Seventy-nine-year-old Nottingham railway photographer, Bill Reed, shows for the first time his colour pictures of steam locomotives taken from the line-side, on shed and on works. The photographs cover the area on and off the main line from the London termini up to Aberdeen.
Josephine was Napoleon's love, but unable to have children, he divorced her in the cause of creating a dynasty. Of his second wife, Louise, an Austrian princess, he said 'I have married a womb!' In addition there were several lively sisters; and a string of mistresses. Last, but not least, there was Madame Mere, Napoleon's powerful mother.
Luftwaffe aerial reconnaissance photographed all of Great Britain. In June 1945 a British intelligence unit stumbled upon 16 tonnes of pictures, dumped in a barn in the Bavarian forest. The original Luftwaffe archive was destroyed at the end of the war, and this discovery was an incomplete German Intelligence copy. This book reproduces 220 images
The top-secret agreement between Britain and the Soviet Union whereby the British Special Operations Executive, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force arranged the transport of 34 Soviet agents from Archangel and Murmansk to be infiltrated into France, Holland, Italy, Austria and Germany.
A definitive biography of the aviator Bert Hall of the Lafayette Escadrille, a French fighter squadron during World War 1. Hall was variously labelled as: rogue, card cheat, forger, human cannonball, criminal, bigamist, deserter, filmmaker, author, Chinese General, arms smuggler, Foreign Legionnaire, salesman, aerial racer amd aviation pioneer.
With a light touch and a great, though not always uncritical, affection for its subject, this wide-ranging collection of anecdotes reveals many little known facets of Churchill and his incredible life. This fully illustrated book contains anecdotes relating to Churchill throughout his life, Snippets that capture the essence of the great man.
Fast, manoeuvrable and a superb gun platform, the Royal Aircraft Factory's S.E.5a was flown by the majority of Britain's top scoring fighter pilots. It was also safe and easy for newly trained pilots to fly with confidence and over 5,000 were built, continuing in civilian use long after the war was won.
Evans was a pilot who crash-landed in enemy territory. After two escapes he was moved to Fort 9, Ingolstadt, where the Germans had collected all the naughty boys who had escaped from other camps. In summer 1917, Evans finally succeeded in his escape with a fellow officer and the book describes the hardship and journey to freedom in Switzerland.
Bill Love found himself in close contact with a traditional witchcraft coven as early as 1942. This was outrageous and dangerous. The Witchcraft Act was not repealed until almost ten years and yet Bill Love firmly attached to the concept of living in harmony with nature, and in 1953 he asked to join such a coven. This book represents his story.
