Author: Roy Conyers NesbitPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages :
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The RAF in Camera
Author: Roy Conyers NesbitPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Royal Air Force, 1939–1945
Author: Chaz BowyerPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473817439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This book examines every aspect of The Royal Air Force, including organisation, statistics and operations during World War Two.
RAF Coastal Command in Action, 1939-1945
Author: Roy Conyers NesbitPublisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
During World War II the aircraft and crews of RAF Coastal Command played a vital role of patrolling and defending the waters around Great Britain against enemy air and naval forces. These included everything from long-range fighters and patrol aircraft, like Junkers Ju88 and Focke Wulf Fw200 Kondor, to marauding U-boats, E-boats and warships.
The RAF in Camera
Author: Roy Conyers NesbitPublisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The RAF in Camera 1946-1995 is the third volume in a series which will bring a representative selection of these two collections to the attention of a wider audience. Many of the photographs are published here for the first time and give the reader a fascinating kaleidoscope of images depicting the vast range of operations in which the RAF was involved from the end of the Second World War right up to the Gulf War. Included are the Berlin Airlift, the 'bush' wars in Kenya, Malaya and Indonesia, atom-bomb tests in Australia and the Pacific, the Korean, Falklands and Gulf Wars, and the Suez and Cyprus crises. Each of the 240 photographs, some taken in action, has been thoroughly researched and is accompanied by a detailed caption. This remarkable volume of illustrations will appeal not only to those with an interest in Royal Air Force, but also to anyone with an interest in the history of military aviation.
The RAF in Camera, 1939-1945
Author: Roy Conyers NesbitPublisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 9780750915212
Category : Air forces
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The RAF in Camera 1939-1945 contains over 240 photographs, many of which were taken in action. Each photograph has been thoroughly researched and is accompanied by a detailed caption. This volume will appeal not only to those with an interest in the Royal Air Force and the Second World War, but also to anyone with an interest in the history of military aviation.
The RAF in Camera: 1939-1945
Author: Roy Conyers NesbitPublisher:
ISBN: 9780750910545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Flight of Rudolf Hess
Author: Roy Conyers NesbitPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752472763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
On 10 May 1941, Rudolf Hess - Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich - embarked on his astonishing flight from Augsburg to Scotland. At dusk the same day, he parachuted on to a Scottish moor and was taken into custody. His arrival provoked widespread curiosity and speculation, which has continued to this day. Why did Hess fly to Scotland? Had Hitler authorized him to attempt to negotiate peace? Was British Intelligence involved? What was his state of mind at the time? Drawing on a variety of reliable archive and eyewitness sources in Britain, Germany and the USA, authors Roy Conyers Nesbit and Georges van Acker have written what must be the most objective assessment of the Hess' story yet to be published. Their compelling narrative not only dispels many of the extraordinary conspiracy theories, but also uncovers some intriguing new facts.
Missing: Believed Killed
Author: Roy Conyers NesbitPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848843194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The uncertain fates of Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson and Glenn Miller have fascinated readers and aviation historians ever since they disappeared. Even today, more than half a century after their final flights, what happened to them is still the subject of speculation, conspiracy theory and controversy. This has prompted Roy Conyers Nesbit to reinvestigate their stories and to write this perceptive, level-headed and gripping study. Using testimony from new witnesses and hitherto undisclosed public records, he seeks to explain why they were reported Ômissing: believed killedÕ. He describes why American aviatrix Amelia Earhart vanished in the Pacific on her round-the-world flight in 1937, what caused the death of BritainÕs aviation heroine Amy Johnson over the Thames estuary in 1941, and what really killed band-leader Glenn Miller on his doomed flight to Paris in 1944. And he applies the same expert forensic eye to other tragic aerial mysteries of the period including the flying-boat crash that claimed the life of the Duke of Kent in Scotland in 1942. This classic study, issued here for the first time in paperback, will be fascinating reading for students of aviation history and for anyone who is intrigued by tales of flights into the unknown.
Ultra Versus U-Boats
Author: Roy Conyers NesbitPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1783409274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Keeping the Atlantic sea-lanes open was a vital factor in the fight against Nazi Germany. In the battle to protect merchant shipping from the menace of surface raiders and U-boats, Allied resolve and resources were tested to the utmost. The story of the extraordinary measures that were taken to combat the threat, at sea and in the air, has often been told. But there is one crucial element in this prolonged campaign that has still not been fully appreciated the role of code-breaking, in particular the decryption of secret signals transmitted by German Enigma machines. And this is the focus of Roy Nesbits fascinating new account of the Battle of the Atlantic. Using previously unpublished decrypts of U-boat signals, selected from the National Archives, along with historic wartime photographs, he tells the stories of the individual U-boats and describes their fate. Their terse signals reveal, perhaps move vividly than conventional communications could do, the desperate plight of the U-boatmen as they struggled against increasingly effective Allied countermeasures that eventually overwhelmed them.
BRITISH WAR FILMS, 1939 - 45
Author: S. P. MackenziePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1852852585
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The cinema was the most popular form of entertainment during the Second World War. Film was a critically important medium for influencing opinion. Films, such as In Which We Serve and One of Our Aircraft is Missing, shaped the British people's perceptions of the conflict. British War Films, 1939-45 is an account of the feature films produced during the war, rather than government documentaries and official propaganda, making the book an important index of British morale and values at a time of desperate national crisis.