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  • SABOTAGE!
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    SABOTAGE!
    CHRIS WROBLEWSKI / GARTH BARNARD
    On the night of 4 July 1943, transport aircraft Liberator AL523 took off from Gibraltar’s North Front tarmac and within moments crashed into the sea with only one survivor, the pilot. The commander-in-chief of the Polish army and prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, General Władysław Sikorski, was dead. Rumours as to the cause of the crash abounded. Was it pilot er...

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  • FACING ARMAGEDDON
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    FACING ARMAGEDDON
    CHAS HALL
    After being called up for National Service in July 1960, twenty-year-old Chas Hall joined the RAF and signed on to extend his time for an extra three years becoming a regular serviceman. Following initial training, he became a wireless operator and served at RAF Mildenhall. It was shortly after this that he got his first foreign posting in late 1961 to Christmas Island. It was ...

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  • FLEET AIR ARM BOYS
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    FLEET AIR ARM BOYS
    STEVE BOND
    Steve Bond is back with the final volume in this popular series. Unlike his previous three tomes, with their focus on aircraft and rotorcraft, this book is uniquely dedicated to the personnel of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) themselves. Each chapter will concentrate on the memories of contributors who served in a range of roles, including those below the flight deck. Accounts will fo...

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  • JET PROVOST BOYS
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    JET PROVOST BOYS
    DAVID WATKINS
    As a versatile and undemanding aircraft, the Jet Provost established itself as the basic trainer for the RAF from the late 1950s until its retirement in September 1993. In Jet Provost Boys, David Watkins explores the history of this magnificent flying machine through the vivid memories of former air crew from the RAF and foreign air forces. Alongside operating as a basic traini...

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  • FROM SPITFIRES TO VAMPIRES AND BEYOND
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    FROM SPITFIRES TO VAMPIRES AND BEYOND
    OWEN HARDY
    World War Two Spitfire pilot Owen Hardy was probably the last New Zealand ace to tell his story. He left home at 18 bent on joining the RAF and by 1942, aged only 20, he was at Biggin Hill with 72 Squadron under Brian Kingcome. D-Day found him flying over the Normandy beaches with 485 (New Zealand) Squadron. That he survived the war unharmed owed as much to luck as it did to hi...

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  • WOLFPACK WARRIORS
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    WOLFPACK WARRIORS
    ROGER FREEMAN
    In the later years of the Second World War Germany was subjected to a tremendous onslaught by the bomber commands of both the RAF and USAAF, as well as being assaulted by land. For these twin strategies to succeed the Allies had to obtain and hold air supremacy over Western Europe. That this was achieved was predominantly the work of USAAF long-range fighters operating from the...

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  • AIR WAR FOR BURMA
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    AIR WAR FOR BURMA
    CHRISTOPHER SHORES
    In his monumental work Bloody Shambles, Volume Two, Christopher Shores described in detail the British retreat out of Burma, culminating at the end of May 1942. The monsoon then brought operations on land and in the air virtually to a halt for several months as the British and Indian forces prepared to retake Burma. The Japanese however, had very different ideas. Air War for Bu...

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  • TALES OF MY TIME
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    TALES OF MY TIME
    RAYMOND BAXTER
    Raymond Baxter, WW2 fighter pilot, postwar radio and TV commentator at major events from motor races to great State occasions, was later the famous presenter of television’s Tomorrow’s World. Here he tells his action-packed life story with a wry and amusing eye. From such disparate experiences as hair-raising escapes at the controls of a Spitfire over Sicily and occupied Hollan...

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  • LANCASTER DOWN!
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    LANCASTER DOWN!
    STEVE DARLOW
    The grandfather of the author was a pilot in a squadron made up of Britons and Canadians. The story of this crew, from 1942 onwards, is so special because, collectively, they experienced everything possible: dangerous flights, the crash, imprisonment and death. ...

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  • TEMPEST PILOT
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    TEMPEST PILOT
    NORMAN FRANKS / CJ SHEDDAN
    Jimmy Sheddan was one of the many New Zealanders who joined the RNZAF, then left his native land to come to England to fight the enemies of Great Britain and her Empire during World War Two. Through his recollections we can share some of the trials and wartime tribulations they faced. Yet we can read too of the enormous amount of fun these men had despite the dangers and sacrif...

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  • A SEPARATE LITTLE WAR
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    A SEPARATE LITTLE WAR
    ANDREW BIRD
    Every day for nine months from September 1944 to the end of the war, young British, Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff aerodrome in northern Scotland in their Mosquitoes and Beaufighters to target the German U-Boats, merchantmen and freighters plying along the coast and in the fjords and leads of southwest Norway, encountering the Luftwaffe and flakships every st...

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  • BILLY DRAKE, FIGHTER LEADER
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    BILLY DRAKE, FIGHTER LEADER
    B. DRAKE
    Born in London of an English father and Australian mother and educated in Switzerland, Billy Drake was to become one of the most illustrious RAF fighter pilots of World War II, indeed of all time. He flew in many theaters with various squadrons on different aircraft - starting with 1 Squadron in France in 1940 on Hurricanes, then with 421 Flight (later 91 Squadron) on Spitfires...

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  • TONY BLACKMAN TEST PILOT
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    TONY BLACKMAN TEST PILOT
    TONY BLACKMAN
    Tony Blackman OBE, MA FRAeS was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College Cambridge, where he obtained an honors degree in Physics. He learnt to fly in the RAF, trained as a test pilot, and then joined A V Roe where he became chief test pilot. As an expert in aviation electronics he was subsequently invited by Smiths Industries to join their Aerospace Board, initially as te...

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  • MOST SECRET SQUADRON
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    MOST SECRET SQUADRON
    DES CURTIS
    Des Curtis was one of the founder members of 618 Squadron. Formed within days of the illustrious 617, 618’s primary objective was to mount a daylight low-level attack by Mosquitos on the German battleship Tirpitz within hours of the attack on the Ruhr dams. The operation, code named Operation Servant, was given top security classification, to the point where the subject was exc...

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  • STUKA ATTACK
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    STUKA ATTACK
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    The Junkers 87 Stuka was an iconic weapon of World War Two and an aircraft name that was, and still is, instantly recognized worldwide. Its roles in Poland and the Battles of France and the Low Countries are almost legendary, but in the UK its import during the Battle of Britain is one that has never been covered in any specific detail. Here, Andy Saunders takes a critical look...

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  • HUNTING WITH RICHTHOFEN JAGD IN FLANDERNS HIMMEL
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    HUNTING WITH RICHTHOFEN JAGD IN FLANDERNS HIMMEL
    Karl Bodenschatz was the Richthofen squadron adjutant. His historical record offers an insight into the war from the German viewpoint. ...

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  • AIR WAR FOR YUGOSLAVIA GREECE AND CRETE 1940-41
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    AIR WAR FOR YUGOSLAVIA GREECE AND CRETE 1940-41
    BRIAN CULL / CHRISTOPHER SHORES
    The air battle for Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war. In the past, there has been much controversy amongst air historians on many of the details of the operations. It was here, for example, that "Pat" Pattie believed by many to be the Royal Air Force's "unknown" top-scoring fighter pilot of the whole war, saw most of his action....

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  • CONVOY PEEWIT
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    CONVOY PEEWIT
    ANDY SAUNDERS
    During the early hours of 8 August 1940 over twenty merchant ships set sail in Convoy CW9 “Peewit” and edged past Dover, hugging the shore in complete darkness. Whilst unseen to human eyes, the Germans had picked up the large convoy on its Freya radar at Cap Gris Nez and flashed warning messages to the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe. At Boulogne E-Boats were readied and left port i...

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  • D-DAY BOMBERS: THE VETERANS' STORY
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    D-DAY BOMBERS: THE VETERANS' STORY
    STEVE DARLOW
    This book is largely an eye-witness account of the heavy bomber contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and therefore to the winning of the war in Europe. It is told using considerable first-hand experience from the veterans of the campaign, something not really covered in any other books on the subject, together with background information from primary source documen...

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  • FOREVER VIGILANT
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    FOREVER VIGILANT
    GRAHAM PITCHFORK
    208 Squadron based at RAF Valley in Anglesey will be celebrating its 100th anniversary in October 2016, making it one of the few RAF squadrons to achieve this unique distinction whilst still part of the RAF’s current order of battle. To celebrate this achievement, Air Commodore Pitchfork has compiled a chronological history of the squadron’s main activities and personnel with t...

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  • JAGUAR BOYS
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    JAGUAR BOYS
    IAN HALL
    Originally intended as a trainer, the Anglo-French Sepecat jet, equipped with the very latest in weapon-aiming and navigational equipment, eventually became the backbone of the RAF’s tactical strike-attack and recce forces for a decade from the mid-1970s. In these pages, the Jaguar Boys – pilots, engineer and ground crew – tell of the aircraft’s drawbacks and joys, their sadnes...

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  • HARRIER BOYS
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    HARRIER BOYS
    ROBERT MARSTON
    In Harrier Boys, Volume One: Cold War Through the Falklands, 1969-1990, Robert Marston, who flew Harriers for many years, draws together accounts from others who worked with this unique jet through its history. The excitement, camaraderie and pride of Harrier operators shine through in the personal stories of those whose lives were changed by their experience of this iconic air...

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  • INTO THE BLUE
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    INTO THE BLUE
    NORMAN MACMILLAN
    Into the Blue is widely regarded as a literary classic. Originally published in 1929, and 44 years since its latest publication, Grub Street reintroduces you to Norman Macmillan’s insightful and gripping book about his experiences as a pilot during the First World War. Wing Commander Norman Macmillan, OBE, MC, AFC, DL, was born on 9 August 1892 in Glasgow. After serving sixteen...

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  • WIMPY
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    WIMPY
    STEVE BOND
    To date there has been a paucity of books on this remarkable aircraft. Among its claims to fame are the following: the only RAF bomber to serve in its original role from first day of war to last, and in every theater; the first type to bomb Germany; the first type to bomb Berlin; the first type to drop the 4,000lb ‘Cookie’ bomb; and so on. A serious study is well overdue, drawi...

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  • FAST JETS AND OTHER BEASTS
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    FAST JETS AND OTHER BEASTS
    IAN HALL
    Over a thirty-two-year military flying career which spanned a period when the RAF regularly replaced its fighter/bombers, Ian Hall had seven front-line flying tours on five different types. His story starts in Bahrain in the early 1970s, just before the massive contraction that saw the RAF withdraw from the Middle and Far East. This first, Hunter experience is followed by a hom...

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  • V FORCE BOYS
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    V FORCE BOYS
    TONY BLACKMAN / ANTHONY WRIGHT
    The V Force consisted of three four-jet bombers, the Valiant, the Vulcan and the Victor, all required as part of the nuclear deterrent in the Cold War following the end of the Second World War. The Valiant was less aerodynamically advanced than the other two and went into service in 1955. The Vulcan entered service in 1956 and the Victor a year later. The Valiant finished opera...

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  • FROM JET PROVOST TO STRIKEMASTER
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    FROM JET PROVOST TO STRIKEMASTER
    DAVID WATKINS
    This book covers the complete and long overdue history of the Hunting/BAC Jet Provost and Strikemaster, which for thirty-eight years trained generations of pilots and pioneered the RAF’s all-through flying training program. Originally designed and built in 1951 as a private venture by Percival Aircraft in Luton, the Jet Provost became the primary jet-powered training aircraft f...

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  • HARRIER BOYS
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    HARRIER BOYS
    BOB MARSTON
    In the second volume of Harrier Boys, as with the first, the history of this remarkable aircraft in service with UK armed forces is illustrated through personal reminiscences of the people who worked with it. The book begins with explanations of the mature concept of operations with the Harrier GR3 in the Cold War. It then progresses through the evolution of Harrier II, startin...

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  • BUCCANEER BOYS 2
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    BUCCANEER BOYS 2
    GRAHAM PITCHFORK
    Following the critically acclaimed publication eight years ago of Buccaneer Boys, long-serving Buccaneer navigator Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork has now followed up the great success of the book with more true tales from those who flew the last all-British bomber. Thirty Buccaneer ‘Boys’, drawn from the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force and the South African Air Force, outlin...

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  • HERMAN GÖRING FIGHTER ACE
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    HERMAN GÖRING FIGHTER ACE
    PETER KILDUFF
    Over the last 70 years, in countless books and essays, Hermann Göring has been defined by his crimes and excess during the Third Reich and the Second World War. But his activities as a young career military officer in World War I have invariably been glossed over – until now. 'Hermann Göring – Fighter Ace' is the first in-depth look at Göring’s role as a military flyer and air ...

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