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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

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

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

This book is an analysis of the men that ran the war. Though Churchill and Roosevelt provided the general direction

The battles of Kohima and Imphal became two of the greatest struggles of the Second World War, rivalling El Alamein

This book represents a very thorough examination of the air war from the start of the Battle of France to

This, the second in the series about Bomber Command individuals and crews that failed to return from operations, follows the