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The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 by Florence de Changy
RRP: £10.99£7.25'People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does... This is a splendid book - and highly recommended.' Daily Mail A remarkable piece of investigative... -
Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot by Paul Beaver
RRP: £30.00£21.35Discover the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilotSmall in stature but immense in reputation and talent, there was more to Eric 'Winkle' Brown than met the eye.From shooting down... -
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
RRP: £10.99£7.77A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's early space programme.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY'What is it,' asks Tom Wolfe, 'that makes a man willing to sit... -
West With The Night by Beryl Markham
RRP: £10.99£7.40WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham -- aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s. Markham was taken to... -
Modern Military Aircraft by Ryan Cunningham
RRP: £17.99£12.10Illustrated with detailed artworks of modern military aircraft and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Technical Guide: Modern Military Aircraft is an extensively researched review of the military aircraft deployed by the world's... -
Life of a Concorde Pilot: From The Orphanage to The Edge of Space by John Tye 9781803994635
RRP: £20.00£14.71John Tye's job at British Airways was supposed to be only temporary, a way for him to pass the summer before starting university. Instead, it would kickstart a forty-six-year career in aviation and take him all over the world.Told in an irrepressible and... -
Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: £12.99£8.56In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic... -
Afghan Air Wars: Soviet, US and NATO operations, 1979–2021 by Michael Napier 9781472859013
RRP: £30.00£21.99Michael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021. US and British forces, strongly supported by air power,... -
Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose: The Story of the HK-1 Hercules by Simons, Graham M 9781399014410
RRP: £14.99£10.95Howard Hughes' life ambition was to make a significant contribution to the field of aviation development. But the monumental folly of his endeavours on the HK-I Hercules meant that he came to be known and remembered to a great extent for all the wrong... -
Military Aircraft: World's Greatest Fighters, Bombers and Transport Aircraft from World War I to the Present by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £24.99£18.61Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft of... -
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II: Owners' Workshop Manual by Haynes
RRP: £25.00£18.021972 to date (all marks), Dubbed 'Warthog' - or just 'Hog' - the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is the world's undisputed close air-support attack jet. As tough as it is ugly, it has built a fearsome reputation as a tank buster and infantry... -
American Bomber Aircraft of World War II by Edward Ward 9781838863272
RRP: £17.99£12.10The United States built the best strategic bombers of World War II, and by the end of the conflict America’s bombers dominated the skies in both Europe and the Pacific. American Bomber Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the bombers... -
Telling Aircraft Tails: A History of Britain's Airlines in 40 Aircraft by Guy Halford-Macleod
RRP: £30.00£22.58The registration letters painted on an aircraft's tail are like its number plate: they can reveal the story of an individual aircraft and its different roles during its working life. Inspired by this novel way of looking at aviation history, Guy... -
Enemy Coast Ahead: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson by Guy Gibson 9781784384906
RRP: £12.99£9.09Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF. Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command, and had led the... -
MiG-21 “FISHBED”: Opposing Rolling Thunder 1966–68 by Dr István Toperczer 9781472857569
RRP: £15.99£11.61Using archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, Istvan Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and 1968. One of the most successful communist jet... -
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II: The 'Warthog' Ground Attack Aircraft by Peter C Smith 9781526759269
RRP: £35.00£24.29The Fairchild-Republic A-10A Close Support aircraft has become a legend over its long front line life. Known as the Warthog due to her unusual appearance, this little aircraft has built up an awesome reputation in the specialised ground-attack role,... -
Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War II: 1939-1945 by Edward Ward
RRP: £17.99£12.10Illustrated with colourful artworks of carrier aircraft and their markings, Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the aircraft deployed by the Allied navies from 1939 to 1945. Organised chronologically by type and... -
TWA 800: Behind the Cover-Up and Conspiracy by Jack Cashill 9781684514557
RRP: £12.99£8.18From the disastrous crash to the nefarious, high-level cover up, historian Jack Cashill introduces new documents and testimonies in his shocking account of the true chain of events leading to the tragic disappearance of TWA 800 into seeming thin air. TWA... -
Flight Craft 23: Airbus A380 by Robert Jackson
RRP: £16.99£12.28On 27 April 2005, an aircraft lifted away from the runway of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport under the power of six massive Rolls-Royce Trent 900 turbofan engines. It carried a six-man crew, it was making its first flight, and it was making history. For this... -
North of South: An African Journey by Shiva Naipaul
RRP: £11.99£8.43In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to discover what 'liberation', 'revolution' and 'socialism' meant... -
Eagles of the Luftwaffe: Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A, F and G: 2019 by Dan Sharp
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658054Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 267gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
The First Helicopter Boys: The Early Days of Helicopter Operations - The Malayan Emergency, 1947-1960 by David Taylor
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the challenging jungle terrain of Borneo and in the countryside straddling the Malaysia/Indonesia border, where there... -
Allied Fighter Aircraft 1939-45: American, British, French, Soviet, Dutch, Polish by Chris Chant
RRP: £19.99£13.34Allied Fighters 1939-45 offers an highly-illustrated guide to Allied fighter aircraft that fought in Europe during World War II. Featuring all the main models flown by the Allied air forces from 1939 to 1945, the book offers a wealth of detail, including... -
F-8 Crusader: Vietnam 1963–73 by Peter E. Davies
RRP: £15.99£11.61With specially commissioned artworks and dynamic combat ribbon diagrams, this volume reveals how the 'last of the gunfighters', as the F-8 was dubbed by its pilots, prevailed against the growing MiG threat of the Vietnamese People's Air Force. When... -
Blackburn Buccaneer Owners' Workshop Manual: All marks (1958-94) by Keith Wilson
RRP: £25.00£9.03Born in the 1950s when the Cold War was rapidly escalating, the subsonic Blackburn Buccaneer was designed as a carrier-borne strike aircraft, which eventually went on to serve both the Royal Navy and the RAF. The Buccaneer entered service with the Royal... -
Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Edition: An insight into the hardware from the first manned mission to land on the moon by C. Riley
RRP: £25.00£18.62This is the story of the Apollo 11 mission and the 'space hardware' that made it all possible. This manual looks at the evolution and design of the mighty Saturn V rocket, the Command and Service Modules, and the Lunar Module. It describes the space... -
Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell
RRP: £9.99£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... -
Aircraft of World War II: 300 of the World's Greatest Aircraft 1939-45 by Chris Chant
RRP: £12.99£8.49Aircraft of World War II contains 300 of the most important and influential military aircraft in service between 1939 and 1945. From Allied fighters to Axis bombers, from biplanes to flying boats, each of the aircraft featured is presented with a full... -
Secret SAS Missions in Africa: C Squadron's Counter-Terrorist Operations 1968-1980 by Michael Graham 9781526748447
RRP: £12.99£9.09This fascinating book is the first to cover the little known C Squadron of the Special Air Service. Operating in East Africa, the Squadron was involved in almost continuous counter communist terrorist operations over the period 1968 to 1980. In the... -
Defiant: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain by Robert Verkaik
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Robert Verkaik makes a revisionist case for an unsung aircraft, the Boulton Paul Defiant. This two-seat gun-turret fighter is, argues Verkaik, the forgotten fighter of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain; the effectiveness as well as the courage of its... -
Modern Russian Military Aircraft: Fighters, Bombers, Reconnaissance, Helicopters by Ryan Cunningham
RRP: £17.99£12.10The Russian Air Force is the world's second largest military air arm, capable of deploying more than 4,000 military aircraft, including 1,522 helicopters, 497 trainers, 873 fighters, 424 transports, and more. Illustrated throughout with detailed artworks... -
Tales of Lancasters and Other Aircraft: Dangerous Skies in the Second World War by George Culling 9780750979726
RRP: £9.99£7.33Of every 100 operational airmen in the Second World War, nearly seven were killed flying in England and more than three severely injured in crashes. With a total of 12,398, the number of non-operational casualties was significant. Operational casualties... -
German Luftwaffe in World War II by Chris McNab
RRP: £24.99£16.43The Luftwaffe - the German Air Force - played a crucial role in the Wehrmacht's blitzkrieg tactics, providing both air cover and air artillery for Germany's panzer troops on the ground. Germany's successful invasions of France, the Low Countries, the... -
The Men Who Flew the Halifax by Bowman, Martin W 9781526705686
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is the story of the air war over Western Europe, much of it told by the Halifax pilots and air crew who took part. It spans the period between 1942 and 1945 and covers the encounters between the Luftwaffe and the air forces of Britain and the... -
Russian Aircraft of World War II by Edward Ward
RRP: £17.99£12.10Organised chronologically by type, Russian Aircraft of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force during World War II. The book provides a comprehensive survey of combat aircraft, from the... -
Spitfire Girl: My Life in the Sky by Jackie Moggridge
RRP: £10.99£7.77The inspiring memoir of the remarkable Jackie Moggridge: ATA girl, Spitfire expert and pioneer. 'We had returned to a different world. We had taken off in peace at nine-thirty and landed in war at noon.' Jackie Moggridge was just nineteen when... -
The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses by Paul Simpson 9781780338286
RRP: £12.99£8.60An incredible 30,000 flights - at least - arrive safely at their destinations every day. But a handful don't, while some come terrifyingly close to crashing. When even the smallest thing does go wrong at 35,000 feet, the result is nearly always a... -
Hurricane: The Plane That Saved Britain by Adrian Stewart
RRP: £10.99£4.11The riveting exploits of a fighter aircraft - and an underrated aerial hero of the Second World WarThe Hawker Hurricane was flying on the outbreak of war in 1939. Six years later, having saved Britain, it was still playing a major part in the war effort... -
The Saturn I/IB Rocket: NASA's First Apollo Launch Vehicle by David Baker 9781800350281
RRP: £27.95£19.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800350281Author David BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Spitfire Photo-Recce Units of World War 2 by Andrew Fletcher 9781472854612
RRP: £16.99£12.28A fascinating exploration of the feats of the RAF's photographic reconnaissance aircraft. The photographic reconnaissance (PR) versions of the Supermarine Spitfire saw service against the Axis Tripartite throughout World War 2. Its superior...