Download or read book The Commercial Motor written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book I Had a Row With a German written by Thomas Percy Gleave and published by Air World. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Percy Gleave began his RAF career in 1930, three years later becoming a member of the RAF aerobatic team. He joined Bomber Command on 1 January 1939, but at the outbreak of war Gleave requested a return to Fighter Command. He took command of 253 Squadron just in time for the start of the Battle of Britain, acquiring fame for claiming five Messerschmitt Bf 109s in a single day. Tom Gleave, however, is remembered more for the misfortune which befell him on 31 August 1940. On that day he was shot down and badly burned when his Hurricane caught fire. In his memoir Tom Gleave tells of the early days of his encounters with the German aircraft in dramatic detail and, particularly of that dreadful day when he escaped his dying aircraft with severe burns to much of his body and his face. After being taken to Orpington Hospital, Gleave was transferred to Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead where he was one of the first pilots to undergo plastic surgery by Archie, later Sir Archibald, Mclndoe and his brilliant colleague, Percy Jayes. Gleave received leg and facial grafts, and his nose was reconstructed. The Guinea Pig Club was formed at Queen Victoria Hospital on 20 July 1941, with Mclndoe as President and Gleave as Vice-President and a Founder Member, being the club’s first and only Chief Guinea Pig until his death in 1993. Originally written in 1941, this moving and graphic story is not one of despair but of overcoming adversity with cheerful determination not to allow circumstances of the past to determine the future. For, despite his terrible wounds, Tom Cleave returned to duty, becoming station commander of RAF Northolt and later RAF Manston. Above all, I Had a Row With a German is a ripping yarn of the cut and thrust of the Battle of Britain by one of Churchill’s memorable ‘Few’.

Download or read book The War Illustrated written by Sir John Alexander Hammerton and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tatler Bystander written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flight written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tatler written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Final Hours written by Johannes Steinhoff and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighter ace Col. Johannes Steinhoff commanded an elite group of pilots trained to fly the first jet aircraft employed in combat, the famous Messerschmitt Me-262, at a time when Reich Marshal Hermann Goring, by then out of favor with Hitler for his failure to stop the Allied bombing raids, denounced his own pilots as cowards. After Goring refused to deploy the Me-262 as a fighter, the role for which it was designed, and instead ordered its use as a bomber, Steinhoff and other senior air leaders devised a plot to depose Goring from his command of the Luftwaffe in the futile hope of staving off final defeat in the air. The pilotsOCO long-standing disgust with their Reich MarshalOCOs military incompetence and technical dilettantism led to their dangerous intrigue in the fall of 1944. There was an added element of risk as their desperate gamble came in the wake of the July 20 plot against Hitler, the onrushing Allied onslaught, and the general disintegration of the German military and its war effort.Steinhoff crashed while trying to take off in a heavily laden Me-262. The explosion left him badly burned and still in the hospital when the war ended. From his hospital bed in the summer of 1945, he dictated to a fellow wounded German soldier the account that became The Final Hours. His memories are vivid, painful, and gripping. Free from the years of recrimination and reflection so common in similar works, his tale recounts the pressure of fighting for a lost cause and the intrigue fostered by an unstable command. His account reveals every facet of a remarkable fighter pilotOCOs struggle for survival and provides an excellent case study of the plodding bureaucracy and scheming obscurantism so characteristic of the Third Reich."

Download or read book The Aeroplane written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aviation written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Messerschmitts Over Sicily written by Johannes Steinhoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an account of unusual power, Luftwaffe ace Johannes Steinhoff recounts the final days of the German air force on Sicily in June and July 1943. Facing crushing odds—including a commander, Hermann Göring, who contemptuously treated his pilots as cowards—Steinhoff and his fellow Messerschmitt 109 pilots took to the skies day after day to meet waves of dreaded Flying Fortresses and swarms of Allied fighters, all bent on driving the Germans from the island. A captivating narrative and a piercing analysis based on the author’s personal World War diary, this book is a classic of aerial combat. A concluding chapter assesses the war's lessons for air forces.

Download or read book World Freight written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flight and Aircraft Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Fly in Amber written by Susan Wood and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Portal of Hungerford written by Denis Richards and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sicily 43 written by James Holland and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of World War II’s Operation Husky, the first Allied attack on European soil, by the acclaimed author of Normandy ’44. On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion eleven months later: 160,000 American, British, and Canadian troops came ashore or were parachuted onto Sicily, signaling the start of the campaign to defeat Nazi Germany on European soil. Operation Husky, as it was known, was enormously complex, involving dramatic battles on land, in the air, and at sea. Yet, despite its paramount importance to ultimate Allied victory, and its drama, very little has been written about the thirty-eight-day Battle for Sicily. Based on his own battlefield studies in Sicily and on much new research, James Holland’s Sicily ’43 offers a vital new perspective on a major turning point in World War II and a chronicle of a multi-pronged campaign in a uniquely diverse and contained geographical location. The characters involved—Generals George Patton and Bernard Montgomery among many—were as colorful as the air and naval battles and the fighting on the ground across the scorching plains and mountaintop of Sicily were brutal. But among Holland’s great skills is incorporating the experience of on-the-ground participants on all sides—from American privates Tom and Dee Bowles and Tuskegee fighter pilot Charlie Dryden to British major Hedley Verity and Canadian lieutenant Farley Mowat (later a celebrated author), to German and Italian participants such as Wilhelm Schmalz, brigade commander in the Hermann Göring Division, or Luftwaffe fighter pilot major Johannes “Macky” Steinhoff and to Italian combatants, civilians and mafiosi alike—which gives readers an intimate sense of what occurred in July and August 1943. Emphasizing the significance of Allied air superiority, Holland overturns conventional narratives that have criticized the Sicily campaign for the vacillations over the plan, the slowness of the Allied advance and that so many German and Italian soldiers escaped to the mainland; rather, he shows that clearing the island in 38 days against geographical challenges and fierce resistance was an impressive achievement. A powerful and dramatic account by a master military historian, Sicily ’43 fills a major gap in the narrative history of World War II. Praise for Sicily ’43 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Named a Best History Book of the Year by the Wall Street Journal “Academic histories are all very well, but at times it is a pleasure to sit back and wallow in an old-school military tale of flinty-eyed men doing battle. That is what James Holland, a seasoned craftsman, offers in Sicily ’43.” —New York Times Book Review “Crisp, detailed, and entertaining. Holland refuses to let the legends overshadow the flesh-and-blood soldiers who fought, bled, and died. Sicily ‘43 is an outstanding look at a stepping-stone to victory.” —Wall Street Journal

Download or read book Air Transportation written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Up and Down the China Coast written by Ranger and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: