Air forces and warfare Books
Books Express Publishing Rockets and People Volume I (NASA History Series. NASA SP-2005-4110)
£17.53
Military Bookshop Eagles of the RAF: The World War II Eagle Squadrons
£23.47
Military Bookshop Air Power for Patton's Army - The XIX Tactical Air Command in the Second World War
£19.51
The Choir Press The Story of RAF Hixon: No 30 Operational Training Unit 1942-1945
Book SynopsisThe Story of RAF Hixon tells the story of a Second World War Training Airbase. It was built in 1941 close to the small Staffordshire village of Hixon and operated from 1942-1945. During this period thousands of men, many from Commonwealth countries, came together to form crews and be trained to undertake night bombing raids on Germany and occupied countries. The book provides an insight into the experiences of these brave young airman, many of whom would later be killed in action. It also considers the short and long-term impact of the airbase development on the lives of villagers at the time, and the permanent changes that have resulted to the village of Hixon and the local district. Much of the story is based on personal interviews with those involved with the airbase in wartime, either as trainee aircrew, instructors, or ground staff and with others who lived in the village at the time. These first-hand accounts provide a unique understanding of the experiences of those most closely involved. The book also brings the story up to date, recalling previous commemorative celebrations of RAF Hixon and current moves to install a stained-glass memorial window in the local church as a permanent memorial. Two appendices are provided, the first being a chronology of wartime airbase development and activity, the second giving details of numerous accidents and incidents, all as recorded in the original Station Log Book, held at the Public Record Office in Kew.Table of ContentsForeword; Chapter 1 Hixon and the Second World War; Chapter 2 RAF Hixon - No. 30 Operational Training Unit; Chapter 3 Living Alongside the RAF in Hixon - Villagers' Experiences; Chapter 4 RAF Hixon - Daily Life 'on the Ground' at the Airbase; Chapter 5 Accidents and Incidents at 30 OTU, RAF Hixon 1942-1945; Chapter 6 The End of the War and Closure of RAF Hixon - What Remains Today?; Chapter 7 Personal Stories of Two Brave Airmen; Sergeant Deryck Rowse, Air Gunner; Pilot Officer W.A. (Bill) Gourlay DFC; Chapter 8 Hixon Commemorates the Wartime Years - 1992 - 1995 - 2022; Appendix 1 Chronology of No. 30 OTU RAF Hixon - 1941 to 1962; Appendix 2 Details of Accidents and Incidents as Recorded in the Original Station Log Book; Acknowledgements ; References ; About the Author
£18.46
Naval & Military Press Ltd India General Service Medal Roll 1908-1935 to the RAF
£13.59
Naval & Military Press Ltd Contemptible Little Flying Corps: Being a Definitive and Previously Non-existent Biographical Roll of Those Warrant Officers, N.C.O.'s and Airmen Who Served in the Royal Flying Corps Prior to the Outbreak of the First World War
£18.52
Naval & Military Press Ltd Handbook on Rigid 23 Class Airships 1918
£21.54
£16.30
Books Express Publishing Engineering the Space Age: A Rocket Scientist Remembers
£16.56
Books Express Publishing The Smell of Kerosene: A Fighter Pilot's Odyssey
£13.59
Mention the War Ltd. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron
£21.85
Silvertail Books Ace of Aces: The Incredible Story of Pat Pattle - the Greatest Fighter Pilot of WWII
Book Synopsis‘PAT PATTLE WAS A LEGEND IN THE RAF … HE WAS FAR AND AWAY THE GREATEST ACE THE MIDDLE EAST WAS EVER TO SEE, WITH AN ASTRONOMICAL NUMBER OF VICTORIES TO HIS CREDIT’ Roald Dahl
£12.99
£24.27
Aviation Books Ltd. 106 Squadron
£19.95
Aviation Books Ltd. 49 Squadron: RAF Bomber Command Squadron Profiles
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£21.85
Mention the War Ltd. 75 (NZ) Squadron
£21.85
World War 2 Books & Video THE Last of the Few: An Me.262 Pilot Remembers
£18.58
Romance Divine Denizens of the Desert: AMARC Photographs by Danny Causey
£20.69
£21.84
CKE Publications P-3 Orion Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions Vol. 2
£23.47
CKE Publications Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions
£22.50
CKE Publications PBY Catalina Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions
£15.26
Smithsonian Books Chasing the Silver Bullet: U.S. Air Force Weapons Development from Vietnam to Desert Storm
Book SynopsisAirpower is credited with success in Afghanistan, Desert Storm, and Serbia, but in Vietnam all of America's aerial might could not defeat a vastly outnumbered Third World force on bicycles. With a panoramic sweep and shocking frankness unrivaled in the current literature, Ken Werrell, one of today's most experienced airpower historians, reveals the true extent of the technological evolution that fueled this transformation. Chasing the Silver Bullet traces in unprecedented detail the evolution of the Air Force's entire inventory since the Korean War, from the ill-fated F-105 fighter-bomber to the F-117 stealth fighter, but one of its chief contributions is its analysis of the strategies and doctrine that fashioned the hardware.Werrell's exhaustive research and sage analysis challenge the Air Force's mantra that precision-guided munitions delivered from long-range, stealthy aircraft are America's true war heroes. Desert Storm gave us the wrong impression about airpower technology and Werrell corrects that mistake with this landmark study, rendering superficial all other books about Desert Storm and current capabilities.Objective, even-handed, and unimpressed with the bells and whistles of new technology, Werrell understands how airpower works.
£27.28
Life to Legacy, LLC Tuskegee Airmen 1941-1945
£28.21
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Pantsir: Missile/Gun Air Defense Complex
£14.08
Philedition The Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VI
£13.00
Philedition The Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XII
£13.00
Philedition No. 71 (Eagle) Squadron 1940-1942
£12.40
Philedition No. 121 (Eagle) Squadron 1941-1942
£12.40
Philedition No. 133 (Eagle) Squadron 1941 - 1942
£11.53
Vaktel Forlag Black Cross Red Star Air War Over the Eastern Front: Volume 4, Stalingrad to Kuban 1942-1943
£33.92
Independently Published FLIGHT 571 How Hunger Storms and the Cold Could Not Break the Human Spirit
£12.76
Independently Published The Dragons Wings
£13.64
Independently Published Blackbird at Mach 3
£13.56
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp U.S. Navy Aircraft
£24.86
Independently Published The F16 Fighting Falcon The Ultimate Multirole Fighter
£14.63
Hachette Books Kangaroo Squadron
Book SynopsisThe dramatic untold story of the first US Army unit to cross the Pacific and strike back at the Japanese after Pearl Harbor
£19.80
The History Press Ltd USAAF Fighter Stories
Book SynopsisIan McLachlan has spent many years researching a brand new collection of exciting United States Army Air Force fighter stories of the Second World War. He has trawled official archives, interviewed survivors and gained privileged access to personal letters, diaries and photo albums to relate a series of compelling stories of the USAAF''s fighter squadrons at war. Each story is self-contained and looks at a particular incident or theme. Among the selection of diverse stories are the following examples: In broad daylight - Dutch resistance operatives spirit a young 4th Fighter Group P-51 pilot away from his captors. Osce Jones - crash-landing just after D-Day, Osce journeys on foot through enemy territory, but will he escape? Frank Klibbe - an eventual 56th Fighter Group ace is fined USD50 for damage to Government property - one P-47 Thunderbolt. Back from the dead - Harry Howard, a 339FG pilot turns up to tell the tale after his memorial service.
£17.99
The History Press Ltd Zeppelin Blitz
Book SynopsisModern war is total war.’Zeppelin Blitz is the first full, raid-by-raid, year-by-year account of the Zeppelin air raids on Britain during the First World War, based on contemporary official reports and documents.
£16.19
The History Press Ltd The Secrets of Q Central
Book SynopsisA quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937.
£18.00
The History Press Ltd One of the Few
Book SynopsisWritten by 303 squadron leader Johnny Kent, One of the Few is a superb memoir and surprisingly one of only a handful ever written by a Battle of Britain pilot.
£12.34
Little, Brown Book Group Goldfish Club
Book SynopsisMayday. Mayday. Mayday . . . Every member of the Goldfish Club has been forced to broadcast these terrifying words from a stricken aircraft, making them one of the most unusual fellowships in the world. Formed during the Second World War to foster comradeship among pilots who had been forced to bail out over water, the Goldfish Club has taken on new airmen (and one woman) ever since and there are hundreds of tales to be told. All are different. All are utterly gripping.Award winning journalist and author Danny Danziger has brought together some of the most powerful stories of this extraordinary brotherhood. A few will leave you open-mouthed, others may reduce you to tears, but all are a fascinating testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
£10.99
The History Press Ltd Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot
Book SynopsisSouthern England. Late summer 1940. The nation is fighting for its very survival and the Luftwaffe''s aerial offensive is unrelenting. All that lies between invasion and salvation for Britain is the ''thin blue line'' of RAF Fighter Command and its pilots. This newly illustrated anniversary edition of Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot reveals what it was like to fly a fighter plane in the Battle of Britain. Who were the Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of 1940? How did they spend a typical day? And when pitched together in combat at 30,000 feet, which was the better machine - Spitfire or Me109? Read Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot and then ask yourself: would I have been up to the job?
£7.46
The History Press Ltd To Scale the Skies
Book SynopsisWith humble beginnings as an RAF apprentice, Johnny Wells progressed to pilot and rose to the higher echelons of command at the Air Ministry. From idyllic pre-war training, he would fly bombers against rebels over Iraq, combat Fw190s over England in the newly introduced and equally dangerous Typhoon; he would undertake hazardous low-level anti-shipping strikes in the English Channel, as well as train-busting sorties over occupied territory at night and close-support ground-attack operations across northern Europe following D-Day. Indeed, Wells ended the Second World War as one of the most successful and highly decorated Typhoon Wing Leaders in the Tactical Air Force. This well-researched account of one man's rise through the ranks of the Air Ministry is finely illustrated with contemporary images and is an excellent testimony of what was required of air pilots during the Second World War. Wells' story is both an inspiration and a gripping account of one man's journey through a service
£12.34
Schiffer Publishing Ltd P38 Lightning Vol. 2
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£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd B17 Flying Fortress Vol. 1
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe legendary B-17 Flying Fortress has been covered very many times by books over the years -- some good, some not so much. This fresh pictorial examination, though -- by noted researcher/historian David Doyle -- is a fine starting point for those new to the subject. It covers all sub-types up to D format and offers a wealth of useful photographs with accompanying captions. Some shots of the very early models are truly excellent and ooze the pioneering spirit of the era, while the sprinkling of colour views provides welcome extra detail in terms of paint schemes and markings. Certain individual studies are most revealing, such as the B-17B at Bolling Field in Washington DC, wearing water-soluble camouflage and the image showing technicians applying de-icer boots to the vertical stabiliser of another B. Each variant-specific chapter gives a potted account of the structural differences/additions and the book ends with period and restoration photos of B-17D The Swoose, held by the National Museum of the USAF. FlyPast Magazine, February 2021
£16.14
Schiffer Publishing Ltd TOPGUN
Book SynopsisA unique, illustrated history of the US Navy Fighter Weapons School's 50-year history.
£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Vought A7 CorsairÂII
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£17.09
