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  • CHAPELON
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    CHAPELON
    HCB ROGERS
    Colonel Roger's book on André Chapelon, originally published in 1972, has been difficult to obtain for many years. It remains the best and most detailed biography of the man and his work. It is both a readable and accessible guide to the life and achievements of a man whom few would disagree was the foremost steam locomotive engineer the world has ever seen. ...

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  • BATTLE UNDER THE MOON
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    BATTLE UNDER THE MOON
    JACK CURRIE
    This is a gripping account of the ill-fated RAF raid, on 3 May 1944, on the Panzer tank depot and military barracks at Mailly-le-Camp south of Rheims in northern France, part of the softening up process on German military targets, in preparation for the D-Day landings. Raids like this over occupied France were considered relatively low risk affairs and only counted for one thir...

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  • THE PHANTOM OF SCAPA FLOW
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    THE PHANTOM OF SCAPA FLOW
    ALEXANDRE KORGANOFF
    On the night of 13/14 October 1939, the German commander of U-boat U-47, Günther Prien, steered past the sunken block ships and chains which inadequately protected the British naval base at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. The U-Boat sank the old British World War I battleship HMS Royal Oak and then escaped into the North Sea. The loss of the Royal Oak was insignificant in nav...

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  • AIRBORNE
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    AIRBORNE
    NEIL WILLIAMS
    Due to his reputation for being able to handle the rarest, oldest and most difficult airplanes, Neil Williams was called on to fly some of the most famous and demanding aircraft ever built; from Spitfire, Mosquito, Lancaster, Sea Fury, Yak, Harvard and Heinkel. Neil Williams' experience in these aircraft varied from the exhilaration of a Spitfire first solo; the loneliness of b...

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  • REAR GUNNER PATHFINDERS
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    REAR GUNNER PATHFINDERS
    RON SMITH
    A Bomber Command book with a difference. Rear Gunner Pathfinders is the story of the air war over Germany as seen from the small Perspex bubble of a 'Tail-End Charlie' rear gunner in a Lancaster. Flying firstly with 626 squadron, and later 156 Pathfinder squadron, Ron Smith flew 65 operations and recorded them with the intensity brought on by the isolation of being cocooned in ...

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  • SPITFIRE
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    SPITFIRE
    JEFFREY QUILL
    This is the personal account of an exceptional Spitfire test pilot and RAF and Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot. Starting with lively descriptions of the pre-war Airforce in the mid-1930s, Jeffrey Quill moves on to cover his fascination test flying experiences. He took charge of some of the most important military aircraft of the time and, in particular, the immortal Spitfire, from ...

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  • THE SOMERSET & DORSET
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    THE SOMERSET & DORSET
    PETER SMITH
    In 1987, the original Oxford Publishing Company produced an amalgam of two paperback books written by former Branksome fireman Peter Smith. Mendips Engineman and Footplate over the Mendips told the story of a young railway fireman and his driver Donald Beale. Enthralling the reader with stories of working trains over the old Somerset & Dorset line, the two books encompassed not...

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  • NINE LIVES
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    NINE LIVES
    ALAN C DEERE
    Nine Lives is the renowned autobiography of New Zealand's most famous RAF pilot from the Munich crisis until the invasion of France in 1944. Al Deere experienced the drama of the early days of the Battle of Britain while operating with Spitfire squadrons based at Hornchurch and Manston, and his compelling story tells of the successes and frustrations during those critical weeks...

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  • HAROLD GASSON'S STEAM DAYS
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    HAROLD GASSON'S STEAM DAYS
    HAROLD GASSON
    When Harold Gasson first put pen to paper more than forty years ago, it was at a time when there was a growing resurgence of interest in the steam railway. Three of his books described his life as a fireman based at Didcot shed from the early 1940s. Firing Days was followed by Footplate Days and then Nostalgia Days. Finally, after Harold had forsaken the footplate for the signa...

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  • WAR WITHOUT GARLANDS
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    WAR WITHOUT GARLANDS
    ROBERT KERSHAW
    In the spring of 1941, having abandoned his plans to invade Great Britain, Hitler turned the might of his military forces on to Stalin's Soviet Russia. The German army quickly advanced far into Russian territory as the Soviet forces suffered defeat after defeat. With brutality and savagery displayed on both sides, the Eastern front was a campaign in which no quarter was given. ...

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  • THE TIGER MOTH STORY
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    THE TIGER MOTH STORY
    ALAN BRAMSON
    The Tiger Moth is one of the major aviation success stories in the history of British aviation. Developed by Geoffrey de Havilland and flown for the first time on October 26 1931, the biplane became the most important elementary trainer used by Commonwealth forces. More than 1,000 Tiger Moths were delivered before WWII, and subsequently around 4,000 were built in the UK with an...

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  • LANCASTER TARGET
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    LANCASTER TARGET
    JACK CURRIE
    This is a welcome reissue of a book which has been described as one of the best accounts about life in Bomber Command during World War II. Lancaster Target is the classic story of one crew’s fight to survive a full tour of operations in the night skies of wartime Europe. Flying Lancaster bombers from RAF Wickenby in Lincolnshire between 1943 and 1944, Jack Currie chronicles the...

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