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Eyewitness RAF: The Experience of War, 1939-1945 by James Goulty 9781526752376
RRP: £25.00£17.62Much has been written about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War-memoirs, biographies, histories of Fighter and Bomber commands, technical studies of the aircraft, accounts of individual operations and exploits - but few books have attempted... -
Airfields and Airmen: Ypres by Michael O'Connor
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is the first book in the Battleground Europe Series discovering the airfields and airmen of the Great War. It is sometimes forgotten that the Wright Brother's first flight took place only in 1903; yet fifteen years later the Royal Air Force had over... -
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... -
Spyflights and Overflights: US Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance, 1945-1960: Volume 1 by Robert Hopkins
RRP: £29.95£21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109503Author Robert Hopkins IIIFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1941-1945 by Joe Bamford 9781781550960
RRP: £18.99£13.61A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1941-1945 covers the station's history during the period that the RAF was on the offensive against the Luftwaffe. Having been badly damaged during the Battle of Britain and the only airfield to have been put out of... -
RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: v. 6: 1945 by W.R. Chorley 9780904597929
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904597929Author W. R ChorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 178mm * 110mm * 17mm -
X-Planes of Europe II: Military Prototype Aircraft from the Golden Age by Tony Butler
RRP: £34.95£25.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109480Author Tony ButtlerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
Aircraft Wrecks: A Walker's Guide: Historic Crash Sites on the Moors and Mountains of the British Isles by C. N. Wotherspoon 9781781594735
RRP: £16.99£12.68Originally published to acclaim in 2009, this paperback re-issue aims to give readers access to the tangible remains of hundreds of historic aircraft that still lie at crash sites on the moors and mountains of the British Isles, all of which can be... -
Jet: The Engine That Changed the World by Graham Hoyland
RRP: £20.00£14.29The invention of the jet engine had a profound effect on the world. Commercial jet aircraft revolutionised travel, opening up every corner of the planet. Few know that the jet engine was invented by an Englishman in 1929. The invention was a masterstroke... -
Free French Spitfire Hero: The Diaries of and Search For Ren Mouchotte by Dilip Sarkar 9781399040273
RRP: £25.00£17.62Ren Mouchotte was born on 21 August 1914, at Saint Mande, Paris. He joined the Arm e de l'Air for his period of military service in 1934, obtaining his flying brevet. Though Mouchotte returned to civilian life, he was called up at the outbreak of war... -
Arado Ar 196 Units in Combat by Peter de Jong
RRP: £14.99£10.95Beating its biplane rivals in a 1936 Reich Air Ministry design competition, the Arado Ar 196 provided the Kriegsmarine with possibly the best shipborne reconnaissance seaplane of World War II. Replacing the Heinkel He 60 biplane as the standard... -
Death Was Their Co-Pilot by Michael Dorflinger 9781473859289
RRP: £39.95£25.35It 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... -
Gotha Aircraft: From the London Bomber to the Flying Wing Jet Fighter by Andreas Metzmacher 9781781557068
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Gothaer Waggonfabrik (GWF), originally a German rail vehicle manufacturer, entered the aircraft industry in 1913. The driving force behind this major change in production in this small Thuringian duchy in central Germany was a member of the British... -
F4F Wildcat: South Pacific 1942–43 by Edward M. Young 9781472854865
RRP: £15.99£11.61This book examines the role of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the US Navy's standard carrier fighter at the start of the Pacific War, and its clashes against the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen. The US Navy went to war in... -
US Naval Aviation in the 1980s: Atlantic and Pacific Fleet Air Stations by Adrian Symonds
RRP: £15.99£10.85The final decade of the Cold War saw unprecedented peacetime expansion of the US Navy, including Naval Aviation. President Reagan's plan for a 600-ship Navy resulted in stepped-up construction of Nimitz class supercarriers and the aircraft to operate... -
To the Last Ridge by W.H. Downing 9781904010203
£6.73Written just after the heat of battle and in the language of the time, this extraordinarily moving account expresses in a brutally honest and personal way the ordinary soldier's experience of one of the most horrific series of battles ever fought... -
Tornado Over the Tigris: Recollections of a Fast Jet Pilot by Napier, Michael John W 9781399074872
RRP: £15.99£11.61Written from the unique perspective of a fast jet cockpit, Tornado Over the Tigris captures the essence of what it was really like to fly a Tornado at the front-line of the Cold War in Germany and on operations over Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War... -
The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple by Corey Mead
RRP: £20.00£14.29The Sahara Desert, February 1962: the wreckage of a plane emerges from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane's long-dead pilot. But who was he? And what had happened to him?Baker Street, London, June 1927: twenty-five-year-old Jessie Miller... -
Modern Chinese Warplanes: Chinese Air Force - Aircraft and Units by Andreas Rupprecht 9780997309263
RRP: £35.99£26.05In 2012 the original Modern Chinese Warplanes set the standard as a uniquely compact yet comprehensive directory of modern Chinese air power, combining magnificent illustrations and in-depth analysis.Now almost six years later, much of the fascination... -
X-planes of Europe: Secret Research Aircraft of the Cold War by Tony Buttler 9781902109213
RRP: £34.95£25.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109213Author Jean DelezenneFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
Heinkel He 162 by Dan Sharp
RRP: £12.99£8.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658245Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 416gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
Messerschmitt Bf 109 F, G, & K Series: an Illustrated Study by Jochen Prien
RRP: £31.99£21.00Noted Luftwaffe historians Jochen Prien and Peter Rodeike present in this brand new book the Messerschmitt BF 109F, G and K models. Over 500 photos - most never published and some in rare color - superb line schemes, and detailed text show the late model... -
Above Us, The Stars: 10 Squadron Bomber Command – The Wireless Operator’s Story by Jane Gulliford Lowes
RRP: £16.83£16.31"A tremendous read, interweaving military, social and family history...beautifully written and unbearably moving." Over 55,000 young Bomber Command airmen made the ultimate sacrifice; thousands more of their comrades survived one of the bloodiest... -
US Jet Fighters in Foreign Service by JP Viera 9781911703051
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911703051Author JP VieraFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 436g -
F8F Bearcat: Grumman's Late-War Dogfighter by David Doyle
RRP: £18.99£12.67The Grumman F8F was a fast, agile, carrier-borne fighter aircraft developed as the ultimate dogfighter for the Pacific theater. Although the plane did make it into production, with some examples even being delivered before the Japanese surrender, there... -
North American X-15 by Peter E. Davies
RRP: £14.99£10.95The revolutionary X-15 remains the fastest manned aircraft ever to fly. Built in the two decades following World War II, it was the most successful of the high-speed X-planes. The only recently broken 'sound barrier' was smashed completely by the X-15,... -
Malta Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of Ten Weeks of War, April-?June 1942 by Denis Barnham 9781526766748
RRP: £14.99£10.95109s! Two, head-on views diving from my left, blinking with light. Curling blue tracers strand about me as I turn towards them. A third got my sight on him for an instant before he went under my nose. My helmets too big for me. Turn pressure pulls it... -
Fifth Genereation Fighters: The World's Most Dangerous Combat Aircraft by David Baker
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658597Author David BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 1186gDimensions(mm) 255mm *... -
Bachem Ba 349 Natter by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Bachem Ba 349 Natter was a secretive, vertical take-off, single-seat rocket interceptor intended to offer high-speed defence of key targets. This radical aircraft offered Luftwaffe an inexpensive means with which to intercept and attack Allied heavy... -
North American X-15 by David Baker 9781910809969
RRP: £27.95£19.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809969Author David BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Aerodromes of Fighter Command Then and Now by Robin J. Brooks 9781870067829
RRP: £44.95£36.93RAF Fighter Command was established in July 1936 to provide the airborne element in the defence of Britain against air attack. The aerodromes under the Command described in this book came under the control of several Groups: No. 9 in the west, No. 10... -
Faces of the Few: The Battle for Survival in the Summer of 1940 by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £25.00£17.62There remains an enduring fascination with the Battle of Britain, and the RAF aircrew who fought and won this unprecedented aerial conflict, immortalised by Churchill in August 1940 as The Few'. Unlike today, when photography is a huge part of... -
Early Jet Fighters - European and Soviet, 1944-1954: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Leo Marriott 9781526753939
RRP: £26.95£17.03In his previous book on early jet fighters Leo Marriott traced the history of the revolutionary aircraft produced by the British and Americans immediately after the Second World War; in this companion volume he describes jet fighter development on the... -
Nijmegen: US 82nd Airborne & Guards Armoured Division by Tim Saunders
RRP: £16.95£11.84The race by Montgomery's ground forces, principally 30 (British) Corps, to relieve the US & UK airborne troops at Nijmegen and Arnhem respectively has been the subject of fierce controversy since that dramatic summer of 1944. In the first of three books... -
Heinkel He 219 Uhu by Heinz J. Nowarra 9780887401886
RRP: £9.99£6.41One of the best night fighters of World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780887401886Author Heinz J. NowarraFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 272g -
Poles in the Battle of Britain: A Photographic Album of the Polish 'Few' by Peter Sikora 9781526782410
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Polish Air Force, which was created in Britain in the summer of 1940 from flying and ground personnel evacuated from Poland and then from France, proved to be one of the most successful formations to fight the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain... -
In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sergeant Forrest Guth by Larry Alexander
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451233158Author Larry AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)... -
Su-57 Felon by Piotr Butowski 9781913870447
RRP: £14.99£10.95In December 2020, the first Sukhoi Su-57, codenamed Felon by NATO, entered service with the Aerospace Forces, making it Russia's most recent combat aircraft. It is a multirole aircraft combining the functions of both a fighter and strike aircraft, with... -
Soviet Cold War Weaponry: Aircraft, Warships and Missiles by Anthony Tucker-Jones
RRP: £14.99£10.95In this companion volume to his photographic history of Soviet tanks and armoured vehicles, Anthony Tucker-Jones provides a visual guide to the vast array of aircraft, warships and missiles the Soviet armed forces deployed at the height of the Cold War... -
Black Cat 2-1: The True Story of a Vietnam Helicopter Pilot and His Crew by Bob Ford 9781612548968
RRP: £15.37£11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612548968Author Bob FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Brown Books Publishing GroupPublisher Brown Books Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...