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The de Havilland Mosquito: Through the Eyes of a Pilot by David Ogilvy
RRP: $33.58$22.79The de Havilland DH 98 Mosquito was one of the fastest and most versatile aircraft of the Second World War. One of the first multi-role aircraft, it was used for reconnaissance and also as a fighter, fighter-bomber, night fighter and interceptor. This... -
King of Fighters: Nikolay Polikarpov and His Aircraft Designs by Mikhail Maslov 9781911628859
RRP: $62.90$46.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628859Author Mikhail MaslovFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Two: North African Desert, February 1942 - March 1943 by Christopher Shores 9781909166127
RRP: $105.00$81.19The first volume of this series dealt with the initial 19 months of the air war over the Western Desert of North Africa. This volume picks up the story as the 8th Army, following its hard-fought success in Operation Crusader, was forced back to the... -
Britain and the Bomb by W. J. Nuttall 9781849953894
RRP: $39.88$32.87This is a very British story from more than 50 years ago. It is a story of remarkable technological ambition from a different country than is seen today. It was an era in which the country adjusted to decolonisation and a dangerous nuclear arms race... -
Dambuster Raid Crash Sites: 617 Squadron in Holland and Germany by Chris Ward
RRP: $27.28$19.09Many of the 617 Squadron crews who took part in the famous attacks on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe Dams and also the raids on the Dortmund-Ems Canal did not return. This book takes the reader to many of the crash sites that resulted. They include the coast... -
Tornado F3: A Navigator's Eye on Britain's Last Interceptor by David Gledhill 9781781553077
RRP: $52.50$41.03The Tornado F2 had a troubled introduction to service. Unloved by its crews and procured as a political imperative, it was blighted by failures and was developed to counter a threat that disappeared. Modified rapidly before it could be sent to war, the... -
Aircraft Engine Test Beds: British Jet Fighters and Bombers Tony Buttler 9781802822489
RRP: $33.58$24.38During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a number of British jet fighter and bomber aircraft were fitted with new, different or additional engines, both jet and rocket, to enable them to serve as test beds for those specific powerplants. These aircraft... -
Japan 1944-45: LeMay's B-29 strategic bombing campaign by Mark Lardas
RRP: $35.68$25.79The air campaign that incinerated Japan's cities was the first and only time that independent air power has won a war. As the United States pushed Imperial Japan back towards Tokyo Bay, the US Army Air Force deployed the first of a new bomber to... -
Fighter Pilot: From Cold War Jets to Spitfires: The Extraordinary Memoirs of a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Pilot Coville, Christopher 9781399015578
RRP: $52.50$37.00A young boy sits in the back of a Chipmunk aircraft at RAF Woodvale, near Liverpool. He has never flown in anything before. As the power goes on and the little aeroplane soars into a clear blue sky, he decides at once that this is the only thing he wants... -
The Italian Blitz 1940-43: Bomber Command's war against Mussolini's cities, docks and factories by Richard Worrall
RRP: $31.48$24.68Between June 1940 and August 1943, RAF Bomber Command undertook a little-known strategic bombing campaign in Europe. The target was Mussolini's Italy. This air campaign was a key part of the strategic policy of Britain from 1940 to 1943, which aimed at... -
Arctic Convoys 1942: The Luftwaffe cuts Russia's lifeline by Mark Lardas
RRP: $31.48$23.00A new history of the most crucial few months of the Arctic Convoys, when Germany's air power forced the Allies to retreat to the cover of winter. Between spring and autumn 1942, Germany was winning the battle of the Arctic Convoys. Half of... -
Air Power in the Falklands Conflict: An Operational Level Insight into Air Warfare in the South Atlantic by John Shields
RRP: $52.50$37.00From the television footage shown in all its stark reality and the daily coverage and subsequent memoirs, the impression delivered from the air battles in the Falklands Conflict was that of heroic Argentine pilots who relentlessly pressed home their... -
Gunners from the Sky: 1st Air Landing Light Regiment in Italy and at Arnhem, 1942 44 by Paul Chrystal 9781399088084
RRP: $52.50$37.00This is the story of the 1st Air Landing Light Regiment RA and its role in the Italian campaign and at the Battle of Arnhem. It is also the story of one of its soldiers: 14283058 Gunner Eric Wright Chrystal, father of the authors. Eric joined the army in... -
History of the Biggin Hill International Air Fair Paul Fiddian 9781781554913
RRP: $39.88$28.58For almost half a century, Biggin Hill was the scene of one of the world's best loved and longest-running air shows. Already well known as the site from which Spitfires and Hurricanes were launched during the Second World War, Biggin Hill was made even... -
From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem: A Polish Paratrooper's Epic Wartime Journey by Nicholas Kinloch 9781399045919
RRP: $46.20$37.00Caught Between Nazis and Soviets, Stanislaw Kulik was a man who dodged death. After the Russian occupation of Poland, Stanislaw Kulik, aged 15, was deported to the Soviet gulags and put to work. If you didn't work, you didn't eat. While many died,... -
Military Jet Aircraft: 300 of the World's Greatest Military Jet Aircraft by Michael Sharpe
RRP: $27.28$18.33Military Jet Aircraft contains 300 of the most important and influential military jet aircraft that have flown since World War II, including such famous aircraft as the Messerschmitt Me 262, English Electric Lightning, and North American F-86 Sabre. Each... -
Action Stations Revisited Volume 2: Central England and London Michael Bowyer (Author) 9780947554941
RRP: $52.40$32.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947554941Author Michael BowyerFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Me 262: Northwest Europe 1944–45 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: $33.58$24.38Using rare first-hand accounts from Me 262 pilots, Robert Forsyth examines what it was like to fly the world's most advanced interceptor in the deadly skies over Germany in 1944-45. Right from its operational debut in the summer of 1944, the Me 262... -
Flying Fortress Gunner: B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Bob Harper's 35 Combat Missions over Germany by Bill Cullen
RRP: $48.28$31.61At 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing just 110 pounds, Bob Harper was below the minimum size requirements for US military service. As the demand for manpower increased, rules were bent, Harper's deferment was retracted, and he was drafted into the Army... -
Vigilante!: 1,200 Hours Flying the Ultimate US Navy Reconnaissance Aircraft by Robert "Boom" Powell 9781580072618
RRP: $73.40$51.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580072618Author Robert Boom PowellFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Specialty PressPublisher Specialty PressWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 262mm *... -
Tornado Gr1: An Operational History by Michael John W. Napier
RRP: $52.50$37.84Replacing the Vulcan, Buccaneer and Jaguar in the front line of the Cold War, the remarkable swing-winged Tornado GR1 provided Britain s strike capability in the last years of the Cold War in the 1980s, equipping some 10 RAF squadrons. During the Gulf... -
Rate of Climb: Thrilling Personal Reminiscences from a Fighter Pilot and Leader by Air Commodore Rick Peacock-Edwards
RRP: $42.00$31.02Rick Peacock-Edwards has led different lives at different times, but through it all has used a bonus in life nowadays often overlooked: he has consistently enjoyed himself. One of three brothers of outstanding South African Battle of Britain pilot F/O S... -
Shackleton Boys: Volume 1: True Stories from the Home-Based `Kipper Fleet' Squadrons by Steve Bond
RRP: $52.50$37.84Essentially a development of the Avro Lancaster via the later Lincoln, the Avro Shackleton was the RAF's first line of defence in the maritime role from 1951 for twenty years, thereafter continuing to serve as an airborne early warning aircraft for... -
De Havilland Mosquito: An Illustrated History by Stuart Howe 9780947554767
RRP: $35.60$26.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947554767Author Stuart HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Meteor Boys: True Tales from UK Operators of Britain's First Jet Fighter - From 1944 to Date by Steve Bond
RRP: $27.28$19.09Grub Street is proud to present Meteor Boys, the latest title in its ever-popular Boys series. As Britain's first jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor has had a remarkably varied and lengthy life. But whilst many books have focused on its development and... -
Flying Naked: An American Pilot in the Amazon Jungle by Michael Bleriot 9780983375166
RRP: $32.55$29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983375166Author Michael BleriotFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint MacGregor Books IncorporatedPublisher MacGregor Books IncorporatedWeight(grams) 363g -
Antonov's Heavy Transports: From the An-22 to An-225, 1965 to the Present by Yefim Gordon
RRP: $115.48$77.72This book charts the development and service history of the Antonov design bureau's heavy transport aircraft. In the late 1950s, the Antonov design bureau began developing the An-22 heavy military transport, intended to carry 50 tons. Powered by four... -
Marked for Death by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: $20.98$14.93A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war. Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into... -
Bomber Command Pilot: From the Battle of Britain to the Augsburg Raid: The Unique Story of Wing Commander J S Sherwood DSO, DFC* by Gerald Sherwood
RRP: $52.50$37.00John Sherwood was commissioned into the RAF as a pilot officer on leaving school in 1936/. In mid-1940, he was posted to a frontline bomber squadron. He went on to undertake a full tour of thirty sorties against enemy targets during the summer of 1940,... -
Lightning Boys 2: True Tales from Pilots and Engineers of the RAF's Iconic Supersonic Fighter by Richard Pike 9781911621065
RRP: $27.28$19.09Richard Pike became a flight cadet in 1961, at the RAF College, Cranwell where, on graduation, he was awarded the Dickson Trophy and Michael Hill memorial prize for flying. In the early stages of his forty-year flying career he flew the English Electric... -
The Hurricane Pocket Manual by Martin Robson
RRP: $20.98$14.93The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd for the RAF. Although overshadowed by the Spitfire, during the Battle of Britain the Hurricane accounted for 60% of the RAF's... -
Ju 87 Stuka vs Royal Navy Carriers: Mediterranean by Robert Forsyth
RRP: $29.38$20.48Ju 87 dive-bombers, originally developed for pin-pointing bombing missions against land targets and Allied naval vessels were deployed by both the Luftwaffe and the Regia Aeronautica against the Allied forces. Included in such a target were perhaps the... -
Zeppelin vs British Home Defence 1916-18 by Jon Guttman
RRP: $33.58$27.99When Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin's rigid airship LZ 1 flew over Lake Constance in 1900, it was the most advanced and impressive flying machine in the world: a colossal, lighter-than-air craft capable of controlled flight. In World War I, Zeppelins were... -
Short Brothers The Rochester Years by P. MacDougall 9781781557303
RRP: $42.00$30.01Short Brothers was established in 1908, the first British aircraft manufacturer, with the company moving to Rochester during the early years of the First World War. At Rochester Shorts produced some of their most famous aircraft, beginning with a number... -
Britain's Guided Weapons by Chris Gibson
RRP: $33.58$14.93Britain has been at the forefront of weapons technology since the industrial revolution began and, with the Brennan wire-guided torpedo, pioneered guided weapons. World War One saw several developments, but it was during World War Two that Britain's... -
Space Shuttle Stories: Firsthand Astronaut Accounts from All 135 Missions by Tom Jones 9781588347541
RRP: $69.30$41.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347541Author Tom JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 2g -
The Spray and Pray Squadron: 3rd Bomb Squadron, 1st Bomb Group, Chinese-American Composite Wing in World War II by Margaret Mills Kincannon 9780764367892
RRP: $86.08$59.79This book chronicles exploits of the 3rd Bomb Squadron of Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault's experimental Chinese-American Composite Wing, in which young men from two nations of different languages, customs, and cultures joined forces to fight a common enemy... -
Spitfire Down: Fighter Boys Who Failed to Return Dilip Sarkar 9781399089470
RRP: $52.50$37.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wings of Iraq Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force 1931-1970 by Tom Cooper 9781913118747
RRP: $35.60$29.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118747Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Merlin Engine Spitfires Handbook . Pilots Notes 9781910809716
RRP: $18.88$14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809716Author . Pilots NotesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing