Britain At War November issue OUT NOW – FREE BLITZ SUPPLEMENT!

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
TWENTY ICONIC BLITZ OBJECTS
The Blitz of 1940-1941 left its mark on Britain to the extent that traces are still to be found in and around its Blitzed cities. We look at twenty significant objects and places which tell the painful tale of the nation’s ordeal by bomb and fire.

FEATURING:

LONE WOLF: TOP BLITZ FIGHTER ACE
In a story never fully told before we bypass fiction and dispel the myth to uncover the remarkable career of an unsung and little known Blitz hero – the night-fighter ‘ace’, Flt Lt Richard Playne Stevens DSO DFC & Bar.

‘WELL ALIGHT, AND GOING WELL!’
Austin Ruddy describes the Blitz firestorm at the Purfleet oil
depots as it was bravely tackled by auxiliary fire fighters from as far away as the East Midlands, leading to ten gallantry awards and the establishment of a National Fire Service.

THIS ISSUE ALSO FEATURES:

AN ARMY PADRE’S SACRIFICE
Steve Snelling tells the inspiringly moving story of a hero Army chaplain, legendary amongst Far East POWs, after a beleaguered column was cut-off by the Japanese.

OPERATION IRONCLAD – SENDING IN THE MARINES
The story of a daring amphibious landing in 1942 upon which rested the British attempt to seize Vichy-held Madagascar and its important port of Diego Suarez.

SCOURGE OF THE TWO-SEATERS
Captain James McCudden VC was one of the deadliest and most successful British fighter pilots of the First World War. Norman Franks details this remarkable fighter ace’s ‘kills’ achieved inside allied lines.

AND MUCH MORE!

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