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During the last century the British aircraft industry created and produced many outstanding aeroplanes. These aircraft were world leaders in advanced technology, utilizing inventions by British engineers and scientists such as radar, the jet engine, the ejector seat and vertical…
"The First World War had a profound impact on British society and on British relations with continental Europe, the Dominions, the United States and the emerging Soviet Union. The pre-war world was transformed, and the world that we recognize today began to take shape. That is w…
"When a 35-mile stretch of the former Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle opened on 6 September 2015, it became the most significant opening of any UK railway since the infamous Beeching Report, "The reshaping of British Railways", was published in March 1963. In his repor…
Accurate in detail, yet written with humanity and humour, this book tells the story of Britain's pioneer submarines during the 1914-1918 war, during which their crews battled courageously in atrocious conditions against a skilled and ruthless enemy and an equally unforgiving sea…
Victorians and Edwardians abroad: the beginning of the modern holiday reveals a story never told before: the early years of one of Britains leading modern travel agencies, the Polytechnic Touring Association (PTA). Created in 1888 within Britains first Polytechnic, the PTA was a…
Beretter om det legendariske britiske bombefly fra 2. Verdenskrig, de Havilland Mosquito, og beskriver dets anvendelse i mange forskellige roller.
Les Bartlett has become one of the great characters of World War II history. He flew as bomb aimer with the then Flying Officer Michael Beetham, who later became Marshal of the Royal Air Force. At that time he was a sergeant but gained his commission in April 1944 and flew his t…