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Years of Command
"This second volume of my autobiography deals with weightier and broader aspects of our times than those related in the first part ... We lived through twenty years of an uneasy peace, and then, without showing any of the wisdom that might have been learned from the events of the past, we plunged into the Second World War. In place of the combat of my younger days I was called upon to exercise high command. With the ending of the second war, and when all innocence as we of the older generation had known it had died, there came for me a period during which, as Commander-in-Chief and Military Governor of the British zone of occupied Germany ..."--Preface.
Years of Combat
"Because I have seen and known at first hand, both as a pilot and as commander, so much of the whole story of aviation, including the political background, I have been urged to give first of all a full account of my experiences as a fighter pilot during the period of the war of 1914-18. That conflict used to be called the Great War, and its extraordinary interest has never ceased to stir the imaginations of later generations. For those of us who flew in that war it was a time of exploration as well as fighting, and for us it meant years of combat. They were years that have since been described as the heroic age of flying"--Preface.
BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War
A detailed account of British intelligence operations in Cold War East Germany, revealing Soviet and East German military secrets from 1946 to 1990. The German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, was the frontline in the Cold War, packed with hundreds of thousands of Soviet and East German troops armed with the latest Warsaw Pact equipment, lined up along the 1,400 km Inner German Border. However, because of the repressive East German police state, little human intelligence about these forces reached the West. Who were they? Where were they located? What were they doing? How were they equipped? What were their intentions? NATO was lined up in West Germany to face these forces and relied on...
Liberal Crusader
Archibald Sinclair, a wealthy landowner from the north of Scotland, was Liberal Party leader from 1935 to 1945 and Air Minister throughout Winston Churchill's ministry during World War II. A widely-admired and talented politician, he played an important part in the major controversies of mid-century: appeasement, unemployment policy, the Abdication, rearmament and the war. His integrity, civility and sense of humour set him apart in an age of opportunism and betrayal.
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage
Some sections omitted from 2nd impression of the 105th ed.
Air Officer Commanding
Hugh Dowding may be described as the prime architect of British victory in the battle of Britain, and thus as one of a handful of officers and men most responsible for ensuring that Hitler's planned invasion of England never occurred. Dowding was born in 1882 at the apex of British imperial power and had an early career as a gunner on the fabled North-West Frontier of the British Indian Empire. During the first year of World War I, he served with distinction as a combat pilot in France, but his real test would come in 1936, when he was assigned the critical task of reorganizing the Air Defense of Great Britain as the first air officer commanding-in-chief of the new RAF Fighter Command. In th...
