Grub Street: 238 books
Billy Bishop VC: Lone Wolf Hunter
The RAF Ace Re-Examined
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
A “superb” look at one of the Great War’s most storied combat pilots and his legendary solo missions, with never-before-published photos (Barrett Tillman).
William Avery Bishop is recognized as the British Empire’s highest-scoring WWI ace, credited with seventy-two combat victories. Overall,...
by Tony Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The scrapping of the Nimrod program has been one of the most controversial events in the military aviation world for many a year.
For most of its operational life, from 1969 to date, its contribution to the defense of the realm and its role in offensive duties was, of necessity, often shrouded...
Victor Boys
True Stories from Forty Memorable Years of the Last V Bomber
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers and the most long lasting, serving in the RAF until 1993, and still doing invaluable service in the first Iraq war. Moreover, in 1982 it was only the Victor tanker fleet based on Ascension Island that made possible the Vulcan Black Buck...
To Hell and Back: True Life Experiences of Bomber Command at War
True Life Experiences of Bomber Command at War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Classic stories of gallantry in World War Two. A new edition of Mel Rolfe's successful book containing twenty dramatic but true stories of Bomber Command adventures. Some of them defy belief - like the RAF bomb aimer who was blown out of his Liberator over Warsaw at 400ft without a parachute and made...
Spreading My Wings
One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story from Pre-War Flying to Breaking the Sound Barrier
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
The remarkable autobiography of a pioneering female aviator who left a privileged life to serve in World War II.
Her father was a millionaire race-car driver who became chairman of Bentley Motors, and her grandfather cofounded the De Beers mining company. But by the late 1930s, debutante Diana...
Down to Earth
A Fighter Pilot's Experiences of Surviving Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain, Dieppe and D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
In Down to Earth, Squadron Leader McGlashan reflects honestly on his enthralling and diverse RAF career, one that began with the rag and tube of Hawker biplanes in 1939 and closed in the jet era of the late 1950s.
Shot down over the beaches of Dunkirk in heated aerial combat, we follow the...
Hunter Boys
True Tales from Pilots of the Hawker Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
“Entertaining and informative tales of success, heroics, fear, relief and exhilaration in and around the Hunter cockpit” (Royal Air Force Historical Society Journal).
From the author of Lightning Boys, this is a fascinating look at the experiences of those who flew the iconic Hawker Hunter.
Fifteen...
Tally Ho!
From the Battle of Britain to the Defence of Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Bob Foster is a well known figure at book and print signings in many parts of the UK. Although recognized as a Battle of Britain veteran, little is known of his life, or the details of his war service with the RAF. Persuaded to tell his story to air historian and well established aviation author Norman...
Dowding of Fighter Command: Victor of the Battle of Britain
Victor of the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
This, quite simply, is the definitive book on the life of the man who prepared the ground for victory in the Battle of Britain. Without him, Britain and the world would have entered a dark age. Making full use of archival sources and information provided by family members, respected historian Professor Vincent Orange has produced a masterful biography of a truly remarkable man.
Park
The Biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, GCB, KBE, MC, DFC, DCL
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
“A fine biography of one of the war’s greatest unsung heroes,” Royal Air Force Commander Keith Park (The Daily Telegraph).
“If ever any one man won the Battle of Britain, he did. I don’t believe it is realized how much that one man, with his leadership, his calm judgement and his...
Slessor: Bomber Champion
The Life of Marshal of the RAF Sir John Slessor, GCB, DSO, MC
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Born in India into a family of soldiers and diplomats, Slessor made the first aerial attack on a Zeppelin and went on to serve in the Middle East over the Western Front in World War I; and postwar on the North-West Frontier in India. Rated an exceptional staff officer, in the inter-war years, under...
D-Day Plus One: Shot Down and on the Run in France
Shot Down and on the Run in France
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
The day after D-Day, the most momentous day of the Second World War, Frank Holland was an RAF pilot whose Typhoon aircraft had just been hit by German anti-aircraft fire during a low flying attack on a marshaling yard in Normandy. He managed to take the aircraft up to 1200 feet but then the engine...
Collecting Colditz
A Unique Pictorial Record of Life Behind the Walls
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Over forty years of research has resulted in this exceptional photographic history of life within Colditz Castle, the infamous Second World War prisoner of war camp in Germany, which housed such illustrious names as Douglas Bader, Lorne Welch, Micky Burns and Jack Best. Michael Booker has accumulated...
Halifax Down!
On the run from the Gestapo, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
On the night of 22/23rd April 1944 Tom Wingham was the bomb aimer in the crew of a 76 Squadron Halifax shot down while on the way to bomb Düsseldorf. Coming to in a tangle of parachute and harness straps he realized the precariousness of his situation and so, dazed and aching with a painful concussion...