Countryside Books was started in 1976 by Nick and Sue Battle working from their dining room table. Their first book, Walks Around The Downs included a walk across Watership Down that was then made famous by Richard Adams’ book about a family of rabbits. Since then Countryside Books has moved out of the Battles’ home and grown to its present staff of three full-time and six part-time free lancers. It is still based close to the center of Newbury. Over the years Countryside Books has also published books in partnership with the County Federations of the Womens’ Institutes and the Federation of Family History Societies.
Martyn Chorlton has a detailed knowledge of the history of Bomber Command and he describes here the three ‘thousand bomber’ operations of 1942 and the huge obstacles that had to be overcome at this pivotal moment of the Second World War.
This book describes the re-building of Britain after the Frist World War. Bold advances were made in social provision, especially in housing, with ambitious schemes by local authorities. These early developments were not always able to keep ahead of the economic realities of the time, but housing was fixed firmly at the center of British politics.
RAF Bomber Command lost 55,000 men during WWII. Their motto was Press on Regardless and the majority of their operational missions involved flying into the fiery, smoke-filled skies of occupied Europe....
The horrors of the First World War scarred an entire generation at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now, one hundred years later, we are asked to reflect upon it and remember what a disastrous...
The formation of the Pathfinder Force in August 1942 produced a steady but certain change in the fortunes of Bomber Command. Its effectiveness against targets during the early years of the war had been...
In this excellently researched book, Graham Smith describes the air war in Cambridgeshire, and the young airmen who flew night after night against desperate odds. It was from Cambridgeshire airfields too, that the legendary Pathfinder Force (P.F.F.) first took to the skies, marking targets for the force of bombers behind them with a precision that
As the storm clouds of war were gathering over Europe in 1938, construction work began on two of Cumbria's biggest aircraft maintenance units - at Kirkbride and Silloth. Throughout the war these two airfields would handle between them literally thousands of aircraft, preparing new ones for the front-line and modifying and repairing others. Cumbria
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Countryside Books was started in 1976 by Nick and Sue Battle working from their dining room table. Their first book, Walks Around The Downs included a walk across Watership Down that was then made famous by Richard Adams’ book about a family of rabbits. Since then Countryside Books has moved out of the Battles’ home and grown to its present staff of three full-time and six part-time free lancers. It is still based close to the center of Newbury. Over the years Countryside Books has also published books in partnership with the County Federations of the Womens’ Institutes and the Federation of Family History Societies. 
