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To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam by Tom A. Johnson
RRP: £25.99£21.72Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these "rotor heads" saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen... -
Battle of the Atlantic 1942-45: The climax of World War II's greatest naval campaign by Mark Lardas
RRP: £14.99£10.95This illustrated study explores, in detail, the climactic events of the Battle of the Atlantic, and how air power proved to be the Allies' most important submarine-killer in one of the most bitterly fought naval campaigns of World War II. As 1942... -
Fighter Ace: The Extraordinary Life of Douglas Bader, Battle of Britain Hero by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY TO TRULY SEPARATE FACT FROM MYTH AND LEGEND. The story of Douglas Bader, the RAF fighter pilot who shot down twenty enemy fighters during the Second World War despite having lost both his legs, defies fiction. A fighter ace and... -
The Cactus Air Force: Air War over Guadalcanal by Eric Hammel 9781472851086
RRP: £14.99£10.95Using diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts, this vivid narrative brings to life the struggle in the air over the island of Guadalcanal between August 20 and November 15, 1942. The battle of Guadalcanal was the first offensive operation... -
Air War Northern Ireland: Britain's Air Arms and the 'Bandit Country' of South Armagh, Operation Banner 1969 - 2007 by Steven Taylor 9781526721549
£25.25Famously dubbed 'Bandit Country' by a UK government minister in 1975, South Armagh was considered the most dangerous part of Northern Ireland for the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary during the years of violence known as the 'Troubles' that... -
Reconnaissance Planes Since 1945 by Frank Schwede 9781473891333
£13.01Reconnaissance aircraft have always been the spearhead of the various air forces, helping to provide the basis for any further military operations. At the time of the Cold War and before the satellite era, the use of reconnaissance aircraft reached its... -
Peenemunde Raid by Martin Middlebrook 9781844153367
RRP: £14.99£11.35On the night of 17-18 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German Baltic coast. The site was Peenemunde, where Hitler's scientists were developing both the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket whose destructive... -
Military Aircraft Markings 2022 by Howard J Curtis 9781800351424
RRP: £12.95£9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800351424Author Howard J CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Bomber War: A Ladybird Expert Book: Book 7 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: £8.99£6.45Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, The Bomber War is an accessible, insightful and authoritative introduction to the airborne Allied fight against Nazi Germany.- How did aeroplane technology change the theatre of war?- How did the Blitz affect... -
Confessions of a Phantom Pilot by Tug Wilson 9781781558508
RRP: £25.00£18.02'The Confessions of a Phantom Pilot' is the true story of a young RAF pilot who gets his dream to fly the old dirty workhorse fighter of the Cold War. From the first flight where he thought the jet was trying to kill him, through to his final trip of... -
Panavia Tornado: Gr. 1, Gr. 4, Ids/Gr. 1b, Ecr, Adv by Anirudh Rao
RRP: £16.00£10.48The Panavia Tornado is a twin-engine fighter jet with variable wing geometry. Three main versions of the Tornado were created: the attack version - Tornado IDS (Interdictor/Strike), the interceptor version - Tornado ADV (Air Defense Variant) and the... -
The Royal Auxiliary Air Force: Commemorating 100 Years of Service by Frances Louise Wilkinson 9781399062183
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Lancaster Manual 1943 by Gordon A. A. Wilson
RRP: £10.99£7.25How to fly, navigate, drop bombs and man the turrets of the legendary bomber using the manuals and instructions supplied by the RAF during the Second World War. An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the Air Ministry during the... -
Area 51: The Revealing Truth of UFOs, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies by Nick Redfern 9781578596720
RRP: £21.99£15.23Taking a thorough review of the historical record, eyewitness accounts, whistleblower testimony, and deathbed confessions, Area 51 peers behind the classified secrets to understand the nature, history, and scope of the most controversial base in the... -
Alarmstart South and Final Defeat: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Mediterranean Theatre 1941-44 and Normandy, Norway and Germany 1944-45 by Patrick G. Eriksson 9781445693323
RRP: £20.00£13.74Alarmstart South completes Patrick Eriksson's Alarmstart trilogy on Second World War German fighter pilots, detailing their experiences in the Mediterranean theatre (1941-1944), and during the closing stages of the war over Normandy, Norway and Germany... -
Black Cross Red Star -- Air War Over the Eastern Front, Volume 1: Barbarossa by Christer Bergstrom 9789188441683
RRP: £64.99£42.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188441683Author Christer BergstromFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Vaktel ForlagPublisher Vaktel ForlagWeight(grams) 1725g -
Flight Through the Ages: A Fiftieth Anniversary Tribute to the Guild of Aviation Artists by Guild of Aviation Artists 9781526763778
RRP: £35.00£25.29Flight Through the Ages' was the title of the first annual exhibition of the Guild of Aviation Artists in 1971. This book celebrates 50 years of exhibitions and includes paintings by some one hundred Guild artists, past and present, depicting aircraft... -
Flak: German Anti-aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945 by Edward B. Westermann
RRP: £32.95£27.59Air raid sirens wail, searchlight beams flash across the sky, and the night is aflame with tracer fire and aerial explosions, as Allied bombers and German anti-aircraft units duel in the thundering darkness. Such "cinematic" scenes, played out with... -
The Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-3 Vol. II by Dariusz Paduch
RRP: £24.00£15.24The I-200 fighter project was a compromise between design office's capabilities, realities of the Soviet aviation industry, with its available technologies, and military requirements.According to the brief description of the MiG-3 from 1941, it was, in... -
Bf 109 Jabo Units in the West by Malcolm V. Lowe
RRP: £16.99£12.28Using specially commissioned artwork and detailing technical specifications, this book explores the Bf 109's different roles occasioned by wartime necessity, from its employment as a fighter to its evolution as a fighter-bomber. One of the principal... -
Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe Vol7 by Dan Sharp 9781911703280
RRP: £11.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911703280Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 432g -
Black Tulip: The Life and Myth of Erich Hartmann, the World’s Top Fighter Ace by Erik Schmidt
RRP: £17.95£11.65Black 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,... -
The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in World War II by Adam Zamoyski 9781848841963
RRP: £14.99£10.95By the beginning of 1941 there was a fully fledged Polish Air Force operating alongside the RAF. With 14 Squadrons it was larger than any other of the Air Force from Nazi-occupied Europe that had joined the Allies. Over 17,000 men and women passed... -
Hawker's Secret Projects: Cold War Aircraft That Never Flew by Christopher Budgen 9781399047906
RRP: £25.00£17.62Hawker Aircraft Ltd at Kingston was arguably the most successful and long-lasting manufacturer of military aircraft in Great Britain and Europe. In its various evolved manifestations – Hawker Aircraft, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, British Aerospace – its... -
Wings of Empire: The Forgotten Wars of the Royal Air Force, 1919-1939 by Barry Renfrew 9780750989381
RRP: £20.00£14.71At the end of the First World War, British power in the colonies was at an all-time low. That was until a ragtag band of visionaries, including Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence, proposed that the aeroplane, the wonder weapon of the age, could save the... -
German Night Fighter Force 1917-1945 by Gebhard Aders 9781781555033
RRP: £35.00£26.12The German Night Fighter force had its origins in the First World War to repel night raids and to fly long-range intruder sorties. They developed operational procedures which became largely forgotten a few years after the Armistice. The Western Allies,... -
Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940 by Patrick Bishop
RRP: £9.99£6.64In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. This is their story. The Battle of Britain is one of the most crucial battles ever fought, and the victory of... -
A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1945-1999 by Joe Bamford
RRP: £20.00£14.71Having been classified by the Air Ministry as a 'Master Diversion' airfield, RAF Manston was for many years open twenty-four hours a day and available to both civil and military aircraft 365 days a year. It was also later equipped with the Pyrene foam... -
Messerschmitt Bf 109 : The Early Years - Poland, the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain by Chris Goss 9781848324794
RRP: £14.99£10.95The 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,... -
Aircraft of World War I 1914-1918: The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide by Jack Herris
RRP: £22.99£15.59Illustrated with detailed artworks of combat aircraft and their markings, Aircraft of World War I: The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide is a comprehensive study of the aircraft that fought in the Great War of 1914-18. Arranged chronologically by... -
Bomber Command: Airfields of Lincolnshire by Peter Jacobs 9781783463343
RRP: £17.99£12.95From the opening day of the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command took the offensive to the enemy and played a leading role in the liberation of Europe. Many of its squadrons were based in Lincolnshire, where the flat terrain and open fields made the... -
Inside The Black Vault: The Government's UFO Secrets Revealed by Jr., John, Greenewald
RRP: £11.99£8.68The evidence in this book may not ultimately give you the "smoking gun" you are looking for on your journey, but I guarantee it will give you a box of bullets when you find it. In 1996, John Greenewald, Jr. began researching the secret inner workings... -
The Oil Campaign 1944-45: Draining the Wehrmacht's Lifeblood by Steven J Zaloga
RRP: £14.99£10.95A new illustrated history of one of the key air campaigns of late World War II - the American effort to cripple Germany's oil production, and grind its armed forces to a halt. With retreating German forces losing their oilfields on the Eastern Front,... -
Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot by Helmut Mahlke 9781526760784
RRP: £16.99£12.68After recounting his early days as a naval cadet, including a voyage to the Far East aboard the cruiser _K ln_, and as the navigator/observer of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship _Admiral Scheer_ during the Spanish Civil War, the author... -
R. J. Mitchell: To the Spitfire by John Shelton
RRP: £40.00£29.24R. J. Mitchell at Supermarine is the definitive account of the life of Britain's best-known aeronautical engineer. Shelton calls upon unpublished letters, extensive press accounts, and updated material from his previous publications, concentrating... -
Hullo Russia, Goodbye England by Derek Robinson
RRP: £12.99£9.08Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft comes close to matching its all-round performance. And as... -
British Airborne Soldier vs Waffen-SS Soldier: Arnhem 1944 by David Greentree
RRP: £13.99£9.75Operation Market Garden was an Allied plan to try and end the war before the end of 1944, and relied on landing airborne troops to secure bridges over the Rhine bridges in the Netherlands. Critical to this plan were the glider troops of Britain's 1st... -
F-102 Delta Dagger Units by Peter E. Davies
RRP: £14.99£10.95World War II saw the development of the heavy bomber as a decisive weapon which, in sufficient numbers, could overcome defensive fighters and guns and lay waste to strategic targets. The addition of nuclear weapons to the bomber's armament made it even... -
Death Was Their Co-Pilot by Michael Dorflinger 9781473859289
£25.25It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off the ground. This volume introduces the fighter pilots of World War I, including the infamous "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen. In... -
United States Naval Aviation 1911-2014 by Michael Green 9781473822252
RRP: £14.99£10.95From humble beginnings in 1911 with floatplanes, by the 1930s, the US Navy possessed dirigibles and were introducing fighter planes. By the start of WW2, monoplane fighters were replacing bi-planes and a major aircraft carrier build was underway. ...