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Paddy Finucane: Fighter Ace by Doug Stokes 9780859791809
€19.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791809Author Doug StokesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 by Florence de Changy
RRP: €13.08€8.63'People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does... This is a splendid book - and highly recommended.' Daily Mail A remarkable piece of investigative... -
To Save Every One: 200 years of RNLI courage by The RNLI 9780008613051
RRP: €29.75€19.55The remarkable 200-year history of The RNLI and their invaluable role in British Maritime history. A beautiful book of kindness, courage, and community to treasure for years to come. Since 1824, people have counted on the RNLI to keep them... -
438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin
RRP: €13.08€8.94The 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... -
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound 9781035008421
RRP: €13.08€8.47Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month.Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing... -
Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood
RRP: €23.80€17.48THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht,... -
Imagine a City: A Pilot’s Love Letter to the World’s Greatest Cities by Mark Vanhoenacker 9781529112023
RRP: €13.08€9.25A 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... -
Life of a Concorde Pilot: From The Orphanage to The Edge of Space by John Tye 9781803994635
RRP: €23.80€17.50John Tye's job at British Airways was supposed to be only temporary, a way for him to pass the summer before starting university. Instead, it would kickstart a forty-six-year career in aviation and take him all over the world.Told in an irrepressible and... -
In the Days of Rain: WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD by Rebecca Stott
RRP: €15.46€10.09WINNER 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... -
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat by Dan Hampton
RRP: €11.89€7.90"Viper Pilot" is the high-octane memoir of one of America's elite aviators: a twenty-year battle-seasoned pilot who flew 151 combat missions in the world's most iconic fighter plane - the F-16 Fighting Falcon - the Viper as its pilots call it. A fighter... -
Topgun by Dan Pedersen
RRP: €13.08€9.25DISCOVER 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... -
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI by The RNLI 9780008485993
RRP: €11.89€7.76She 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?' ... -
Surviving the Storms: Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea by The RNLI
RRP: €11.89€7.90'There's water in the engine,' he said. 'The engine has stopped.' This changed everything... Surviving the Storms brings together incredible... -
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: €15.46€10.09Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history 'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan ... -
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
RRP: €13.08€9.25**Sunday Times Bestseller****Book of the Week on Radio 4**'A beautiful book about a part of the modern world which remains genuinely magical' Mark Haddon'One of the most constantly fascinating, but consistently under-appreciated aspects of modern life is... -
Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm’s Top Gun by Nathan Gray
RRP: €26.18€16.93'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,... -
Jet Man: The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution by Duncan Campbell-Smith
RRP: €13.08€9.25The story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero. 'Wonderful' David Edgerton, TLS 'A fascinating account' Aeroplane Monthly 'Casts new light on the intense, heroic character of Frank... -
Captain Cook by Alistair MacLean
RRP: €11.89€7.90On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this is Alistair MacLean's absorbing story of one of Britain's great national heroes, from his obscure beginnings to his sudden and violent death at the age of... -
Dreamland: An Autobiography by Bob Lazar 9780578437057
RRP: €23.79€17.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578437057Author Bob LazarFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bruno Gmuender GmbHPublisher Bruno Gmuender GmbH -
Spitfire Across The Atlantic by Ricardo Martin Lezon 9781781553572
RRP: €35.70€24.93On the morning of 24 December 1943, 542 Squadron's intelligence officer briefed Flt Lt J. Storey on covering Crossbow sites in the Calais-Abbeville areas. He was airborne at 11 a.m. and set course in his Spitfire for the French coast, passing over London... -
The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew by David Price
RRP: €11.89€8.46A 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... -
Flying and Preserving Historic Aircraft: The Memoirs of David Ogilvy OBE, Vice-President of the Historic Aircraft Association by David Frederick Ogilvy 9781399044448
RRP: €29.75€20.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Hunt for Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
RRP: €29.75€19.67Sunday 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... -
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar
RRP: €13.08€9.25WINNER 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... -
Gunship Ace: The Wars of Neall Ellis, Helicopter Pilot and Mercenary by Al Venter
RRP: €22.60€14.60"The days of Congo and Angola when you had the image of mercenaries as drunken guys going around shooting up the place... has gone - the people you find now... are well-trained, professional soldiers, special forces trained." - Neall EllisPraise for Al J... -
Spitfire Girl: My Life in the Sky by Jackie Moggridge
RRP: €13.08€9.25The 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... -
Going Solo by Roald Dahl 9780241677391
RRP: €9.51€6.89It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is... -
Archie's Lights: The Life and Times of a Scottish Lightkeeper by Archie MacEachern 9781849953993
RRP: €22.60€19.10Born at a clifftop lighthouse in 1910, Archie's life was spent in the world of Scottish lighthouses - he was one of the third generation of his family in the service of the Northern Lighthouse Board. Archie's stories have gripped listeners of all ages... -
Test Pilot: An Extraordinary Career Testing Civil Aircraft by Taylor, Chris 9781399085342
RRP: €29.75€20.97Having flown an astonishing 400 different aircraft, as a licensed Category 1 test pilot and flight test instructor for both aeroplanes and helicopters, Chris Taylor is arguably one of the best qualified and widely experienced test pilots working today... -
Mistress and Commander: High jinks, high seas and Highlanders by Amelia Dalton
RRP: €10.70€7.68Weary of her Yorkshire county life of grouse moors and hunt balls, Amelia Dalton threw herself instead into running a deep sea trawler amongst the closed community of fishermen in NE Scotland in the '90s. Unprepared by her background in cookery and... -
610 (County of Chester) Auxiliary Air Force Squadron, 1936-1940 by David J. Bailey 9781781557143
RRP: €53.55€40.19610 (County of Chester) Squadron was formed in February 1936 as a bomber squadron. With personnel recruited from the local area for the expanding Auxiliary Air Force, these `weekend fliers' were moulded into a cohesive fighting unit at Hooton Park,... -
Concorde, A Designer's Life: The Journey to Mach 2 by Ted Talbot 9781803994710
RRP: €20.22€15.04Do you remember the time we used to do New York in three hours?Even twenty years after its final flight, Concorde remains the pinnacle of aviation design. The aircraft is still unmatched, which has led to a vast swathe of material being written about the... -
The Last British Dambuster: One man's extraordinary life and the raid that changed history by George Johnny Johnson
RRP: €15.46€10.82Johnny Johnson has been awarded an MBE for his remarkable services in World War II'I was anxious to fight. Hitler was the bastard who had started all this and he needed sorting out. We were under threat. Everything we stood for: our country, our families... -
Confessions of an Air Craft Pilot: Including Tales from the Pilot s Seat by Tozer, Terry 9781399012041
RRP: €29.75€20.97How do you know if the airline you are planning to fly with is safe? What should you be worried about? Is it, Turbulence, lightning or that the pilots might be asleep while the aircraft flies on, on autopilot? Does a pilot's life conform to the clich ;... -
Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner's Guide to Life in the Space Age by Kellie Gerardi
RRP: €17.79€11.73Learn from Kellie Gerardi What It's Like to Be a Female Astronaut"Kellie is probably one of the best ambassadors for spaceflight in the 21st century that the industry could have." Lucy Hawking, author of George's Secret Key to the Universe and host of... -
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries by Clare Mulley
RRP: €13.08€9.17A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots - Hitler's personal Valkyries.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their... -
Mayfly by Mike James 9781035812363
RRP: €11.89€8.46Apologies 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)... -
UFFA: Yachting's Eccentric Genius by Malcolm Turner 9781914489358
RRP: €19.03€14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914489358Author Malcolm TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint SunRise Publishing LtdPublisher SunRise Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 740gDimensions(mm)... -
Flying Used to Be Fun by Captain Mike Clarke
€23.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398451957Author Captain Mike ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Amelia Earhart: The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: €17.84€11.09When 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,...