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No matter how hard we may try to picture in our minds the devastation wrought by years of almost continual

To War In A Spitfire: The Diary of an American Spitfire Pilot Lieutenant Colonel H.C. Strawn DFC – Mark Hillier, Dieter Sinanan, and Gregory Percival

Lieutenant Harry Strawn from Swissvale, Pennsylvania, was a pilot with the 309th Squadron of the 31st Fighter Group, which he

This is a fine collection of personal accounts from the opening year of the First World War, a good number

It is perhaps some measure of our humanity that the brief, partial, and entirely unauthorised, Christmas Truce of 1914, has

At just nineteen-years of age, Captain Neil Weir found himself a captain and company commander in the 10th Battalion, Argyll

The author travels on much trodden ground in discussing the events from D-Day to the end of the war. Nevertheless,

Many years ago a former locomotive fireman reminisced to me about wartime duties transporting newly arrived American troops from Liverpool

For the Far East, the fighting which became part of the Second World War began in 1937 and continued until

During the Second World War volunteers from across the British Empire played their part in fighting Germany and its allies.

The authors of this thought-provoking book make the extraordinary claim that a small group of rich and powerful men sought,