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THE HURRICANE PILOT WHO BECAME A GESTAPO AGENT

M. S. MORGAN

Tucked away in the archives of the Museum for Transport and Technology in Berlin is an old photograph of a Hawker Hurricane on public display. The image must have been taken before the night of 23/24 November 1943, when the museum and the greater part of its collection – including the Hurricane – were destroyed in a RAF bombing raid. The aircraft in the photograph bore a squadr...

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AGAINST HITLER'S LUFTWAFFE IN THE BALKANS

DJORDJE I. NIKOLIC / OGNJAN M. PETROVIC

"The extraordinary photographs of aircraft, personnel, and facilities set this book apart." -The Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation Immediately following the end of the First World War, the air force of the newly-formed Southern Slav State, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, was forced to rely mainly on war-time Serbian Air Service aircraft and material left...

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ENEMY SIGHTED'

DILIP AMIN

Enemy Sighted is the story of the world's first integrated air defense system and how the coalition of Hurricanes and Spitfires, Fighter Command's Operations Rooms and Sector Stations, Radar Stations, Observer Corps posts, anti-aircraft gun and searchlight batteries, and balloon barrages, stood resolutely in the way of Operation Seelöwe, Hitler's plan for invading Britain in th...

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NAVAL AVIATOR

CHRIS TAYLOR

Chris Taylor has had a very successful career as a Royal Navy officer, helicopter pilot, test pilot and instructor. His first book, Test Pilot, concentrates on anecdotes and incidents from the most recent phase of his career. His second book, Experimental Test Pilot, is an account of his ten years' service as an experimental test pilot, from 1994 until 2004, at MoD Boscombe Dow...

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FLYING AND PRESERVING HISTORIC AIRCRAFT

DAVID FREDERICK OGILVY

David Ogilvy has spent more than a full working life in aviation. As a schoolboy he was sent out with a bugle and binoculars to blow a warning if a V1 ﬂying bomb appeared. Soon after this, he joined the Royal Air Force and served for six years as a pilot, ﬂying types ranging from the Tiger Moth to the Mosquito and Meteor. As a civilian he spent fourteen years involved in pilot ...

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THE RAF'S ARMOURERS

TONY LAMSDALE / PHIL APPLEBY

It is said that one of the earliest trades in the world is that of the armorer. Historically, it is a profession dated slightly after prostitution, but well before banking! Since the birth of the Royal Flying Corps in 1912 through to the modern Royal Air Force, the role of the armorer has been pivotal. Not for nothing did the founder of the RAF, Lord Trenchard, once declare: 'T...

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100 YEARS OF CIVIL AVIATION

BEN SKIPPER

An examination of civil aviation history from the end of World War I to the retiring of the Jumbo Jet. The book examines a century of civil aviation; in 1919 a fledgling industry was born out of civilianizing First World War bombers. The book covers the design and development of civil aircraft and all the personalities that shaped the industry; it features the hay-day of air tr...

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THE BREAKING STORM

DILIP SARKAR

In The Breaking Storm, the first of Dilip Sarkar's unprecedented seven-volume series exploring the Battle of Britain, the events that led up to the outbreak of war in 1939, and which set the scene for the epic aerial conflict of summer 1940, are fully explored. Continuing his examination of the events of the Spitfire Summer, in The Breaking Storm Dilip provides a day-by-day chr...

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AIR BATTLE FOR LENINGRAD

DMITRY DEGTEV / DMITRY ZUBOV

This book examines the full story of the German and Soviet aerial battles in the Leningrad sector during the siege. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War. The second largest and most populous city in the Soviet Union, Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, was one of the three priority targets of the German invasion, Operation Barbarossa. A t...

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ONLY THE LIGHT MOVES

FRANCIS A. DOHERTY

"Doherty writes from the heart. The descriptions of his missions are nothing less than hair-raising. He describes his struggles with coming to grips with the war and the senseless death of so many young men." — The Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation Only the Light Moves tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old US Army pilot who volunteered to fly covert S.O.G., or ...

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ONE OF OUR OWN

DAVID DUKER

This is the enthralling story of a young man who found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest turning points in recent history – The Battle of Britain. Guided by the diaries that he meticulously kept throughout his wartime experience and that lay unread for over eighty years, Victor Howard Ekins' story is one of duty, loss, friendship and love. He would meet his wife Ki...

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THE ROYAL AUXILIARY AIR FORCE

FRANCES LOUISE WILKINSON / TONY FREEMAN

Owing its origins to Lord Trenchard's desire to establish an elite corps of civilians who would serve their country in flying squadrons during their spare time, the Auxiliary Air Force (AAF) was first formed in October 1924. Today, the Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF) is the primary reinforcement capability for the regular RAF. It consists of paid volunteers who, at weekends,...

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CHEATING HITLER

MARTIN W. BOWMAN

"The reader anxious or merely curious to know what it was like to flee under the threat of being shot or capture will experience it all here." —ARGunners.com For most, and particularly the injured and the wounded, being shot down over Occupied Europe during the Second World War meant that capture was immediate, that imprisonment was almost inevitable. For some, evasion was poss...

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THE GATHERING STORM

DILIP SARKAR

Dilip Sarkar has studied the Battle of Britain period for a lifetime and is renowned for his meticulous research and evidence-based approach, setting events within the broadest possible context. In doing so, he has helped enrich our appreciation and understanding of the past. In this, the first of a new seven volume series on the Battle of Britain, we have the background to the...

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THE RAF'S ROAD TO D-DAY

GREG BAUGHEN

By the summer of 1943, the Third Reich's fate seemed sealed. The combined might of Britain and the Commonwealth nations, the United States and the Soviet Union had made a Germany victory impossible. All that remained to decide was how the Allies should complete their victory. Would strategic bombing decide the outcome or would ground and air forces working together play the mor...

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US NAVAL AVIATION, 1945–2003

LEO MARRIOTT

In this the highly illustrated second volume of his history of US naval aviation, Leo Marriott takes the reader through the extraordinary developments in design and capability that transformed American aircraft and aircraft carriers after the Second World War, and he describes the succession of conflicts in which they were deployed. Increasingly, advanced jets replaced propelle...

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THE ARGENTINE FLYING FORTRESS

SANTIAGO RIVAS

In the 1960's guerrillas were operating in almost all Latin American countries, as well as in Africa and Asia, and the need of specialized weapons to fight them arose. The Argentine Air Force, seeing this threat grow, asked the FMA factory to produce a counterinsurgency airplane to equip the force, but also to offer on the international market. After several proposals were anal...

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A ROYAL NAVY COLD WAR BUCCANEER PILOT

STEVE KERSHAW

This is a vivid and powerful story of life on board the last of our great Second World War-era aircraft carriers, modernized to serve beyond their time. It is a story of the Cold War which conveys the trials and tribulations of flying one of the best-loved military aircraft in history. Steve Kershaw joined the Royal Navy in 1963. He began flying training in 1968 and progressed ...

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BATTLE OF BRITAIN THE MOVIE

ROBERT J. RUDHALL / DILIP SARKAR

An in-depth account of the greatest aviation war film ever made, the first major movie to deal with the aerial conflicts above Britain during 1940. Released in 1969, the film Battle of Britain went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. As well as its large all-star international cast, the film was notable for its spectacular flying sequences which were o...

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EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOT

CHRIS TAYLOR

Chris Taylor has had a very successful career as a Royal Navy officer, helicopter pilot, test pilot, instructor and as an internationally acclaimed civil certification test pilot. His first book, Test Pilot, concentrates on anecdotes and incidents from the most recent phase of his career. This book is the prequel and is his account of his ten years' service as an experimental t...

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THE GREATEST ESCAPE

MARTIN BARRATT

This is the story of a wartime bomber, its crew and of a tantalizing detective story unfolding over nearly a quarter of a century of intensive research. It is also a story of courage, fortitude and endurance and of one man's will to survive against seemingly insurmountable odds. Bomber Command's horrific loss rate during the Second World War cannot be underestimated. Of the 120...

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SPITFIRE FACES

DILIP SARKAR

The Supermarine Spitfire arguably remains the most iconic fighter aircraft ever produced. Unsurprisingly, it has become a symbol of British excellence and national pride. Interest in the Spitfire remains undiminished as time goes on, and its bibliography is virtually infinite. while many of these books feature the technical and operational history of the Spitfire, this book fea...

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THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN ON THE BIG SCREEN

DILIP SARKAR

During 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 productions was The First of the Few, which was the biggest grossing film of 1942. In the immediate post-war period, to start with there were no British aviation war films. The first to...

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I HAD A ROW WITH A GERMAN

THOMAS PERCY GLEAVE

Thomas 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 requested a return to Fighter Command. He took command of 253 Squadron just in time for the start of the Battle of Britain, acquiring fame for claiming five Messerschmitt Bf 109s in a singl...

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FREE FRENCH SPITFIRE HERO

DILIP SARKAR / JAN LEEMING

René Mouchotte was born on 21 August 1914, at Saint Mande, Paris. He joined the Armée de l'Air for his period of military service in 1934, obtaining his flying brevet. Though Mouchotte returned to civilian life, he was called up at the outbreak of war in 1939, becoming a Sergeant-Pilot instructor in North Africa. When France capitulated in June 1940, Mouchotte and fellow pilot ...

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THE BOEING B-17

BEN SKIPPER

The B-17 Flying Fortress, a term coined by a Seattle Daily Times report in 1935, was a quantum leap in offensive air power. Designed for a nation whose foreign policy was still deeply isolationist, and an Air Corps whose in-service bomber fleet was dominated by bi-planes, the B-17, with its four engines, huge wingspan, enviable payload – almost double that of contemporary bombe...

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DORNIER DO 17 IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

CHRIS GOSS

In this comprehensive pictorial record of the Do 17, the bomber's role throughout the period of the Battle of Britain is displayed in the author's unique collection of British and German photographs. During Britain's desperate struggle for survival that in the summer of 1940, the Dornier Do 17 played a prominent part in raids designed at neutralizing the RAF's ability to resist...

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THE RAF'S CROSS-CHANNEL OFFENSIVE

JOHN STARKEY

The story of the RAF, and in particular Fighter Command, during the Battle of Britain has been told many times. It is a tale of the gallant pilots of 'The Few', in their Hurricanes and Spitfires, with the nation's back to the wall, fighting off the Luftwaffe's airborne assault against enormous odds. But the story of Fighter Command's operations immediately after the Battle of B...

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HITLER'S AIR BRIDGES

DMITRY DEGTEV / DMITRY ZUBOV

Much has been written about the famous fighters and bombers of the Luftwaffe which proved so successful in the invasion of Poland, the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain and in the early operations in Eastern Europe. Little attention, however, has been focused on the Luftwaffe's transport aircraft which played a vital role in supplying German forces in every theatre. In ea...

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HITLER'S AIR BRIDGES

DMITRY DEGTEV / DMITRY ZUBOV

Much has been written about the famous fighters and bombers of the Luftwaffe which proved so successful in the invasion of Poland, the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain and in the early operations in Eastern Europe. Little attention, however, has been focused on the Luftwaffe's transport aircraft which played a vital role in supplying German forces in every theatre. In ea...

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