Air forces and warfare

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

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.

By the spring of 1940, the phoney war suddenly became very real.

Between 1939 and 1945 the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm grew from a small force into a powerful strategic weapon.

"e;Magnificent and important .

The author, Roger Annett, experienced first-hand the events detailed here.

"e;Altogether, a very detailed year-by-year account of escort development for anti-submarine work from the period between the wars to post World War II.

This WWII pictorial history illustrates the wide array of armored vehicles deployed by Allied and Axis powers in Italy.

Jack McCleery was born in Belfast in 1898, the son of a mill owning family.

At the beginning of World War II the French faced the German invasion with 4,360 modern combat aircraft and 790 new machines currently arriving from French and American factories each month.

There has been bookshelf after bookshelf of books compiled, written and published about British aircraft, the Royal Air Force and the activities of its pilots during World War Two.

Detailed reports by German commanders: "e;Powerful testimony to the Germans' lack of preparation for the harsh climatic conditions of the Russian winter.

At the age of eighteen Don Feesey volunteered for pilot training with the RAF.

An overview of harrowing World War II air attacks from across the globe.

The first volume of Roger Brooks detailed reference to the Victor covers the conception, design and test-flying of the prototype HP 80 and then the production and operation of the Mark 1 in its many roles.

This is the vivid memoir of a man who was twenty-one at the outbreak of World War II.

John Howe started his flying career in the postwar South African Air Force, learning to fly on Tiger Moths, Harvards and Spitfires.

"e;A very nice release about the most recognizable German aircraft of the Second World War"e; from the author of Rommel's Army in the Desert (Inscale.

Through a series of five walks this book discovers the sights, sounds and experience of the capital at war; it details the remaining tangible evidence of the dark days via air raid shelter signs, bomb damage on buildings and memorials detailing heroic and often tragic events.

The 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, was a prewar Territorial unit.

An overview of harrowing World War II air attacks from across the globe.

The young men who flew with RAF Bomber Command in World War Two were a complex mixture of individuals but they all shared the gift of teamwork.

"e;A highly readable account of the early stages of the USAAF air war over Western Europe"e; from the author of Confounding the Reich (The Bulletin).

Aviation author Kev Darling looks at the origins of the World War Two Royal Air Force commands and histories in RAF Strike Command.

Philip Kaplan presents us here with a riveting account of the Allied experience behind enemy lines, detailing the trials and tribulations experienced by the British and American airmen who were shot down in European skies during World War Two, to be incarcerated 'behind the wire' in enemy camps.

This WWII history and visitor's guide explores the extensive network of Nazi fortifications built to defend Fortress Europe.

Edward Teddy Mortlock Donaldson was one of three aviator brothers to win the D.

"e;A truly remarkable story .

The 900-day siege of the Soviet city of Leningrad by the combined forces of the Germans and the Finns is one of the most remarkable, and terrible, events of the Second World War, yet until recently it has not received the attention it deserves it has been overshadowed by other massive confrontations on the Eastern Front, at Stalingrad and Kursk.

Frank Broome was a 15 year old schoolboy when he experienced the three major blitzes in his home city of Coventry and at the age of 17 volunteered for the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1942 for pilot training.

This book covers the inception, growth and employment of Britains airborne forces (parachute and glider-borne formations) between June 1940 and March 1945.

The riveting firsthand account of an RAF pilot's adventures in World War II-from life-and-death situations to unusual posts that test his usual good humor.

On September 25, 1939 Melvin Young reported to No.

In the summer of 1944 the Red Army crushed Army Group Centre in one of the largest offensives in military history.

John Rowland made his first flight with the RAF Volunteer Reserve on 1 October 1938 from Redhill in a DH60 Moth.

Tom Firth was born in Japan where his English father and Polish mother were living.

In this military memoir, a Soviet Red Army officer recounts his experience fighting against Nazi Germany along the Eastern Front in World War II.

Brian Allen first went to sea as a naval aviation officer cadet aboard HMS Indefatigable in 1952, bound for Gibraltar.

On 1 June 1939 His Majestys Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials.

This WWII naval history chronicles the development of small fighting boats as well as the evolution of their tactics and coastal warfare operations.

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

Eric Croppers RAF career started in 1943 and ended in 1968.

This little known campaign against the Italian invasion of British Somalia was bravely fought by a small force of elderly RAF and Commonwealth aircraft against almost overwhelming odds.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh later Lord Dowding was one of the greatest Englishmen of the 20th century.

In All Things First' looks in detail at 1 Squadron during the Second World War with particular emphasis on the pilots and its operational activities.

A first-hand account of World War I by a nineteen-year-old Englishman who led a platoon into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme.

X Flight was designated the task of giving close air support to the desert army formed and commanded by Lawrence of Arabia.

The author of A Luftwaffe General gives a detailed history of the Allied forces' brutal Operation Clipper during World War II.

The East Surreys were in near continuous action from November 1942, when they landed in North Africa (Operation TORCH) through to May 1945 Armistice.

"e;As part of the Aviation Heritage Trail series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area in this case West Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and Cornwall.