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This book is part of the Casemate Illustrated series which currently runs to over 34 books. This is a slim volume of 128 pages, but don’t let that put you off, it’s packed with text, photographs, maps and other relevant illustrations and diagrams.For a paperback book, it has a real quality...
This has been a very difficult review to write because the book often reads more like a novel than historic fiction. I don’t wish to denigrate the author or publisher, but for a book of this sort surely we ought to have references backing up the stories? The brief list of acknowledgements just...
I thought it very apt that I was reading this book during Armistice week, leading up to Remembrance Sunday. It was a big reminder of just what we owe our forefathers, and had me wondering just how they’d think of what they had fought for, and had so often given their lives for, had turned out...
As I realised the book was published by Air World, an imprint of Pen & Sword, my heart sank. I am not normally a big fan of Pen & Sword, but my fears were unfounded in this case. This book is not typical of my experience with Pen & Sword books and gives me no reason to air my usual grievances...
I was looking forward to this book but was left rather disappointed. I really don’t like denigrating authors’ work as I know just how much effort goes into creating a book and how little the return so often is. Publishers, on the other hand, I feel are fair game, and I feel that the publisher...
Firstly, my most sincere apologies for this review taking so long. I have been unwell and have had a treasured cousin pass away. I hope the delay hasn’t caused any problems.What was delivered was a physically large and heavy book, but it was the strap line ‘Poor Strategy & Miscalculation’ that...
I really can’t believe that this book has come from the same publisher as my last review. This book is more than acceptable and a damned good read.I want to thank the writer for making this book available to us, because the book is about his father, Mick, and it really is a story worth...
A chronological study of Brighton from early preparations for war in 1938 through to 1945 and the end of the war.The author covers every aspect from ARP readiness to aliens, the treatment of Jews, first aid, firefighting, shelters and the blackout during 1938, showing that Brighton was well...
A relatively slim (160 pages) volume that appears to be incredibly well researched and populated generously with some very good pictures, adequate notes, bibliography and references.My knowledge of both World Wars is limited to the JMB ‘O’ level syllabus of the early 70s, which loosely...
An autobiography of the experiences of Jim Banton, who joined the RAF on the outbreak of WW2 He was posted to the far East and managed to escape from the Japanese as he was defending Kalijati airfield but he was later captured on the island of Java and put to work as slave labour on the Sumatran...
An Images of War publication that describes the war on the Ostfront.The photographs are the main backbone of the book although the text is very informative especially the excerpts from the "Taschenbuch für den Winterkrieg" (Paperback for the Winter War}.The photographs show the extremely...
This book features the memoirs of seventeen volunteers and one conscript who fought from Poland in 1939, Norway, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands during 1940/41 including the airborne and glider assault on the Belgian redoubt of Eben Emael.Operation Mercury, the airborne invasion of the...
If you are the type of person who likes battlefield tours then this book is a real goldmine of specific information, in fact, its format should be used more in my opinion. It uses Google maps to give you exact locations by typing in decimal degrees..There are six operations in the book and...
An extremely well researched and comprehensive read, but, it is a weighty tome indeed. This account covers just about everything to do with Naval intelligence you could think of, personnel, incidents, codes, ciphers and general intelligence gathering.There is a brief account of the early...
Review by GrownupRAFBrat and copied from Arrse.
https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/reviews/wren-jane-beacon-goes-to-war.1563/This book is an Adventure Story set in the Second World War. It’s a novel, written as though it were a biography. In researching the lives of Wrens at that time, the...
Before I got the chance to read this book, the cat took a serious interest in it. There must be something in the manufacturing process that attracted her as she wouldn’t leave it alone.On first skim through this reminded me of Paul Brickhill’s ‘Escape or Die’ which I read over 50 years ago at...
A very detailed look at the goings on in the City of Rome from just before the Italians changed sides and the Germans occupied the majority of Italy. The Germans were not best pleased about the Italians ‘treachery’ as they saw it so life was not easy for Italians, both military and civilian...
On opening the package, I was faced with spellings that just didn’t feel right. Arc Angel should surely be Archangel and Adolph, Adolf? I couldn’t help wondering if this was a portent of things to come?By the end of chapter two, I was beginning to wear of the author’s writing style. I found it...
Hi everyone,My Grandad Fred Farrant passed away last year at 97. Despite my fascination with WW2 he never spoke about it having swapped shifts with his friend when the top deck of his boat was destroyed.My Grandma also still alive last year wrote to the MoD to get a service record and...
In July 1945 the cruiser USS Indianapolis, rapidly repaired after a Kamikaze attack, was tasked with delivering the essential parts of the atomic bomb to Tinian in the Marianas. She was then routed to Leyte for a delayed workup. She never arrived.At midnight on the night of 29/30 July she had...