Stuart Hadaway
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English
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During the early years of WW2 it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the remains of R.A.F. aircrew deemed Missing Believed Killed was totally inadequate. The Missing Research Section (M.R.S.) of the Air Ministry was set up in 1941 to deal with this problem. It collected and collated intelligence reports from a wide variety of official, unofficial and covert sources in an attempt to establish the fate of missing aircrew, using forensic...
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English
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A "phantom hammer" shattered cups and wineglasses with a sharp "ping", ancient Roman lamps appeared from nowhere; mysterious scents-sometimes the sweet fragrance of violets, sometimes the pungent smell of wild animals-hung in the air; an elaborate Oriental necklace dropped as if by magic around the neck of Mrs. Pat Forbes, searing her with its heat; the claw marks of a tiger appeared on her body...This was a Poltergeist haunting, perhaps the most...
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English
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Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns is the first book explicitly aimed at helping the descendants of those who fought in this part of the Middle East find out more about their ancestor’s actions, experiences and achievements. Their wartime lives were very different to those who served on the Western Front, and yet have never before been explored from this angle.
Hundreds of thousands of British and Imperial troops...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Personnel serving in Egypt in World War I often complained that the popular impression of the campaigns, still widely held, was that it was a sideshow, with troops enjoying a holiday among the pyramids and the "fleshpots" of Cairo. Actually they faced appalling heat, abrasive sand, poor rations, and water shortages. In the desolation of the Western Desert they fought the Senussi, an Islamic sect supported by the Ottomans in a reversal of Lawrence's...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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The first comprehensive history of one of the most successful British campaigns of the First World WarThe 1917 Palestine campaign saw Britain's Army rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory. After two failed attacks on Gaza using tactics employed on the Western Front, a new commander was appointed. General Allenby reinvigorated the Army and led it to success in the Third Battle of Gaza. This offensive would see an innovative use of cavalry and...