Product Description: over and around the British Isles, from the Blitz of 1941 through to the last sporadic raids by V1-carrying He 111s in late 1944/early 1945. Mainly featuring multi-engine bombers, single and twin-engine fighter bombers and intruders are also included, all of which were involved in operations such as the ‘Baedeker Raids’ and Operation ‘Steinbock’; high and low level raiders; intruder and night fighter operations including Operation ‘Gisela'; and the first Ar 234 jet flights over the UK; plus the aircraft operated by Fliegerführer Atlantik undertaking anti-shipping and maritime operations...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: The definitive history of the desert battle―”The end of the beginning,” as Churchill said― that changed the course of World War II . It was the Allied victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill’s most famous aphorisms: “This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning...read more

Product Description: The battle of El Alamein in 1942 was one of the most crucial events in the entire Second World War. Before it, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else, even the Russians. At Alamein the British Eighth Army first thwarted the Axis attempts in North Africa to seize Cairo and the Suez Canal and then smashed through the German-Italian defences, eventually driving the Axis forces out of North Africa...read more

Product Description: The Battle of Britain (July to October 1940), one of World War II's turning points, as seen by the German attackers who ultimately lost the battle Personal accounts from the men who flew the Messerschmitt fighters and Junkers bombers Riveting stories of wheeling dogfights with British Spitfires and bomb runs amid exploding flak Packed with photos of pilots, crews, planes, equipment, and mor...read more