10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIP AND RUN»
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1
Luftwaffe Fighter-Bombers Over Britain: The
Tip and Run ...
Chronicles the air war above Britain from March 1942 to June 1943 and includes in-the-cockpit accounts from German and British pilots Assesses offensive and defensive tactics Incorporates hundreds of rarely seen photos As the Battle of ...
But the most tragic consequence of the two sides' deadly game of 'tip and run' was the devastation of an area five times the size of Germany, and civilian suffering on a scale unimaginable in Europe.
3
The Luftwaffe's Fighter-bombers: The
Tip and Run Campaign ...
Using previously unpublished photographs, the majority of which are German (some even showing the air attacks as seen from the cockpits of German aircraft), the book tackles a previously unpublished aspect of the World War II air war.
4
A Dictionary of Slang
and Unconventional English
Vaux, who defines chant as a person's name or address. tip a rise. To befool: low:
from ca. 1880. See rise. tip-a-runner. The game of tip and run: coll.: 1805; ob.
Lewis. tip a settler, a sock. To land (a person) a knock-out blow, a heavy blow:
low: ...
5
Desert Rats: British 8th Army in North Africa 1941-43
Their use, moreover, dispersed artillery support and made troops far too
accustomed to tip-and-run raids, so that they regarded all-out attacks or
protracted defences as exceptions rather than the rule. Accordingly, Auchinleck
directed that ...
6
British Commandos 1940-46
... raids and harassing attacks were highly specialized, with these predicated
initially on making surprise 'smash and grab,' 'butcher or bolt,' 'tip and run' or
more simply 'hit and run' small-scale raids within close striking distance of the
coast.
7
Bath Fire Brigade
and Ambulance Service, 1891-1974: An ...
This was the same system as that in other parts of the country where particularly
in London and the South-east there were fresh hazards from tip and run raids
and later the VI and V2 rockets. Internationally the tide of war was turning but the
...
8
A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber ...
The German tip and run raiders —-— so called because they were fighters which
shot in suddenly, dumped their one 500 pounder, and vanished back out over the
sea — were far from being just a nuisance if you happened to be in the vicinity ...
9
In the Company of Heroes
... but had hit Chessil Beach and the dockyard instead. There was not much
damage done to any of the supposed targets apparently. Just a 'tip and run'
raider testing the local defences, and probably photographing the area at the
same time.
10
Soldiers
and Settlers in Africa: 1850 - 1918
... 2004); Strachan's former student, Ross Anderson and The Forgotten War: The
East African Campaign, 1914–1918 (Stroud, U.K.: Tempus, 2004); and
independent scholar Edward Paice's blockbuster 488-page narrative history, Tip
and Run: ...
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Tip and Run: the untold tragedy of the Great War in Africa
In the aftermath of the Great War the East Africa campaign was destined to be dismissed by many in Britain as a remote 'sideshow' in which only a handful of ... «Centenary News, Sep 14»
