Air forces and warfare

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When Canadian troops and British Commandos made their now famous ‘reconnaissance in force’ against the harbor town of Dieppe on 19th August 1942, they were supported and protected by the largest array of Royal Air Force aircraft ever seen in WWII until that time.

"e;The Luftwaffe had to be used in a decisive way in the Battle of Britain as a means of conducting total air war.

The American 'spy' aircraft, the SR-71 'Blackbird' was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft and has never been approached since.

The history of 332nd Fighter Group, the only segregated Fighter Group that served in combat during the Second World War.

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller.

One Crowed Hour of glorious life, is worth an age without a name.

Examines the life of the remarkable, and controversial, F.

Uses diaries, first-hand accounts, and official records to take the reader through the Mosquito intruders' three-year campaign to help force the Japanese out of Burma, living and dying with the brave warriors in the five squadrons which flew the FB VI.

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

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.

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

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.

At a time of great sacrifice in Canadian history, we are welcomed into the homes, the hearts, and the minds of mothers, sons, fathers, and friends as we follow Syd Smith and his high-school brotherhood of 13 when they answer the call to duty in 1941.

Dancing in the Sky is the first complete telling of the First World War fighter pilot training initiative established by the British in response to the terrible losses occurring in the skies over Europe in 1916.

It's a war story that is told every time the career of Billy Bishop is discussed: On June 2, 1917, the young pilot single-handedly took out a German airfield in an early morning raid at the height of the Great War.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The book begins in a small town setting where aviation has earned a bad name because of an avoidable fatal crash.

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.

The first heroes of the air.

Pitched into the maelstrom of air fighting in the summer of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Gordon Olive barely lived to tell this extraordinary tale of courage and endurance.

'I saw a mass of ME 109s and went up to attack.

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.

During the First World War, there were five air bases in Wales: two airship stations, one at Llangefni on Anglesey (RNAS Anglesey) and one at Milton in Pembrokeshire (RNAS Pembroke), a fighter/bomber station at Aber (RNAS Bangor) and a seaplane base at Fishguard (RNAS Fishguard).

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.

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

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

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.

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

The Battle of Britain started on 10 July 1940, ending 16 weeks later on 31 October 1940.

In 1939 and 1940 the Nazi blitzkrieg crushed Poland and the Low Countries and France.

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.

During the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone, defying the Luftwaffe's aerial assault - the prelude to a proposed seaborne invasion.