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  • Airmen of Arnhem

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    A history of the airborne portion of Operation Market-Garden during World War II, from the perspective of the airmen fighting the battle.Martin Bowman presents an unparalleled account of events as they unfolded in the skies above Holland during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944. Market-Garden was a heroic failure conducted at great cost; combined losses—both airborne and ground forces—in ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bombs Away!

    Dramatic First-Hand Accounts of British & Commonwealth Bomber Aircrew in WWII

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    This is a unique selection of wide-ranging experiences of British and Commonwealth Bomber Command aircrew during World War II. Their endearing bravery and fortitude and sometimes their despondency and cynicism, shows through in these stirring, daring, often irreverent, humorous and sometimes sardonic but memorable stories. All reflect the ethos, camaraderie, fear and bravery of the largely ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • London's Airports

    Useful Information on Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted and City

    by Martin W. Bowman, Graham M. Simons ...
    This book is for the passengers and aviation buffs who use Londons main airports. It includes a brief history, plans and photographs for each of the five airports, together with directions and information about gates, security, passport control, shopping, restaurants, car parks and other transport connections. Details of Air Traffic Control in London airspace is explained with the inclusion of ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World War II RAF Airfields in Norfolk

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    As part of the Aviation Heritage Trail series, this book covers airfields in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Yorkshire and Northamptonshire. 12 Group was formed in 1937 within Fighter Command to become responsible for aerial defense of the industrial Midlands. During World War Two this group was the second most important fighter group and as such, it received it's fair share of attacks from the German ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Thursday Blood and Oil

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    Series series The US Eighth Air Force in Europe
    "A highly readable account of the early stages of the USAAF air war over Western Europe" from the author of Confounding the Reich ( The Bulletin).This book describes the period when the American daylight offensive faltered and nearly failed and recalls the terrible losses suffered by Liberators on the low-level attack on the Ploesti oilfields in Romania and by the B-17s on the notorious ... Read more

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  • The Hercules Story

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    The C-130 Hercules first flew in 1954, an easily maintained aircraft which entered service with the USAF Tactical Air Command. Ten years later the 'Charlie 130' was providing the essential logistical support in Vietnam where a new landing technique, the Khe Sanh approach, added to the Hercules folklore. Paradrops, airlift and evacuation operations were completed around the clock, often at low ... Read more

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  • Last of the Lancasters

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    'The Lancasters looked like enormous deadly black birds going off into the night; somehow they looked different when they came back. The planes carried from this field 117,000 pounds of high explosives and the crews flew all night to drop the load as ordered. Now the trains would not run between France and Italy for a while, not on those bombed tracks anyhow. Here are the men who did it, with ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • German Night Fighters Versus Bomber Command, 1943–1945

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    Series series The Second World War By Night
    This new volume from Martin Bowman examines the closing years of the Second World War, as the tide turned against the German and Axis forces. It includes riveting first-hand accounts from German fighter pilots caught up in some of the most dramatic night time conflicts of the latter war years.Viewing Bomber Command's operations through the eyes of the enemy, the reader is offered a fresh and ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Legend of the Lancasters

    The Bomber War from England, 1942–45

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    This book is a riveting account told in ten big chapters of the young RAF crews who flew Lancasters in RAF Bomber Command from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe in April 1945. It is unique in that the story is told using first person accounts from RAF aircrew and German night fighter crews who fought each other on raids on occupied Europe and Germany from 1942 onwards. Details of what it was ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering D-day

    Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes

    by Martin Bowman ...
    Seventy years on, D-Day remains the greatest combined military operation of all time. Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this is a remarkable collection of the stories of those who took part.June 6th 1944 saw the greatest combined military operation of all time and subsequently D-day has become known as the single most crucial watershed of the last century. To commemorate this ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Daylight Bombing Operations, 1939–1942

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    Series series Voices in Flight
    There are no records of war more valuable than the first-hand accounts of the individuals who were actually there. The vivid honesty of the stories on display here brings into sharp focus the personal fears as well as the sheer exhilaration of flying sorties by day, often through heavy flak, sometimes at hedge-hopping or wave- skimming heights, as the squadrons of Blenheims, Mosquitoes, Mitchells ... Read more

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  • 1st Air Division 8th Air Force USAAF 1942-45

    Flying Fortress Squadrons in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    As part of the AHT series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area—in this case Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire. Constituted as the lst Bombardment Division on 30 August 1943 the unit was activated at Brampton Grange, Huntingdon on 13 September 1943. It was assigned to the Eighth Air Force and redesignated lst Air Division in December 1944. ... Read more

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