From OSS Agent in the Eastern Bloc to Airborne Soldier in Korea and Green Beret - The Cold War Service of Leif Bangsbøll
by Brook G Bangsbøll
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781036119478
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-05-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Frontline Books
272 Pages
With the ending of the Second World War, Lief Bangsboll, after distinguished service with the O.S.S. behind enemy lines in Denmark, prepared himself for a life of peace and hopefully love with the young...
The Avro Vulcan, arguably the best known of the British ‘V-Bombers’, was an integral part of Britain’s nuclear deterrent. During the Cold War, several RAF squadrons were equipped with Vulcans,...
The Inside Story of How the Soviets developed Rocket Technology
by Amanda Vickers
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781036108823
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-04-28
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
264 Pages
When 20-year old RAF recruit Neville Cox, or ‘Cocky’, joins up in 1946, he is dismayed that the end of the war means he will never get to fly. Instead, he will be doing more of the technical drawing...
As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since Al Alamein, with forces from both sides paying in blood what
In 1948, Hawker Aircraft, faced with new jet projects that could not use their existing airfield at Langley, began the process of searching for alternative accommodation for their flight-testing requirements.
The Vulcan, Soviet Air Defence, and the Cold War examines Vulcan B2 operations in nuclear war conditions, describes the effectiveness of Soviet air defences, and the operation of manned bombers in nuclear...
The end of World War II set the stage for an accumulation of arms that would rival even the most vivid imagination as the United States tried to maintain a period of operational readiness matching rival...
Once upon a time, it was necessary to have a weapon that could unleash hell. Britain hand-picked its healthiest and cleverest men to undertake a truly terrifying mission: to create and detonate an atomic...
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