Well, how confusing is this? In the one corner we have the well established First Blitz by Neil Hanson which looks at the German bombing operations against London in 1917 and 1918 and here we have Andrew P Hyde’s The First Blitz doing pretty much the same thing but sticking with 1917. Similarities abound and yet the two books have [...]
I am just back from a few days on the Arnhem trail and there are few things more humbling than a visit to the cemetery at Oosterbeek where you can get to grips with the sacrifice and the valour of the British 1st Airborne Division. That patch of The Netherlands is hallowed ground. But it is a sad fact that [...]
I won’t keep you long. Behind the enormously wordy title hides an extremely handy little book bringing the D-Day air war right to your door. Best of all you won’t need to change your pounds shillings and pence into any of those troublesome euros because all the action happens right here in Blighty. So you won’t need a ferry ticket [...]
The village of Beaumont Hamel is a nice enough place. Take a walk out of it and along the road that leads you to the British cemetery that bears its name and you will notice the Celtic cross, a memorial to the 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at the foot of Jacob’s Ladder which takes you up on to Redan [...]
You’re a movie producer and you’re sitting in your palatial Hollywood office and you’ve just seen War Horse and you managed to understand some of the accents and thought “Wow! I can do that so much better” and outside in the lobby you’ve gathered a motley crew of writers and ne’er do wells to brainstorm the big idea that will [...]
“I have read several of the best known books on the battle, but have never been there. It is an omission I often feel needs to be remedied. This film has achieved the inevitable and makes me want to go today”. I was happily working my way through this production when my wife came in and watched the last ten [...]
I appreciate an informative book and I really like an entertaining read, so a book that encompasses both is a boon. Step up Arthur Ward, a longstanding Airfixianado whose previous works on the small scale world many of us know and love include books I have somewhere in the Barnes library which bring back memories of fingers glued together and [...]
It’s a well worn axiom that any guide book is pretty much out of date as soon as it’s printed and I’m already thinking you can guess I am going to be harsh before we get out of the first paragraph. I am. At first glance this book looks like a supersized museum guide, like the type we used to [...]
English Electric built a lot of Halifax bombers. Jack Wetherly flew one to Berlin in 1943 and didn’t come back. It was his second tour. He was a Croydon boy, so I like him all the more for reasons you don’t need, and he’d been in the RAF since 1936 and was an exceptional pilot. He was a stocky little [...]
Once there was a fleet so big and so powerful the world looked on in awe at it. It was as vast as it was modern and it expanded at a pace that thrilled a nation and sent shivers through the capital cities of friend and foe alike. Millions were ploughed into it to maintain the surety of domination of [...]
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