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From Belfast to Bandit Country...The true story of a squadron pilot during the deadly Troubles in Northern Ireland and the application and determination required to fly the British Army Gazelle helicopter.

The island of Malta is renowned for its stoic defiance during the Second World War. Less well known is the significant contribution of its photographic reconnaissance aircraft to the war in the Mediterranean, particularly the surveillance of Sicily up to and beyond the Allied invasion.

German parachute troops had their moment of glory in the early years of WW2, but some units fought until the last day for the defense of the Oder River and the German capital. This book narrates the combats in which the 9.FALLSCHIRMJÄGER-DIVISION and the 600.SS-FALLSCHIRMJÄGER-BATAILLON took part.

Italy's best and most well known torpedo bomber in the Second World War. The tri-motored aircraft was used in the bomber, torpedo and transport role throughout the conflict. Includes technical data on the tri-motor aircraft and on the torpedo warhead.

This is the second of three volumes in the Airborne to Arnhem series. Altogether the three volumes contain over 150 personal accounts taken from personal interviews and correspondence with veterans of the 1st Airborne Division covering their reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation MARKET, September 1944.

In this book we will learn the history of the 5 squadrons sent by Spain to fight alongside the Luftwaffe against the USSR. We will discover the aces, camouflage planes and emblems used by the Spanish unit. A large number of photographs and color profiles complete this exciting book.

Birdwood was a very notable general at Gallipoli, commanding the Anzacs, and leading the successful final evacuations. He led the Australians continuously on the Western Front, laying the groundwork for their celebrated achievements in 1918. He had great diplomatic acumen and his later years were both militarily and imperially significant.

A new and detailed account of the battle of Gazala from 27 May-18 June 1942 which reconsiders the brigade battles for Eighth Army. It uses archival war diaries and reports, supported by numerous published memoirs, and regimental histories to provide a fresh voice for the men who fought there.

This narrative of the war in Ireland from October 1641 to September 1643 critically evaluates the performance of the Irish or Catholic armies and reveals the underlying shape of what would otherwise seem to be a shapeless sprawl of battles, sieges, skirmishes, massacres, and cattle raids.

Since 1966, the backbone of the fighter-bomber fleet of the air forces of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen was - and sometimes still is - formed by Sukhoi-designed fighter-bombers.

This book details the period of the Arab-Israeli conflict between the June 1967 and October 1973 wars, referred to as the War of Attrition. Forces were restored and battle-hardened, war plans formulated, and attitudes evolved. The combat of various levels of ferocity spanned the spectrum from strategic bombing to terrorism.

This book details the period of the Arab-Israeli conflict between the June 1967 and October 1973 wars, referred to as the War of Attrition. Forces were restored and battle-hardened, war plans formulated, and attitudes evolved. The combat of various levels of ferocity spanned the spectrum from strategic bombing to terrorism.

Tracing its origins back to June 1911, and officially established as a separate branch of the Turkish Armed Forces, the Turkish Air Force (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri, THK) is the air warfare branch of the Turkish Armed Forces. This richly illustrated book is detailing its organization and equipment as of 2020-2025.

Erupting in the aftermath of a military coup and the mass-killing of anti-coup protesters in October 1979, the civil war in El Salvador was fought between the military junta and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front - an umbrella organization of predominantly left-wing groups.

Azules versus Colorados is the name given to a series of armed confrontations between two factions of the Argentine Armed Forces in 1962 and 1963, during the de facto presidency of José María Guido.

This first volume of a three-part series on the First Indochina War centered 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.

After the withdrawal of the USA and then the government and forces of the Kuomintang from the Mainland China, and the declaration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) led by Mao Tse Tung, it appeared that the times of the Civil Air Transport would find an end. However, immediately after, new wars erupted in Korea and in the French Indochina.

The book covers the history and activities of the United Nations Operation for Peace in Western Sahara (MINURSO) from its creation in 1991 until the end of 2021. The author of the book himself served as a peacekeeper in Western Sahara, and shares first-hand information and unpublished photographs with readers.

This book provides a detailed insight into the one of the greatest popular uprisings in European history and explores the organization, tactics, and experience on the battlefield of the peasant bands which faced the Landsknecht armies of the German nobility.

A revisionist history of the later Covenanter Rebellions, impacting on the later Monmouth and Jacobite Rebellions. The book provides in-depth analysis of Government and Covenanter forces, while narrating the battles of Rullion Green, Drumclog, Bothwell Brig and Aird's Moss.

This volume completes the study of Tudor warfare. It provides a detailed description and analysis of the campaigns and battles of Elizabeth's reign together with their political and diplomatic background. It also explains how her armies were raised, equipped, supported and commanded.

John Hampden and the Battle of Chalgrove challenges the traditional accounts of Hampden's fatal wounding on 18 June 1643 and subsequent death.

This book charts the raising, equipping, maintenance and deployment of the various militia and auxiliary cavalry formations established in and around the City of London during the English Civil War by Parliament.

This narrative of the war in Ireland from October 1641 to September 1643 critically evaluates the performance of the Irish or Catholic armies and reveals the underlying shape of what would otherwise seem to be a shapeless sprawl of battles, sieges, skirmishes, massacres, and cattle raids.

Admiral Anson won fame and fortune during his circumnavigation of the globe, 1740-1744. He defeated the French at Cape Finisterre, 1747 and, as First Lord, reformed the officer corps and modernized ship design. Lord Anson made a major contribution to the defeat of France and Spain in the Seven Years War.

The only publicly available translation into English of Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky's official history of the Russian Forces involvement fighting against Napoleon and his allies in 1806-07, during the War of the Fourth Coalition.

During the American Revolution few British regiments saw as much action as the 33rd Foot. With an excellent reputation under their colonel, Lord Cornwallis, they fought from Saratoga to South Carolina. Not just a regimental history, this book follows everyday experiences of officers and men throughout the regiment's American Odyssey.