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  • GESTAPO HUNTER
    SEAN FEAST
    Gestapo Hunter explores the charmed life and exceptional career of Ted Sismore, widely considered one of the RAF’s very best wartime navigators and leaders. A quiet, unassuming man who was nicknamed ‘Daisy’ on account of his youthful complexion, Ted was one of only a handful of aircrew to complete a tour of operations in Blenheims in the summer of 1941. He is best remembered, h...

    $305.99

  • AN ALIEN SKY
    ANDY WISEMAN / SEAN FEAST
    The legendary RAF bomber who survived the infamous Stalag 3 POW camp recounts his WWII experiences in this military memoir. Growing up in Berlin just as Adolf Hitler was coming to power, Andrew Wiseman escaped to Poland with is family when he was thirteen. He later made his way to England where he joined the Royal Air Force, training first as a pilot and then as an air bomber i...

    $229.00

  • HEROIC ENDEAVOUR
    SEAN FEAST
    This WWII combat history offers a detailed chronicle and analysis of an RAF Pathfinder Squadron's ill-fated operation over Cologne. On December 23rd, 1944, an elite squadron of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command engaged in a courageous yet tragic daylight raid on the Gremberg railway yards in Cologne, Germany. One of the war's most significant raids, it is scarcely mentioned in...

    $229.00

  • A THUNDER BIRD IN BOMBER COMMAND
    SEAN FEAST
    Shot down and killed in April 1944, Lionel Anderson, a low flying Mosquito intruder pilot, was part way through his second tour of operations. He had survived his first tour stooging up and down the French coast in an outdated Boulton Paul Defiant to confound the German night fighter defenses and allow the Royal Air Force bombers a free run to the target. Lionel’s journey to wa...

    $268.54

  • A PATHFINDER'S WAR
    TED STOCKER / SEAN FEAST
    The only RAF flight engineer to be awarded a Distinguished Service Order recounts his prolific WWII combat career in this engaging military memoir. Flight Lieutenant Ted Stocker lived a charmed life. Joining the Royal Air Force as a teenager, he trained as one of the famous Halton Aircraft Apprentices known as Trenchard's Brats. Stationed at RAF Boscombe Down, he flew prototype...

    $229.00

  • COMING DOWN IN THE DRINK
    SEAN FEAST
    Coming Down in the Drink is the story of Flight Lieutenant John Brennan DFC. John is an Irishman who need not have fought in the war at all. A sense of adventure took him to London where he trained as a chef before joining the RAF and qualifying as a wireless operator/air gunner.Posted to 148 Squadron in the Middle East in 1941, John was soon in the fray as the front gunner of ...

    $279.00

  • THE LAST OF THE 39-ERS
    SEAN FEAST
    The story of the RAF pilot and POW shot down in 1939—including his role in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III—is told in this intimate WWII biography. While on a reconnaissance sortie over Germany in 1939, Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Alfie Fripp was shot down by the Luftwaffe and taken prisoner. The longest-serving British prisoner of war, he was also the last of the s...

    $229.00

  • THE PATHFINDER COMPANION
    SEAN FEAST
    Veterans of the RAF's legendary Pathfinder Force share their personal accounts of WWII in this authoritative history by the author of Master Bombers. During the Second World War, the Pathfinder Force was the corps d'élite of Bomber Command. Literally leading the charge in the Royal Air Force's bombing raids over Nazi occupied territory, the aircrews of the PFF required top notc...

    $229.00

  • MASTER BOMBERS
    SEAN FEAST
    The wartime exploits and experiences of an RAF bomber pathfinder squadron are recounted in this WWII history—"A stunning war book" ( Oxford Times, UK). Formed in July 1942, the Pathfinder Force was the corps d'élite of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command. The Squadrons of the PFF were tasked with marking targets and leading bomber formations to the right place at the right tim...

    $229.00

  • CHURCHILL'S NAVIGATOR
    JOHN MITCHELL / SEAN FEAST
    An RAF pilot who flew around the world with Winston Churchill during World War II tells his story.   An RAF Volunteer Reserve officer, John Mitchell was mobilized on the outbreak of war—and just missed going to join a Battle Squadron in France where he would have undoubtedly been killed. Instead, he was posted to No. 58 Squadron flying Whitleys, surviving a tour of operations i...

    $251.00

  • HALTON BOYS
    SEAN FEAST
    A history of the twentieth-century Royal Air Force training programme as told by the men who lived it. The RAF Halton Apprenticeship Scheme has a deserved reputation for excellence. The brainchild of MRAF Hugh Trenchard, the founder of the Royal Air Force, it took the “traditional” idea of an apprenticeship and interpreted it in a novel way. It allowed teenage boys from any soc...

    $229.00