Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. — 608 p. A sweeping, groundbreaking epic that combines military with social history, to illuminate the ways in which Great Britain and its people were permanently transformed by the Second World War. Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 424 p. More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport’s rich and luminous social history...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 136 p. During the Second World War a number of industries in Dundee were of importance to the war effort. The jute industry, which had previously dominated the local economy, had suffered badly during the 1930s. However, the war gave a temporary boost to the industry with as the material was in high demand for use in sandbags. The shipbuilding...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 160 p. South Shields and its near neighbours such as Jarrow were key communities in the national war effort, despite their relatively small size. Located on the East Coast, South Shields was situated at the key entry to the strategically important River Tyne and was well defended against enemy attack. The seaside town saw a large military...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 296 p. Canadian-born flying ace Raymond Collishaw (1893-1976) served in Britain's air forces for twenty-eight years. As a pilot in World War I he was credited with sixty-one confirmed kills on the Western Front. When World War II began in 1939, Air Commodore Collishaw commanded a Royal Air Force group in Egypt. It was in Egypt and Libya in...
Routledge, 2003. — 312 p. This book provides a sophisticated summary of up to date knowledge on the Fall of Singapore (1942), including the critical tensions between Churchill and local commanders.
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2014. — 210 p. This enthralling new release from Martin Bowman details all the varied and dynamic operations at sea carried out by RAF Coastal Command against the U-boats and the German Navy during the Second World War. Beginning with the disastrous Norwegian Campaign, it takes in the numerous attacks on the bustling German submarine base at Lorient, the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 320 p. The Royal Army Medical Corps was present during all engagements in the Second World War. From the frozen wastes of Norway through to liberation from the death camps of Germany and the Far East, RAMC personnel were frequently close to the front line, risking their lives to provide medical support to a mobile army in a mechanised war. Nearly...
The History Press, 2012. — 198 p. The Fall of Singapore (1942) remains a crushing defeat that sent shockwaves around the British Empire during the Second World War. Singapore had always been seen as an impenetrable fortress that would protect the British Empire's stake in the Far East - a legacy of the great days of global dominion. The British Army were aware of the threat to...
The History Press, 2005. — 208 p. What was it like to live in Britain during the Second World War? What kind of house did the average family live in? How did people cope with the ever-present threat of air-raids, not to mention the hardship of food and clothes rationing? How was a typical suburban home built? What were the choices open to householders when it came to interior...
The History Press, 2005. — 192 p. Mike Brown examines the milestone events that led to the nation's progressive change of heart from paranoia and defeatism in the early years of World War II, to the growing confidence that followed victorious El Alamein in 1942. The West at War', due to accompany a major 6-part series for ITV1 West of England, produced by Testimony Films and to...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 448 p. We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been told. In the early 1930s, a group of young, queer British MPs visited Berlin on a series of trips that would change the course of the Second World War. Having witnessed the Nazis' brutality first-hand, these men...
Amberley Publishing, 2019. — 640 p. On 21 August 1944 German Army Group B was destroyed in Normandy and Allied troops began pressing east from the beachhead they had occupied since the D-Day landings. Within days British troops had liberated Brussels and reached the Dutch border. Encouraged by seeming total German collapse, the Allies gambled their overstretched resources on a...
The History Press, 2008. — 320 p. The siege of Tobruk (1941-1942) was the longest in British military history. The coastal fortress and vital deep-water port of Tobruk was of crucial importance for the battle for North Africa as the key that would unlock the way to Egypt and the Suez Canal. For more than a year, the isolated garrison held out against all attempts to take it....
Yale University Press, 2013. — 401 p. Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler's Germany. Following Britain's military commanders and troops across the battlefields of Europe, from D-Day to VE-Day, from the Normandy...
Knopf, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-96263-8. The exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed the new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines — revolutionizing the way wars are waged and won. In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War...
Random House, 1969. — 656 p. The 1939-1945 conflict was, for Britain, a total war; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. This book not only states the great events and the leading figures, but also the oddities and the banalities of daily life, and in particular the parts played by ordinary people:...
Archive Media Publishing, 2012. — 238 p. This book comprising a compilation of fascinating primary accounts of airborne combat as told by the very men who fought in the action, 'By Air to Battle' is the official history of Airborne operations by British Paratroops in World War II. Spanning the introduction of the Central Landing Establishment to the end of the war, we follow the...
Charles River Editors Press, 2021. — 63 p. Of course, both the Western Allies and the Soviets knew of the Nazis’ V-2 rocket program, the forerunner of ballistic missiles and the Space Race. Indeed, the efforts to snatch up Nazi scientists reflected the fact that everyone recognized the immense strategic value of these technologies and wished to secure their benefits for...
Pen & Sword Military, 2013. — 341 p. In 1944 the V-1s and V-2s, Hitler’s ‘vengeance’ weapons, were regarded by the Allied leaders in London as the single greatest threat they had faced. It was feared that these flying bombs and rockets might turn the tide of war once again in Germany’s favor. Yet, little more than half of these missiles hit their targets, some failing to...
Pen & Sword Military, 2013. — 341 p. In 1944 the V-1s and V-2s, Hitler’s ‘vengeance’ weapons, were regarded by the Allied leaders in London as the single greatest threat they had faced. It was feared that these flying bombs and rockets might turn the tide of war once again in Germany’s favor. Yet, little more than half of these missiles hit their targets, some failing to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 168 p. Although much maligned, Essex is a vibrant county with a long and exciting history. Being close to the Continent and with one of Britain’s longest coastlines, it was an obvious target for invasion as the threat of war grew. Many defensive structures were built by the sea and to protect major routes across the county. The remains of pill...
The History Press, 2016. — 288 p. Known affectionately as ‘Dad’s Army’, the Home Guard was Britain’s very serious attempt to protect our shores from invasion by Nazi Germany in the Second World War. In the ‘Spitfire summer’ of 1940, all that the 1 million unpaid, untrained part-timers of the Local Defence Volunteers (as the organisation was originally called) wanted was a...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 228 p. Given the dearth of scholarship on the Phoney War, this book examines the early months of World War II when Winston Churchill's ability to lead Britain in the fight against the Nazis was being tested. Graham T. Clews explores how Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, proposed to fight this new world war, with particular attention given...
Pen and Sword Books, 2013. — 256 p. First published to acclaim in 1992, this book deals with the exploits of Bomber Command during their offensive against German Industry in the Ruhr during World War II. The author begins by describing the role of Bomber Command and goes on to define the Ruhr area and its great importance in terms of industrial output to the Germans. The author...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2013. — 253 p. First published to acclaim in 1983, this book is set to impact upon the book-buying public, eager for accounts of this period of World War history. Relaying the later operations of 617 Squadron, this book steers away from typical accounts of the group, which dwell on this predominant feature of their service history. 617 Squadron carried some...
Amberley Publishing, 2014. — 160 p. Alexander Korda's 1936 film The Shape of Things to Come predicted the nightmare of aerial bombing against London. Even as the storm clouds gathered, the government was woefully slow in protecting its civilian population. Some problems, such as the risk of a catastrophic flooding of the Underground network, were anticipated. But the enduring...
Phoenix, 2007. — 496 p. Why were the British, victorious in 1918, unable to match the Germans in 1940—and why were these pioneers of tank warfare overcome for so long by Germany’s panzers? This caustic critique exposes just how close England came to losing World War II, and in the process overturns the reputations of some of Britain’s most famous generals. Churchill takes heavy...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 352 p. During the Second World War some 600,000 women were absorbed into the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and the Women's Royal Naval Service. These women performed important military functions for the armed forces, both at home and overseas, and the jobs they undertook ranged from cooking, typing and...
New York: Norton/Bantam, 1959 (reprint 1978). - 233 pgs. The classic account of armored warfare in North Africa. Major Robert Crisp D.S.O., M.C., gives his personal story of two weeks in the Sidi Rezegh battles during Operation Crusader. He commanded Honey (U.S. Stuart) tanks in 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. For him the battle was not an even match as the Germans had several...
Routledge, 2021. — 190 p. This book, first published in 1986, examines the wartime evacuation of children in Britain from their homes in cities to safety in the countryside. It analyses the social impact of the separation on parents and children, and teases out of the official records the origins and assumptions of evacuation planning. It examines the aims, implementation and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. — 320 p. As deputy prime minister of Britain's coalition government during World War II, Clement Attlee became one of the most powerful figures in British politics and subsequently played a crucial role in the reshaping of the post-war party-political landscape. The architect of Labour's entry into the wartime coalition, Attlee came to straddle the...
Boydell and Brewer, 2017. — 277 p. There is increasing interest in the ‘home front’ during the Second World War, including issues such as how people coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other colonial territory, neglecting the...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 216 p. 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. One main theme of the work analyses the terrain from the operational and tactical perspective and argues that the landscape features heavily...
Coda Publishing Ltd. 2015. — 224 p. — ISBN: 9781473866898. In 1944-45, Capt. G.H. Davies served with the hard-fighting 53rd Welsh Division. He was an artillery officer in command of a battery of 25-pdr field guns and saw action from Normandy to the final surrender of Nazi Germany. Capt. Davies was present at the Normandy battles, the fierce fighting for s'Hertogenbosch and the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 304 p. Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh – later Lord – Dowding was one of the greatest Englishmen of the 20th century. He created Fighter Command with its unique early warning system (radar) from nothing in 1936 to the efficient defensive force it became in 1940. In consequence Fighter Command was the only arm that was properly prepared for battle when...
Pegasus Books, 2022. — 432 p. A revelatory new work of popular history focused on the year 1942, as the fate of Britain—and Winston Churchill’s leadership—hangs in the balance. Eighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a string of military disasters engulfed Britain in rapid succession : the collapse in Malaya; the biggest surrender in British history at...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 481 p. The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests, and in command of a global production system....
NY: Basic Books, 2013. - 542 pp.
Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 932 p. In citizen armies, it matters enormously that soldiers should, as Oliver Cromwell put it, know what they fight for and love what they know; the fundamentals of victory or defeat 'often have to be sought far from the battlefield, in political, social, and economic factors'. This study of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second...
London: Bounty Books, 2000. - 384 p.
George Forty OBE served for thirty years as a British army officer in the Royal Tank Regiment before becoming curator of the Bovington Tank Museum, where he was the inspiration for its growth in the 1980s and 1990s. His first book was on the Desert Rats (with whom he served postwar) and were published by Ian Allan in 1976; since then he has...
University Press of Kentucky, 1998. — 224 p. Few historical images are more powerful than those of wartime London. Having survived a constant barrage of German bombs, the city is remembered as an island of courage and defiance. These wartime images are still in use today to support a wide variety of political viewpoints. But how well do such descriptions match the memories of...
Headline Book Publishing, 2005. — 782 p. Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front. The book has been commended for its inclusion of many under-described aspects of the Home Front, and alongside familiar...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 255 p. Helena Hall's daily diary of the war years, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed and evocative personal records of the Second World War as it was experienced by people living in an English village. In her journal she describes her everyday activities alongside momentous national and international events. The war overshadows her...
HarperPress, 2010. — 576 p. — ISBN: 0007263686 (ISBN13: 9780007263684) Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide between...
Alfred A Knopf eBook, New York, 2010. A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston’s War captures the full range of Churchill’s endlessly fascinating character. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings’s Churchill comes brashly to life as never before. Beginning in 1940, when...
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2014. — 430 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4976-2256-2. For years, the story of the World War II codebreakers was kept a crucial state secret. Even Winston Churchill, himself a great advocate of Britain's cryptologic program, purposefully minimized their achievements in his history books. Now though, after decades have passed, the true scope of the British...
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2014. — 366 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4976-2256-2. vector PDF For years, the story of the World War II codebreakers was kept a crucial state secret. Even Winston Churchill, himself a great advocate of Britain's cryptologic program, purposefully minimized their achievements in his history books. Now though, after decades have passed, the true scope of...
MBI, 2016. — 420 p. All Behind You, Winston tells the story of the most remarkable gathering of leaders in modern British history: the War Ministry that saw the country through its darkest - and finest - hour. When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister on 10 May 1940, it was not with the unanimous support of Westminster or the country. For many, Lord Halifax was the obvious...
Casemate Publishers, 2013. — 255 p. This book brings an era to life with vivid stories and information from those who were there. During World War Two, 90% of the British population remained civilians. The War affected daily life more than any other war had done before. The majority of British people faced this will fortitude, courage and determination and this is their story,...
Profile, 2011. — 230 p. “This is the room from which I will direct the war,” Churchill declared upon seeing the dank storage basement in an improbably central location near the Houses of Parliament. The chambers would become his base of operations during the heaviest enemy bombardment of London. In Churchill’s Bunker, distinguished Churchill biographer Richard Holmes provides...
Profile, 2011. — 208 p. 'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory. Built in 1938 as a temporary refuge in case of air raid attack, this secret bunker became a second...
Routledge, 1991. — 250 р. Influenced by what Clausewitz called the "remarkable trinity" - the government, the military and the people - David Jablonsky studies the interaction between Churchill, the British people and the army during World War II. He argues that the great British leader saw civilian supremacy as the rule in total war.
Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego, 2009. — 234 s. Książka obrazuje politykę Wielkiej Brytanii wobec Europy Środkowej w latach II wojny światowej. Rozległa kwerenda archiwalna oraz konfrontacja z licznymi drukowanymi zbiorami źródeł i piśmiennictwem pozwoliły na uwzględnienie różnych punktów widzenia, zaprezentowanie dotychczasowego stanu badań i...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 242 p. The tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: in September 1939, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were massacred in Britain. The government, vets, and animal charities all advised against this killing. So why would thousands of British citizens line up to voluntarily euthanize household...
Conway Press, 2007. — 392 p. One of Britain's top naval historians takes on a previously unexplored area of Churchill's wartime efforts in this much anticipated follow on to a successful study last year of Churchill's navy. Entirely original in his approach, Lavery considers the practicalities of transporting a prime minister through dangerous skies and across hostile oceans in...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 287 p. This is a new examination of the politics of strategy and the background to them during Churchill's first year as Britain's wartime leader. It draws extensively both on official archives and on the private papers of many of the political and military leaders. Among the individual topics considered and reinterpreted are Churchill's...
Random House, 2002. — 592 p. Compiled by the historical adviser to the TV series "The 1940s House," this is an engagingly written social chronicle of wartime civilian life in England from September 1939 to August 1945 — from the grandeurs of the Blitz to the miseries of dried egg powder—with numerous individual testimonies. A fascinating and highly readable book on a subject...
Routledge, 1999. — 256 p. While it lasted, the Second World War dominated the life of the nations that were involved and most of those that were not. Since Britain was in at both the start and the finish her people experienced the impact of total ar in full measure. The experience was a test of the most comprehensive kind: of the institutions, of the resources, and the very...
Routledge, 2003. — 255 p. While it lasted, the Second World War dominated the life of the nations that were involved and most of those that were not. Since Britain was in at both the start and the finish her people experienced the impact of total ar in full measure. The experience was a test of the most comprehensive kind: of the institutions, of the resources, and the very...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 248 p. During the crisis of the Second World War in Britain, official Air Raid Precautions made the management of daily life a moral obligation of civil defence by introducing new prescriptions for the care of homes, animals, and persons displaced through evacuation. This book examines how the Mass-Observation movement recorded and shaped the logics...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 318 p. After the German occupation of 1940, Britain was forced to reassess its relationship with Norway, a country largely on the periphery of the main theatres of the Second World War. Christopher Mann examines British military policy towards Norway, concentrating on the commando raids, deception planning and naval operations.
Frontline Books, 2016. — 224 p. With the declaration of war in September 1939, the Government Evacuation Scheme was implemented, in which almost one and a half million civilians, mostly children, were evacuated from the British cities thought most likely to be the targets of aerial bombing. The fear of invasion the following year resulted in another mass evacuation from the...
Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 322 p. The world premiere of the musical stage play Star of Strait Street took place in Valletta on 4 April 2017. It celebrates the life of Christina Ratcliffe, an English singer and dancer who became an aircraft plotter in Malta in the Second World War. She worked in the underground Royal Air Force operational headquarters beneath Lascaris...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 341 p. During the Second World War, British and Imperial forces captured more than half a million Italian soldiers, sailors and airmen. Although a symbol of military success, these prisoners created a multitude of problems for the authorities throughout the war. This book looks at how the British addressed these problems and turned liabilities into...
Nowakowski Tomasz, Skotnicki Mariusz "Kreta 1941" - Warszawa: Altair - s. 53 - (Największe bitwy XX wieku). Książka autorstwa polskich badaczy Tomasza Nowakowskiego i Mariusza Skotnickiego kontynuuje cykl „Największe bitwy XX wieku” i przybliża czytelnikom bitwę o grecką wyspę Kretę, która rozegrała się wiosną 1941 roku. Po zajęciu Grecji kontynentalnej przez wojska Niemiec,...
Pen and Sword Books, 2018. — 224 p. An analytical investigation into Prime Minister Winston Churchill's decision-making process during every stage of World War II. When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. This, though, meant that he alone would be responsible for the success or failure of...
FW Media, Inc., 2007. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4463-5659-3. This book takes a comprehensive look at the undercover war, revealing just how much of WWII was won away from the battlefields. From the British cryptologists to the European resistance fighters, this book uncovers the stories of extraordinary people and their chance finds, lucky accidents, dogged determination and...
Frontline Books, 2019. — 192 p. A lifesaving gas mask. A ration book, essential for the supply of food. A shelter stove that kept a family warm whilst they huddled in their Anderson shelter. A leaflet dropped by the Luftwaffe that was designed to intimidate Britain's populace during the threat of invasion. A civilian identity card over-stamped with the swastika eagle from the...
Basic Books, 2015. — 352 p. In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill's reputation as one of the great twentieth-century leaders would be forged during the...
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 256 p. The six years of prolonged world-wide conflict spawned some 340 serving Generals (A-Z) in the British Army during Second World War (1939-1945). A number are household names (Montgomery, Slim, Wavell) and others well known to historians (Horrocks, Dempsey, Leese). But the vast majority are forgotten except by their families and regiments. Yet there...
Earnshaw Books, 2018. — 274 p. Somebody knew. Who knew? Did Winston Churchill lure Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor as a cynical ruse to pull the United States into the war against the Nazis to save England? Did he deliberately weaken the defenses of Singapore and Hong Kong to convince the Japanese to jump? Did he even run a double spy to feed information to Tokyo? John Bell...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 848 p. Great Britain's refusal to yield to Nazi Germany in the Second World War remains one of the greatest survival stories of modern times. Commemorated, evoked, and mythologized as it has been-chiseled and engraved onto countless monuments, the subject of an endless stream of books and films-its triumphant outcome was by no means...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2013. — 208 p. London at the outset of World War II in 1939 was the greatest city in the world, the heart of the British Empire. By 1945, it was a drab and exhausted city, beginning the long haul back to recovery. The defiant capital of England had always been Hitler's prime target. The last months of the Second World War saw the final phase of...
Viking, 2013. — 224 p. For fans of The King's Speech, the intriguing bond between monarch and prime minister and its crucial role during World War II. The political and personal relationship between King George VI and Winston Churchill during World War II is one that has been largely overlooked throughout history, yet the trust and loyalty these men shared helped Britain...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. - 536 с.
ISBN: 5-9524-1077-4
В книге рассказывается о боевых действиях самолетов военно-воздушных сил Великобритании. Задача торпедоносцев заключалась в том, чтобы, разыскав на водной акватории идущий во тьме конвой, выпустить торпеду с близкого расстояния под определенным углом и, молниеносно взмыв в облака, уйти от преследования. Британские летчики...
М.: Астрель 2004. — 154 с.
Это книга о истории огненных миль, пройденных «Файрдрейком» в серых водах Арктики за Полярным кругом, в лазурных водах Средиземного моря возле Генуи и Сицилии, в Атлантике у Азорских островов, история действий эсминца в течение 2 лет жестокой войны.
Книга будет интересна историкам,морякам, документалистам и всем заинтересованным ходом Великой...
М.: АСТ, 2005. — 400 с.
Серия: Военно-историческая библиотека
ISBN: 5-17-030320-3
После поражения Франции в июне 1940 г. британский флот вынужден был без поддержки союзников противостоять итальянским и немецким ВМС. Стратегическое значение внезапно приобрел Средиземноморский театр военных действий.
Военные операции английских моряков в 1940-1941 гг. на Средиземном море,...
М.: АСТ, 2005. - 384 с.
ISBN: 5-17-030320-3
После поражения Франции в июне 1940 г. британский флот вынужден был без поддержки союзников противостоять итальянским и немецким ВМС. Стратегическое значение внезапно приобрел Средиземноморский театр военных действий.
Военные операции английских моряков в 1940-1941 гг. на Средиземном море, боевой путь авианосца "Арк Ройял", борьба...
М.: АСТ, 2005. - 384 с.
ISBN: 5-17-030320-3
После поражения Франции в июне 1940 г. британский флот вынужден был без поддержки союзников противостоять итальянским и немецким ВМС. Стратегическое значение внезапно приобрел Средиземноморский театр военных действий.
Военные операции английских моряков в 1940-1941 гг. на Средиземном море, боевой путь авианосца "Арк Ройял", борьба...
Denis Richards and Hilary Saunders. Royal Air Force 1939-1945. London
М.: «Военное изд. министерства обороны СССР», 1963. – 724 с.
В книге рассматривается боевое использование ВВС Великобритании во 2-ой Мир. войне. Подробно освещается роль ВВС в основных операциях в Европе, Африке и Азии.
Сокр. пер. с англ. — Предисл. Н. Рудого. — М.: Военное изд. Министерства Обороны СССР, 1963. — 724 с. (+ карты-вклейки) В книге рассматриваются вопросы боевого использования ВВС Великобритании в ходе Второй Мировой войны. Показываются характерные особенности боевых действий различных видов и родов авиации. Подробно освещается роль ВВС в основных военных операциях на театрах...
Сокр. пер. с англ. ; Предисл. Н. Рудого. — М.: Военное изд. Министерства Обороны СССР, 1963. — 724 с. (+ карты-вклейки) В книге рассматриваются вопросы боевого использования ВВС Великобритании в ходе Второй Мировой войны. Показываются характерные особенности боевых действий различных видов и родов авиации. Подробно освещается роль ВВС в основных военных операциях на театрах...
М.: Харинвест, 2002. — 48 с.
Целостная картина битвы за Британию - величайшего авиационного сражения, занимающего особое место во второй мировой войне. В нем принимало участие несколько тысяч самолетов - как со стороны Королевских ВВС, так и со стороны Люфтваффе. Книга отличается исторической достоверностью, широтой и новизной привлеченного материала, содержит много уникальных...
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