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Into the Night Sky RAF Middleton St George A Bomber Airfield at War


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English | ISBN: 0750945966 | 2007 | 279 pages | AZW3, EPUB | 3 MB + 3 MB
Britain’s most northerly bomber base – Middleton St George in County Durham – played a key role in the RAF’s strategic night bomber offensive against Germany – from the day its resident Whitley bomber squadron flew its first offensive operational sorties in April 1941 up until the end of the war in Europe in May 1945. Over four hard years of total war, its squadrons of Whitleys, Halifaxes and Lancasters flew in all the main RAF offensives against the Third Reich. These included the Thousand Bomber Raids, the Battles of the Ruhr, Hamburg and Berlin, and finally the huge daylight raids that pulverised the failing heart of Nazi Germany in the closing months of the war in Europe.

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The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas, 1604-1606


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English | 2016 | ISBN: 1409414558, 0811503860 | EPUB | pages: 254 | 1.1 mb
A new and enlarged edition, with an Introduction and Notes. For the previous edition, see First Series 19 (1854). The additional material includes an account by Edmund Scott of events at Bantam, 1603-05, and his description of Java. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1943.

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The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands


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English | 2016 | ISBN: 1108008143, 1017954658 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 1.9 mb
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume (published in 1855) is devoted to an account of Sir Henry Middleton’s voyage to the Molucca Islands in 1604-1606 on behalf of the East India Company. The appendices contain transcriptions of various documents relating to the voyage, including James I’s commission authorising the expedition, the king’s letters to the various rulers Middleton was likely to encounter, and letters from these rulers which Middleton conveyed back to London.

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