Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I
Wing of Eighth Brigade (RFC), and the Independent Force (IF) bombed German targets from bases in France. Lessons supposedly gleaned from these campaigns heavily influenced British military aviation, underpinning RAF doctrine up to and into the Second World War.
Strangers in a Strange Land (1)
Until the United States entered the Second World War, the burden of The Strategic Bombing of Germany had fallen on England's Royal Air Force Bomber C...
Raf Bomber Command and Its Aircraft 1936 - 1940
The first organised British bombing raids were made in the autumn of 1914 — just a few weeks after the outbreak of World War I - by aircraft of the R...
Bomber Command
Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and Commonwea...
We Shall Shock Them: The British Army in the Second World War
First published in 1983 and written by a pre-eminent historian of the British Army, this is the definitive history of the British Army in the Second W...
British Tanks: What They Look Like, How They Work, What They Can Do
Tanks played an important role in World War II. Invented by the British in World War I, the tank gradually improved in the inter-war period and also s...