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Spitfire Manual 1940 by Dilip Sarkar 9781848684362
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.79How to fly the legendary fighter plane in combat using the manuals and instructions supplied by the RAF during the Second World War. An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the... -
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Hurricane Manual 1940 by Dilip Sarkar 9781445621203 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Though less iconic than the nimble Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane was a vital stalwart in the British war effort. The Hurricane was a more stable gun platform than the Spitfire, more rugged, and was... -
Faces of the Few: The Battle for Survival in the Summer of 1940 by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23There 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'. ... -
Bader's Spitfire Wing: Tangmere 1941 Dilip Sarkar 9781399017053
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23On 30 August 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain, the pilots of RAF Fighter Command's No.12 Group were requested to reinforce 11 Group and intercept a Luftwaffe raid on an aircraft factory... -
Battle of Britain Remembered Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS FRAeS 9781399058117
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.68The summer of 1940 marked a pivotal moment in the Second World War. Following the Fall of France, Britain and the Commonwealth stood alone against the threat of Nazi Germany. With the prospect of... -
Spitfire Ace of Aces: The Wartime Story of Johnnie Johnson by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Johnnie Johnson is a character literally straight out of the pages of ' Boys Own'. By the end of the Second World War the RAF Spitfire pilot was a household name in Britain, feted by Churchill and... -
The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak: In the Words of the Survivors Dilip Sarkar 9781445607436
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney,... -
I Had a Row With a German: A Battle of Britain Casualty by Dilip Sarkar
Booksplease Price: £24.23Thomas Percy Gleave began his RAF career in 1930, three years later becoming a member of the RAF aerobatic team. He joined Bomber Command on 1 January 1939, but at the outbreak of war Gleave... -
Arise to Conquer: The 'Real' Hurricane Pilot by Dilip Sarkar, Introduced by 9781399017107
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.35Born in 1916, after learning to fly as a civilian, Ian Richard Gleed was granted a RAF commission in 1936. He completed training on Christmas Day that year, being posted to 46 Squadron which was... -
Battle of Britain 1940: The Finest Hour's Human Cost Dilip Sarkar 9781526797964
Booksplease Price: £21.52The summer of 1940 remains a pivotal moment in modern British history - still inspiring immense national pride and a global fascination. The Fall of France was catastrophic. Britain stood alone... -
Arnhem 1944: The Human Tragedy of the Bridge Too Far by Dilip Sarkar 9781526732736
Booksplease Price: £31.21The airborne battle for the bridges across the Rhine at Arnhem ranks amongst the Second World War's most famous actions - inspiring innumerable books and the star-studded 1977 movie. This book,... -
Spitfire Ace of Aces: The Album: The Photographs of Johnnie Johnson by Dilip Sarkar MBE
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Air Vice-Marshal James Edgar 'Johnnie' Johnson CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, DL was a character literally from the pages of Boys' Own: an individual who became the RAF's top-scoring fighter... -
Spitfire Down: Fighter Boys Who Failed to Return Dilip Sarkar 9781399089470
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The Final Few: The Last Surviving Pilots of the Battle of Britain Tell Their Stories by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24During the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone, defying the Luftwaffe's aerial assault - the prelude to a proposed seaborne invasion. Fighter Command faced this challenge against overwhelming odds... -
Free French Spitfire Hero: The Diaries of and Search For Ren Mouchotte by Dilip Sarkar 9781399040273
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Ren 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... -
Letters from the Few: Unique Memories from the Battle of Britain Dilip Sarkar 9781526775894
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Fascinated 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... -
'Sailor' Malan Freedom Fighter: The Inspirational Story of a Spitfire Ace by Dilip Sarkar 9781526798480
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Adolph Gysbert Malan was born in Wellington, South Africa. A natural leader and driven individual with a totally positive outlook, aged fourteen Malan became an officer cadet in the South African... -
Spitfire: The Iconic Fighter in Unique Photographs Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS FRAeS 9781036146917
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62The Supermarine Spitfire is one of the most iconic fighters of all time. First flown just before the Second World War, interest in this remarkable aircraft endures. Intended as a close-range... -
The Battle of Britain on the Big Screen: The Finest Hour' Through British Cinema by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.62During the Second World War, the British movie industry produced a number of films concerning the war, all of which were, by necessity, heavily myth-laden and propagandised. Foremost among these... -
'sailor' Malan - Freedom Fighter: The Inspirational Story of a Spitfire Ace by Dilip Sarkar Mbe
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526795267Author Dilip Sarkar MbeFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint -
Battle of Britain, 1940: The Finest Hour's Human Cost by Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781526775931
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48The summer of 1940 remains a pivotal moment in modern British history - still inspiring immense national pride and a global fascination. The Fall of France was catastrophic. Britain stood alone and... -
Faces of HMS Royal Oak: The 'Mighty Oak' Disaster at Scapa Flow by Dilip Sarkar 9781399062329
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Fighter Ace: The Extraordinary Life of Douglas Bader, Battle of Britain Hero Dilip Sarkar 9781445638195
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY TO TRULY SEPARATE FACT FROM MYTH AND LEGEND. The story of Douglas Bader, the RAF fighter pilot who shot down twenty enemy fighters during the Second World War despite having... -
Battle of Britain The Breaking Storm: 10 July 1940 12 August 1940 by Dilip Sarkar 9781399056410
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Battle of Britain Attack of the Eagles: 13 August 1940 – 18 August 1940 by Dilip Sarkar 9781399057912
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23In this unprecedented series exploring the big story of the Battle of Britain, renowned historian Dilip Sarkar investigates the wider context and intimate details of the epic aerial conflict in the... -
Johnnie Johnson's 1942 Diary: The War Diary of the Spitfire Ace of Aces Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781526791702
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Battle of Britain Daylight Defeat: 18 September 1940 - 30 September 1940 Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781399034647
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Battle of Britain The Gathering Storm: Prelude to the Spitfire Summer of 1940 by Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS FRAeS 9781399056373
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Dilip Sarkar, renowned for his meticulous research, delves into the Battle of Britain in this first volume of an eight-part series. His evidence-based approach offers a comprehensive view of the 1940... -
Johnnie Johnson's Great Adventure: The Spitfire Ace of Ace's Last Look Back by Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781526791740
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Battle of Britain The Movie: The Men and Machines of one of the Greatest War Films Ever Made by Dilip Sarkar MBE
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.96Released in 1969, the film _Battle of Britain_ went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. The film drew many respected British actors to accept roles as key figures of the... -
Battle of Britain Target London: 7 September 1940 – 17 September 1940 Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781399058018
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.66In this unprecedented series exploring the big story of the Battle of Britain, renowned historian Dilip Sarkar investigates the wider context and intimate details of the epic aerial conflict in the... -
A Spitfire’s Story: The Invisible Thread: Spitfire R6644 and the Pilots Who Flew It Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS FRAeS 9781036138523
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.93Public affection for the iconic Spitfire endures; indeed, if anything, it increases as more of these incredible aircraft are restored to airworthy condition. The Spitfire story, however, is one of... -
The Battle of Tewkesbury, 4 May 1471: ‘A Right Evil Place' Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS FRAeS 9781399054645
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.66The great Medieval battle at Tewkesbury, occurring on Saturday, 4 May 1471, saw the House of Lancaster finally defeated in the series of bloody conflicts known today as the Wars of the Roses. ... -
Battle of Britain The Movie: The Men and Machines of one of the Greatest War Films Ever Made by Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS FRAeS 9781399014793
Booksplease Price: £19.22Released in 1969, Battle of Britain became one of the most iconic war films ever made. Featuring a stellar cast including Sir Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, and... -
Battle of Britain Airfields Under Attack: 19 August 1940 – 6 September 1940 Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781399057967
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Battle of Britain The Final Curtain: 1 October 1940 – 31 October 1940 Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS FRAeS 9781399058063
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23In the seventh volume of Dilip Sarkar's groundbreaking eight-part series, the day-to-day events of the fifth and final phase of the Battle of Britain are meticulously chronicled. This volume not only... -
Blitzkrieg 1940: Defying Hitler: Two VCs and the Forgotten Infantry Battle of 21 May 1940 Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS FRAeS 9781036196851
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12When Britain mobilised for war in September 1939, large numbers of reservists were re-called to the colours. One of these men was the author's grandfather, Guardsman H.H. Smith, who re-joined the 3rd... -
Forgotten Heroes of the Battle of Britain by Sarkar, Dilip 9781399075725
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Lasting sixteen weeks during the momentous year of 1940, the Battle of Britain ended with the Luftwaffe having failed to achieve the decisive victory that Hitler had demanded. Whilst the technical... -
Spitfire!: The Full Story of a Unique Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron by Sarkar MBE, Dilip 9781399082808
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.34As a child, Dilip Sarkar was fascinated by the haunting image of an anonymous RAF Spitfire pilot. Taken minutes after landing from a Battle of Britain combat, this was Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC,... -
Mosquito Pathfinder: The Combat and Operations, Loss and Excavation of a WW2 Low-Level Target Marker by Steve Crump 9781036134334
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Bomber Command faced mounting challenges as poor bombing results and heavy losses strained aircrews to their limits. The formation of the Pathfinders Force marked a turning point, introducing...