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RAF West Malling: The RAF's First Night Fighter Airfield - WWII to the Cold War by Anthony J. Moor 9781526753236
RRP: £25.00£18.62This is the story of West Malling airfield, from its earliest days through its role in the Second World War - when several dramatic and tragic events occurred - and beyond into the Cold War. Opened as a private landing ground after the First World War,... -
Spitfire People: The Men and Women Who Made the Spitfire the Aviation Icon by Paul Beaver 9781910505052
RRP: £25.00£18.02This book presents a fresh angle on the Spitfire by examining the contribution to its development and achievements by over 65 people - some famous, others not - ranging from politicians to pilots. Published to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of... -
The Kassel Raid, 27 September 1944: The Largest Loss by USAAF Group on any Mission in WWII by Ratcliffe, Eric 9781526798268
RRP: £14.99£10.95On Thursday, 28 September 1944, a force of 283 Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers from the USAAF's 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing, took off from their bases in Britain and headed out across the North Sea escorted by 198 P-51 Mustang fighters. The bombers'... -
Journey's End: Bomber Command's Battle from Arnhem to Dresden and Beyond by Kevin Wilson
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' ObserverIn February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most... -
Flight Craft 20: Vickers VC10 by Lance Cole 9781526760067
RRP: £16.99£12.28Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represented the ultimate in 1960s subsonic airliners. The VC10 was Britain's answer to the Boeing 707 and the... -
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott 9780393352276
RRP: £15.99£14.58On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan's factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on... -
Polish Wings No. 33 Ilyushin Il-2 by Wojciech Zmyślony 9788366549999
RRP: £18.00£11.67The renowned Soviet attack aircraft Il-2 and its various models within the Polish Air Force have been extensively documented with unmatched detail. This publication comprises numerous unpublished photographs obtained from private collections, along with... -
The Defeat of the Luftwaffe: The Eastern Front 1941-45, A Strategy for Disaster by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: £9.99£6.64In 1939 and 1940 the Nazi blitzkrieg crushed Poland and the Low Countries and France. This was a new type of warfare with air and ground forces working hand-in-glove and sweeping away all resistance. On the ground the new panzer divisions symbolised this... -
Tornado Down: Original Edition by John Nichol 9780140270815
RRP: £9.99£8.76RAF Flight lieutenants John Peters and John Nichol were shot down over enemy territory on their first airbourne mission of the Gulf War. Their capture in the desert, half a mile from their blazing Tornado bomber, began a nightmare seven-week ordeal of... -
The Flight of the Mew Gull by Alex Henshaw
RRP: £18.99£15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840370218Author Alex HenshawFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Airlife Publishing LtdPublisher The Crowood Press LtdWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)... -
Mosquito Victory by Jack Currie 9780907579335
RRP: £9.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579335Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Holland 1940: The Luftwaffe's first setback in the West by Adam Tooby
RRP: £14.99£10.95The German invasion of the Netherlands was meant to be a lightning-fast surgical strike, aimed at shoring up the right flank of the assault on France and Belgium. With a bold plan based largely on Luftwaffe air power, air-landing troops, and the... -
To Defeat the Few by Douglas C. Dildy
RRP: £30.00£22.55Over the past 80 years, histories of the Battle of Britain have consistently portrayed the feats of 'The Few' (as they were immortalized in Churchill's famous speech) as being responsible for the RAF's victory in the epic battle. However, this is only... -
Korean Air War: Sabres, MiGs and Meteors over Korea, 1950-53 by Michael Napier
RRP: £30.00£21.95From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the air war over Korea. The Korean War holds a unique place in aviation history. It saw the first large-scale jet-versus-jet combat and it was the first military... -
Dresden and the Heavy Bombers: An RAF Navigator's Perspective by Frank Musgrove
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is the first hand account of a young man's entry into World War II in 1941, culminating in his role in the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 by RAF Bomber Command. This is not a gung-ho account of flying with Bomber Command, instead Musgrove takes... -
The Lavochkin La-7 by Dariusz Paduch
RRP: £22.00£14.05La-7 Soviet single-engine, single-seat fighter aircraft of the World War II period. Developed in the design bureau of S. A. Lavochkin as a successor to the La-5FN aircraft. The La-7 was a development of the La-5 design. Both the sizes and shapes of the... -
The Lightning Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning by Richard Pike
RRP: £12.99£9.09In an international study, the Lightning was voted the fifth most popular military aircraft of all time. It has many thousands of devotees who are a ready market for this entertaining book which relates the highs and lows, the dramas and the demands of... -
H6K “Mavis”/H8K “Emily” vs PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer: Pacific Theater 1943–45 by Edward M. Young
RRP: £15.99£11.61An illustrated exploration of the dramatic aerial combats between the US Navy's long-range bomber and Japanese flying boats in the Pacific War. Edward Young explores these rarely written about combats, examining the aggressive and strategic tactics... -
Rearming the RAF for the Second World War: Poor Strategy and Miscalculation by Phillips, Adrian 9781399006248
RRP: £25.00£17.62When the RAF rearmed to meet the growing threat from Nazi Germany's remorseless expansion in the late 1930s, it faced immense challenges. It had to manage a huge increase in size as well as mastering rapid advances in aviation technology. To protect... -
Sinking Force Z 1941: The day the Imperial Japanese Navy killed the battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: £14.99£10.95A history and analysis of one of the most dramatic moments in both air power and naval history. With the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse, no battleship was safe on the open ocean, and the aircraft took its crown as the most powerful maritime... -
War In A Stringbag by Charles Lamb
RRP: £10.99£7.40A classic autobiography by the best known Second World War Fleet Air Arm pilot. A story of real life adventure, action and heroism.Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. It... -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Three: Tunisia and the end in Africa, November 1942 - May 1943 by Christopher Shores 9781910690000
RRP: £65.00£47.87The third volume in this series returns to November 1942 to explain the background to the first major Anglo-American venture - Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa. It deals with the fratricidal combats which followed the initial landings... -
Flight Craft 19: North American Aviation P-51 Mustang by Robert Jackson
RRP: £16.99£12.08The North American P-51 Mustang was one of the most successful and effective fighter aircraft of all time. It was initially produced in response to a 1940 RAF requirement for a fast, heavily-armed fighter able to operate effectively at altitudes in... -
Bombers, The World Encyclopedia of: An illustrated history from the early planes of World War 1 to the sophisticated jet bombers of the modern age by Francis Crosby 9780754834991
RRP: £15.00£11.96This record of incredible developments in bomber technology spans over a century of innovation. The book is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the development of bombers and the major conflicts in which bombers have been used, such... -
The Secrets of Q Central: How Leighton Buzzard Shortened the Second World War by Paul Brown
RRP: £20.00£15.11A quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937. When hostilities began, 'Q Central' attracted a dozen other clandestine operations set up to... -
The Spitfire Story by Peter R. March
RRP: £9.99£7.33Probably the most famous fighter aircraft of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire reigned supreme and unsurpassed from the biplane era to the dawn of the jet age, a period that included the Second World War. Here is the incredible story of this legendary... -
Biggin on the Bump: The Most Famous Fighter Station in the World by Bob Ogley 9781872337050
£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872337050Author Bob OgleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Froglets Publications LtdPublisher Froglets Publications Ltd -
Focke-Wulf Ta 154: Luftwaffe Reich Defence Day and Night Interceptor by Dietmar Hermann 9781910809945
RRP: £30.00£22.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809945Author Dietmar HermannFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Top Secret Worcestershire by Stephen Burrows
£15.59Deep in the beautiful Worcestershire countryside lie a number of secret places that played a special part in protecting a generation from the onslaught of a world war. Travellers passing through leafy Worcestershire lanes may catch a glimpse of a... -
Nimrod's Genesis by Chris Gibson 9781902109473
RRP: £29.95£21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109473Author Chris GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
TSR2: Britain's lost Cold War strike jet by Andrew Brookes
RRP: £15.99£11.61The TSR2 is one of the greatest 'what-if' aircraft of the Cold War, whose cancellation still generates anger and controversy among aviation fans. It was a magnificent, cutting-edge aircraft, one of the most striking of the Cold War, but fell victim to... -
Flashpoints: Air Warfare in the Cold War by Michael Napier
RRP: £35.00£25.89From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the aerial fighting in the flashpoints of the Cold War. The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented peace in Europe, yet they also saw a number of localised... -
Macchi C.202/C.205V Units in Combat by Marco Mattioli
RRP: £15.99£11.61A study of the Macchi Folgore and Veltro, the most successful Italian fighters in World War II. With specially commissioned profiles, the book examines how these fighters were conceived, their performance and the fascinating stories of their pilots. ... -
Jet Provost Boys: True Tales from the Operators of the Jet Provost and Strikemaster by David Watkins 9781911667445
RRP: £25.00£18.02As a versatile and undemanding aircraft, the Jet Provost established itself as the basic trainer for the RAF from the late 1950s until its retirement in September 1993. In Jet Provost Boys, David Watkins explores the history of this magnificent flying... -
Ultimate Piston Fighters of the Luftwaffe by Justo Miranda 9781781552490
RRP: £22.50£16.36The development of aviation engines in Germany was revolutionary during closing stages of the Second World War. In 1945, the Daimler Benz, Jumo and BMW engines in service, equipped with power boosting systems, generated 2,000 hp. There were prototypes... -
Battle of Berlin 1943-44 by Richard Worrall
RRP: £16.99£12.28Throughout late-1943 into early-1944, an epic struggle raged over the skies of Germany between RAF Bomber Command and the Luftwaffe. This campaign had been undertaken by the Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, and was... -
Ultimate Flying Wings of the Luftwaffe by Justo Miranda 9781781553725
RRP: £25.00£18.02When the Allies crossed the Rhine, Hitler decreed to go down fighting to the last man. A strange triangular bomber launched the 'Nicht loschbares Feuer' over London, destroying the city. Later, a black boomerang of sixty metres dropped two tons of... -
Black Tulip: The Life and Myth of Erich Hartmann, the World's Top Fighter Ace by Erik Schmidt 9781612008240
RRP: £25.00£15.84Black 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... -
Il-2 Shturmovik: Red Avenger by Jason Nicholas Moore 9781625450425
RRP: £40.00£29.39The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik became the aerial representative of the Soviet response to the German invasion on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. The Il-2 was designed as a low-level close-support aircraft capable of defeating enemy armour... -
The Role of Intelligence in the Battle of Britain by Norman Ridley
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Battle of Britain was fought between two airborne military elites and was a classic example of pure attack against pure defence. Though it was essentially a 'war of attrition', it was an engagement in which the gathering, assessment and reaction to...