Biographies & Autobiographies

In this section you will find military and associated biographies, autobiographies and memoirs from soldiers, sailors, airmen, and civilians involved in all manner of armed conflicts. From Private Soldiers to Field Marshals, working men to International Statesmen, and from the early days of the British Empire up to the modern day.

Memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies are natural centrepieces of war remembrance. Events are fashioned by the individuals involved in them, and these are their versions of events as they saw them.

Nothing is Impossible Nothing is Impossible

Nothing is Impossible

The Author of this book, Joined the Queen's Royal Regiment, at Guildford. on the outbreak of the Second World war, He volunteered for the Glider Pilot Regiment on its formation and passed with av..

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SAILOR. Battle of Britain Legend: Adolph Malan. SAILOR. Battle of Britain Legend: Adolph Malan.

SAILOR. Battle of Britain Legend: Adolph Malan.

Malan was thirty years of age during the Battle of Britain, old for a fighter pilot, but his maturity gave his leadership a firm authority.Only a few men distinguished themselves in such a way to beco..

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The Confusion of Command

The Confusion of Command

The War Memoirs of Lt. Genral Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow 1914 Lieutenant General Sir Thomas D’Oyly Snow planned and participated in major campaigns and battles of the First World War. This First Editio..

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The Sterling Years

The Sterling Years

THE STERLING YEARS: Small Arms and the ManThis is the story of the author’s British company involved in the manufacture, development and usage of one of the most famous sub-machine guns ever produced...

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Wings on My Sleeve by Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown

Wings on My Sleeve by Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown

Wings on My Sleeve by Captain Eric 'Winkle' BrownEric Brown was on a university exchange course in Germany in 1939, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They relea..

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Chig. Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem Chig. Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem

Chig. Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem

The Reverend Prebendary, Wilfred Rowland Chigwell - or 'Chig' as he was known - was born in June 1908. Ordained on Christmas Eve 1933, he settled to the life of a country Parson. In 1943 he became the..

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SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS  Ryan Monoplane 1927

SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS Ryan Monoplane 1927

This is  a Haynes workshop manual For the Ryan monoplane 'Spirit of St Louis' used by Charles Lindbergh on his historic solo transatlantic flight and now preserved in the Smithsonian Museum.Publi..

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Anders Lassen V.C. M.C. of the SAS

Anders Lassen V.C. M.C. of the SAS

Anders Lassen, a Dane serving as a deck hand on an oil tanker in 1940, was killed in action in Italy on the 9th of April, 1945. By this time he was a Major in the SAS and had been awarded no fewer tha..

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