Pen & Sword z•z The Royal Navy in Action Art from Dreadnought to Vengeance John Fairley $49.95 • Hardback • 160 pages 8.4x11 • 60 color illustrations May 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-39-900949-2
The Intelligencers British Military Intelligence From the Middle Ages to 1929 Brig. Gen. Brian Parritt $29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 6.1x9.2 • 32 black and white illustrations December 2021 • HIS027000 978-1-39-900492-3
At the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, with the British Empire encompassing the globe, the Royal Navy indisputably ruled the waves. Times change but the magnificence and drama of warships at sea, whether in peace or war, remain an inspiration to artists. This fine book brings together a collection of superb art works which bear witness to the majesty of these mighty ships in action and, at the same time, are a memorial to the dangers, heroism and victories at sea. The reader is treated to a feast of the finest maritime paintings depicting the Royal Navy’s dramatic confrontations of the last 120 years. Masters such as Norman Wilkinson, Richard Eurich and William Wyllie cover the two World Wars. Other works illustrate the crucial role of the Navy in the Falklands War and the latest aircraft carriers are also represented. The author draws on his own naval service experience to describe the background to, and significance of, the ships and conflicts that these paintings so vividly record.
Intelligence about the enemy is a fundamental part of any war or battle, knowledge of the enemy’s strength, dispositions, and intentions are essential for success. This book reveals that for 250 years the British Army resolutely failed to prepare for war by refusing to establish a nucleus of soldiers in peace, trained to obtain intelligence in war. Yet the story of British military endeavor over 250 years is a remarkable story of individual bravery, achievement, and success. We read of the Scoutmaster whose role was to gather intelligence on the King’s enemies and of Walsingham’s secret organization at the time of Elizabeth I. During the long years of war against France culminating in the Napoleonic Wars, spymasters developed on an ad hoc basis. In the nineteenth century, despite the power and reach of Empire, no central intelligence organization existed. Enterprising young officers worked wonders but failures such as those in the Boer War cost the Nation dearly. It took the reverses in the Great War to create an Intelligence Corps, but even that was disbanded post-war.
Confessions of an Airline Pilot – Why Planes Crash
The Supersonic BONE
Including Tales from the Pilot’s Seat Terry Tozer $34.95 • Hardback • 224 pages • 6.1x9.1 32 black and white illustrations March 2022 • TRA002000 978-1-39-901204-1
How do you know if the airline you are planning to fly with is safe? What should you be worried about? Is it turbulence, lightning, or that the pilots might be asleep while the aircraft flies on, on autopilot? Your questions are answered by providing the reader with a fly in the cockpit view of a series of real flights. Some result in accidents and incidents that demonstrate what the priorities for good safety are. Others are experiences from the author’s own flying career in both passenger airline flying to long haul cargo, with its hidden world of global commerce, military operations and more. Finally, the author offers a suggestion that would offer the passenger an easy way of choosing safe airlines; it could be the answer to equate choosing a flight with choosing other life altering purchases that are already in place.
A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber Kenneth Katz $42.95 • Hardback • 400 pages 6.7x9.6 • 300 color illustrations April 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-39-901471-7
When the B-52 Stratofortress entered operational service with the US Air Force in 1955, work was already underway on defining its successor - B-1A bomber, which flew at high speed and low altitude to evade enemy air defenses. The B-1, known as the BONE, was revived in 1981 as the improved B-1B to boost American military power and be a symbol of American strength at the peak of Cold War tensions. After the Cold War, the B-1B lost its primary nuclear mission but remained relevant by transforming into a high-speed, long-range, high-payload delivery platform for conventional precision-guided munitions. The first combat use of the B-1B was in 1998 in Iraq. The BONE has proved a highly effective combat aircraft in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and the former Yugoslavia. This superbly researched and illustrated book traces the BONE’s long development and operational history in fascinating detail.
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