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RAF in Camera: 1950s by Keith Wilson 9781473827950
RRP: €41.65€30.10For aviation, the 1950s was a fascinating decade. For the Royal Air Force, it witnessed the transition from propeller to jet in the fields of fighter, bomber, trainer and transport aircraft. The 1950s saw the end of the Second World War veterans... -
Fleet Air Arm Legends: Supermarine Seafire by Matthew Willis
RRP: €15.46€10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658290Author Mathew WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 366gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
A Splendid Little War Derek Robinson 9781780878096
RRP: €15.46€10.23The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a... -
Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II Wilhelm Johnen 9781784385644
RRP: €11.89€8.46"The enemy bomber grew larger in my sights and the rear gunner was sprayed by my guns just as he opened fire. The rest was merely a matter of seconds. The bomber fell like a stone out of the sky and exploded on the ground. The nightmare came to an... -
Gothic Line 1944-45: The USAAF starves out the German Army by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
RRP: €17.84€13.03This is the history of how the mighty Gothic Line was defeated by American air power, in one of the most pivotal but least-known air campaigns of World War II. By late 1944, the Italian Campaign was secondary to the campaigns in France, and Allied... -
Sydney Camm: Hurricane and Harrier Designer: Saviour of Britain by Sweetman, John 9781526756220
RRP: €29.75€21.44This Man Saved Britain' ran a headline in the News Chronicle on 18 February 1941, in a reference to the role of Sydney Camm, designer of the Hawker Hurricane, during the Battle of Britain. Similarly, the Minister of Economic Warfare, Lord Selborne,... -
Magnificent Women and Flying Machines: The First 200 Years of British Women in the Sky by Sally Smith
RRP: €17.84€13.74'Lively history of British women aviators.' Daily Mail'Compelling stories of female pioneers whose soaring ambition achieved firsts in the field of aviation.' Britain Magazine'This lovely book offers a welcome and enjoyable read and provides a timely... -
Harrier Boys Volume One: Cold War Through the Falklands 1969-1990 by Robert Marston
RRP: €15.46€10.82In Harrier Boys, Volume One: Cold War Through the Falklands, 1969-1990, Bob Marston, who flew Harriers for many years, draws together accounts from others who worked with this unique jet through its history. The excitement, camaraderie and pride of... -
F-4 Phantom IIs of the USAF Reserve and Air National Guard by Don Logan 9780764316272
RRP: €76.15€49.62Don Logan's latest book ""his tenth with Schiffer Publishing, and the first in a planned multi-volume set on F-4 Phantoms chronicles the service of the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 and RF-4 Phantom II in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard... -
Zeppelin Inferno: The Forgotten Blitz 1916 by Castle, Ian 9781399093927
RRP: €29.75€20.97At the beginning of 1916, as the world entered the second full year of global conflict, the cities, towns and villages of Britain continued to lay vulnerable to aerial bombardment. Throughout that period German Zeppelin airships and seaplanes had come... -
Clipped Wings by Ian Ormes 9781802826418
RRP: €29.75€17.01The story of aviation is, above all, the story of success. Few, if any, industries could have equalled the astounding pace of the development of flight. For many, however, it was also the story of failure - of wasted ideas, wasted designs and wasted... -
Dambuster-in-Chief: The Life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane by Richard Mead 9781526765079
RRP: €29.75€20.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stratofortress: The Story of the B-52 Martin Bowman 9781848848603
RRP: €20.22€15.09Boeing's mighty B-52 Stratofortress has seen continuous operational service with the United States Air Force since the type was introduced in 1957. The aircraft has been upgraded several times and has assumed many different new roles since it was... -
Hawker Sea Fury by Kev Darling 9780955984013
RRP: €19.58€17.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955984013Author Kev DarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Big Bird Aviation PublishingPublisher Big Bird Aviation PublishingWeight(grams) 345g -
Phantom Boys: True Tales from UK Operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 by Richard Pike
RRP: €15.46€10.82From Richard Pike, best-selling author of Hunter Boys and The Lightning Boys volumes, comes the newest addition to Grub Streets popular Boys series; Phantom Boys. Originally developed for the US Navy, this twin-engined supersonic long-range... -
Cuban Migs: The Defenders of Castro's Air Force by Hélio Higuchi
RRP: €34.45€29.21The 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... -
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II by Scott McGaugh
RRP: €29.75€22.47The 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... -
B-17 Flying Fortress, Vol. 2: Boeing's B-17E through B-17H in World War II by David Doyle
RRP: €22.60€15.08The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most iconic aircraft in aviation history. Through a broad range of photos gathered from around the world, this book-the second of two volumes-chronicles the design, development, and wartime use of the late... -
German Guided Missiles of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: €14.27€10.03Although not as well-known as the V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 missile, the first German missiles to see combat were anti-ship missiles, the Henschel Hs.293 guided missile and the Fritz-X guided bomb. These began to see extensive combat in the Mediterranean... -
Heinkel He 111: The Latter Years - the Blitz and War in the East to the Fall of Germany by Chris Goss 9781848324459
RRP: €17.84€13.03The Heinkel He 111 was the main work-horse of the Luftwaffe's bomber force throughout much of the Second World War. Consequently, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, three entire Kampfgeschwader consisted of He 111s. Initially used as... -
The Fleet Air Arm in Camera 1912-1996: Archive Photographs from the Public Record Office and the Fleet Air Arm Museum by Roger Hayward 9780750993043
RRP: €23.80€17.90For many decades a fascinating and sizeable archive of photographs, depicting the operations and equipment of British naval aviation, has remained unrecorded and largely unseen in countless documents held at the Public Record Office at Kew. Other equally... -
Danger Zone: Us Clandestine Reconnaissance Operations Along the West Berlin Air Corridors, 1945-1990 by Kevin Wright
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510254Author Kevin WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Grumman Ea-6b Prowler: Aircraft in Detail by Robert Pied
RRP: €42.84€27.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782931083116Author Robert PiedFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Hmh PublicationsPublisher Hmh PublicationsWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 239mm... -
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon, Prospect A riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl,... -
RAF Liberators Over Burma: Flying with 159 Squadron by Bill Kirkness 9781781556566
RRP: €29.75€22.54British RAF wireless operator/air gunner Bill `Enoch' Kirkness of Horsforth, Yorkshire, flew thirty-two B-24 Liberator bomber sorties, twenty-eight of which were against Japanese targets in Burma. He was credited with downing the night fighter that... -
Tempest Squadrons of the RAF Chris Thomas (Author) 9781472814548
RRP: €20.22€16.78Hawker's charismatic Tempest V entered RAF service just in time to be the most successful counter to the V1 flying bomb assault on southern England in the summer of 1944. With more than 800 of the robot missiles to its credit, Tempest V units then... -
Airlines at War: British Civil Aviation 1939 - 1944 by Simon Wills 9781473894099
RRP: €23.79€17.47The brave efforts of the pilots and crew of the RAF during the Second World War are well-known but there was another body of aviators that played a significant role in the conflict the men and women of the civilian airlines. The British Overseas Airways... -
Six-Day War 1967 by Shlomo Aloni 9781472835277
RRP: €20.22€14.61On one day in June, the balance of air power in the Middle East was turned upside down by perhaps the most ruthlessly effective air superiority campaign in history - Operation Moked, or Focus. In 1967, the Israeli Air Force was outnumbered... -
Six-Day War 1967 by Shlomo Aloni 9781472835277 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€15.34On one day in June, the balance of air power in the Middle East was turned upside down by perhaps the most ruthlessly effective air superiority campaign in history - Operation Moked, or Focus. In 1967, the Israeli Air Force was outnumbered... -
75 Years of the Israeli Air Force Volume 2: The Last Half Century, 1974 to the Present Day by Bill Norton 9781914059001
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059001Author Bill NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
What's Your Call Sign?: The Hilarious Stories behind a Naval Aviation Tradition by Ben Taggart
RRP: €33.31€20.97What's Your Call Sign? is filled with cleverly written and funny stories behind the seemingly mean-spirited nicknames naval aviators use to address each other as terms of endearment. As such, these stories provide a realistic and true insight into the... -
F3D/EF-10 Skyknight Units of the Korean and Vietnam Wars by Joe Copalman
RRP: €19.03€13.82The Douglas F3D Skyknight was an early but effective attempt at combining new technologies together in a lethal package capable of shipboard operation. Whereas most fighters relied on speed and maneuverability, the portly, straight-winged F3D relied on... -
Over and Above by John E. Gurdon
RRP: €19.04€13.83Over and Above is Gurdon's first and best book, repeatedly reprinted for two decades, variously titled Winged Warriors or Wings of Death. Billed as a novel, it is not so much that as a fictionalised account of his own service flying career, with names... -
P-61 Black Widow: Northrop Night Fighter in WWII by David Doyle
RRP: €22.60€14.60The complete history of the P-61 "Black Widow," one of the most advanced and most sinister-looking fighter aircraft of the Second World War. The striking P-61 Black Widow was the first purpose-built American night fighter. Designed by Jack... -
The Merlin EH(AW) 101: From Design to Front Line by Rich Pittman
RRP: €19.03€12.91Designed by the European Helicopter Industries (EHI) partnership during the 1980s, initially as a naval helicopter to help combat the threat of an attack from Soviet missile submarines, the Merlin has evolved into a multi-role helicopter today. The... -
Wreck Recovery in Britain Then and Now by Peter J. Moran
RRP: €35.64€29.56WRECK RECOVERY IN BRITAIN THEN AND NOW By Peter J. Moran The last 50 years have seen an incredible interest in the excavation of crashed aircraft. Schoolboys of the war period eagerly sought and swapped souvenirs, purloined from crashes under the... -
F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15 by Doug Dildy
RRP: €19.03€13.82As the routed North Korean People's Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the People's Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive, both lacked... -
Arado Ar 234 Bomber and Reconnaissance Units by Robert Forsyth
RRP: €20.22€14.61When the revolutionary twin jet-powered Arado Ar 234 first appeared in the skies over north-west Europe in the summer of 1944, it represented the state-of-the-art in terms of aeronautical and technical development. The Ar 234 was a formidable aircraft -... -
The Military Airfields of Britain: Wales and West Midlands: Cheshire, Hereford & Worcester, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Wales by Ken Delve
RRP: €20.22€17.26This series of books provides a fresh user-friendly look at the military airfields of the British Isles. The series is split geographically, each book including a number of counties on a regional basis. Entries cover every military airfield within the... -
SBD Dauntless vs A6M Zero-sen: Pacific Theater 1941-44 by Donald Nijboer
RRP: €16.65€11.60The SBD Dauntless dive-bomber was a key cog in the US Navy's aerial arsenal throughout the Pacific War. Although a product of aviation design in the mid to late 1930s, the type soldiered on even as more advanced aircraft were appearing from American...