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The bombers and the bombed
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R. J. Overy |
A history of the Allied bombing campaigns of World War II questions the morality of British and American attacks on occupied European cities while offering insight into the course of the civilian fro… |
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Air battle Dunkirk, 26 May-3 June 1940
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Norman L. R. Franks |
192 , [16] p. of plates : 24 cm |
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Allied fighters 1939-45
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Christopher Chant |
Features more than 200 colour artworks with full specifications of every major type of fighter airplane flown by the allies in the European theatre during World War II. |
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The Battle of Britain
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John Philip Ray |
July 1940: as Britain stood alone, the Army exhausted and defeated by the Wehrmacht and the Royal Navy stretched worldwide, only the English Channel and the RAF remained between Britain and the expec… |
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War in a Stringbag
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Charles Lamb |
Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. It was an antiquated machine, but it could outmanoeuvre almost any other aircraft… |
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The fall of fortresses
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Elmer Bendiner |
Elmer Bendiner was aboard a B-17 that was in a bombing raid over Germany. They were hit in the fuel tank by a German 20mm shell that did not explode. Upon landing, they found 11 such shells. All… |
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The Allied resupply effort in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II
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Leo J. Daugherty |
"This volume takes an in-depth look at the situation the Allies faced in China, India and Burma exploring the realities of the politic-laden campaign waged in this 'forgotten theatre' during World Wa… |
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Pilote de guerre
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Flight to Arras is Saint-Exupéry's recollection of the final shattering days during World War II when, though the defeat of France was imminent, a pitifully inadequate number of French pilots and the… |
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