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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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  • HITLER'S AIR WAR IN SPAIN
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    HITLER'S AIR WAR IN SPAIN
    NORMAN RIDLEY
    Almost since the advent of warfare, civilians have suffered ‘collateral damage’, but the concept of Total War – a war without limits – only surfaced in the early part of the twentieth century. The idea of huge numbers of aircraft raining death upon defenceless cities was seen by many as not only barbaric but, in practical terms, quite unrealistic given the logistical challenges...

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  • THUNDERBOLTS OVER BURMA
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    THUNDERBOLTS OVER BURMA
    ANGUS FINDON / MARK HILLIER
    A Royal Air Force pilot shares a riveting account of flying into combat against the Japanese in this WWII memoir supported by additional research. Though ill health initially kept Angus Findon from joining the Royal Air Force, he never gave up his dream. In 1945 he joined 34 Squadron and was soon flying Republic P-47 Thunderbolts in the last battles of the Second World War. He ...

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  • POLES IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
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    POLES IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
    PETER SIKORA
    A pictorial history of the valiant Polish aviators who aided the RAF in the fight against the Luftwaffe. The Polish Air Force, which was created in Britain in the summer of 1940 from flying and ground personnel evacuated from Poland and then from France, proved to be one of the most successful formations to fight the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. Overcoming the obstac...

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  • FIGHTERS IN THE BLOOD
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    FIGHTERS IN THE BLOOD
    BLACK' ROBERTSON
    A retired RAF air marshal looks back on his career and the career of his World War II pilot father in this military memoir. As this fascinating memoir unfolds, moving backwards and forwards through time, two parallel stories emerge: one of a Second World War Spitfire ace whose flying career comes to a premature end when he’s shot down and loses an eye, the other of his progeny,...

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  • FAST JETS TO SPITFIRES
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    FAST JETS TO SPITFIRES
    RON LLOYD
    A memoir of RAF service in the postwar era and the golden age of British military aviation, including photos. How often have you glanced skyward at the sound of a passing aircraft and wondered what it would be like to fly one of those gleaming metal machines? Or admired the skill and daring of the fighter pilot swooping down upon his enemy in the awe-inspiring, unrivaled elegan...

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  • P-51 MUSTANG
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    P-51 MUSTANG
    ROBERT JACKSON / LYNN RITGER
    An illustrated history of the renowned fighter aircraft, ideal for modelers and aviation enthusiasts: “Highly recommended.” —AMPS Indianapolis The North American P-51 Mustang was one of the most successful and effective fighter aircraft of all time. It was initially produced in response to a 1940 RAF requirement for a fast, heavily armed fighter able to operate effectively at a...

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  • SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT—FROM 'V' BOMBERS TO CONCORDE
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    SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT—FROM 'V' BOMBERS TO CONCORDE
    JOHN R. W. SMITH
    A behind-the-scenes look at the aeronautical engineers who keep the skies safe. Many are surprised to learn that flying is, statistically, the safest means of transportation. Even less well known is the crucial role that flight test observers and engineers play in ensuring that level of safety. In this book, one of them recounts his experience as an aeronautical engineer workin...

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  • THE PETLYAKOV PE-2
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    THE PETLYAKOV PE-2
    PETER C. SMITH
    The definitive book on the development and deployment of the Soviet Union’s supreme dive-bomber—with rare archival and private photos. During the Second World War, the Petlyakov Pe-2 Peshka was the Soviet Union’s main dive- and light-bomber in operations across the Eastern Front. It became a mainstay of the Soviet counteroffensive that led to the fall of Berlin. They also led t...

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  • THE TORNADO YEARS
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    THE TORNADO YEARS
    DAVID HERRIOT
    “Brings us into the back seat of these remarkable British aircraft and provides insights unavailable until now . . . a true gem.” —The Aviationist Following the success of The Adventures of a Cold War Fast-Jet Navigator: The Buccaneer Years, which won the Aviation Enthusiasts’ Book Club’s coveted “Book of the Year” award in 2018, Wing Commander David Herriot now explores that p...

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  • PIONEERING PLACES OF BRITISH AVIATION
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    PIONEERING PLACES OF BRITISH AVIATION
    BRUCE HALES-DUTTON
    A high-flying tour of British aviation history—and the sites where trials and triumphs took place. From the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain was at the forefront of powered flight. Across the country, many places became centers of innovation and experimentation, as increasing numbers of daring men took to the skies. In 1799, at Brompton Hall, Sir George Cayley Bart ...

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