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The Longest Campaign: Britain'S Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and Northwest Europe, 1939-1945 by Brian Walter 9781612008561
RRP: £25.00£21.13For four centuries the British realm depended upon sea power to defend its interest and independence against a myriad of threats both military and economic. During this time the Royal Navy established itself as the sovereign of the Seas, helping... -
French Secret Projects 2: Bombers, Patrol and Assault Aircraft by Jean-Christophe Carbonel 9781910809068
RRP: £27.50£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809068Author Jean CarbonelFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk: The Famous Flying Tigers Fighter by David Doyle 9780764354328
RRP: £18.99£12.67The Curtiss P-40 had a production run of 13,738 aircraft, making it the third most produced US fighter of WWII. Famous as the "shark-mouthed" aircraft of the legendary American Volunteer Group-"Flying Tigers"-the P-40 was first flown in 1938, and was... -
Douglas A-20 Havoc: From Drawing Board to Peerless Allied Light Bomber by William Wolf 9780764348334
RRP: £72.99£47.99Of all the Allied bombers of WWII, the Douglas A-20 Havoc is probably the least well known, but was a major contributor to the air war effort, flying yeoman and unheralded missions not only for the USAAF, but also for the Royal Air Forces of Britain,... -
Fw 200 Condor Units of World War 2 by Chris Goss
RRP: £16.99£14.10The Fw 200 Condor first made an appearance over Norway in April 1940, flying with the unit that eventually become synonymous with it - Kampfgeschwader 40. As the war in the west progressed, and German forces advanced, French airfields opened up, allowing... -
Guts 'N Gunships: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam by Mark Garrison 9781629670539
RRP: £14.95£10.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629670539Author Mark GarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Mark GarrisonPublisher Mark GarrisonWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *... -
US Navy Ships vs Japanese Attack Aircraft: 1941–42 by Mark Stille
RRP: £13.99£9.75The striking power of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier- based attack aircraft was established at Pearl Harbor, and the IJN's carrier- based torpedo and dive- bombers showed their prowess again at the Battle of Coral Sea when they sank the US Navy... -
Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe: Knight's Cross Holders 1943-1945 by Jeremy Dixon 9781399030731
RRP: £25.00£17.62The German fighter pilots of the Second World War are among the undoubted heroes of the conflict, their reputation for flying skill, single-minded determination and solitary courage hasn’t diminished or been clouded by controversy over the years. Their... -
Stuka Attack: The Dive-Bombing Assault on England during the Battle of Britain by Andy Saunders
RRP: £12.99£9.49The Junkers 87 Stuka was an iconic weapon of World War Two and an aircraft name that was, and still is, instantly recognised worldwide. Its roles in Poland and the Battles of France and the Low Countries are almost legendary, but in the UK its import... -
Fighter Heroes of WWI: The untold story of the brave and daring pioneer airmen of the Great War by Joshua Levine 9780007274949 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.31The first heroes of the air. Rewriting the rules of military engagement and changing the course of modern history as a result, the pioneering airmen of the First World War took incredible risks to perform their vital contribution to the war... -
Fighter Heroes of WWI: The untold story of the brave and daring pioneer airmen of the Great War by Joshua Levine
RRP: £12.99£9.09The first heroes of the air. Rewriting the rules of military engagement and changing the course of modern history as a result, the pioneering airmen of the First World War took incredible risks to perform their vital contribution to the war... -
F-15 Eagle: McDonnell Douglas Strike Fighter by David Doyle
RRP: £22.99£15.65The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is one of the most successful fighter designs of the 20th century. The type first flew in 1972, transitioning directly from the drawing board to production with remarkably few hiccups. By late 1974, planes were... -
The All-British Marendaz Special: The Man, Cars and Aeroplanes by Graham Skillen 9781781557020
RRP: £25.00£18.94This is the story of Captain Marendaz, a pilot in the RFC in the Great War and his life as a manufacturer of cars in the 1920s and 1930s when he competed extensively at Brooklands and elsewhere, before moving on to designing and building aircraft. He was... -
Contact!: A Victor Tanker Captain's Experiences in the RAF, Before, During and After the Falklands Conflict by Bob Tuxford 9781910690222
RRP: £25.00£18.58Contact! is an enthralling set of recollections from ex-RAF pilot, instructor and test pilot Bob Tuxford. The book follows his twenty-year career within the RAF and describes highlights of active service across the world, including an accompanied... -
The Dawn of Aviation: The Pivotal Role of Sussex People and Places in the Development of Flight by Roy Brooks 9781526786340
RRP: £25.00£17.62Shoreham airport, founded in 1910, is the oldest airport in the UK and the oldest purpose-built commercial airport in the world. Yet aviation began in Sussex far earlier, with balloonists making landfall at Kingsfold near Horsham in 1785. These early... -
A Member of the RAF of Indeterminate Race: WW2 Experiences of a Former RAF Navigator and POW by C.Y. Grant 9781846830181
£12.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846830181Author C.Y. GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield Publishing -
The Polish 'Few': Polish Airmen in the Battle of Britain by Peter Sikora 9781526714855
RRP: £30.00£21.95They came to fight for freedom and their country, they came to fight Germans. Men of the Polish Air Force, who had escaped first to France and then to Britain, to fly alongside the Royal Air Force just as Fighter Command faced its greatest challenge-the... -
Ultimate Allied Fighters of the Second World War by Justo Miranda 9781781558881
RRP: £40.00£28.79During the five years of the Second World War, the power of engines and speed of aircraft increased as much as it did during twenty years of peacetime. Conventional aircraft and engines reached the limits marked in the original design and surpassed them,... -
Aircrew: Dramatic, first-hand accounts from World War 2 bomber pilots and crew by Bruce Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.40A vivid, first-hand account of the tension and excitement of flying missions over Nazi GermanyThe British and American bomber crews of the Second World War often had to endure the most terrifying conditions. Not for them the glorious, all-or-nothing... -
Glint in the Sky, A: German Air Attacks on Folkstone, Dover, Ramsgate, Margate by Martin Easdown 9781844151196
RRP: £12.99£9.09Martin Easdown's compelling account of the German air raid on Folkestone in 1917 and its appalling aftermath is the first comprehensive history of an episode to be published. He gives a dramatic description of the event, relying heavily on the eyewitness... -
P-39/P-400 Airacobra vs A6M2/3 Zero-sen by Mr Michael John Claringbould
RRP: £13.99£9.75After the huge advances made in the early months of the Pacific war, it was in remote New Guinea where the advance of Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force (IJNAF) A6M Zero-sen fighters was first halted due to a series of offensive and defensive aerial... -
75 Years of the Israeli Air Force Volume 1: The First Quarter of a Century, 1948-1973 by Bill Norton
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336349Author Bill NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
SAC in the 1980s by Adrian Symonds
RRP: £15.99£10.85'Fighter pilots make movies, bomber pilots make history' - or so the bomber pilots say, anyway. Strategic Air Command held a constant nuclear-armed vigil, ready to launch nuclear war at a moment's notice, twenty-four hours a day. SAC was responsible... -
Airpower and the Cult of the Offensive: A CADRE Paper by Air University Press 9781479193967
RRP: £16.99£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479193967Author Air University PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Enemy Coast Ahead by Guy Gibson 9780907579625
RRP: £6.99£5.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579625Author Guy GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Letters from the Few: Unique Memories from the Battle of Britain by Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781526775894
RRP: £25.00£18.02Fascinated by the Battle of Britain from an early age, as a young man Dilip Sarkar realised that recording and sharing the Few's memories was of paramount importance. At the time, back in the mid-1980s, membership of the Battle of Britain Fighter... -
Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War by Kevin Wilson 9781474601634 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.81A major new TV series - MASTERS OF THE AIR How America's bomber boys and girls in England won their war, and how their English allies responded to them.'A gripping tribute to the British-based US 8th Air Force during the Second World War' Mail on... -
Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War by Kevin Wilson
RRP: £9.99£6.80A major new TV series - MASTERS OF THE AIR How America's bomber boys and girls in England won their war, and how their English allies responded to them.'A gripping tribute to the British-based US 8th Air Force during the Second World War' Mail on... -
High Noon over Haseluenne: The 100th Bombardment Group over Berlin, March 6,1944 by Luc Dewez
RRP: £63.99£41.70On March 6, 1944, and the Eighth Air Force would launch a full scale assault on the German capital of Berlin. "High Noon over Haseluenne" is a microcosm look at one bomb group that flew the mission and the catastrophic results that ensued. The book deals... -
Avro Anson: Images of Aviation by Harry Holmes 9780752417387
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Avro Anson was born from the germ of an idea in 1933, when G. Woods Humphrey, managing director of Imperial Airways, met Sir John Siddeley, chief executive of the Armstrong Siddeley Development Company, to discuss his ideas for a new aircraft. Sir... -
Avro Vulcan B.Mk2: A Place in History, 1960-84 by David Fildes
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 1955, the Vulcan B.Mk2 was proposed and a new wing modification was designed to take advantage of the more powerful Olympus engines and a new stand-off missile known as Blue Steel. The new wing was known as the Phase 2C development. Avro were given a... -
Hellcat vs Shiden/Shiden-Kai by Tony Holmes
RRP: £13.99£9.75By the early months of 1944 in the Pacific, the US Navy's burgeoning force of carrier-based F6F-3/5 Hellcats had pretty much wiped the skies clear of Japanese fighters during a series of one-sided aerial engagements. However, starting in October they... -
The Men Who Flew the English Electric Lightning by Martin W. Bowman 9781526705648
RRP: £25.00£18.02The early 1950s were a boom time for British aviation. The lessons of six years of war had been learned and much of the research into jet engines, radar and aerodynamics had begun to reach fruition. In Britain, jet engine technology led the world, while... -
Flying Blind: The Story of a Second World War Night-Fighter Pilot by Joe Bamford 9781781553459
RRP: £20.00£14.29Bryan Wild joined the RAF in 1940, a raw recruit not long out of school. Over the next five years, he flew fourteen different types of aircraft and saw action over Britain, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Germany. His memoirs capture the daily life... -
The Zeppelin Offensive: A German Perspective in Pictures and Postcards by David Marks 9781526737199
RRP: £14.99£10.95Fly, Zeppelin! Help us in the war. Fly to England, England shall be destroyed by fire. Zeppelin, fly!' Such was the hymn which the children sang; such the refrain which greeted the aged inventor, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, wherever he went. Why was... -
Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1939-42 by Neil Page
RRP: £19.99£14.28Military and aviation history enthusiasts have always been interested in the fighter pilots of Hitler's Luftwaffe. Some of their stories are extraordinary. Fighting from the Arctic Circle to the North African deserts, from the Caucasus in the East to... -
Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz by Andy Saunders 9781783030408
RRP: £14.99£10.95Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and Blitz will comprise of some 140-150 images of the work of RAF and civilian salvage squads during the Battle of Britain, the Blitz and beyond. The images will depict losses across Britain, both RAF and German,... -
TBF/TBM Avenger: Grumman's First Torpedo Bomber in World War II by David Doyle 9780764359392
RRP: £18.99£12.67The Grumman-designed TBF Avenger was unquestionably the most successful torpedo bomber in the US fleet during WWII. Developed just prior to the US entry in WWII, the type made its combat debut at the Battle of Midway. Demand for the large carrier-borne... -
American Guided Missiles of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £11.99£9.08World War II was a significant period of development for American missile programs, during which time the US built pioneering examples of guided weapons systems. However, whilst the German missiles of World War II are famous around the world, their... -
Convair B-36:: A Comprehensive History of America's "Big Stick" by Meyers K. Jacobsen
RRP: £63.99£42.50Convair B-36: A Comprehensive History of America's "Big Stick" is a collaborative effort edited and co-authored by Meyers Jacobsen exploring the history of one of SAC's air giants, the six-engine Convair B-36. From the origins of the use of six engines...