Air forces and warfare

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

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

In The Drone Age, Michael J.

The story of the legendary supersonic passenger jet, told through a series of contemporary documents and records.

The story of the legendary supersonic passenger jet, told through a series of contemporary documents and records.

In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old.

Born in London of an English father and Australian mother and educated in Switzerland, Billy Drake was to become one of the most illustrious RAF fighter pilots of World War II, indeed of all time.

Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF .

A moving and personal account of a young woman's experiences of the Second World War from the mother of Sir Tim Rice.

The Second World War airfields peppered around Britain are among the most visible and widespread reminders of this devastating conflict.

The Second World War airfields peppered around Britain are among the most visible and widespread reminders of this devastating conflict.

So you have decided to give up the rat race for the life of an international treasure hunter, but you are not quite sure where to start.

So you have decided to give up the rat race for the life of an international treasure hunter, but you are not quite sure where to start.

He launched the weapon that changed a war.

This is the personal account of an exceptional Spitfire test pilot and RAF and Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot.

This is the personal account of an exceptional Spitfire test pilot and RAF and Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot.

This is the incredible true story of a wartime sisterhood of women pilots: a group of courageous pioneers who took exceptional risks to fly Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancasters to the frontlines of World War II.

Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945.

In the Second World War, Malta was besieged for nearly two and a half years, during which time a decisive air war was waged between Britain, Italy and Germany.

“Relates how the American Eighth Air Force bombers helped Britain's Royal Air Force in fighting Germany during World War II.

The fierce struggle between the British 1st Airborne Division and the superior German forces in and around Arnhem is well documented.

This is the second volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day that includes a multitude of personal military accounts from both Allied and German Aviation personnel who were there.

Profoundly moved by the stories of wartime casualties as a child, Dilip Sarkar has since spent a lifetime reconstructing the lives of many of the fallen and is passionate about recording and sharing this very personal hidden history.

For the Allies as well as Germany, it will be the longest day'.

A pulsating account of the young RAF and American fighter boys who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, Thunderbolts and Mustangs during 1940-45.

Award-winning historian David Wragg's Second World War Carrier Campaigns explores how aircraft carriers changed the course of the war for Allied victory.

This is the story of the authors uncle, David Maltby and the crew with whom he flew on the famous Dam Raid in 1943.

A history of the airborne portion of Operation Market-Garden during World War II, from the perspective of the airmen fighting the battle.

The third volume of this four-part series on Operation 'Market-Garden' in September 1944 draws on many individual soldiers and airmen's narratives to tell the story of the ongoing fight to keep the Hell's Highway' open to relieve 1st Airborne at Arnhem, and the brave attempts to re-supply them from the air.

A detailed history of the American World War II bombing mission over Nazi Germany, by the author of The First Day on the Somme.

This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Commands pilots and aircrew throughout WWII.

A history of the British RAF's 100 Group-the airmen, ground crew, and technicians-who supported the Strategic Bomber Offensive during World War II.

Winged Sabres is the story of a RFC & RAF squadron flying the cumbersome FE2 from February 1916 to September 1917, and then the superlative Bristol Fighter: a two-seater fighter-reconnaissance squadron with an astonishingly high success rate.

No weapon platform sank more U-boats in the Second World War than the Allied aircraft.

“A vivid account of the experiences of 10 men who volunteered to risk their lives on air operations during World War II” (Pennant Magazine).

The Wooden Wonder was probably the most versatile combat aircraft that operated on all fronts in World War Two and was still giving valuable service in first-line service after 1945 when it enjoyed a limited renaissance both at home, in Germany and abroad until the advent of jet aircraft.

Building on the success of FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II, Gordon Rottman returns to the world of World War II slang to cover the armies, air forces and navies of Great Britain, the USA and Germany.

In July 2018, the nation looked skyward over Buckingham Palace in awe as the Royal Air Force celebrated its first 100 years with a spectacular parade and flypast over London.

In 1963 the Indonesian Army that threatened Borneo numbered 330,000 men, plus three thousand Commandos.

As a RAF Chinook crewman, Mick Fry's exposure to Afghanistan spanned over 10 years and countless deployments, from watching 9/11 unfold in Australia, leaving the deck of HMS Ocean off the coast of Pakistan under the cover of darkness all the way through numerous fighting seasons and the chaos of Helmand Province.

The author of Javelin from the Cockpit looks at some of the more notable British, German, and American fighters through performance and handling trials.

The British Airborne landings on Sicily are the least known and, without doubt, the most fraught with political and technical strife.

They were the Dambusters the pilots and crew of the RAFs elite 617 Squadron.

205 Group RAF provided the only mobile force of heavy night bombers in the Mediterranean theater in the Second World War.

This is the story of Allied fighter pilots and the part they played in all the principal operational theatres of World War II.

A detailed look at the day-to-day life of a pilot serving during the Persian Gulf War against Iraq.