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Gordon Thorburn
For Bomber Command, the term 'Phoney War' never really meant much. Five Blenheims of 107 Squadron were among the blood and bullets the day after war was declared and only…
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On every high street there used to be butcher, baker, grocer, greengrocer, draper, Boots, ironmonger, pub, W H Smith, cafe, bank, Freeman Hardy & Willis, jeweller, Marks and Spencer, furniture…
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Cassius is by turns thrilling, funny and moving, as well as being a fascinating insight in to the freemasonry of police dog training.
‘Where’s everybody else, Morrison?’ - Wing Commander Paddy Bandon to Sergeant Jock Morrison, 17 May 1940 Morrison had brought home the sole surviving 82 Squadron aircraft of twelve that had…
Apart from the quiet chatter of a few mechanics, who were checking that one aircraft was too badly damaged ever to fly again, there was a shocked silence over the…
What exactly is a pub? What should pubs be like? Is there a perfect pub? Can we imagine one that nobody would ever go in? Who does go in pubs…
The young Lady Anne Clifford of Queen Elizabeth’s Court became Countess of Dorset at the Court of King James, was robbed of her inheritance, widowed, became Countess of Pembroke at…
Read about the Berkshire restorer who saw a heap of old iron in the bushes and realized it used to be a 1926 bullnose Super Sports, and the seven year…
How did a working-class boy mechanic finish with fifty-seven fighter victories? What was special about Udet, Boelcke, and von Richthofen? Who were the greatest aces, and what were their real…
Was this the greatest medical disaster of World War Two? Who caused it? This new book has the answers.
In 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training. These were first-class…
Gordon Thorburn,John Baxter
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