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by Jim Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
When pilots sit around an airport or get together at a hotel lounge for beers or cocktails, theyre almost certain to regale each other, and anyone else who will listen, with embellished tales of their greatest aviation exploits. The longer these stories continue, the more the similarities grow between...
Soldiers with Spanners
The Ground Crews' View During the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Soldiers with Spanners: The Ground Crews’ View During the Second World War is unique in that it tells in pictures the story of the men in the USAAF’s 2nd Air Division during the war. The majority of pictures were taken by the young men themselves, providing a uniquely poignant and accurate record...
by Manfred Griehl
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Late in 1938, the German Navy Supreme Command commissioned a report into the combat effectiveness of its airborne divisions. As a result of its findings, the German High Command instigated a major construction program for planes with a specifically maritime role: carrier-borne, reconnaissance, mine...
Teach Yourself to Fly
The classic guide to flying a plane
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
First published in 1938, Teach Yourself To Fly was not only one of the very first Teach Yourself books to be published but the first to actually change the world. It was used on the eve of the second world war to prepare pilot recruits and conscripts before they were called for service, and as such...
by Michael Joosten
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
Little pilots can learn all about exciting airplanes and famous aviators in this high-flying Little Golden Book!
Climb aboard and soar the skies with this adventure-filled look at a subject all children are fascinated by: airplanes! Full of exciting illustrations, simple sentences, and unbelievable...
The Royal Navy Wasp
An Operational and Retirement History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
This book tells the story of the first helicopter in the world designed from the outset to be deployed at sea, in Destroyers and Frigates. It is primarily based on the words of those who operated it. Designed from the outset to cope with the restricted space of a warship both for stowage and flight...
by Claude Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The Glider Pilot Regiment, having been raised as the first element of the new Army Air Corps in 1942 and disbanded in 1957, can probably claim the dubious distinction of having been the smallest and shortest-lived Regiment ever to form part of the British Army. Nevertheless, in those few years the...
by Martin Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Charged with the formidable task of locating and marking German targets for attack by the main force of Bomber Command, the Path Finder Force - 8 (PFF) Group and those in 5 Group - was perhaps the most experienced and highly trained elite group created within the Royal Air Force during World War II....
Coming Down in the Drink
The Survival of Bomber 'Goldfish', John Brennan DFC
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Coming Down in the Drink is the story of Flight Lieutenant John Brennan DFC. John is an Irishman who need not have fought in the war at all. A sense of adventure took him to London where he trained as a chef before joining the RAF and qualifying as a wireless operator/air gunner. Posted to 148 Squadron...
Broken Wings
The Hungarian Air Force, 1918-45
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Drawing upon a wealth of previously untranslated documents, Broken Wings tells how a European nation built an entire air force in secret. Carved up and banned from having a military air service after World War I, Hungary became determined to rearm itself. In the early 1920s, Allied inspectors were...
by Martin W Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Here, Martin Bowman brings us the first book on Operation Varsity to include both British and US air and ground operations, as well as the US, British and Canadian paratroop and resupply missions, all presented together in one ambitious volume.
Operation ‘Varsity-Plunder’, the last large-scale...
Malta Strikes Back
The Role of Malta in the Mediterranean Theatre 1940-1942
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
“The key to our position in the whole Mediterranean lay in Malta.” (Tedder)
Two of the greatest strategic mistakes by Hitler involved failure to take control of two key locations, Gibraltar and Malta; between them these two were able to influence, and at times dominate, the Western Mediterranean...
Never Land
Adventures, Wonder, and One World Record in a Very Small Plane
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
According to W. Scott Olsen, there are two reasons for flying. The first is just to get somewhere. The second has nothing to do with destination. It is this second reason, expressing our deepest curiosity and our longings for infinity, grace, and clarity, that Never Land explores. At once frankly...
La retraite de Russie
Nouvelles autobiographiques
Language: French
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Panique sur la piste d'atterrissage !
Un grain de sable, ou plutôt de neige, dans un vol soigneusement préparé amène un commandant à se faire dépasser par son avion... jusqu'à se retrouver aligné sur la mauvaise piste…
Michel Vanvaerenbergh nous invite à embarquer dans ce...