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The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar
RRP: £10.99£8.02WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS WRITING AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time... -
438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin
RRP: £10.99£7.76The incredible true survival story of one man's record-breaking fourteen months lost at sea.On 17th November, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. A vicious storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat... -
Topgun by Dan Pedersen
RRP: £10.99£8.02DISCOVER THE EXHILARATING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ACTION-PACKED CLASSIC FILM'GOOSE AND MAVERICK MOVE OVER . . .' Admiral James Stavridis________March 1969.American jets are getting shot down at an unprecedented rate over Vietnam. In an urgent effort to... -
Sea State by Tabitha Lasley
RRP: £10.99£7.50'Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice' Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE ... -
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Hunt for Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
RRP: £25.00£16.53Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month.The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration.'Bound has a... -
In the Days of Rain: WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD by Rebecca Stott
RRP: £12.99£8.73WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and... -
Amelia Earhart: The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £14.99£9.57When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish - internationally famous, a daring and pioneering aviator, and ambassador extraordinary for the United States. Married to a man with a genius for publicity,... -
Jet Man: The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution by Duncan Campbell-Smith
RRP: £10.99£8.02The story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero. In 1929, a twenty-two-year-old maverick named Frank Whittle - a self-taught aeronautical obsessive and risk-takingly brilliant RAF pilot -... -
Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm’s Top Gun by Nathan Gray
RRP: £22.00£14.23'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITEOn 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable' crash at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire. His instructor,... -
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI by The RNLI 9780008485993
RRP: £9.99£6.77She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending a lifeboat out.' 'The RNLI?' I said, surprised. 'They do that?' ... -
Riverman: An American Odyssey by Ben McGrath
RRP: £16.99£11.47'Brilliant, clear, and humane' Elizabeth Gilbert 'Miraculous and hopeful' Emma Straub Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the... -
'sailor' Malan - Freedom Fighter: The Inspirational Story of a Spitfire Ace by Dilip Sarkar Mbe
RRP: £25.00£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526795267Author Dilip Sarkar MbeFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Air WorldPublisher Air WorldWeight(grams) 152g -
The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew by David Price
RRP: £9.99£7.36A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF Bomber Command. ****************************** The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro... -
A Captain's Duty: The true story that inspired the major film, Captain Phillips by Richard Phillips
RRP: £10.99£8.028th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for 53 -year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the United States-registered cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, as it headed towards the port of Mombasa. Ordinary that is until, two hundred or so miles off the east... -
Imagine a City: A Pilot’s Love Letter to the World’s Greatest Cities by Mark Vanhoenacker 9781529112023
RRP: £10.99£8.02A pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more... -
Spitfire Girl: My Life in the Sky by Jackie Moggridge
RRP: £10.99£8.02The inspiring memoir of the remarkable Jackie Moggridge: ATA girl, Spitfire expert and pioneer. 'We had returned to a different world. We had taken off in peace at nine-thirty and landed in war at noon.' Jackie Moggridge was just nineteen when... -
Mayfly by Mike James 9781035812363
RRP: £9.99£7.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035812363Author Mike JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 304g -
Guy Gibson and his Dambuster Crew by Charles Foster
£14.71The Dams Raid is the RAF’s most famous bombing operation of the Second World War, and Guy Gibson, who was in command, its most famous bomber pilot. Of the six men who made up his crew on the Dams Raid – two Canadians, an Australian and three Englishmen –... -
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI by The RNLI
RRP: £14.99£9.78She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending a lifeboat out.' 'The RNLI?' I said, surprised. 'They do that?' ... -
Luftwaffe Aces in the Battle of Britain by Chris Goss 9781526754219
RRP: £25.00£17.62The term 'fighter ace' grew in prominence with the introduction and development of aerial combat in the First World War. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an 'ace' has varied but is usually considered to be five or... -
From Spitfire to Focke Wulf: The Diary and Log Book of Pilot H. Leonard Thorne, 1940-45 by H. Leonard Thorne 9781803993584
£11.28‘I hold the greatest respect for Len for what he achieved in the RAF’. – Gordon Mitchell, son of Spitfire designer R.J. MitchellIn May 1940, 20-year-old Len Thorne joined the RAF, as did many young men during the Second World War. After two hectic tours... -
Scramble!: The Memoir of Britain's Most-Decorated RAF Fighter Pilot by J R D 'Bob' Braham
RRP: £13.99£10.00J. R. D. 'Bob' Braham was Britain's most-decorated fighter pilot and one of the most successful fighter pilots of World War II. Joining the RAF in 1938 at the age of 18, he was posted to No. 29 Squadron at Debdon, where he learned to fly the Hawker... -
Jet Man: Frank Whittle's Battle to Revolutionise Flight by Duncan Campbell-Smith
RRP: £30.00£21.35Facing a huge audience of American engineers in 1985, Hans von Ohain, the scientist who pioneered Nazi Germany's efforts to build a jet plane, spoke of a rival in Britain whose pre-war work had clearly surpassed his own, yet had been disastrously... -
Death and Deprivation on the Forgotten Sumatra Railway: A Prisoner's Story by James H Banton
RRP: £19.99£14.28James Henry Banton was born in Burton on Trent in 1920/. He worked as a driver of a steam locomotive used to used to transport beer and supplies to breweries around the town. When war broke out Jim joined the RAF, eventually becoming a Leading... -
Anson: Royal Navy Commander and Statesman, 1697-1762 by Anthony Bruce 9781804511923
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511923Author Anthony BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
RRP: £12.99£8.43***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE***A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair.For the... -
Lighthouse Stories: Keeper Is No More by Tony Beddard
RRP: £7.99£6.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398401020Author Tony BeddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Hurricane Girls: The inspirational true story of the women who dared to fly by Jo Wheeler
RRP: £10.99£8.02Celebrating the lives of the magnificent women, the ATA girls, who courageously flew Spitfires, Tiger Moths, Lancaster Bombers and many other aircraft during World War Two Since the invention of aeroplanes, women have taken to the skies.They have broken... -
Lightnings to Spitfires: Memoirs of an RAF Fighter Pilot and Former Officer Commanding the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight by Clive Rowley
RRP: £25.00£17.62For forty-four years, Clive Rowley flew with the Royal Air Force and for thirty-one of those years he specialised as an air defence fighter pilot. Such was his love of fast fighter aircraft that, in order to stay flying, he transferred to Specialist... -
Flight from the Croft by Bill Innes 9781849953979
RRP: £18.99£15.65As a barefoot lad in the Outer Hebrides, Bill Innes dreamed the impossible dream of becoming a pilot and this book tells how that dream came to pass. The author's career of over forty years spanned a period of incredible advances in the air - now... -
Imagine a City: A Pilot Sees the World by Mark Vanhoenacker 9781784743260
£11.72**A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2022**'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTON'A moving account of... -
Bomber Command Pilot: From the Battle of Britain to the Augsburg Raid: The Unique Story of Wing Commander J S Sherwood DSO, DFC* by Gerald Sherwood
RRP: £25.00£17.62John Sherwood was commissioned into the RAF as a pilot officer on leaving school in 1936/. In mid-1940, he was posted to a frontline bomber squadron. He went on to undertake a full tour of thirty sorties against enemy targets during the summer of 1940,... -
Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain by Flight Lieutenant David Crook
RRP: £9.99£7.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784387488Author Flight Lieutenant David CrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Greenhill BooksPublisher Greenhill BooksWeight(grams) 130g -
Pauline Gower, Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women by Alison Hill
£11.28Pauline Gower was the leader of the Spitfire women during the Second World War. After gaining her pilot's licence at 20, she set up the first female joyriding business in 1931 with engineer Dorothy Spicer and took 33,000 passengers up for a whirl,... -
Dambuster-in-Chief: The Life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane by Richard Mead 9781526765079
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Naval Aviator: The Memoir of a Royal Navy Officer and Operational Westland Wasp and Lynx Pilot by Chris Taylor 9781399059763
RRP: £59.95£37.92Chris Taylor has had a very successful career as a Royal Navy officer, helicopter pilot, test pilot and instructor. His first book, Test Pilot, concentrates on anecdotes and incidents from the most recent phase of his career. His second book,... -
Johnnie Johnson's 1942 Diary: The War Diary of the Spitfire Ace of Aces by Dilip Sarkar MBE
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Air Marshal Sir Keith Park: Victor of the Battle of Britain, Defender of Malta by Murray Rowlands 9781526767905
RRP: £19.99£14.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
I Had a Row With a German: A Battle of Britain Casualty by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £20.00£14.29Thomas Percy Gleave began his RAF career in 1930, three years later becoming a member of the RAF aerobatic team. He joined Bomber Command on 1 January 1939, but at the outbreak of war Gleave requested a return to Fighter Command. He took command of 253... -
Mosquito Night Intruder Ace: Wing Commander Bertie Rex O'Bryen Hoare DFC & Bar, DSO & Bar by Danny Burt
RRP: £25.00£17.62Bertie Rex O'Bryen Hoare was born on 6 June 1912. Having been educated at Harrow and Wye Agricultural College, 'Sammy', as he was often known to friends and family, entered the RAF on a short-service commission in 1936. In October 1938, whilst...