Grub Street Publishing: 196 books
by Norman Franks
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
This important work was first published in German in late 1939, no doubt timed to impress the young Luftwaffe fighter pilots who were embarking on the second major air war in history.
Buckler initially served with the army when the Great War began, until he was wounded and moved to the air...
Iron Man
Rudolf Berthold: Germany's Indomitable Fighter Ace of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
This biography of a tenacious fighter pilot is “a powerful story about a fascinating man who seemed to know no fear” (Aerodrome).
As one of the most successful German fighter pilots of World War I, Rudolf Berthold was victorious in forty-four aerial combats. He was also shot down or forced...
Pathfinder's War
An Extraordinary Tale of Surviving Over 100 Bomber Operations Against All Odds
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Ted Stocker lived a charmed life. Trained at RAF Halton as one of Trenchard’s ‘Brats’, a posting to Boscombe Down saw him fly in both the prototype Stirling and Halifax just as war engulfed Europe for the second time. Qualifying as one of the RAF’s first flight engineers, he flew operations...
Poles in Defence of Britain
A Day-by-Day Chronology of Polish Day and Night Fighter Pilot Operations: July 1940–June 1941
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2002
The little-known WWII story of the Polish Air Force fliers who played a crucial role in the Battle of Britain and beyond.
To the Polish volunteers who flew and fought so brilliantly and tenaciously throughout the Battle of Britain, the United Kingdom was known as “Last Hope Island.” Many...
Mission Accomplished
The Engaging Memoir of a Czech Fighter Pilot Flying for Britain in World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Appalled at the German occupation of his homeland in 1939, Frank Mares determined to assist his country in their battle for freedom in the only way he could – as a fighter pilot. Unable to do so from Czechoslovakia he began his mission, navigating his way through Poland to France, through manned...
Hornchurch Offensive
The Definitive Account of the RAF Fighter Airfield, Its Pilots, Groundcrew and Staff: 1941 to the Airfield's Final Closure
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Volume Two of this fascinating study of an airfield and its pilots starts just after the Battle of Britain when Hornchurch was at the forefront in taking the fight to the enemy, being heavily involved in the Sweeps and Circuses of 1941.
Next came the Dieppe raid in 1942 by which time Hornchurch...
by John Mitchell, Sean Feast
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
An RAF pilot who flew around the world with Winston Churchill during World War II tells his story.
An RAF Volunteer Reserve officer, John Mitchell was mobilized on the outbreak of war—and just missed going to join a Battle Squadron in France where he would have undoubtedly been killed. Instead,...
Hunting with Richthofen Jagd in Flanderns Himmel
The Bodenschatz Diaries: Sixteen Months of Battle with JG Freiherr von Richthofen No. 1 Foreword by Herman Goring
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Karl Bodenschatz was the Richthofen squadron adjutant. His historical record offers an insight into the war from the German viewpoint.
Contact!
A Victor Tanker Captain's Experiences in the RAF, Before, During and After the Falklands Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Contact! is an enthralling set of recollections from ex-RAF pilot, instructor and test pilot Bob Tuxford. The book follows his twenty-year career within the RAF and describes highlights of active service across the world, including an accompanied exchange tour in the US Air Force and participation...
Hurricane R4118
The Extraordinary Story of the Discovery and Restoration of a Battle of Britain Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
In 1982 when he was traveling in India, Peter Vacher stumbled on the remains of a British plane - a Hurricane Mark 1, a veteran of the Battle of Britain. It was in a dreadful state. Could he restore it? Would it fly again?Not until 14 years later did he decide to act and after six years of wrangling...
Vulcan Boys
From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the Iconic Delta V Bomber
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
An in-depth look at these Cold War–era bombers, in the words of those who flew them—includes photos.
The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the United Kingdom during the Cold War, has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire, its delta shape as instantly recognizable...
Finding the Foe
Outstanding Mysteries of the Battle of Britain and Beyond Investigated and Solved
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
A follow-up to Finding the Few, this companion volume deals with the postwar discovery and recovery of wartime Luftwaffe aircrew who were downed and lost over the UK, most of them during 1940s. There is a lot of detective work involved here. Sometimes airmen have been identified with the tiniest clue,...
One Who Almost Made it Back
The Remarkable Story of One of World War Two's Unsung Heroes, Sqn Ldr Edward 'Teddy' Blenkinsop, DFC, CDEG (Belge), RCAF
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
On the night of 27/28 April 1944, Teddy Blenkinsop and his crew were acting as deputy master bombers during a Pathfinder raid on Montzen in Belgium. After a successful attack, their Lancaster was shot down. Miraculously he survived to be protected by Belgian citizens before ending his days in Bergen...
George Washington's War
In Caricature and Print
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
A Revolutionary War history told through eighteenth-century illustrations: “Utterly absorbing” (The Times, London).
Americans are steeped in the history of the American Revolution, but often the fog of myth shrouds the reality. In these pages, the path to war is starkly documented by British...