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  • The Baby Killers

    German Air Raids on Britain in the First World War

    by Thomas Fegan ...
    Just over a decade after the Wright Brothers triumph of powered flight, the conduct of war was changed for ever. Until the Kaisers Zeppelins raided British cities and towns, it had been unthinkable that civilian populations and property hundreds of miles from the battlefield could be at risk from sudden death and destruction.In the first section of The Baby Killers Thomas Fegan charts the precise ... Read more

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  • Guy Gibson

    Dambuster

    by Geoff Simpson ...
    A new assessment of the life of one of the most famous and controversial airmen of the Second World War, this book covers Guy Gibson's sometimes troubled upbringing and the impact on him of his time at St Edward's School, Oxford. In particular, the story of his career in the RAF is relayed, including his stunning leadership achievement in creating No 617 Squadron and leading its attack on the dams ... Read more

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  • John Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck

    by Richard Edwards ...
    Series series British Flying Legends
    DESCRIPTIONJohn Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck tells the remarkable story of a Fleet Air Arm pilot and flying legend who, with a single torpedo strike, delivered from an obsolete biplane, in a force nine gale, in the middle of the Atlantic, brought about the sinking of Nazi Germany’s most powerful battleship, the Bismarck.This short book gives the reader a concise and straightforward insight into ... Read more

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  • Dowding of Fighter Command

    Victor of the Battle of Britain

    by Vincent Orange ...
    An extensive biography of the life and distinguished military career of the Scottish air chief marshal.Making full use of archival sources, studies by other scholars, and information provided by family members, Vincent Orange has completed the first biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding to cover his entire life.Soldier, pilot, wireless pioneer, squadron commander, spiritualist, champion ... Read more

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  • Air Force Blue

    The RAF in World War Two – Spearhead of Victory

    by Patrick Bishop ...
    In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence – the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory.A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAir warfare was a terrible novelty of the modern age, requiring a new military outlook. From the beginning, the RAF’s identity set ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Heroes of the Skies

    by Michael Ashcroft ...
    Since the dawn of aerial combat in the First World War, the heroism of the men who put their lives at risk in the air has known no bounds. There were no more heroic airmen than the fighter pilots and bomber crews of the Second World War - men who sacrificed their own lives in order to save their crew or who, although in extreme pain, managed to get their aircraft home rather than risk becoming ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Battle of Britain

    Dowding and the First Victory, 1940

    by John Ray ...
    July 1940: as Britain stood alone, the Army exhausted and defeated by the Wehrmacht and the Roval Navy, stretched worldwide, only the English Channel and the RAF remained between Britain and the expected German invasion. But the Luftwaffe's ill-prepared and last-minute assault on the RAF was met by a carefully planned system of fighter intervention, the defensive strategy devised by Hugh Dowding, ... Read more

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  • Guy Gibson: Legend of the Dam Busters & John Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck

    Compendium

    by Richard Edwards ...
    Series series British Flying Legends
    DESCRIPTIONThis special eBook presents the first and second chapters of British Flying Legends together in one volume.Guy Gibson: Legend of the Dam Busters tells the dramatic story of a renowned British flying legend and his leadership of the infamous raid on the Ruhr dams in May 1943, providing a fitting and timely tribute to a truly courageous aviator.John Moffat: Legend of the Bismar... ... Read more

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  • Park

    The Biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, GCB, KBE, MC, DFC, DCL

    by Vincent Orange ...
    "A fine biography of one of the war's greatest unsung heroes," Royal Air Force Commander Keith Park ( The Daily Telegraph)."If ever any one man won the Battle of Britain, he did. I don't believe it is realized how much that one man, with his leadership, his calm judgement and his skill, did to save not only this country, but the world." So wrote Marshal of the RAF Lord Tedder of Keith Park in 1947 ... Read more

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  • Battle of Britain 1917

    The First Heavy Bomber Raids on England

    by Diane Canwell, Jonathan Sutherland ...
    In the autumn of 1916 the Germans began to equip with the Gotha twin-engine bomber. The Gothas were designed to carry out attacks across the channel against Britain. A group of four squadrons was established in Belgium, and they carried out their first bombing raid towards the end of May 1917. This 22 aircraft sortie, against the town of Folkestone, caused 95 deaths. In mid June a force of 18 ... Read more

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  • Dambusters: The Forging of a Legend

    617 Squadron in World War II

    by Chris Ward, Andy Lee, Andreas Wachtel ...
    617 Squadron of 5 Group RAF Bomber Command was without doubt the most famous RAF Squadron in World War II. It was formed to carry out the precision low-level attack on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe Dams, using Barnes Wallaces newly developed rotating mine, now commonly referred to as The Bouncing Bomb. The raid was a tremendous success, although at great cost to the squadron, and proved to be a great ... Read more

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  • The Narrow Margin

    The Battle of Britain & the Rise of Air Power, 1930–1940

    by Derek Wood, Derek Dempster ...
    "For vividness and a sense of the overall flow of the battle . . . The Narrow Margin is excellent for the British side."— Air & Space MagazineThe Battle of Britain saved the country from invasion. If the RAF had been defeated all the efforts of the British Army and the Royal Navy would hardly have averted defeat in the face of complete German air superiority. With all Europe subjugated, Germany ... Read more

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