Great location shots are complimented by testimony from the surviving veterans, detailed maps and some illustrative re-enactment.
NavyBooks.com
Great location shots are complimented by testimony from the surviving veterans, detailed maps and some illustrative re-enactment.
NavyBooks.com
This is an excellent video, based on thorough research and presented by a team that has developed its own unique and authoritative style. The video is well lit and edited to provide a smooth presentation of a very complex subject, capturing the human elements of the story. A video not to be missed.
Firetrench
This is an excellent video, based on thorough research and presented by a team that has developed its own unique and authoritative style. The video is well lit and edited to provide a smooth presentation of a very complex subject, capturing the human elements of the story. A video not to be missed.
Firetrench
This excellent DVD is part of the growing Special Operations collection ... Location filming and another crisp production of well-lit footage has produced an enjoyable and absorbing account of one of the great European battles.
Firetrench
This excellent DVD is part of the growing Special Operations collection ... Location filming and another crisp production of well-lit footage has produced an enjoyable and absorbing account of one of the great European battles.
Firetrench
A superb account of the famous raid by the fledgling parachute regiment
A number of well informed historians provide considerable background information
Pegasus Archive
A superb account of the famous raid by the fledgling parachute regiment
A number of well informed historians provide considerable background information
Pegasus Archive
Special Operations: Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret
During the Second World War, Bletchley Park was the site of the UK's main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), where cyphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted, most importantly the cyphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. The high-level intelligence produced at Bletchley Park,… Read more...
Building on the success of various Commando Raids during 1941, Headquarters Combined Operations moved up the scale of size and complexity by electing to attack and deny the only dry dock that could take a German battleship for repairs, the Normandie Dock at St Nazaire on France's Atlantic coast. The problem was that the port was miles up an estuary… Read more...
In 1941 Dr RV Jones became convinced that the Germans had developed their own radar system that would account for increasing RAF bomber casualties. The hunt was on! Eventually an enemy Würzburg system was located on the cliffs of Northern France at Bruneval and seizing it would be the solution to overcoming the enemy radar problem. A joint operation… Read more...
