World War II buffs, of course, know Neil is an accomplished award-winning historian andauthor who specializes in the impact of war on British society in the first half of the 20 thCentury. In addition, he has had published over 40 books, has written for national magazinesand journals and appears regularly on television documentaries and nonfiction…
Being there . . . . when Britain’s exacting battle for survival of the fittest began less than threeweeks after the fall of France on July 10, 1940, and when England’s southeast Channel radarstations simultaneously revealed a massive number of German aircraft lifting off several Calaisairfields headed for London. Hitler was determined to erase the…
Nigel’s book details the foundation and early years of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) created in 1940. This organization has always been shrouded in secrecy due to the nature of its wartime and peacetime objectives. Formed during WWII it was instrumental in inserting men deep into enemy territory in the European, South-East Asia, Middle…
HOW TOP SECRET BRITISH CIVILIANS PREPARED TO FIGHT TO THE BITTER END TO DEFEND THEISLES FROM GERMAN INVADERS. . . . and Churchill wasn’t promising granddads with brooms, rakes, and pitchforks. He wasgathering volunteers, top secret and superbly trained, to ruthlessly attack and slaughter theNazis wherever and whenever they could. Those civilians unwilling or unable…
famous of all, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler’s deputy who both he and Hitler feared, and endingthe Fuhrer’s precious atomic bomb program by destroying the heavy water plant at Vemork,Norway.Meanwhile, OSS operatives established anti-Nazi resistance groups across Europe andmanaged to smuggle men and women into Nazi Germany and Berlin, themselves. One of theless know achievements of the…
Army officers inspect the wreckage of Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 (W.Nr. 3367) “Red 14” of 2./JG52, which crash-landed in a wheatfield at Mays Farm, Selmeston, near Lewes in Sussex, 12 August 1940. Its pilot, Unteroffizier Leo Zaunbrecher, was captured.
Since it was first published in 1989, Men of the Battle of Britain has become a standard reference book for academics and researchers interested in the Battle of Britain. Copies are also owned by many with purely an armchair interest in the events of 1940. The book records the service details of the airmen who…
Sgt Kazimierz Wunsche (Credits: Polish Embassy UK) The remains of No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron’s Hurricane were uncovered exactly 75 years after the airplane’s crash on 9th September 1940. Piloted by Sgt Kazimierz Wunsche, Hurricane RF-E 3700 was shot down during the Battle of Britain following air combat with the Luftwaffe over Beachy Head. Sgt…
I had the pleasure of reviewing this book. It’s one of the most interesting I’ve read to date which sits and makes you think about what would have happened had things gone down differently. It gives the story of the French during Dunkirk and after Dunkirk about how France was split by Germany. one half…
A mass fly-by was held at London’s Biggin Hill Airport, Tuesday, to commemorate the 75-year anniversary of the Battle of Britain’s “Hardest Day,” when both the UK and Germany lost their most pilots in the period of 24 hours. Video Credits: Ruptly February 15th, 2015
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