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Following on from the success of volume one, this volume covers every fixed-wing aircraft type flown from carriers in the strike, anti-submarine warfare and the vital airborne early warning roles.Despite the intensity and operational tragedies, the esprit de corps, and the ability to find the necessary release through laughter, shine through.

(Hardback, illustrated edition)

This book tells the story of how Fletcher, in its many manifestations over the decades, has transformed New Zealand's built environment by constructing such renowned structures as the Auckland University Clock Tower and the Museum of New Zealand: Te Papa Tongarewa.

(Hardback)

Since he was a child in the 1950s watching Vampires and Meteors operating from RAF Turnhouse, Jim Walls wanted to fly aircraft, he just never envisaged that his flying career would be spent in the back seat as opposed to the front. Jim guides readers through his 40-year RAF career that included flying on Nimrods and Vulcans.

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Inspired by the I Learnt About Flying from That articles that first appeared in the RAF Flight Safety magazine Air Clues in the 1940s and continues to feature to this day. Men and women of every rank pilots, navigators, engineers, an RAF Regiment officer and airmen too reveal similar intriguing experiences in both war and peace.

(Hardback)

During five years of research for the Fleet Air Arm Boysseries former personnel not only contributed a huge quantity of stories but also sent many thousands of photographs, largely taken by themselves, and mostly never previously seen.Flying with the Navy is a once-in-a-lifetime publication and a must-have for all devotees of the Fleet Air Arm.

(Paperback)

This book is about those Frenchmen who served in the Waffen-SS during the years 1943 to 1945, many of whom had previously served in other formations of the German Armed Forces or the Milice.

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The little know story of the CIA-recruited Cuban exiles' covert operation in the Congo during the 1960s. It relies on their personal testimonies, on government archives, on declassified documents.

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History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text, a team of five researchers, several from iwi invaded or attacked during the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars, reflect on these questions of memory and loss locally.

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Examining the past and present relationship of France with her erstwhile African colonial possessions, Operation Barracuda, Operations Almandin I, II and II, Operation Boali and the various regional, international and European regional interventions feature.

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This first volume of a three-part series on the First Indochina War centers on the period between 1946-1949. A time when tensions between East and West were on the rise, the Indochina War was a colonial conflict that laid the foundations for America's war in Vietnam.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

This book looks at the elaborate French government-backed plans to settle and annex 'Southern New Zealand' - and at what the French did when they found the British had got there first. The lives of the French (and German) men, women and children who ended up creating little settlements in Akaroa Harbour is a major focus of this fascinating book.

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(Paperback, Reprint ed.)

This book focuses on the extent to which the physical terrain features across Egypt, Libya and Tunisia affected British operations throughout the campaign in North Africa during the Second World War.

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For most of the war, until the fall of Lord North's ministry in 1782, Lord Sandwich managed the navy as First Lord of the Admiralty. The demands on the resources of the Royal Navy, at home and abroad, meant that he faced an unending struggle to balance its priorities.

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The story of the KPAFs coming into being and its involvement in the Korean War remains entirely unknown. This account provides a host of new information and images.

(Paperback, Reprint ed.)

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Photographic guide to German bombing operations over England

(Hardback)

Gestapo Hunter explores the charmed life and exceptional career of Ted Sismore, widely considered one of the RAFs very best wartime navigators and leaders. A quiet, unassuming man, Ted was one of only a handful of aircrew to complete a tour of operations in Blenheims in the summer of 1941.

(Hardback)

Gnat Boys relates the history of the aircraft and includes many fascinating and untold stories told by those who flew the aircraft, many of them well-known and distinguished aviators.

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The 1980s in New Zealand were choice, despite some things that happened which were really stink. Good As Gold looks back fondly on the decade that fashion forgot.

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Great Lakes Conflagration is the second in two volumes covering military operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the turn from the 21st century.

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Great Lakes Holocaust is the first in two volumes covering military operations in Zaire - as the Congo was named from 1971 until 1997 - and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the turn of the 21st century.

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(Hardback)

The period of the first Ancient Greek peoples, the Mycenaean civilization, from the 1700s BCE, through to the Greek Dark Ages and the rise of Classical Antiquity. This new book is the perfect companion to the Greek Myths & Legends in the same series of beautiful collector's editions, and sits alongside the other great cultures of the early world.