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by Mike Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
This sensational book reveals the true and compelling story of the Special Force units of the Coalition, such as the SAS, SBS and Delta Force who worked in the shadows, often unseen, unheard and unsung. It describes their missions behind the lines from the early days, well before hostilities opened...
by Tim Ripley
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
The Middle East is potentially the world’s major and most dangerous trouble spot. This book looks at why airpower is of such strategic and tactical importance in the area. It provides an overview of the state of the air forces in the first decade of the 21st Century. Each air force will be profiled,...
Sunderland Over Far-Eastern Seas
An RAF Flying Boat Navigator’s Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This is the first book to give a detailed, first-hand account of post-World War II RAF Short Sunderland operations in the Far East. The author was a navigator with 88 Squadron and later 205 Squadron, flying operations during the Korean War, the Malayan Emergency and many other operations. He was based...
Aircraft Down
Landings, Crash Landings and Rescues
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
When a pilot experiences a sudden loud bang or sudden total silence, he is often faced with the stark choice of the parachute or attempting to get the aircraft down to earth in as few pieces as possible. This book describes twenty-three remarkable and true instances when, for a variety of reasons,...
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...