Pen Sword: 3374 books
Flying at the Edge
20 Years of Front-Line and Display Flying in the Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
This is the autobiography of an outstanding fighter pilot during his twenty year career with the Royal Air Force. Tony Doyle first flew when in the CCF where he complted a glider course and then a highly-prized Flying Scholarship. This opened the way to joining the RAF and becoming an all-weather...
Missing: Believed Killed
Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Glenn Miller and the Duke of Kent
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
The uncertain fates of Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson and Glenn Miller have fascinated readers and aviation historians ever since they disappeared. Even today, more than half a century after their final flights, what happened to them is still the subject of speculation, conspiracy theory and controversy....
by Kaplan, Philip
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary RAF fighter aces during the Battle of Britain. The accounts of the experiences of fighter pilots are based on archival research, diaries, letters, published and unpublished memoirs and personal interviews with veterans.
World War One Aircraft Carrier Pioneer
The Story and Diaries of Captain JM McCleery RNAS/RAF
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Jack McCleery was born in Belfast in 1898, the son of a mill owning family. He joined the RNAS in 1916 as a Probationary Flight Officer. During the next ten months he completed his training at Crystal Palace, Eastchurch, Cranwell, Frieston, Calshot and Isle of Grain, flying more than a dozen landplanes,...
Bomber Command: Reflections of War
Volume 3 The Heavies Move In 1942 1943
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Commands pilots and aircrew throughout World War Two. From the early wartime years when the RAFs first attempts to avenge Germanys onslaught were bedeviled by poor navigation and inaccurate bombing, to the final winning...
Dambusters The Forging of a Legend
617 Squadron in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
617 Squadron of 5 Group RAF Bomber Command was without doubt the most famous RAF Squadron in World War II. It was formed to carry out the precision low-level attack on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe Dams, using Barnes Wallace’s newly developed rotating mine, now commonly referred to as ‘The Bouncing...
Bomber Command: Reflections of War
Volume 1: Retaliation 1939 - 1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Commands pilots and aircrew throughout WWII. From the early wartime years when the RAFs first attempts to avenge Germanys onslaught were bedeviled by poor navigation and inaccurate bombing, to the last winning onslaught...
Bomber Command Reflections of War
Battles with the Nachtjagd 30/31 March- September 1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
This, the fourth volume of a five part work that provides a comprehensive insight into all aspects of RAF Bomber Command in World War Two, begins in the spring of 1944 with a completely new insight on the catastrophic raid on Nuremburg on the night of 30/31 March and follows with the disastrous attack...
Black Night for Bomber Command
The Tragedy of 16 December 1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
“I am not pressing you to fight the weather as well as the Germans, never forget that.” So wrote Winston Churchill to Arthur Harris, the Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command, after the terrible events of 16 December 1943. In the murky dusk almost five hundred heavy bombers, almost entirely...
Men of the Bombers
Remarkable Incidents in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
This is a selection of ten remarkable true accounts of unusual incidents and happenings to Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two. It covers operations of varying natures, such as one of the first leaflet dropping raids during the 'Phoney War' when the elderly Whitley bomber proved to be a nightmare...
Return Flights In War and Peace
The Flying Memoirs of Squadron Leader John Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
John Rowland made his first flight with the RAF Volunteer Reserve on 1 October 1938 from Redhill in a DH60 Moth. He won a Prize Cadetship to the RAF College Cranwell and then posted to the School of Army Cooperation. He volunteered for 613 Squadron which had been formed shortly before the war started....
Flying into the Flames of Hell
Flying with Bomber Command in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
The book contains twenty-three stirring accounts of what life flying as air-crew in World War Two was really like. The writers are a mixed bunch of pilots, navigators and gunners who flew medium and heavy bombers or Mosquitoes. It conveys the terror of being coned by German searchlights over the target,...
Bomber Command Reflections of War
Armageddon: September 27th 1944 - May 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This is the fifth release in a series that provides a comprehensive insight into all aspects of RAF Bomber Command in World War Two. It begins in late September 1944 when the Allied Bomber Offensive was at its height, and takes us through to the end of the conflict. The crews' personal narrative puts...
Beyond the Dams to the Tirpitz
The Later Operations of the 617 Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
First published to acclaim in 1983, this book is set to impact upon the book-buying public, eager for accounts of this period of World War history. Relaying the later operations of 617 Squadron, this book steers away from typical accounts of the group, which dwell on this predominant feature of their...