These three books have no publishing parallel and
because of their totally comprehensive nature to which so many thousands of
people in all parts of the country can relate, they stand apart from any other
form of literature published hitherto on this sort of subject.
AVIATION
NEWS
Volume 1 September 3, 1939 – September 6, 1940
Volume 1 covers the first year, the period from phoney war to total war: September 3, 1939 to September 6, 1940. Beginning with endless air raid warnings and a sense of unreality, it was a phase which was to culminate in Hitler threatening to raze Britain's cities to the ground. As a direct source of the day-to-day effects of Luftwaffe operations over Britain at the time, the book utilises extracts from the 24-hour log compiled by the Ministry of Home Security, and this provides a contemporary diary of events as they affected the Home Front. These entries ideally form the setting for a detailed record of the losses sustained by the Luftwaffe over Britain and within sight of land: a barometer of the air war, showing clearly the changing climate of hostilities. Every German crash on land is listed with its crew, and footnotes are included on all the crash sites which are known to have been investigated or excavated since the end of the war, together with photographs of some of the more interesting discoveries. Features and special articles by historians and eyewitnesses intersperse the daily happenings, illustrating life at the time on both the civilian and service fronts.
ISBN 0 900913 45 2
SIZE 12"×8½"
336 PAGES
856
ILLUSTRATIONS
£29.95
CODE F013
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
FROM THE EDITOR
THE CONTRIBUTORS
GLOSSARY
INTRODUCTION
FROM PHONEY WAR TO TOTAL WAR
September 1939 -
September 1940
THE LUFTWAFFE
The features or special articles
EVACUATION
FIGHTER COMMAND'S FIRST CASUALTY
FIRST OF THE MANY
HITLER'S SECRET WEAPON
THE LOSS OF THE SS BARN HILL
FIRST CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN ENGLAND
BALLOON BARRAGES
CIVIL DEFENCE
THE FOYLEBANK VC
CHAIN HOME RADAR AND THE BLITZ
BARRAGE BALLOON COLLISION
BOMBS AND OTHER MISSILES DROPPED ON THE UK, 1940-1945
JOSEF MARKL'S ESCAPADE
ARRESTED AS A GERMAN AIRMAN!
DECOYS
SHELL-SHOCK
THE DISCOVERY OF FRITZ BUCHNER
THE ELECTRONIC WAR
OBLT. HELMUT STROBL
A masterpiece of a publication that deserves a place
on every bookshelf to remind us of the horrendous price paid then for the way we
live now.
THE NEWS, ALDERSHOT
Volume 2 September 7, 1940 – May 1941
The day-by-day, blow-by-blow account of the Night Blitz. Beginning with the first mass raid on London on September 7, 1940, the story is continued through the winter of 1940–41 with Ken Wakefield's masterly description of Luftwaffe operations over Britain. The result of over fifteen years of study and research, his 150,000-word account of each night's operations over Britain brings into focus for the first time the full details of the escalating attacks as one raid exceeded another in size, damage or deaths. Every German crash on land is listed with its crew, and footnotes are included on all those which are known to have been investigated or excavated since the end of the war, together with photographs of some of the more interesting discoveries. Over twenty features and special articles by historians and eyewitnesses intersperse the daily happenings, illustrating life at the time on both the civilian and Service fronts, and contrasting descriptions by German airmen give us an insight into just what it was like to be on the other side. A unique record of a period which changed the face of Britain and cost the lives of 40,000 of her people.
ISBN 0 900913 54 1
12"×8½"
656 PAGES
OVER
1500 ILLUSTRATIONS
£44.95
CODE F015
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
FROM THE EDITOR
THE CONTRIBUTORS
THE LUFTWAFFE
BLITZ!
September 1940-May 1941
INTRODUCTION
LUFTWAFFE OPERATIONS AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN
SEPTEMBER 1940
OCTOBER 1940
NOVEMBER 1940
THE NIGHT OFFENSIVE
DECEMBER 1940
JANUARY 1941
FEBRUARY 1941
MARCH 1941
APRIL 1941
MAY 1941
FINALE
The features or special articles
BLACK SATURDAY
GILLMAN'S DAREDEVILS
VERY COMMANDING OFFICER
UXB
LIFE IN THE SHELTERS
THE BATTLE OF GRAVENEY MARSHES
PUT THAT LIGHT OUT!
PADDOCK
TIEF-ANGRIFF AM ENGLAND
DISASTER AT CORONATION AVENUE STOKE NEWINGTON
TWO LAND MINES IN LONDON
A TELEGRAPH BOY REMEMBERS THE BLITZ
ON A MORTUARY VAN IN THE LONDON BLITZ
COVENTRY
THE BIRTH OF A LEGEND
FOLKESTONE
FIRESTORM
HEAVY RESCUE
FAIR ISLE INCIDENT
THE WEDNESDAY'
BEATING THE EXPERTS
FULL MOON
GLOSSARY
This is a book for you, your children and your
children's children to keep so that the sacrifices of their forebears will not
go unhonoured or be forgotten.
WINGSPAN
Volume 3 May 1941 – May 1945
The period in question began quietly with the Luftwaffe busy elsewhere, yet the increasing attacks on Germany by the Royal Air Force provoked a response in the form of the so-called Baedeker offensive of 1942. And it is against the background of the hammer blows dealt out to German towns and cities that the Blitz on Britain during the 1942–1944 period must be viewed. Hitler's frustration at not being able to hit back, like for like, led to the appointment in 1943 of a Blitz supremo to mete out retaliation. This finally came in 1944 with the Steinbock raids — known better as the Baby Blitz — yet it was only an interim measure. As the manned bomber attacks faded, so a new and fearsome method of attack by robot bomb began with weapons of vengeance. The V1 and V2 period is fully documented with the basic facts and figures balanced by eyewitness accounts never before published.The three volumes of The Blitz Then and Now run to more than 1,500 pages and include over 3,500 illustrations. It has taken ten years to bring to fruition — longer than the period it encompasses — and it is dedicated to the 60,000 British civilians who died and the 86,000 who were injured.
ISBN 0 900913 58 4
SIZE 12"×8½"
592 PAGES
1452
ILLUSTRATIONS
£44.95
CODE F019
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
FROM THE EDITOR
THE CONTRIBUTORS
THE LUFTWAFFE
PART I-RAIDERS OVERHEAD
May 1941-May 1944
INTRODUCTION
LUFTWAFFE OPERATIONS AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN
PART II-V FOR VENGEANCE
June 1944-March 1945
The features and special articles:
BOMB DISPOSAL BECKTON GASWORKS NOVEMBER 1986
THE FORMATION OF THE NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE
FIGHTING THE FIRES — THE APPLIANCES
THE BAEDEKER RAIDS
BATH RAIDER AT BUILTH WELLS
BAEDEKER CASUALTY
THE OBSERVER CORPS
ATTACK ON GB 73 19
THE DANGER BY DAY: FIGHTER BOMBER AND HIGH ALTITUDE ATTACKS
JAGDBOMBENANGRIFF
THE DAY LOWESTOFT HIT BACK
PLUMBING THE DEPTHS — THE FIASCO OF 1943
SANDHURST ROAD SCHOOL, CATFORD
THE BETHNAL GREEN TUBE SHELTER DISASTER
GERMAN WAR GRAVES IN GREAT BRITAIN
WHEN THE LUFTWAFFE LANDED IN BRITAIN
JABOS OVER SUFFOLK
THE FIRST OF THE 'K's
TORQUAY: TRAGEDY AT ST MARYCHURCH
MOSQUITO v. HORNET
THE FIRST JUNKERS 188 DOWN ON BRITISH SOIL
THE STEINBOCK RAIDS
BOMBED OUT
ONE BOY'S WAR
ESCAPE TO BRITAIN
THE V-WEAPONS
V1 FIESLER Fi 103
A SCHOOLBOY'S AIR DIARY — PART I
A SCHOOLBOY'S AIR DIARY — PART II
DO DOGS CRY?
METEOR VERSUS V1
A SCHOOLBOY'S AIR DIARY — PART III
THOSE INCREDIBLE EIGHTY DAYS
THE V2
V2 ROCKETS — DEADLY BOLTS FROM THE BLUE
THE V2 AGAINST EAST ANGLIA
BIG BEN 257
THE CHRISTMAS EVE FLYING BOMB RAID ON MANCHESTER
THE CARTER DIARY I
THE CARTER DIARY II
THE CARTER DIARY III
LUFTWAFFE FINALE
POSTSCRIPT
MEMORIAL TO THE BLITZ
GLOSSARY
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