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RAF Liberators Over Burma: Flying with 159 Squadron by Bill Kirkness 9781781556566
£18.94British 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... -
Air Defence Artillery in Combat, 1972-2018: The Age of Surface-to-Air Missiles by Mandeep Singh 9781526762047
RRP: £16.99£12.28Having made its debut in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, anti-aircraft artillery was used extensively in the First World War. It was, however, not until the Second World War that anti-aircraft artillery truly came into prominence, shooting down more... -
Airlines at War: British Civil Aviation 1939 - 1944 by Simon Wills 9781473894099
RRP: £19.99£14.68The 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... -
F3D/EF-10 Skyknight Units of the Korean and Vietnam Wars by Joe Copalman
RRP: £15.99£11.61The 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: £16.00£11.62Over 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... -
Tempest Squadrons of the RAF by Chris Thomas
RRP: £16.99£14.10Hawker'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... -
Six-Day War 1967 by Shlomo Aloni 9781472835277
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Six-Day War 1967 by Shlomo Aloni 9781472835277 [USED COPY]
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Over and Above by John E. Gurdon 9781911621089 [USED COPY]
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Naval Aviator: The Memoir of a Royal Navy Officer and Operational Westland Wasp and Lynx Pilot by Chris Taylor 9781399059763
RRP: £59.95£37.38Chris 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,... -
Sepecat Jaguar: Almost Extinct by Peter Foster 9780750970211 [USED COPY]
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Sepecat Jaguar: Almost Extinct by Peter Foster 9780750970211
£15.02The Jaguar was an iconic aircraft to come from Anglo-French collaboration and one of the first to be conceived with a predatory attack and low-level strike capability. First planned as a trainer, it emerged as a fighter bomber taking much from the TSR2... -
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: £25.00£17.62John 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,... -
F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15 by Doug Dildy
RRP: £13.99£9.75As 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: £14.99£10.95When 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 -... -
SBD Dauntless vs A6M Zero-sen: Pacific Theater 1941-44 by Donald Nijboer
RRP: £13.99£9.75The 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... -
RAF College, Cranwell: A Centenary Celebration: We Seek the Highest by Roger Annett 9781526712189
RRP: £30.00£21.35We Seek the Highest has been the motto of the thousands of Officer Cadets who, over ten decades, have passed through the rigorous training regime at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire. The words embody the College ethos: to strive to... -
The F-14 Tomcat by Terry C. Treadwell
RRP: £15.99£10.85The ideas behind the Grumman F-14 Tomcat first began to take shape back in the late 1950s when it was discovered that the Soviet Union was quickly developing an increasingly accurate airborne missile system that would pose a major threat to the US Navy's... -
The Military Airfields of Britain: Wales and West Midlands: Cheshire, Hereford & Worcester, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Wales by Ken Delve
£14.52This 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... -
Heinkel He 112 by Hans Peter Dabrowski 9780764303920
RRP: £9.99£6.41This little known Heinkel fighter design was eventually canceled yet saw service in the Spanish Civil War.Book InformationISBN 9780764303920Author Hans Peter DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer... -
Northr Flying Wings by Garry R. Pape 9780887406898
RRP: £45.99£30.12This new book is an in-depth study covering John K. "Jack" Northrop/s quest for a clean flying machine. Covered are: Northrop/s initial N-1M project, the N-9M, XP-56, through the B-35 project, B-49 project, and the huge bombers planned only on... -
Cold War Interceptor: The RAF's F.155T/O.R. 329 Fighter Projects: 2019 by Dan Sharp
RRP: £27.50£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658030Author Dan SharpFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 959gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
B-25 Mitchell vs Japanese Destroyer: Battle of the Bismarck Sea 1943 by Mark Lardas
RRP: £13.99£9.75Throughout the first year of the war in the Pacific during World War II the USAAF was relatively ineffective against ships. Indeed, warships in particular proved to be too elusive for conventional medium-level bombing. High-level attacks wasted bombs,... -
Ham & Jam: 6th Airborne Division in Normandy - Generating Combat Effectiveness: November 1942 - September 1944 by Andrew Wheale
RRP: £59.95£36.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070852Author Andrew WhealeFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Hot Skies of the Cold War: The Bulgarian Air Force in the 1950s by Alexander Mladenov 9781912866915
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866915Author Alexander MladenovFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain by Flight Lieutenant David Crook
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784387488Author Flight Lieutenant David CrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Greenhill BooksPublisher Greenhill BooksWeight(grams) 130g -
Forward Air Bases in Europe from D-Day to the Baltic: Supporting the Allied Advance by Trevor Stone 9781399010818
RRP: £25.00£17.62The largely sea-borne invasion of Northern France in June 1944, Operation Overlord, is acknowledged as one of the key actions which hastened the end of the Second World War. The RAF played a vital part in the landings. It then supported the subsequent... -
Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' Units by Mark Chambers
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1938, the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, acting under the requirements issued by the Kaigun Koku Hombu for a Navy Experimental 13-Shi Carrier Borne specification for a dive-bomber to replace the venerable 'Val' aboard carriers. The resulting... -
US Navy Carrier Aircraft vs IJN Yamato Class Battleships by Mark Stille
RRP: £15.99£13.33As the Pacific War approached a crescendo, the clashes between swarming US Navy carrier aircraft, and the gigantic Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Yamato-class battleships became symbolic of the fortunes of the two nations. They also served as a metaphor... -
Sukhoi Interceptors: The Su-9, Su-11 and Su-15: Unsung Soviet Cold War Heroes by Yefim Gordon 9780764358685
RRP: £54.99£36.21Closed in 1949, the Sukhoi Design Bureau was reborn in 1953 to meet an urgent demand for a fast interceptor that would counter the threat posed by NATO bombers. It wasted no time developing a succession of missile-armed, Mach 2 interceptors characterized... -
Commando Helicopter Aircrewman: 51 Years in Action with the RN and RAF by Sheldon, John 9781399093798
RRP: £20.00£14.29This is the remarkable story of one man's service in the Royal Navy, RAF and the Royal Naval Reserve Air Branch of the Fleet Air Arm. It is a flying career which lasted for an impressive 51 years and in which Warrant Officer Class 1 John Sheldon amassed... -
Savoia-Marchetti S.79 Sparviero Torpedo-Bomber Units by Marco Mattioli
RRP: £16.99£12.28Italy's most successful wartime bomber, the S.79 saw combat with the Regia Aeronautica in France, Yugoslavia, Greece, North Africa, East Africa and in the Mediterranean. Initially developed as a transport, the aircraft evolved into a dedicated medium... -
South Pacific Air War Volume 1: The Fall of Rabaul December 1941 - March 1942 by Michael Claringbould
RRP: £24.95£17.99This volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific from December 1941 until March 1942, durign which air operations by both sides became a daily occurrence. As Imperial Japanese Navy flying boats and land-based bombers penetrated over vast... -
Eagles over the Sea: Luftwaffe Maritime Operations 1939-1942 by Lawrence Paterson
RRP: £44.95£32.77The arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany's resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce inter-service rivalry that was rife throughout the turbulent history of the Third Reich. However, almost despite the odds, a small... -
Beyond the Spitfire: The Unseen Designs of R.J. Mitchell by Ralph Pegram 9780750965156
£19.54Popular history has a tendency to simplify, and accounts of the life and career of aeronautical engineer R.J. Mitchell are no exception. Remembered most fondly for his epochal Spitfire design, his other designs - many of them failures and disappointments... -
Flight Craft 12: The Junkers Ju87 by Martin Derry 9781526702623
RRP: £16.99£12.68The Junkers Ju 87 Stuka (a contraction of the German word Sturzkampfflugzeug, ie dive bomber) was arguably the Luftwaffe s most recognisable aeroplane, with its inverted gull wings and fixed spatted undercarriage. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann as a... -
F14 Tomcat: Grumman's aTop Guna from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by David F. Brown 9780764356629
RRP: £18.99£12.67It has been said that "bombers make history; fighters make movies." In the case of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, both are true. It made history as a fleet defender, reconnaissance platform, and strike fighter. The Tomcat was also featured in such Hollywood... -
Airbus A-400m Atlas: Aircraft in Detail by Robert Pied
RRP: £36.00£24.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782931083093Author Duke HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Hmh PublicationsPublisher Hmh Publications -
Copper Wings: British South Africa Police Reserve Air Wing: Volume 1 by Guy Ellis 9781804513972
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513972Author Guy EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
When Thunder Rolled by Ed Rasimus
RRP: £8.99£5.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418542Author Ed RasimusFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 172mm *...