Airfields and Airmen: Ypres

Airfields and Airmen: Ypres
Author: Michael O'Connor
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2008-12-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783409967

The Battleground Europe series has helped create a new audience for the story of the desperate battles of World War I, But up to now the series has largely been concerned with the ground war. Popular demand has inspired the editors to create a new series of guides to the air war 1914–1918. The first volume is devoted to the Ypres Salient, the northernmost sector of the Western Front. Here the Royal Flying Corps battled the German Imperial Air Service for supremacy over the battlefield, while the Royal Naval Air Service attempted to intercept Germany's Zeppelins and early long-range bombers before they could reach the skies over London.The airfields, battle and crash sites, and monuments associated with the air war in the Ypres sector are covered with all the then-and now detail expected by battleground Europe readers. The dramatic text is backed up with numerous maps, photographs and an extensive bibliography.

Airfields and Airmen

Airfields and Airmen
Author: Mike O'Connor
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1844152588

En bog i Battleground serien, som delvis udgør en rejsefører for de, som besøger kampområderne, delvis en bog med informationer, som kan studeres individuelt. Forfatteren beskriver luftmilitære installationer i Frankrig, Normandiet/Kanalkystområdet samt materiel og personel involveret under den 1. verdenskrig 1914-18. En oversigt og beskrivelse af kirkegårde udgør en del af bogen.

Airfields and Airmen: Cambrai

Airfields and Airmen: Cambrai
Author: Mike O'Connor
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2003-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783409975

Airfields and Airmen:Cambrai covers the earliest days of the RFC with the retreat from Mons. We visit the graves of Fokker Eindecker aces and the airfields where the first Jastas were formed. Also covered are airfields from which Allied aces such as Beauchamp and Proctor VC flew, and there is a visit to the American cemetery at Bony that contains a number of aviators.

Airfields & Airmen: Somme

Airfields & Airmen: Somme
Author: Mike O'Connor
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2001-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473811759

The latest volume in the Airfields and Airmen series covers the Arras area. It includes a visit to the grave of Albert Ball VC and the graves of Waterfall and Bayly, the first British fliers killed in action. There is a visit to the aerodrome from which Alan McLeod took off from to earn his VC and to the grave of Viscount Glentworth, killed while flying with 32 Squadron. The German side is well covered with visits to their cemeteries and aerodromes. This well researched book relives the deadly thrills of war in the air over the battlefields of the Western Front.

Airfields & Airmen: Arras

Airfields & Airmen: Arras
Author: Mike O'Connor
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2004-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473811740

A historical/traveler’s guide to the World War I aerial events around Arras, France, featuring ace pilots, airfields, and other local points of interest. The latest volume in the Airfields and Airmen series covers the Arras area. It includes a visit to the grave of Albert Ball VC and the graves of Waterfall and Bayly, the first British fliers killed in action. There is a visit to the aerodrome from which Alan McLeod took off from to earn his VC and to the grave of Viscount Glentworth, killed while flying with 32 Squadron. The German side is well covered with visits to their cemeteries and aerodromes. This well researched book relives the deadly thrills of war in the air over the battlefields of the Western Front.

Airfields & Airmen

Airfields & Airmen
Author: Mike O'Connor
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2004-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1844151255

The latest volume in the Airfields and Airmen series covers the Arras area. It includes a visit to the grave of Albert Ball VC and the graves of Waterfall and Bayly, the first British fliers killed in action. There is a visit to the aerodrome from which Alan McLeod took off from to earn his VC and to the grave of Viscount Glentworth, killed while flying with 32 Squadron. The German side is well covered with visits to their cemeteries and aerodromes. This well researched book relives the deadly thrills of war in the air over the battlefields of the Western Front.

Aisne 1914

Aisne 1914
Author: Jerry Murland
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473822580

The 1914 Battle of the Aisne, officially from 12 15 September, came about as a result of the German retirement from the Battle of the Marne, which took place further south as the huge conscript armies of France and Germany jostled for position almost within sight of Paris. By the time the British arrived on the Aisne the battle line stretched some 150 miles from Noyon in the west to Verdun in the east and it was only along a tiny fifteen mile sector in the middle that the The British Expeditionary Force was engaged. However, it fought bitter engagements, which took place in difficult conditions and casualties were heavy. The Aisne fighting was the final attempt by the allies to follow through from the success of the Marne. It also marked the successful establishment by the Germans of a sound defensive line on this part of the front.As seen in 'Scale Military Modelling Monthly'.

Sanctuary Wood And Hooge

Sanctuary Wood And Hooge
Author: Nigel Cave
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 121
Release: 1990-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0850523559

Both Sanctuary Wood and the village of Hodge saw intense fighting during the First World War. Nigel Cave takes the reader on an explanatory tour of the immediate area. Included is a description of the museum at Hill 62 with its trench system, stereoscopic photos and weapons.

Villers Bretonneux

Villers Bretonneux
Author: Dr Peter Pedersen
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2004-01-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1844150615

Villers-Bretonneux was the key to the strategically important communications centre of Amiens, a principal objective of the German offensive that began in March 1918. Until the Germans took the town, Amiens would remain beyond their grasp. The successful defence of Villers-Bretonneux has come to be regarded as an Australian battle but British formations were heavily involved as wel

Gold Beach

Gold Beach
Author: Christopher Dunphie
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 161
Release: 1999-03-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0850526612

The two authors, both formerly senior professional soldiers, have compiled an easy-to-follow itinerary to the British landings on 6 June 1944 on Gold Beach and the ensuing bitter fighting. Covered in detail are the actions which earned CSM Hollis of the Green Howards his VC and other inspiring battle stories