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Wrecks and Relics 28th Edition: The indispensable guide to Britain's aviation heritage by Ken Ellis 9781800351387
RRP: €23.74€17.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800351387Author Ken EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War Torn Skies of World War II by Alexander Adam
RRP: €23.79€20.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425252864Author Larry AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 630g -
Mil Mi-24 Attack Helicopter: In Soviet / Russian and Worldwide Service, 1972 to the Present by ,Michael Normann 9780764358678
RRP: €44.02€28.54A detailed technical and operational history of a deadly and long-serving Soviet/Russian gunship and attack helicopter. The Mil Mi-24 Soviet/Russian gunship and attack helicopter has been in continuous combat service since its first appearance in the... -
Luftwaffe over Scotland: A history of German air attacks on Scotland, 1939-45 by Les Taylor 9781849950008
RRP: €21.41€17.70Luftwaffe over Scotland is the first complete history of the air attacks mounted against Scotland by Nazi Germany during World War Two and undertakes a detailed examination of the strategy, tactics and politics involved on both sides, together with a... -
Aces of Jagdgeschwader Nr III by Greg VanWyngarden
RRP: €20.22€16.78Royal Prussian Jagdgeschwader Nr III was the third of Germany's vaunted fighter wings to be formed during World War 1. Commanded by the Pour le Merite winner and well-respected ace Hauptmann Bruno Loerzer for its entire existence, it was composed of the... -
Cuban Migs: The Defenders of Castro's Air Force by Hélio Higuchi
RRP: €34.45€21.65The Fuerza Aerea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and little-publicised air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) fighters as its main fighter aircraft, both in the defence of Cuban territory against the threat of US invasion... -
Beaufighter Boys: True Tales from those who flew Bristol's Mighty Twin by Graham Pitchfork
RRP: €17.84€13.03A departure from the Cold War for the Boys series! Researched many years ago by the author for a project which did not come to fruition, Beaufighter air and ground crew gave freely of their stories which ranged from complete memoirs to brief anecdotes... -
Short Stirling Units of World War 2 by Jonathan Falconer
RRP: €20.22€16.78Of the RAF's trio of four-engined heavy bombers in World War 2, the mighty Short Stirling was the first to enter service in August 1940. From its first raid in February 1941, the Stirling was at the forefront of the British night bombing offensive... -
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II by Scott McGaugh
RRP: €29.75€21.44The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing... -
Desert Cats: The RAF's Jaguar Force in the First Gulf War by Danny Burt
RRP: €35.70€24.93On 2 August 1990, Saddam Hussein's armed forces invaded and occupied Kuwait. A swift international response followed, which, led by the United States and the United Kingdom, saw the formation of a coalition that formed the largest military alliance seen... -
Arnhem Lift: A German Jew in the Glider Pilot Regiment by Louis Hagen 9780752468686
RRP: €17.84€13.42Of the 10,000 men who landed at Arnhem, over nine days 1,400 were killed and more than 6,000 - about a third of them wounded - were captured. It was a bloody disaster. The remarkable Louis Hagen, an 'enemy alien' who had escaped to England having been... -
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War by Jacky Hyams
RRP: €20.22€13.66Britain's first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain.Often eclipsed by the legend and aerial heroics of the Spitfire, the Hurricane... -
Fleet Air Arm Boys: Volume One: Air Defence Fighter Aircraft Since 1945 True Tales From Royal Navy Aircrew, Maintainers and Handlers by Steve Bond
RRP: €23.80€17.48The RAF's continuing role in the projection of air power in the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas interests since the end of the Second World War is well known. However, the same cannot always be said about the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm... -
British Transport Aircraft of the 1970s and '80s by Chris Goss 9781802827200
RRP: €20.22€14.61Following on in the series of British aircraft in the 1970s and '80s, this book explores the transport aircraft that served during this time period, including the Argosy, Belfast, Hastings and more.About the AuthorAfter a 32-year career in the RAF and... -
Safety is No Accident: From 'V' Bombers to Concorde: A Flight Test Engineer's Story by John R W Smith 9781526769442
RRP: €29.75€22.16Flying, as everyone knows, is generally regarded as the safest means of transportation. Yet for that to be the case an enormous amount of testing is undertaken. Central to this, of course, are the test pilots, who fly the aircraft, but it is the men... -
Luftwaffe Squadrons 1939-45: The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide by Chris Bishop
RRP: €23.79€16.35Illustrated with detailed artworks of World War II-era German aircraft and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Luftwaffe Squadrons 1939-45: Identification Guide is the definitive study of the equipment and organisation of the... -
Luftwaffe in Africa 1941-1943 by Jean-Louis Roba
RRP: €23.79€15.30Adolf Hitler considered the Mediterranean an unimportant theater of the war, leaving it to the troops of Benito Mussolini who wanted to dominate the "Mare Nostro." Nevertheless, when the Italian army was defeated on the Libyan-Egyptian border at the... -
P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Defences: Western Europe 1943-45 by Jonathan Bernstein
RRP: €16.65€11.60Since the end of World War 2, the tactical air war over Europe has been largely overlooked by historians and authors alike in favour of analysis of the higher profile strategic bombing campaign. Involving just as many aircraft as the daylight heavy... -
Whistling Death: the Test Pilot's Story of the F4u Corsair by Boone T. Guyton 9780887407321
RRP: €33.31€21.44Whistling Death is the true story, by the test pilot, of the rush to produce the F4U Corsair, the Navy fighter that brought America air superiority over the Japanese Zero in World War II. Here is the crash program - complete with crash landings - powered... -
Last Mission of Lady Jane II: The Life and Death of an 8th Air Force B-17 and Her Crew by Lisa A. Vans
RRP: €27.36€17.43On March 18, 1945, the B-17G "Lady Jane II" lifted off from her base at Deenethorpe, England; she never returned. The story is one of deep tragedy and survival, of sacrifice, and of the love the crew had for each other as brothers in arms. The bomber was... -
Naval Aviator: The Memoir of a Royal Navy Officer and Operational Westland Wasp and Lynx Pilot by Chris Taylor 9781399059763
€44.43Chris 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,... -
Wings Of War: The World War II Fighter Plane that Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly by David Fairbank White
RRP: €30.93€20.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746322Author David Fairbank WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Harrier by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: €13.08€8.71The British designed and built the Harrier, the most successful vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft ever made. Combining state-of-the-art fighter plane technology with a helicopter's ability to land vertically the Harrier has played an indispensable... -
The Spitfire Pocket Manual by Martin Robson
RRP: €11.89€8.87Developed in 1938 from a Schneider trophy-winning design by the aeronautical engineer and designer R.J Mitchell, the Supermarine Spitfire went on to become the definitive Allied fighter of the Second World War, and ranks amongst the most famous aircraft... -
Pioneers of Aerial Combat: Air Battles of the First World War by Michael Foley 9781399074957
RRP: €17.84€13.03When the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the early years of the twentieth century it sparked the imagination of those who wanted to fly, both in their country and around the world. In Britain, however, the spark wasnt strong enough to light a... -
Sigh For A Merlin: Testing The Spitfire by Alex Henshaw 9781800352513
RRP: €14.22€10.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352513Author Alex HenshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Twin Mustang: North American's P-82, F-82, and XP-82 Fighters by John Gourley
RRP: €22.60€14.60Aviation monograph of the F-82 Twin Mustang, an unusual variant of the famous P-51 Mustang. Developed during the Second World War, but too late to see combat, the Twin Mustang was created by the engineering team at North American Aviation to... -
"Big Week" 1944: Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe by Douglas C. Dildy
RRP: €17.84€13.03A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day. The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed for unescorted, precision daylight bombing, but no-one ... -
Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book 1939-1945 by Martin Middlebrook 9781783463602
RRP: €35.70€26.12Bomber Command's campaign started on the very first day of the Second World War and ended within a few hours of the final victory in Europe five and a half years later. It was an attempt to win the war in Europe by strategic bombing on such an enormous... -
Aircraft and Aviation Stamps: A Collector's Guide by Howard Piltz 9781473871861
RRP: €20.22€15.09The author has combined his two greatest interests: Transport and Stamp Collecting and brought them together in this series of books looking at the way postage stamps have led him to increase his knowledge of our world via his interest in all forms of... -
The Ones Who Got Away: Mighty Eighth Airmen on the Run in Occupied Europe by Bill Yenne 9781472858719
RRP: €29.75€20.97A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away. To be an airman in the Eighth Air Force flying over the war-torn skies of Europe required skill, tenacity, and ... -
Bomber Command: Men, Machines and Missions: 1936-68 by Gordon A. A. Wilson
RRP: €23.80€15.87Bomber Command is a richly illustrated account of the Royal Air Force organisation from its inception prior to the Second World War in 1936 to its final years during the Cold War. The book covers the reasons for Bomber Command and the personnel that... -
Battle of Malta: June 1940-November 1942 by Anthony Rogers
RRP: €19.03€13.82A detailed, illustrated exploration of the land, sea and air units that defended Malta, and the repeated Axis attempts to bring the crucial Allied island fortress to its knees. On 11 June 1940, the British crown colony of Malta - which dominated the... -
Harrier Boys: Volume Two: New Threats, New Technology, New Tactics, 1990 - 2010 by Bob Marston
RRP: €23.80€17.48In the second volume of Harrier Boys, as with the first, the history of this remarkable aircraft in service with UK armed forces is illustrated through personal reminiscences of the people who worked with it. The book begins with explanations of the... -
Flight Craft 15: Supermarine Spitfire MKV: The Mark V and its Variants by Lance Cole 9781526710499
RRP: €20.22€14.61The story of the Supermarine Spitfire has been told across many years and the debate about it is enduring, yet the Spitfire remains a true icon. For aviation enthusiasts, for historians, for modellers, the word Spitfire conjures many stories and... -
MESSERSCHMITT Bf 109: The Latter Years - War in the East to the Fall of Germany by Chris Goss
RRP: €17.84€13.51The most iconic German aircraft of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the Luftwaffe's principal fighter from 1939 until 1942 when the superior Focke-Wulf Fw 190 came into greater prominence. The Bf 109 served in every theatre of the war,... -
Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two by Patrick Bishop
RRP: €17.84€11.54In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence - the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to... -
Spitfire: The Legend Lives On by John Dibbs
RRP: €35.70€26.83Published to coincide with the 80th birthday of the Spitfire this is a gripping and visually spectacular volume, which celebrates the life of Britain's most iconic military aircraft. The Spitfire turns 80 on 5 March 2016, and the passion for the... -
B-17 Memphis Belle by Graham Simons 9781848846913
RRP: €17.84€13.03Without doubt Boeing Flying Fortress B-17F 41-42285 Memphis Belle and her crew generate an image that is an all-American icon. Indeed, it has been claimed that the Memphis Belle is in the top five of the most famous American aircraft of all time.In... -
Fleet Air Arm Boys Volume Three: Helicopters - True Tales From royal Navy Men and Women Air and Ground Crew by Steve Bond
RRP: €29.75€22.16Helicopters have been going to sea with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm for over 70 years. Initially used for search and rescue (SAR) duties from aircraft carriers, the rapid development of both the helicopters and service experience resulted in them...