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Down in the Drink
Their Deadliest Enemy Was the Sea
Av Ralph Barker
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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To crash or be shot down into the sea is a terrifying experience. And to escape to tell the tale is a rare and remarkable achievement. But that is precisely what each of the World War Two heroes described here has done; they have come ''down in the drink'' and miraculously survived. In doing so, …
Ship-Busters
British Torpedo-Bombers in World War II
Av Ralph Barker
Häftad, 2010
207 kr
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Low-level strikes by British torpedo-bombers against enemy naval vessels ranked among the most dangerous aerial tactics developed during World War II. But the risks frequently paid off, whether in the attack by a single bomber on the German battleship Lützow, the torpedoing of the Gneisenau, or the …
Ship-Busters
Av Ralph Barker
E-bok, 2010
189 kr
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Epic story of low-level strikes on Axis navies in World War II One of the most dangerous forms of air attack used during the war Written by a participant This stirring book recounts how British torpedo-bombers took the war to enemy naval fleets and shipping vessels during World War II. Episodes …
The Blockade Busters
Cheating Hitler''s Reich of Vital War Supplies
Av Ralph Barker
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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Recounts one of the greatest sea stories of World War II. It is the story of how George Binney, a 39 year-old civilian working in neutral Sweden when Norway was overrun by the Germans in 1940, set about running vital cargoes of Swedish ball-bearings and special steels to Britain through the …
Bill Lancaster: The Final Verdict
The Life and Death of an Aviation Pioneer
Av Ralph Barker
E-bok, 2021
130 kr
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Captain William Lancaster was the subject of public attention and controversy during his life as a record-breaking flyer, because of his love affair with Jessie ‘Chubbie’ Miller (dubbed “the Australian Aviatrix”) and as the defendant in one of the most sensational murder trials of the twentieth …
Men of the Bombers
Crews Who Fought & Won the Campaign
Av Ralph Barker
E-bok, 2005
162 kr
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This is a selection of ten remarkable true accounts of unusual incidents and happenings to Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two. It covers operations of varying natures, such as one of the first leaflet dropping raids during the ''Phoney War'' when the elderly Whitley bomber proved to be a …
Men of the Bombers
Crews Who Fought & Won the Campaign
Av Ralph Barker
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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This is a selection of ten remarkable true accounts of unusual incidents and happenings to Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two. It covers operations of varying natures, such as one of the first leaflet dropping raids during the 'Phoney War' when the elderly Whitley bomber proved to be a …
A Brief History of the Royal Flying Corps in World War One
Av Ralph Barker
Häftad, 2002
358 kr
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This accessible text covers the all of the major First World War battles, from Bloody April 1917, when the squadrons suffered enormous casualties, through Third Ypres and Passchendaele to the chaotic retreat from Ludendorff's offensive. Drawing extensively from letters and diaries of the men who …
Ship-Busters!
A Classic Account of RAF Torpedo-Bombers in WWII
Av Ralph Barker
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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Low-level strikes against enemy shipping by torpedo-carrying aircraft were perhaps the most dangerous forms of air attack developed during WWII, and few isolated actions had such a direct impact on naval and military actions. This book tells the story of the RAF men involved, from the early attacks …
Hurricats
The Incredible True Story of Britain's 'Kamikaze' Pilots of World War Two
Av Ralph Barker
Häftad, 2019
206 kr
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The Incredible True Story of Britain's 'Kamikaze' Pilots of World War Two.
Schneider Trophy Races
The Extraordinary True Story of Aviation's Greatest Competition
Av Ralph Barker
Häftad, 2019
212 kr
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The Extraordinary True Story of Aviation's Greatest Competition
The Last Blue Mountain
The great Karakoram climbing tragedy
Av Ralph Barker
Häftad, 2020
200 kr
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‘When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh.’ The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit …
Down in the Drink
Their Deadliest Enemy Was the Sea
Av Ralph Barker
Häftad, 2008
291 kr
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Among those who fought in the ferocious battles for the skies during the Second World War, some - shot down, or forced to ditch - had to confront an exceptionally pitiless enemy: the sea. DOWN IN THE DRINK tells the astonishing stories of nine aircrews who suffered this horrifying plight, from the …
