Despatches in this volume include Air Operations in Burma and Bay of Bengal 1 January to 22 May 1942 by General Wavell, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia November 1943 to ...
Fatal Fortress : The Guns & Fortifications of Singapore 1819-1956
The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 was arguably the greatest disaster suffered by the British Empire. Between 1923 and 1938, the Singapore naval base...
Just over a decade after the first powered aeroplane flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As more military aircraft took to the skies, they were equipped...
Fighting Fit : The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health
At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front. Rationing would decimate the nation'...
Fighting For Britain : African Soldiers in the Second World War
During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Af...
The Supermarine Spitfire is not only one of the most famous British icons, but it is arguably the most widely-recognised and popular aircraft in the history of aviation. For many generations it...
Forgotten : The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes
Forgotten is an extraordinary blend of military and social history - a story that pays tribute to the valour of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at ...
'Between Friday and Monday we never slept at all. Everyone's face was one mass of sand . The guns were so hot, all the paint had gone' Bombardier Ray Ellis Had the Allies lost in North A...
Forgotten Voices Of Burma : The Second World War's Forgotten Conflict
From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II the Burma Campa...
Forgotten Voices of D-Day : A New History of the Normandy Landings
6 June 1944 is one of the most momentous days in history: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Nort...
Fortress Island Malta : Defence and Re-supply During the Siege
The introduction of Italy into the Second World War on 10 June 1940 signalled the start of the siege of Malta, and for the next two and a half years the Axi...
I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and if necessary to carry it. - Adolf Hitler, 16 July 1940. Immediately after the fall of France in June 1...