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  • LUFTWAFFE BOMBERS IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    Luftwaffe Bombers in the Battle of Britain will contains some 140-150 images of German bomber aircraft during the summer of 1940. The images will cover the entirety of the battle and will depict losses across Britain during this period. Each picture will tell its own story, and will be fully captioned with historical detail.Each section will have a short introduction and the im...

    $200.00

  • FINDING THE FALLEN
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    The author of Finding the Few presents more stories of lost airmen and the dedicated detective work done to find them. Mysteries involving missing aircrew span almost the entire twentieth century. Starting with a reappraisal of the famed story of pilot Edward "Mick" Mannock, the author of this book highlights the fates of RAF, USAF, and Luftwaffe personnel from bomber, reconnai...

    $229.00

  • FINDING THE FEW
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    An "extraordinarily researched" account of a quest to find MIA fighter pilots decades after World War II (Barrett Tillman).   1940: The air over Britain is filled with danger. Courageous and heroic men fly and fight, often sacrificing their lives to keep the nation free. Some of them will disappear into the summer sky without leaving a trace . . .   This remarkable book records...

    $274.00

  • MANNOCK
    ANDY SAUNDERS / NORMAN FRANKS
    The definitive biography of the WWI fighter pilot Edward "Mick" Mannock—and a revealing investigation into his mysterious fate.   Although he was arguably the highest scoring RAF fighter pilot of the First World War, Edward "Mick" Mannock's life, particularly his death, is still shrouded in mystery. Did he achieve as many victories as are sometimes ascribed to him? How did he d...

    $251.00

  • DOWDING'S DESPATCH
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    In September 1946, the London Gazette published a despatch from Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C T Dowding that was titled simply: The Battle of Britain. Written and submitted to the Air Ministry in 1941, this document became the very framework for the accepted Battle of Britain narrative which has been established across the following eighty years. Set out by the leader of the 'Fe...

    $279.00

  • STUKA ATTACK
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    The Junkers 87 Stuka was an iconic weapon of World War Two and an aircraft name that was, and still is, instantly recognized worldwide. Its roles in Poland and the Battles of France and the Low Countries are almost legendary, but in the UK its import during the Battle of Britain is one that has never been covered in any specific detail. Here, Andy Saunders takes a critical look...

    $306.92

  • FINDING THE FOE
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    A follow-up to Finding the Few, this companion volume deals with the postwar discovery and recovery of wartime Luftwaffe aircrew who were downed and lost over the UK, most of them during 1940s. There is a lot of detective work involved here. Sometimes airmen have been identified with the tiniest clue, although each case has a common thread; they were all concluded by the dilige...

    $255.75

  • CONVOY PEEWIT
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    During the early hours of 8 August 1940 over twenty merchant ships set sail in Convoy CW9 “Peewit” and edged past Dover, hugging the shore in complete darkness. Whilst unseen to human eyes, the Germans had picked up the large convoy on its Freya radar at Cap Gris Nez and flashed warning messages to the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe. At Boulogne E-Boats were readied and left port i...

    $255.75

  • BADER'S LAST FIGHT
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    On 9 August 1941, one of the greatest icons of the Second World War, Douglas Bader, was shot down, captured and later incarcerated. But by whom, and how? Was it by one of his deadly German opponents, as Douglas Bader himself maintained, or was it by one of his own side? There has been much debate and controversy among historians and in 2003 the author of this book revealed for ...

    $229.00

  • ASSASSINATIONS ANTHOLOGY
    ADRIAN GILBERT / NIGEL WEST / DAN MILLS / PETER G. TSOURAS / ANDY SAUNDERS
    A fascinating look at what might have happened had historical assassination attempts succeeded.   If Hitler had died at any stage in the Second World War, would Germany have immediately sued for peace, or would the generals have taken over and fought a far more practical war than the obdurate Führer? Equally intriguing is the possible failed assassination attempt on General de ...

    $229.00

  • LONE WOLF
    ANDY SAUNDERS / TERRY THOMPSON
    This thrilling WWII biography tells the incredible true story of one of the Royal Air Force’s greatest flying aces. During the Second World War, Flight lieutenant Richard Playne Stevens had an extraordinary career as a Royal Air Force nightfighter. His contemporaries called him Cat’s Eyes for his rare ability to see in the dark, but after achieving a record-breaking fourteen vi...

    $229.00

  • LUFTWAFFE BOMBERS IN THE BLITZ, 1940–1941
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    Luftwaffe Bombers in the Blitz will comprise of some 140-150 images of German bomber aircraft during the Blitz of 1940-1941. The images will cover the entirety of the Blitz and will also depict losses across Britain during this period. Each picture will tell its own story, and will be fully captioned with historical detail. Each section will have a short introduction and the im...

    $200.00

  • ARRIVAL OF EAGLES
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    A fascinating look at German planes that wound up in British territory during World War II, with photos.   During the Second World War, a great many Luftwaffe aircraft arrived in the United Kingdom or its coastal waters, but, as with the famous flight of Rudolf Hess, not all of them through "conventional" combat circumstances. Some got lost; others were brought by defectors; so...

    $251.00

  • SPITFIRE
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    The true story of the recovery of a World War II plane shot down in France—and the effort to restore this historic aircraft.   Spitfire is the fascinating story of the recovery of a Battle of France Spitfire Mk 1 from the sands of Calais during the early 1980s—and its subsequent return to the United Kingdom for rebuild and restoration to flying condition.   The full history of ...

    $274.00

  • JANE
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    Jane was a wartime phenomenon. A sensation. She was also an important feature in the morale of Britain's fighting forces around the world and to those left behind on the "Home Front". So important, in fact, that her fame extended to the House of Commons where one wartime MP referred to our troops as "Jane's fighting men!" Until now there has been no published study of Jane or t...

    $229.00

  • AIRCRAFT SALVAGE IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    “A well-documented photographic portrayal, detailing a plethora of aircraft shot down and salvaged in Great Britain during World War Two.”—Stand Easy Blog   Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz is comprised of 140-150 images of the work of RAF and civilian salvage squads during the Battle of Britain, the Blitz and beyond. The images depict losses across Brita...

    $179.00