Britain at War – May issue – OUT NOW!

Featuring:

The Boy VC
To mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland we look at the unusual back-story to the battle’s most famous VC, awarded to Jack Cornwell, the Boy Sailor.

‘Quite The Best…’
Stuart Hadaway looks at the unusual career of an unusual man, John Thearsby Bankes-Price, an American volunteer flying with the Royal Naval Air Service.

Cold War Watchers
The transition from ‘hot’ war to the Cold War saw the Royal Observer Corps move from plotting aircraft to the monitoring of atomic bomb bursts and radioactive fallout in the nuclear age.

The Strange Case of Albert Horn
Andy Saunders takes up the story of a lone German Aircraft which crashed in rural Scotland. Its sole occupant at first claimed he was somebody else but was, in fact, Rudolf Hess.

‘Circumstances of Exceptional Danger’
In an exclusive feature for Britain at War, Lord Ashcroft tells the remarkable story of courage displayed by the man awarded the first George Cross.

The Trick Rider’s Greatest Feat
The heroic feats of George Gristock are related by Steve Snelling in the story of a man caught in a desperate armed struggle against the odds.

AND MUCH MORE!

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