Sebastian Ritchie: 3 books
Arnhem: Myth and Reality
Airborne Warfare, Air Power and the Failure of Operation Market Garden
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Operation Market Garden, often depicted as one of the most decisive military actions of the Allied campaign, offered an opportunity to conclude hostilities with Hitler's Germany before 1945 but its disastrous failure left the Allies facing another seven months of difficult and costly fighting. In...
Industry and Air Power
The Expansion of British Aircraft Production, 1935-1941
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The author begins with a general survey of British aircraft manufacturing in the inter-war period. Policy, production, finance and contracts are examined, and the final chapter is concerned with the mobilization of the aircraft industry in 1939, and the emergency measures of 1940.
Our Man in Yugoslavia
The Story of a Secret Service Operative
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
As a fully documented study of a Second World War Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) operative, Our Man in Yugoslavia is absolutely unique.
Its subject is Owen Reed, an army officer recruited into SIS in the summer of 1943 and then parachuted in to German-occupied Croatia to work with Tito's...