Air forces and warfare

Fly combat missions with the 8th air force in WWII!

In this second volume detailing the service of the Fw 190, Chris Goss has assembled 190 photographs, many from the archive of the late Dr.

It is said that one of the earliest trades in the world is that of the armorer.

This versatile single-seater aircraft was a joint development between the UK and France.

1948: INDO-CHINA.

"e;A truly extraordinary book by a phenomenal pilot and warrior.

Enthralling stories of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down in the sea during World War II and those who rescued them.

First hand accounts of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down and forced to flee enemy forces.

The compelling, true story of an SAS veteran, who led a team during the assault on the Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980, as well as serving in the Falklands, Northern Ireland and throughout the globe in a 15-year career with the Regiment.

First hand accounts of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down and forced to flee enemy forces.

Enthralling stories of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down in the sea during World War II and those who rescued them.

The compelling, true story of an SAS veteran, who led a team during the assault on the Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980, as well as serving in the Falklands, Northern Ireland and throughout the globe in a 15-year career with the Regiment.

Two of Patrick Bishop's bestselling books, 'Fighter Boys' and 'Bomber Boys', are combined in one eBook edition.

In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command.

From breaking wild horses in Colorado to fighting the Red Baron's squadrons in the skies over France, here in his own words is the true story of a forgotten American hero: the cowboy who became our first ace and the first pilot to fly the American colors over enemy lines.

Ex-SAS soldier Pete Scholey tells the action-packed stories of 20 of his SAS colleagues.

Ex-SAS soldier Pete Scholey tells the action-packed stories of 20 of his SAS colleagues.

This is a selection of ten remarkable true accounts of unusual incidents and happenings to Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two.

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history.

This is the history of two RAF squadrons who shared many tasks during WWII.

The Pointblank Directive is the result of extensive new research that creates a richly textured portrait of perhaps the last untold story of D-Day.

This early work by Richard Hillary was originally published in 1942 and we are now republishing it.

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.

A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF Bomber Command.

This vintage book contains a fascinating history of aviation, being a detailed exploration of its development and utility in peace and in war.

"e;Takes a seemingly mundane subject as airfields and turns it into a fresh understanding of air combat on the Western Front .

2006 in Helmand saw British forces engaged in the most ferocious fighting since the Korean War.

Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies above England.

The Pointblank Directive is the result of extensive new research that creates a richly textured portrait of perhaps the last untold story of D-Day.

Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies above England.

The classic bestselling autobiography of the most successful fighter pilot of the First World War.

Manfred von Richthofen became a fighter pilot on the Western Front in August 1916.

Aircrew on a bomber in World War II experienced a cold, tiring and perilous existence.

In 1904 an eccentric inventor, Noel Pemberton-Billing, took an interest in flying machines.

The Americans' second year of the war saw the Eighth Air Force finally bombing Berlin, or 'Big-B' as it was known.

Asked why he was in Britain, a US serviceman, fighting the war in the skies over Germany with the US 8th Air Force quipped, 'We're here to win the war for you'.

The first heroes of the air.

Ryuji Nagatsuka did not know, when he made an application to become a pilot in October 1943, that by the following autumn Japan's situation in the war would be so critical that the role for which he was destined would be part of the most incomprehensible phenomenon of the hostilities - that of a suicide pilot, known to the world as a kamikaze.

Spitfire and Hurricane fighter pilots recount their experiences of combat during the Battle of Britain.

It was not long before midnight on 17 May 1943 when the inhabitants of Gunne, the German village close to the Mohne Dam, heard the airraid warnings.

Although there were many more Hawker Hurricanes than Supermarine Spitfires engaged in the epic conflict fought over southern England in the summer of 1940, the public's imagination was captured by the shapely and charismatic Spitfire.

This book is full of untold short stories of men who created a legend, the legend of the British airborne forces during the Second World War.

On 4 July 1942, American airmen flew in US-built bombers against a German target for the first time.

The amazing story of one of the 'Few', fighter ace Tom Neil who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain.

In 1918, the Royal Air Force became the first major independent air force in the world.

On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.

In The Drone Age, Michael J.

Every day for nine months from September 1944 to the end of the war, young British, Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff aerodrome in northern Scotland in their Mosquitoes and Beaufighters to target the German U-Boats, merchantmen and freighters plying along the coast and in the fjords and leads of southwest Norway, encountering the Luftwaffe and flakships every step of the way.

Every day for nine months from September 1944 to the end of the war, young British, Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff aerodrome in northern Scotland in their Mosquitoes and Beaufighters to target the German U-Boats, merchantmen and freighters plying along the coast and in the fjords and leads of southwest Norway, encountering the Luftwaffe and flakships every step of the way.