Grub Street Publishing: 196 books
Fighter Pilot's Call to Arms
Defending Britain and France Against the Luftwaffe, 1940-1942
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Stunned into action by the rapid collapse of his country in 1938, Czech pilot Stanislav Fejfar escaped and traveled through Poland to serve initially with the French Foreign Legion, then as a sous-lieutenant with the French air force in early 1940. After the demise of that country, he fled to England...
Malta Spitfire
The Diary of an Ace Fighter Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
An aviator’s true story of WWII air combat, including two dramatic weeks in the skies above the besieged island of Malta.
Twenty-five thousand feet above Malta—that is where the Spitfires intercepted the Messerschmitts, Macchis, and Reggianes as they swept eastward in their droves, screening...
Hell on Earth
Dramatic First Hand Experiences of Bomber Command at War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
A collection of 20 true stories of bravery, survival, and good and bad luck, involving bomber command during World War II.
The following extracts illustrate the drama in this book.
‘It is believed that when Dacey realised the aircraft was on fire he grabbed an extinguisher, hurried...
Buccaneer Boys
True Tales by those who Flew the 'Last all- British Bomber'
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Twenty-four aircrew who flew the iconic aircraft with the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force and the South African Air Force (SAAF) relate their experiences and affection for the Blackburn Buccaneer. Arranged in chronological order, the book traces the history of the aircraft and the tasks it fulfilled....
Under the Guns of the Kaiser's Aces
Bohome, Muller, Von Tutschek and Wolff The Complete Record of Their Victories and Victims
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Following their imaginative, popular and successful approach to identifying and describing all the airmen who were claimed by Manfred von Richthofen in Under the Guns of the Red Baron, and by Immelmann, Voss, Göring and Lothar von Richthofen in Under the Guns of the German Aces, air historians Franks...
Richthofen Jagdstaffel Ahead
RFC Fighter Pilots Out-Performed and Out-Gunned over the Western Front, 1917. With Colour Artwork by John Batchelor.
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
In early 1917 the war in the air intensified on the Western Front in France. Richthofen's deadly Jagdstaffel 11 was flying vastly superior Albatros and Halberstadt planes, with synchronized machine guns. Into the fray came 40 Squadron RFC with its problematic FE8s.
No contest you would think,...
Pedro
The Life and Death of Fighter Ace Osgood Villiers Hanbury, DFC and Bar
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
‘I went into the cloud and went flat out for a few minutes, turned, and as I dived out my luck was in and I got him head-on. He went straight into the sea and I am glad to say there were no survivors. A Dornier which had blown up came floating down in bits and another burnt up on land. It was a...
Lancaster Down!
The Extraordinary Tale of Seven Young Bomber Aircrew at War
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
During WWII, on one raid alone, Nuremburg March 1944, more Bomber Command airmen lost their lives than were lost in the Battle of Britain. These were ordinary men who became part of extraordinary events. One such was Arthur Darlow, the authors grandfather. A pilot of a Lancaster crew in 405 RCAF,...
Heroes All
Veteran Airmen of Different Nationalities Tell Their Stories of Service in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
For years Steve Bond has been interviewing and recording veterans from all sides of the conflict, including air and ground crew. His aim was to transmit their engaging stories faithfully to a wider public. He spoke to British and German, German and Russian, British and Italian, American and German,...
by Flight Lieutenant David Crook DFC
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
“A brilliant first-hand account of the life of a fighter pilot” in World War II (The Spectator).
Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle, when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler’s Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and...
by Arthur Gould Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
A riveting firsthand account of training for—and surviving—air combat during World War I, by the author of No Parachute.
Thanks to a broken leg during flight school, Arthur Gould Lee gained valuable time flying trainers before he was posted in France during World War I. In November 1917 during...
No Parachute
A Classic Account of War in the Air in WWI
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
This account of the Great War puts you right in the action—from one of the fighter pilots of the Royal Flying Corps.
From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat, there emerged a renowned company of brilliant...
My Golden Flying Years
From 1918 over France, Through Iraq in the 1920s, to the Schneider Trophy Race of 1927
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Written some forty years ago for his own enjoyment, and twenty years before his death in 1986, this biography was given to Simon Muggleton, a collector of aviation memorabilia, and he and aviation historian and author Norman Franks recognized immediately that it was an important contribution to Britain’s...
Black Fokker Leader
Carl Degelow—The First World War's Last Airfighter Knight
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
This biography of the WWI fighter pilot offers “an intimate portrait of the last recipient of the ‘Blue Max’” (Barrett Tillman).
One of the most noteworthy German fighter pilots of World War I was Leutnant der Reserve Carl Degelow, whose squadron of mostly black Fokker D.VII fighters...