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  • DORNIER DO 217
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    DORNIER DO 217
    CHRIS GOSS
    “The imagery itself is the book’s main asset. Many of the photographs are rare, showing variations in camouflage, theater markings, and unit insignia that highlight the operational diversity of the Do 217.” – The Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation Entering service in early 1941, the Dornier Do 217 was designed as an improved version of the ‘Flying Pencil’, the Do 17...

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  • THE BELGIAN RAF PILOT WHO DEFIED THE GESTAPO
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    THE BELGIAN RAF PILOT WHO DEFIED THE GESTAPO
    MARC AUDRIT
    Jean de Selys Longchamps’ daring 1943 Gestapo headquarters raid is vividly explored in this myth-dispelling biography. In a breathtaking moment lasting less than ten seconds, skimming the rooftops of Brussels, Jean de Selys Longchamps would etch his name into the annals of history. On 20 January 1943, piloting his Hawker Typhoon, he daringly strafed the Gestapo's headquarters i...

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  • BATTLE OF BRITAIN TARGET LONDON
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    BATTLE OF BRITAIN TARGET LONDON
    DILIP SARKAR MBE
    “If you want a day-by-day, mission-by-mission, and virtually every combat-by-combat account, of the Battle of Britain, here's your book…” – Historical Miniatures Gaming Society In 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 summe...

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  • MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN
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    MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN
    TIM HILLIER-GRAVES
    “As an examination of what made Montgomery and Rommel tick, this offers excellent analysis. … a nice, fast, well-written read.” -Historical Miniatures Gaming Society It is more than a hundred years since the First World War fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen was killed in combat on the Western Front. By then, due to a strange twist of fate, his name was becoming as well known i...

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  • CHINA'S STEALTH FIGHTER
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    CHINA'S STEALTH FIGHTER
    ABRAHAM ABRAMS
    A detailed exploration of China’s J-20 stealth fighter, its development, impact, and role in reshaping global power dynamics. The United States and Soviet Union began a race to develop the first and most capable fifth generation stealth fighters in the late 1970s. The Cold War’s end, however, was followed by both a near total collapse of Russian efforts and major cuts and delay...

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  • ESCAPE FROM HITLER'S REICH
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    ESCAPE FROM HITLER'S REICH
    MARTIN W BOWMAN
    “Bowman’s prose is clean and unfussy, letting the airmen speak for themselves. Excerpts from diaries, letters, and official reports bring palpable emotion—moments of desperation jostle with flashes of hope, and the camaraderie that sustained these men leaps off the page. Together, these firsthand voices paint a vivid portrait of the ingenuity and human spirit that flourished be...

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  • THE DEATH OF PRINCE GEORGE, DUKE OF KENT, 1942
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    THE DEATH OF PRINCE GEORGE, DUKE OF KENT, 1942
    M S MORGAN
    To the fifteen passengers and crew onboard the lumbering Short Sunderland flying boat, everything appeared normal and routine as it lifted off from the seaplane base at RAF Invergordon on Sunday, 25 August 1942. Its destination was Iceland, where one of the passengers, Air Commodore HRH Prince George, The Duke of Kent, supported by his entourage, was to undertake an inspection ...

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  • THE DEATH OF GUY GIBSON
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    THE DEATH OF GUY GIBSON
    M. S. MORGAN
    On the night of 19/20 September 1944, a force of 227 Avro Lancasters and ten de Havilland Mosquitoes was dispatched to attack the German towns of Mönchengladbach and Rheydt. The Master Bomber for the raid was none other than Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson VC, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar. Along with his navigator, Squadron Leader James Warwick DFC, Gibson was flying Mosquito KB627 o...

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  • A HISTORY OF MILITARY ENCOUNTERS WITH UFOS
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    A HISTORY OF MILITARY ENCOUNTERS WITH UFOS
    ROBERT ALLRED
    “This book was a fun read that was hard to put down.” -Toy Soldier Collector & Historical Figures Military bodies around our planet have encountered, and even clashed with, UFOs, or as the U.S. military now defines them, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena – UAP. These observations and engagements have occurred for well over a century, at least, and on all continents. Different natio...

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  • FLYING BOAT PILOT IN WAR AND PEACE
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    FLYING BOAT PILOT IN WAR AND PEACE
    MARK ALDERSON
    “…this one is best read in order, front to back. On subsequent rounds on the hunt for specific topics you will be ably guided by endnotes and a superbly well subdivided index that slices and dices the contents any which way, including, for instance, separate listings by aircraft registration number or engine type.” -SpeedReaders.info At the age of twelve, on hearing that Sir Ro...

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  • THE PANAVIA TORNADO AT LOW-LEVEL
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    THE PANAVIA TORNADO AT LOW-LEVEL
    SCOTT RATHBONE
    “The photos are spectacular, are large enough and clear enough to be used by the modeler, especially due to the number of shots where you're looking down on the aircraft! The text sections are informative and well written as well.” – Aeroscale The small group of enthusiasts and photographers who had braved the winter weather and gathered on the slopes of the Lake District’s ico...

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  • BATTLE OF BRITAIN AIRFIELDS UNDER ATTACK
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    BATTLE OF BRITAIN AIRFIELDS UNDER ATTACK
    DILIP SARKAR / DILIP SARKAR MBE
    In 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 summer of 1940 from all sides. In so doing, he gives due acknowledgement to the roles of Bomber and Coastal Commands in addition to the fabled Few of Fighter Command. This unique nar...

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  • ONE OF OUR PILOTS IS SAFE
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    ONE OF OUR PILOTS IS SAFE
    WILLIAM SIMPSON
    In the early hours of 10 May 1940, Hitler’s armed forces launched their invasion of France and the Low Countries. Shattering the tense peace of the Phoney War, German troops poured west over the borders of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, supported throughout by the Luftwaffe. Having been deployed to the Continent on the outbreak of war in 1939, the aircrew of t...

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  • F-35 IN SERVICE
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    F-35 IN SERVICE
    GERARD KEIJSPER
    A highly illustrated study of one of the most most lethal, survivable, and connected fighter jets in the world. The origins of the F-35 and the amazing challenges the industry had to be overcome go back to a still-secret NATO study that evaluated the vulnerability of air force bases in the West. This spurred development for Short Take off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) fighter ai...

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  • SPITFIRE PILOT AIR COMMODORE GEOFFREY STEPHENSON
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    SPITFIRE PILOT AIR COMMODORE GEOFFREY STEPHENSON
    JOHN SHIELDS
    Under cloudless blue skies, the Oakwood Cemetery Annex in Montgomery, Alabama hosts the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the United States. Most of the graves contain young RAF trainee pilots killed during their flying training at nearby Maxwell and Gunter airfields during the Second World War. However, there is another grave, located at the edge of the pl...

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  • BATTLE OF BRITAIN SPITFIRE ACE
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    BATTLE OF BRITAIN SPITFIRE ACE
    PETER J USHER
    “We do learn of the life and loss of one man and his family, a story worth reading and remembering.” -The NYMAS Review Battle of Britain Spitfire Ace is the story of a young Canadian who in a short time, and for a brief time, mastered Britain’s most legendary war machine, the Spitfire. It is also the story of a young English woman who was for a short time his wife, and for a lo...

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  • BOMBER COMMAND PILOT: FROM THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN TO THE AUGSBURG RAID
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    BOMBER COMMAND PILOT: FROM THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN TO THE AUGSBURG RAID
    GERALD SHERWOOD
    John Sherwood was commissioned into the RAF as a pilot officer on leaving school in 1936. In mid-1940, he was posted to a frontline bomber squadron. He went on to undertake a full tour of thirty sorties against enemy targets during the summer of 1940, earning himself a Distinguished Flying Cross for his part in what has become known as the ‘Battle of the Barges’. Sherwood flew ...

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  • THE TRANS-ATLANTIC PIONEERS
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    THE TRANS-ATLANTIC PIONEERS
    BRUCE HALES-DUTTON
    Every day up to 3,000 aircraft fly across the Atlantic Ocean. If each one carries 250 passengers, that could mean as many as 750,000 people on the move between Europe and North America. The main concern for most is the choice of in-flight movie or whether to have beef or chicken for dinner. A century ago it was very different. Before John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown’s epic ...

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  • SIR ALAN COBHAM
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    SIR ALAN COBHAM
    COLIN CRUDDAS
    Flying in the years between the two world wars was the preserve of the powerful and the wealthy, or so it was until Sir Alan Cobham’s ‘Flying Circus’ began to tour Britain.A former pilot with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, Alan Cobham continued to fly, establishing air routes to the Empire countries. He also involved himself in aerial photography and survey work...

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  • THE TRANS-ATLANTIC PIONEERS
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    THE TRANS-ATLANTIC PIONEERS
    BRUCE HALES-DUTTON
    Every day up to 3,000 aircraft fly across the Atlantic Ocean. If each one carries 250 passengers, that could mean as many as 750,000 people on the move between Europe and North America. The main concern for most is the choice of in-flight movie or whether to have beef or chicken for dinner. A century ago it was very different. Before John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown’s epic ...

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  • LOCKHEED TRISTAR
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    LOCKHEED TRISTAR
    GRAHAM M. SIMONS
    “A thoughtful, well-organized overview from the beginning to the twilight days of this iconic airliner” by the highly regarded aviation historian (Large Scale Planes).   In April 1972, after six grueling years of design and development, the then Lockheed California Company (now Lockheed Martin) delivered the most technologically advanced commercial jet of its era, the L-1011 Tr...

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  • RAF WEST MALLING
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    RAF WEST MALLING
    ANTHONY J. MOOR
    “Inspiring history of the first designated night fighter base . . . an important piece of social and military history . . . a must-read!” —Books Monthly   Anthony J. Moor’s exhaustively researched and highly illustrated book is the first to tell the full story of the part West Malling played in the defense of the United Kingdom, and how it served the RAF for twenty-eight action...

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  • SPITFIRE ACE OF ACES: THE ALBUM
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    SPITFIRE ACE OF ACES: THE ALBUM
    DILIP SARKAR
    Air 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 pilot of the Second World War. A one-time household name synonymous with the superlative Spitfire, Johnnie’s aerial combat successes inspired schoolboys for generations. As a ‘lowly Pi...

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  • WARBIRDS TO WORKHORSES
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    WARBIRDS TO WORKHORSES
    BOB DAVY / KEITH WILSON
    Bob Davy and Keith Wilson have been combining their respective talents for more than twenty years, flying and photographing a variety of aircraft for flight test features, and having their work published around the world. This lavishly illustrated book represents the first opportunity to prepare a wide selection of their combined work in hardback form. Warbirds featured include...

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  • THE LOST DAMBUSTER LANCASTER
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    THE LOST DAMBUSTER LANCASTER
    TREVOR KERRY / GAËTAN SAGOT
    In the late afternoon of 24 June 1944, eighteen aircraft from 617 Squadron, led to fame by Wing Commander Guy Gibson during the attack on the dams raid in May 1943, took off from their base at Woodhall Spa. Their target was the vast V2 rocket site at Wizernes in the Pas de Calais. Known today as La Coupole, this bunker complex had been built to serve as a reinforced launch site...

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  • THE U-2 OVER THE SOVIET UNION
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    THE U-2 OVER THE SOVIET UNION
    DMITRY DEGTEV
    On 1 May 1960, a traditional military parade was held in Moscow. What stood it out from the previous ones, however, was the number of missiles, and in particular the ground-to-air anti-aircraft variants, that were present. There was perhaps nothing surprising in this dominance of missiles, for Nikita Khrushchev had already declared that the so-called Rocket Troops were to be th...

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  • TERROR OVER AFRICA
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    TERROR OVER AFRICA
    STANLEY STEWART
    Terror over Africa is the astonishing tale about a flight of fear, terror and a horrific near death experience and, in the aftermath, about a drama of subterfuge, deceit and an alleged criminal cover up. The ‘Nairobi Incident’ is an astonishing event of flying’s worst nightmare, and it occurred over Sudan on British Airways’ Flight 2069 on 29 December 2000. In the early hours, ...

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  • BOMBER CREW MORALE IN WW2
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    BOMBER CREW MORALE IN WW2
    PETER CROFT
    During the Second World War, 125,000 aircrew served in RAF Bomber Command, of whom a staggering 55,573 were killed—about 44% of those who joined its ranks. Despite these odds, aircrews climbed into their aircraft night after night, facing near-certain death. How did they maintain morale in the face of such peril? RAF High Command recognized the importance of morale but struggle...

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  • DEFEATING THE JAPANESE ZEROS
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    DEFEATING THE JAPANESE ZEROS
    R J GORMAN
    “… a worthwhile and enjoyable introduction for general readers to the Navy’s significant role in World War II and to a naval aviator whose memory should enjoy a large and enduring popular legacy.” – National Maritime Historical Society In the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a report from Nationalist China described a mysterious "super fighter plane" used by Japanese f...

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  • THE SECRET BATTLE FOR BRITAIN
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    THE SECRET BATTLE FOR BRITAIN
    M. S. MORGAN / M S MORGAN
    The dramatic story of Franz von Werra, famously the only Axis PoW to succeed in escaping and make it home during the Second World War, is told in the 1957 movie The One That Got Away. The film details von Werra’s interrogation by RAF intelligence in 1940, presenting an enlightening, but compressed, version of his treatment following his capture in the Battle of Britain. The scr...

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