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08/02/2024

Pre-order alert: "POLARIS: SUBMARINES, MISSILES, THE US NAVY AND THE ROYAL NAVY" by John Boyes is out in October
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰-𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝘆
The atom bombs dropped on Japan at the end of the Second World War opened the door to the nuclear age.
Seeing the potential for developing nuclear energy for the US Navy, Captain Hyman Rickover initiated a research programme that culminated in the launch of USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine. Meanwhile, ballistic missile technology was developing fast, but still relied on complex liquid fuels.
The US Navy partnered with the army to develop a ballistic missile for both services, but withdrew when solid fuels became a practical proposition. Under the leadership of RADM William Raborn, the US Navy set up its own project: the Polaris weapon system.
In 1960, the first missile-armed nuclear-powered submarine (SSBN) left on patrol, with forty more to follow. Two years later, when Britain’s Blue Streak and Skybolt plans were cancelled, Harold Macmillan and John F. Kennedy agreed for Polaris to be supplied to the Royal Navy.

Pre-order alert: "POLARIS: SUBMARINES, MISSILES, THE US NAVY AND THE ROYAL NAVY" by John Boyes is out in October

Read more 👉 https://fml.pub/polaris

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰-𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝘆

The atom bombs dropped on Japan at the end of the Second World War opened the door to the nuclear age.
Seeing the potential for developing nuclear energy for the US Navy, Captain Hyman Rickover initiated a research programme that culminated in the launch of USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine. Meanwhile, ballistic missile technology was developing fast, but still relied on complex liquid fuels.

The US Navy partnered with the army to develop a ballistic missile for both services, but withdrew when solid fuels became a practical proposition. Under the leadership of RADM William Raborn, the US Navy set up its own project: the Polaris weapon system.

In 1960, the first missile-armed nuclear-powered submarine (SSBN) left on patrol, with forty more to follow. Two years later, when Britain’s Blue Streak and Skybolt plans were cancelled, Harold Macmillan and John F. Kennedy agreed for Polaris to be supplied to the Royal Navy.

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08/02/2024

"NIGHT HAWK: FLIGHT LIEUTENANT KAREL KUTTELWASCHER DFC AND BAR, THE RAF’S GREATEST NIGHT INTRUDER ACE"
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The story of the RAF's top World War Il night intruder ace has been revealed in this fantastic new edition. Although he had a German surname, Flt It Karel Kuttelwascher was a Czech. Flying with the RAF's legendary No. 1 Sqn, he destoyed 15 aircraft in only three months, earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross twice in just 42 days and making him the RAF's top night intruder ace.
After a daring escape from German-occupied Czechoslovakia he flew in the ferocious Battle of France and then took part in the final weeks of the Battle of Britain as one of Churchill's 'Few'.
Flying long-range Hawker Hurricane IIC armed with 20mm cannon, the wartime media dubbed him 'The Czech Night Hawk'. His amazing feats included the knocking out of three Heinkel bombers in just four minutes.
The details of Kuttelwascher's astonishing exploits and his life after war service are told in this updated reprint of "NIGHT HAWK" by Roger Darlington.

"NIGHT HAWK: FLIGHT LIEUTENANT KAREL KUTTELWASCHER DFC AND BAR, THE RAF’S GREATEST NIGHT INTRUDER ACE"

Read more 👉 https://fml.pub/night-hawk

The story of the RAF's top World War Il night intruder ace has been revealed in this fantastic new edition. Although he had a German surname, Flt It Karel Kuttelwascher was a Czech. Flying with the RAF's legendary No. 1 Sqn, he destoyed 15 aircraft in only three months, earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross twice in just 42 days and making him the RAF's top night intruder ace.

After a daring escape from German-occupied Czechoslovakia he flew in the ferocious Battle of France and then took part in the final weeks of the Battle of Britain as one of Churchill's 'Few'.

Flying long-range Hawker Hurricane IIC armed with 20mm cannon, the wartime media dubbed him 'The Czech Night Hawk'. His amazing feats included the knocking out of three Heinkel bombers in just four minutes.

The details of Kuttelwascher's astonishing exploits and his life after war service are told in this updated reprint of "NIGHT HAWK" by Roger Darlington.

07/24/2024

🆕📚For the latest releases in our full-color local history series head over to 👉 https://fml.pub/through-time

Featured here:
1. "Mattapan Through Time" 👉 https://fml.pub/mattapan
2. "Dighton Through Time" 👉 https://fml.pub/dighton
3. "Loring Air Force Base Through Time" 👉 https://bit.ly/loring-base
4. "Mission Hill Through Time" 👉 https://fml.pub/mission-hill
5. "Tales of Fifth Avenue Through Time" 👉 https://fml.pub/5-ave
6. "Greenport Through Time" 👉 https://fml.pub/greenport
7. "Yorktown, VA Through Time" 👉 https://fml.pub/yorktown
8. "Queens Through Time" 👉 https://fml.pub/queens-ny

01/13/2024

🩷📚Recommended: "VALENTINE'S DAY TRADITIONS IN BOSTON" by Anthony Sammarco is a must-read!

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"VALENTINE'S DAY TRADITIONS IN BOSTON" is a fun and interesting way to recall the holiday from the exchange of Valentine cards in day school to the cards, candy, and flowers we sent or received as adults to and from our valentine.

From Ancient Rome with the pagan festival of Lupercalia to the worldwide celebration of the holiday, we revel in its history and evolution through the centuries as a day of love. Today, Esther Allen Howland is honored with the nickname "Mother of the American Valentine," with many citing her small card factory as the start of a multi-million-dollar industry. Beginning in 2001, the Greeting Card Association has annually given the "Esther Howland Award for a Greeting Card Visionary," and they estimate that 200 million valentines are sent each year in the United States.

Anthony Sammarco discusses the history of St. Valentine's Day from Lupercalia, an ancient Roman festival celebrated on February 15 to ensure fertility for the people, fields, and flocks to the annual exchange of cards, candy, and flowers.
Beginning with Esther Howland who produced delicate and fanciful Valentine’s Day cards in the nineteenth century through to major card companies such as Hallmark, Norcross, Gibson, and Rust Craft, Americans exchange millions of cards annually. The book also discusses the more outré Sailor’s Valentines, Vinegar Valentines, and Krampus Valentines.

09/29/2023

🎷🗽Available now: "THE BEAT OF NEW YORK: VISUAL HISTORY OF MUSIC IN THE CITY" by Richard R. Panchyk

Read more 👉🏼 https://fml.pub/ny-beat

Listen, and you will hear it: the beat of New York City. It's everywhere you go! From the subways to the streets, from parks to bars, from churches to concert halls. Music in all its glorious forms, sometimes sublime and sometimes spectacular, is a vital part of city life and has been for centuries.

Whether a pair of dueling drummers on 42nd Street or break-dancers in Washington Square Park, a mural in the Village or a memorial to John Lennon—New Yorkers celebrate their musical heritage every day in so many ways. So many of the country’s best-known musicians have lived or played in New York over the years.

Come along on this visual journey through time and catch a glimpse at some of the people and places who have contributed to the Beat of New York.

09/12/2023

: 🇲🇽✈📚"THE AZTEC EAGLES: THE FORGOTTEN ALLIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR"

Book info 👉🏼 https://fml.pub/aztec

Few would list Mexico as an ally of the US during the Second World War. Sadly, Mexico’s aid to the US has been largely ignored by historians and is mostly absent from American history books. When Mexican aviators had the opportunity to show their courage in battle, they did so with valour.

General Douglas MacArthur commended the pilots and 150 support personnel. The thirty-one pilots of Mexican Expeditionary Force 201st Fighter Squadron flew missions supporting troops in the Philippines and sorties over Formosa.
The Aztec Eagles helped the Allies defeat Japan, end the isolationism of Mexico and paved the way for important agreements between the United States and Mexico. They helped modernise the Mexican Air Force and demonstrated that Mexico could mount a successful expeditionary force.

Significant as these achievements were, perhaps the unit’s most important legacy is that the Aztec Eagles fought for dignity, creating pride throughout their homeland.

That pride endures and is evident today as the story of the Aztec Eagles can be heard across the nation.

01/06/2023

🗽📚🤓Recommended: "TALES OF FIFTH AVENUE THROUGH TIME" by Frank Muzzy

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To borrow from Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca, “Last night I dreamt I went back to ‘Manderley’ again.” Instead, we will time travel back to 1824 and a similar little unpaved road that crossed the Brevoort’s farm—land holdings that stretched, since 1701, from the Bowery up past today’s Washington Square to 14th Street. Brevoort generations developed the land to the northern outskirts of the village of Manhattan.

"TALES OF FIFTH AVENUE THROUGH TIME" connects that past with the present via yellowed archival photos—the closest we have to time travel. Historical; yes, hysterical; oh yes, scandalous; but of course—all while being documented via panorama, box and brownie, digital and selfie, cinema, silent and sound, capturing the environs of the wealthiest families on the planet that lived on the only avenue to lend its moniker to a candy bar.
Tourist and locals will take a tour bus, and you will too, literarily and visually, past the surviving and ghosts of mansions; past the churches and museums; and past the most exclusive stores credit cards can handle, down the canyon of high-rises that is Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

12/23/2022

🔥🏛️📖Recommended: "INFERNO: THE GREAT BOSTON FIRE OF 1872" by Anthony M. Sammarco

Read more 👉🏼 https://fml.pub/inferno

"INFERNO: THE GREAT BOSTON FIRE OF 1872" was written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of a devastating fire that destroyed sixty-five acres of land in Boston, from Washington Street, between Summer Street and Milk Street, fanning eastward towards the wharves projecting into Boston Harbor.

The fire was said to have destroyed 776 buildings in Boston’s downtown, causing over $73 million in damage (or $1,682,000,000 in 2022 dollars), killing an estimated twenty people, and leading to stricter building regulations in Boston.

Fires have always been a constant source of anxiety, but this inferno was cataclysmic and beyond the comprehension of many people. The city of Boston took action and appointed a city architect that would oversee all building in the city.

In this well illustrated history of the inferno, well known author Anthony Sammarco takes us from the area from one of Commercial Palaces to the Burnt District that would be rebuilt “Springing Phoenix-like from the Ashes.”

12/20/2022

📣📘Available now: "R. J. MITCHELL: TO THE SPITFIRE" by John Shelton

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The definitive account of the life and designs of Britain’s best-known aeronautical engineer.

John Shelton calls upon unpublished letters and extensive press accounts, concentrating particularly on the harsh conditions of Mitchell’s apprentice years, the precarious state of the aircraft firm he joined, and moments of good fortune of which he took advantage. He was a ‘chancer’ as well as a methodical developer of, mainly, slow-flying seaplanes.

Mitchell’s progress from draughtsman, with no formal training in aeronautical design, to internationally known chief designer is charted through a chronological study of his designs – revealing a formidable work ethic with a complex personality, which combined ‘dreams and common sense’. It will also be shown how the success of his high-speed Schneider Trophy designs propelled him reluctantly into public attention and how his anxiety for his pilots’ safety matched an equal concern that his designs should not let down an expectant nation.

Later expectations on him to produce a ‘killer fighter’ were equally daunting, and the outcome was often uncertain, but details of colleagues’ accounts highlight the essential and unique contribution of Mitchell’s experience and drive to the eventual appearance of the iconic Spitfire.

07/22/2022

📣✈️🇺🇸🇬🇧Available now: "USAFE TACTICAL UNITS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THE COLD WAR 1950 TO 1992" by Doug Gordon

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• With the recent invasion of Ukraine and a new Cold War between Russia and NATO, this is a timely evaluation of USAF operations between 1950 and 1992

• Aircraft of the period are covered in exhaustive detail from the F-86 Sabre to the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt, including the F-84 Thunderstreak, the F-100 Super Sabre, the F-4 Phantom the F-111 Aardvark and more...

• Gloriously illustrated with 459 images (166 colour), many of which are rare or unpublished from private collections

𝑼𝑺𝑨𝑭𝑬 𝑻𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒅𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝑾𝒂𝒓 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟎 𝒕𝒐 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟐 contains a history of all United States Air Force Tactical Air Command flying units that were resident in the United Kingdom during the period 1950 to 1992.

'From the cockpit' testimony from aircrew who were assigned to the individual squadrons and wings is an integral part of the narrative, which is which is supported by 459 images, 166 of which are in colour.

The tactical nuclear mission was central to the operations of many of the UK-based units and is covered in detail from its beginnings in 1952 with the arrival the 20th TFW and the 47th Bombardment Wing to the adoption by NATO of the doctrine of ‘Flexible Response’ and the eventual end of the Cold War.
Also included are sections on the units that were temporarily deployed to the United Kingdom in support of the USAF and NATO operations.

The comprehensive appendices contain essays on individual aircraft development, international events that had a direct bearing on the missions and deployments of the individual units, the support aircraft used by the wings, maps and tables.

Hardback - 448 pages - 293 black-and-white and 166 colour images