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Churchill's Most Secret Airfield: RAF Tempsford by Bernard O'Connor
£20.16Designed by illusionist Jasper Maskelyne, RAF Tempsford was constructed to give overflying enemy aircraft the impression it was disused. Nothing could be further from the truth - just after dusk on moonlit nights either side of the full moon, planes... -
De Havilland Mosquito, Vol. 2: The Bomber and Photo-Recon Marques in World War II by Ron Mackay
RRP: £18.99£12.67This second of two volumes on de Havilland's "Wooden Wonder" covers the World War II bomber and photoreconnaissance variants of the deadly Mosquito. Along with its night fighter and fighter-bomber variants, Mosquito bomber squadrons attacked the enemy... -
Teach for the Sky: British Training Aircraft since 1945 by James Jackson
RRP: £29.95£21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109664Author James JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
Spitfire Pilot David Crook 9781906502041
RRP: £9.99£7.11Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitlers Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts the Battle of Britain seen through... -
On Atlas' Shoulders: RAF Transport Aircraft Projects Since 1945 by Chris Gibson
RRP: £29.95£22.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109510Author Chris GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
French Secret Projects 3: French and European Spaceplane Designs 1964-1994 by J. C. Carbonel
RRP: £27.50£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809914Author J. C. CarbonelFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Bases of Bomber Command Then and Now by Roger A. Freeman
RRP: £40.00£33.37Sixty years ago over 100 aerodromes in east and north-eastern England were occupied by the men and machines of RAF Bomber Command. The tenure of the majority of the bases was brief - some six years - but during that time more than 55,000 men lost their... -
Midnight Flight to Nuremberg: The Capture of the Nazi who put Adolf Hitler into Power by Marcus Nannini
RRP: £20.00£14.29This is the story of an American C-47 'Dakota' pilot who earned three Air Medals, seven Battle Stars and flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Second World War. As a young U.S. pilot, Harry Watson, arrived in Britain as the Battle of Normandy was... -
Paras in Action: Ready for Anything - The Parachute Regiment Through the Eyes of Those who Served by Jason Woods 9781399040174
RRP: £25.00£24.61The date is the 6 June 1944. The paratroopers on board the aircraft are crammed together, joking and singing over the drone of the engines, none of them dwelling on the gnawing fear in their guts. They reach the French coastline, and everyone goes quiet... -
Operation Jericho: Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo jail, Amiens 1944 Robert Lyman 9781472852069
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance... -
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy
RRP: £20.00£14.69The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard OveryThe use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues... -
British Midland Airways by Charles Woodley
RRP: £15.99£11.61British Midland Airways existed under different identities for over 70 years, during which time it grew from a flying training school into a scheduled transatlantic airline operating wide-bodied Airbus aircraft. With the prime routes dominated by British... -
The Spitfire Story: Told By Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane by Jacky Hyams
RRP: £8.99£6.22The Spitfire Story, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines, as well as the people behind the scenes.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming... -
Korea 1950–53: B-29s, Thunderjets and Skyraiders fight the strategic bombing campaign by Michael Napier 9781472855558
RRP: £16.99£12.28A spectacularly illustrated new history and analysis of the strategic bombing campaign in the Korean War, which saw the last combat of America's legendary B-29s. Just five years after they defeated Japan, at the dawn of the jet age, the most... -
A Doctor's War by Aidan MacCarthy 9781904943402
RRP: £8.99£6.45As an RAF medical officer, Aidan had served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable with those of famous war heroes. Interned by the Japanese in Java, he helped his fellow prisoners with... -
The Battle of Britain: Book 2 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: £9.99£7.11UNDERSTAND AND EXPERIENCE THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY AERIAL EVER FOUGHTPart of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history.Historian, author and... -
De Havilland Mosquito, Vol. 1: The Night-Fighter and Fighter-Bomber Marques in World War II by Ron MacKay 9780764358203
RRP: £18.99£12.67This first of two volumes on de Havilland's "Wooden Wonder" covers the night-fighter and fighter-bomber variants of the deadly Mosquito. The development of the multirole Mosquito, from its original bomber and photoreconnaissance operational function to... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780199315987
RRP: £17.99£15.23There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the... -
Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell 9780008490607 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£4.28The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II - mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the... -
Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell
RRP: £10.99£7.25The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II - mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the... -
Iraqi Mirages: Dassault Mirage Family in Service with Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988 by Tom Cooper
£18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390311Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Flying and Preserving Historic Aircraft: The Memoirs of David Ogilvy OBE, Vice-President of the Historic Aircraft Association by David Frederick Ogilvy 9781399044448
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Blohm & Voss Bv 155 by Dan Sharp
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658320Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
Dornier Do 217 Units of World War 2 by Chris Goss
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Do 217 had a much larger bomb load capacity and had considerably greater range than the Do 17, which it replaced in frontline service from mid to late 1941. Although initially used simply as a bomber, later variants were developed to allow the Do 217... -
Secrets from the Black Vault: The Army's Plan for a Military Base on the Moon and Other Declassified Documents that Rewrote History by Jr., John, Greenewald 9781538134061
RRP: £12.99£9.61What happens when the history books are wrong? The United States Government wants you to not question the narrative that, in some cases, has been written by them for more than a century. But sometimes, real facts emerge from declassified documents that... -
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... -
B/EB-66 Destroyer Units in Combat by Peter E. Davies
RRP: £14.99£10.95Studies of air combat in the Vietnam War inevitably focus on the MiG-killing fighter engagements, B-52 onslaughts or tactical strikes on the Hanoi region. However, underlying all these was the secretive 'electron war' in which highly-skilled electronic... -
Short Sunderland: The 'Flying Porcupines' in the Second World War by Hendrie, Andrew 9781399014540
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1933, the Air Ministry issued a specification for a general-purpose four-engine flying boat capable of operating from the outposts of the Empire. The result was the remarkable Sunderland, built by Short Brothers. This book covers the development of... -
Groundcrew Boys: True Engineering Stories from the Cold War Front Line by David Gledhill 9781911667025 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£11.18Have you read stories of 'derring-do' from former operational aircrew and been left wondering what went on in the hangars and on the airfields, as those aircraft were serviced and prepared for flight? In this edition of the Boys series, you'll... -
Groundcrew Boys: True Engineering Stories from the Cold War Front Line David Gledhill 9781911667025
RRP: £25.00£17.62Have you read stories of 'derring-do' from former operational aircrew and been left wondering what went on in the hangars and on the airfields, as those aircraft were serviced and prepared for flight? In this edition of the Boys series, you'll... -
Debden Warbirds: The 4th Fighter Group in World War II by Frank E. Speer 9780764307256
RRP: £40.99£27.67The P-51 Mustangs of the 4th Fighter Group were the first to escort bombers over Berlin during World War II, the first to escort bombers from England to Russia, and at war's end ranked first in the number of enemy aircraft destroyed (over 1,000). The... -
Confessions of a Flying Instructor: Teaching the RAF's Fighter Pilots by Tug Wilson
RRP: £28.00£20.27After surviving three years flying the mighty Phantom, the RAF's greatest and most terrifying fighter (for those in the cockpit), Tug Wilson was sent to RAF Brawdy in Pembrokeshire and then to RAF Valley on the Isle of Anglesey to teach the flying skills... -
Bomber Command the Victoria Cross Raids by Martyn Chorlton 9781846743221
£19.98Since the Victoria Cross was first instituted on 29th January, 1856, the medal has been awarded 1,357 times, the most recent was gazetted on 22nd March, 2013, posthumously to L/Cpl J T D Ashworth for his gallantry in Afghanistan. Being the youngest of... -
American Aircraft Development Second World War Legacy: 1945-1953 and the Korean Conflict by Bill Norton 9781781558287
RRP: £45.00£32.81This volume focuses on the influence of America's Second World War aviation development and experience, subsequent aviation technological advances, and world events, in shaping American choices in military aircraft and associated weapons' development... -
The Mosquito Pocket Manual: All marks in service 1941-1945 by Martin Robson
RRP: £9.99£7.11The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British multi-role combat aircraft with a two-man crew that served during and after the Second World War. It was one of few operational front-line aircraft of the era constructed almost entirely of wood and was... -
Fighter Pilot by Robin Olds
£13.67Robin Olds was a larger-than-life hero with a towering personality. A graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army, Olds was one of the toughest college football players at... -
South Pacific Air War: The Role of Airpower in the New Guinea and Solomon Island Campaigns, January 1943 to February 1944 by Richard Dunn 9780764367878
RRP: £40.99£26.07In 1943 the Allies chipped away at the defensive outer barrier of the Japanese Pacific empire, particularly in the Solomon Islands. US Marine and Army infantry trudged through bloody jungle fighting on remote South Pacific islands such as Guadalcanal,... -
Sunderland vs U-boat: Bay of Biscay 1943–44 by Mark Lardas 9781472854810
RRP: £15.99£11.61An illustrated examination of the role played by the Sunderland as an antisubmarine aircraft during the Battle of the Atlantic, focusing on the key battles of the Biscay campaign in 1943-44. The Sunderland is an iconic British aircraft of World War... -
From Spitfire to Focke Wulf: The Diary and Log Book of Pilot H. Leonard Thorne, 1940-45 by H. Leonard Thorne 9781803993584
RRP: £14.99£11.55'I hold the greatest respect for Len for what he achieved in the RAF'. - Gordon Mitchell, son of Spitfire designer R.J. MitchellIn May 1940, 20-year-old Len Thorne joined the RAF, as did many young men during the Second World War. After two hectic tours... -
The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of World War II by Paul E. Eden 9781782744733
RRP: £35.00£25.47The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WWII is an exhaustive survey of the aircraft flown by all the combatants in Europe and the Pacific, including such famous aircraft as the P-51 Mustang, Supermarine Spitfire, Yakovlev Yak-3, Messerschmitt Me 109 and Vought...