The Mallon Crew
We are delighted to be able to share with you another book that has a connection to Manston. The author made contact with the site after his tweet today in connection with D-Day. Later in...
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From Battle of Britain Airman to PoW Escapee
This is the Second World War story of a champion cyclist turned airman who lived to tell the tale against almost impossible odds. A New Zealander in the RAF, Ian Walker took part in the...
Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War
Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War tells the story of the largest British bombers of the First World War and the men who flew them. In 1915, the biggest...
Battle of Britain Voices
DESCRIPTION July 1940, and Britain is the only European country which hasn’t caved in to Hitler’s Third Reich. Hitler’s stated aim was to ‘eliminate the English home country as a base for the continuation of...
The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain
Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this is a book ultimately distinguished by its conclusions that it was the British...
Whirlwind: Westland’s Enigmatic Fighter
Faster and better armed than the Spitfire, the Whirlwind was the RAF’s counter to a new generation of armoured German bombers which it expected to meet in English skies in 1940. A few months after...
