircraft has been upgraded many times and has assumed
many different new roles since it originally provided the key
airborne platform for America's strategic nuclear force. Apart
from the formidable threat it provided during the 'Cold War', the
aircraft has played a significant part in all US overseas
operations including Vietnam, Desert Storm in 1991, the Balkan
conflict, Afghanistan and the liberation of Iraq.
New in d/w - 234pp, 10 pages of colour profiles, c200 b/w & colour
photos & illustrations
Hitlers Machtzentrale im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Today "Wolfsschanze"
– ‘The Wolf’s Lair’ near Ketrzyn in Poland, previously Rastenburg,
East Prussia, attracts many tourists. From June 1941 it was one of
the headquarters from which Adolf Hitler governed and directed the
war efforts of the Third Reich. Here he made many of the decisions
which led Europe to the edge of the abyss, entertaining Benito
Mussolini and other Axis leaders. Wolfsschanze even became the
setting for the failed bombing attempt on Hitler’s life on 20 July,
1944. Upon the approach of the Red Army early in 1945 the bunker was
partly blown up by the Germans. The authors document the historical
events which are linked with this place, and describe the everyday
life in the so called "leader headquarters".
German text.
New in card cover - 238pp, c320
b/w photos, illustrations & maps
An Undercover Agent's
Story. This is the story of the ruthless intelligence war
conducted by South Africa’s National Intelligence Service during
the 1980s and 1990s. The author was a senior intelligence officer
who operated widely as an undercover field officer. He tells a
story of lies and half truths, secrecy and stealth, evasion and
denials, deceits and manipulations.
A reprint of the
original manual used to train special agents dropped behind enemy
lines in Nazi occupied Europe during World War II. Used by the
Special Operations Executive and its American Counterpart, the
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) it is an authentic, word for
word reproduction.
This is a graphic, first-hand account of the notorious massacre by
the IRA of 14 British Soldiers and the wounding of 5 others in
Dublin in 1920. The author's husband was one of the officers who was
wounded in the incident while she same house. She describes life in
Dublin at the time under the permanent threat of the terrorist.
Despite the incorporation of some additional material and the use of
illustrations, this revised edition remains faithful to the original
account of the events at the time.
