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Cochrane: The Fighting Captain by Robert Harvey 9781841193984
£12.73The adventures of the daring Thomas Cochrane, called 'the sea wolf' by Napoleon, are so extraordinary that his life reads like a page-turning work of fiction. In one sense it became so, for the novelist Patrick O'Brian by his own admission used Cochrane... -
The Flying Sikh: The Story of a WW1 Fighter Pilot Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik by Barker, Stephen 9781399083294
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Flying Sikh tells the unique story of the only Sikh airman to fly with the RFC and the RAF during the First World War. It is the remarkable account of one man's struggle to enlist, against discrimination, and then his service as a fighter pilot over... -
Free French Spitfire Hero: The Diaries of and Search For Ren Mouchotte by Dilip Sarkar 9781399040273
RRP: £25.00£17.62Ren Mouchotte was born on 21 August 1914, at Saint Mande, Paris. He joined the Arm e de l'Air for his period of military service in 1934, obtaining his flying brevet. Though Mouchotte returned to civilian life, he was called up at the outbreak of war... -
Fighters in the Blood: The Story of a Spitfire Pilot - And the Son Who Follows in His Footsteps by Air Marshal 'Black' Robertson 9781526784865
RRP: £25.00£18.02This is no ordinary memoir. Moving back and forth through time, two stories with fascinating parallels gradually unfold. One is of a Second World War Spitfire ace whose flying career came to a premature end when he was shot down and lost an eye, the... -
Above Us, The Stars: 10 Squadron Bomber Command – The Wireless Operator’s Story by Jane Gulliford Lowes
£15.84"A tremendous read, interweaving military, social and family history...beautifully written and unbearably moving." Over 55,000 young Bomber Command airmen made the ultimate sacrifice; thousands more of their comrades survived one of the bloodiest... -
The Real X-Men: The Heroic Story of the Underwater War 1942-1945 by Robert Lyman
RRP: £12.99£8.60The thrilling and true story of the development and operational deployment of human torpedoes - 'Chariots' - and 'X-craft' midget submarines in British naval service during WWII, and of the extraordinary men who crewed these dangerous vessels. The... -
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. -
Faces of the Few: The Battle for Survival in the Summer of 1940 by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £25.00£17.62There remains an enduring fascination with the Battle of Britain, and the RAF aircrew who fought and won this unprecedented aerial conflict, immortalised by Churchill in August 1940 as The Few'. Unlike today, when photography is a huge part of... -
Gunboat Command by Antony Hichens 9781473822962
RRP: £16.99£12.68This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject, Robert Hichens (or 'Hitch' as he was universally known). After a brief description of his early life, time at Oxford, his motor racing achievements (including trophies at Le Mans in his... -
Skybound: A Journey In Flight by Rebecca Loncraine
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A soaring gift of a book' Owen Sheers'Remarkable' Mark Vanhoenacker, author of Skyfaring'Stunning . . . a love letter to nature' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of LoveThe day she flew in a glider for the first time, Rebecca Loncraine fell in... -
The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster by William Laird McKinlay 9780312206550
RRP: £17.99£11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312206550Author William Laird McKinlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint GriffinPublisher GriffinWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 13mm -
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas 9780743258043
RRP: £20.00£13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743258043Author Evan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 156mm... -
Johnnie Johnson's 1942 Diary: The War Diary of the Spitfire Ace of Aces by Dilip Sarkar MBE
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Testing to the Limits: British Test Pilots Since 1910 by Ken Ellis 9780859791847
£29.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791847Author Ken EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Hunt for Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound 9781035008452
RRP: £16.99£13.21SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHThe extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth in 2022On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance,... -
Lighthouse Stories: Keeper Is No More by Tony Beddard
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies 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 -
A Member of the RAF of Indeterminate Race: WW2 Experiences of a Former RAF Navigator and POW by C.Y. Grant 9781846830181
£12.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846830181Author C.Y. GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield Publishing -
Aircrew: Dramatic, first-hand accounts from World War 2 bomber pilots and crew by Bruce Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.40A vivid, first-hand account of the tension and excitement of flying missions over Nazi GermanyThe British and American bomber crews of the Second World War often had to endure the most terrifying conditions. Not for them the glorious, all-or-nothing... -
Letters from the Few: Unique Memories from the Battle of Britain by Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781526775894
RRP: £25.00£18.02Fascinated by the Battle of Britain from an early age, as a young man Dilip Sarkar realised that recording and sharing the Few's memories was of paramount importance. At the time, back in the mid-1980s, membership of the Battle of Britain Fighter... -
Never Answer To A Whistle by Michael Howard 9781916205307
RRP: £10.00£3.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916205307Author Michael HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Griffin Publishing UKPublisher Griffin Publishing UKWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
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... -
I Could Never be So Lucky Again: Autobiography of James H. "jimmy" Doolittle by Jimmy Doolittle
RRP: £27.99£18.62The complete autobiography of an American hero, Jimmy Doolittle. Pilot, scholar, daredevil, general . . . James "Jimmy" Doolittle was one of America's greatest heroes. In a life filled with adventure and achievement, Doolittle did it all. As a stunt... -
Black Tulip: The Life and Myth of Erich Hartmann, the World's Top Fighter Ace by Erik Schmidt 9781612008240
RRP: £25.00£20.75Black Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler was simplified and elevated to Western mythology during the Cold War.Over 1,404 wartime missions, Hartmann... -
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... -
Yesterday We Were In America: Alcock and Brown, First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop by Brendan Lynch 9780750990004
RRP: £18.99£14.32On 14 June 1919 - eight years before Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic - two men from Manchester took off in an open-cockpit Vickers Vimy and flew into the history books. They battled through a sixteen-hour journey of snow, ice and... -
World Heritage Canal: Thomas Telford and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct by Paul A. Lynn 9781849953986
RRP: £16.99£14.10Thomas Telford was arguably the greatest civil engineer Britain has ever produced. This book reveals his humble beginnings and then describes his self-propelled rise from journeyman stonemason to famous canal engineer. In 1793 Telford was appointed... -
Spitfire Ace of Aces: The Album: The Photographs of Johnnie Johnson by Dilip Sarkar MBE
RRP: £25.00£14.29Air Vice-Marshal James Edgar 'Johnnie' Johnson CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, DL was a character literally from the pages of Boys' Own: an individual who became the RAF's top-scoring fighter pilot of the Second World War. A one-time... -
Witness to Neptune's Inferno: The Pacific War Diary of Lieutenant Commander Lloyd M. Mustin, USS Atlanta (Cl 51) by David F. Winkler 9781636244075
RRP: £32.95£22.011942 would prove crucial for the United States in the Pacific following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of setbacks in the Southwest Pacific late in 1941 into 1942. As the first ship commissioned following America's entry into World War... -
Only The Light Moves: Flying Covert Reconnaissance Missions in the Vietnam War by Francis A Doherty 9781399057011
RRP: £22.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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... -
On My Watch: A Memoir by Virginia Buckingham 9780998749327
RRP: £11.95£8.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998749327Author Virginia BuckinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Cavan Bridge PressPublisher Cavan Bridge PressWeight(grams) 449g -
Flying to Extremes: Memories of a Northern Bush Pilot by Dominique Prinet 9780888391452
RRP: £25.99£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888391452Author Dominique PrinetFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd... -
The Black Cats of Osan: U-2 Spy Plane Escapades and Calamities in Korea by Rick Bishop 9781636243535
RRP: £32.95£23.19Plying through the darkness at the very limit of the earth's atmosphere, the U-2's extrasensory intelligence-gathering sensors quietly intercept and redistribute mountains of information to a highly classified ground site, located at Osan Air Base, Korea... -
From The Battle of Britain to Bombing Hitler's Berchtesgaden: Wing Commander James Jim' Bazin, DSO, DFC by Michael Bazin
RRP: £25.00£17.62It was Tuesday, 17 October 1939. Britain had been at war with Germany for more than a month and for only the second time the Luftwaffe had dared to enter British airspace - and at last James Jim' Bazin's chance had come. After joining the RAF in 1935,... -
Maritime Academy Graduate: Memoir of a Third Mate by Mark H Glissmeyer 9780998541631
£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998541631Author Mark H GlissmeyerFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Gradina BooksPublisher Gradina BooksWeight(grams) 449g -
Air Born: Two Generations in Flight by Jan Davis 9781955026765
RRP: £29.99£19.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955026765Author Jan DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Ballast BooksPublisher Ballast Books -
My Flying Boat War: Survival and Success over the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific in WW2 by Wing Commander Vic' Hodgkinson DFC, RAAF 9781399065610
£20.94Wing Commander Vic Hodgkinson DFC served throughout the Second World War as a pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force. His war began in 1939 when he travelled to the UK to become one of the founding members of 10 Squadron RAAF. With its training... -
Ace in a Day: The Memoir of an Eighth Air Force Fighter Pilot in World War II by LT Col Wayne K Blickenstaff
RRP: £39.95£25.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636242095Author LT Col Wayne K BlickenstaffFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint CasematePublisher CasemateWeight(grams) 708g -
16 Times Round Cape Horn by Isaac Norris Hibberd
RRP: £5.95£4.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913372159Author Isaac Norris HibberdFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Mystic Seaport MuseumPublisher Mystic Seaport MuseumWeight(grams) 159g