Featured battle : The Thousand Bomber Raid

Part of Second World War

Date : 30 May 1942 - 31 May 1942

Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris' first 1,000 bomber raid of the RAF's strategic bombing offensive on Germany. 1,047 aircraft, mostly Wellingtons and Halifaxes carried out a night raid on Cologne, which suffered nearly 500 dead and more than 5,000 injuries for the loss of 41 aircraft.

Waterloo Archive Volume III: British Sources

Gareth Glover [Ed]
Just like the first two volumes another fascinating read. There are many many books which give one the strategy, and an over view of the action in the battle, some excellent in their way. But these volumes tell us, or more correctly the men themselves tell us, about real lives of real individuals who were involved in that momentous event. If you want to know who fought Quatre-Bras and Waterloo then these volumes tell you of some of the men. We can guess that most of the others, whose voices are not recorded, had similar varied lives. Also in the three British sourced volumes there are eight superb illustrations reproduced from William Mudford's history of Waterloo published in 1817.
If you want to know the men read these books.
Frontline Books, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2011