Christopher Shores: 10 books
A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940–1945
North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
This first volume in the seminal series on World War II aerial combat, pilots, and tactics that “reads like an encyclopedia on the subject” (Portland Book Review).
In the early days of World War II, both Allied and Axis powers extended the theater of war to North Africa, where hard-fought...
Air War for Burma
The Concluding Volume of The Bloody Shambles Series. The Allied Air Forces Fight Back in South-East Asia 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
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...
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945
Volume 2: North African Desert, February 1942 - March 1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
The first volume of this series dealt with the initial 19 months of the air war over the Western Desert of North Africa. This volume picks up the story as the 8th Army, following its hard-fought success in Operation Crusader, was forced back to the Gazala area, roughly midway between the Cyrenaican/Tripolitanian...
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945
Tunisia and the End in Africa, November 1942–1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The third volume in the epic military aviation series focuses on the Allied invasion of North Africa during World War II.
This work of WWII history takes us to November 1942 to explain the background of the first major Anglo-American venture: Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa....
by Christopher Shores
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
At the outset of World War I the British had some 110 assorted aircraft, used mostly for the visual reconnaissance role. With the advent of faster and more agile single-seaters, the Allies and their adversaries raced to outdo each other in the creation of genuinely effective fighters with fixed forward-firing...
Aces High
A Further Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Air Forces in WWII, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
This volume updates the information in the first volume and adds some new names. Information has been added on the pilots who gained success against the V-1 flying bombs during 1944-45. Detail is also provided on those units in which virtually all the fighter pilots served at some time or another...
by Christopher Shores, Ikuhiko Hata
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
This book is a companion volume to Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces, 1931-1945, published by Grub Street in 2002. As such it also represents a major updating and rewriting of Messrs Hata’s and Izawa’s earlier book of similar title, published in the USA some 20 years ago.
The...
Aces High
A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces of WWII, Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
A revised collection of the biographies of the highest scoring Allied fighter pilots of World War II. All details of their combat are arranged in tabular form. Included are a selection of photographs from hitherto private collections.
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945. Volume 4
Sicily and Italy to the fall of Rome 14 May, 1943 – 5 June, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily...
by Christopher Shores, Brian Cull
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
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...