Air Forces & Warfare

At its height during the Second World War, the RAF totalled 185,000 personnel. Men and women, from home and overseas, served alongside members of D...

This is the fascinating story of army fixed-wing co-operation units who were made up of specially trained volunteer army personnel. These men were ...

Operation Chastise, the audacious attack on the dams in the Ruhr valley, is arguably one of the most famous airborne attacks in history. During the...

In July 1944 the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me-262, the worlds first operational jet warplane. This new German figh...

A remarkable tale of a local airman, this book is based on a true story. It is a tribute to all those who the author describes as 'helpers' - the m...

CEAM leads all the experiments at a rate of 350 per year for all types of aircraft equipment: aircraft, weapons, software, ergonomic equipment. The...

The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the...

Located in an Observer Corps post on the top of a Martello tower on the seafront at Dymchurch in Kent, Mr E.E. Woodland and Mr A.M. Wraight were on...

Some aircraft inspire passion, others nostalgia, but others, often the unsung heroes, are more of a connoisseur's choice. The Handley Page Victor e...

The first, and most essential element in aerial bombardment is that of locating the target. All the inherent costs and risks in undertaking a bombi...

This book tells the story of the first helicopter in the world designed from the outset to be deployed at sea, in Destroyers and Frigates. It is pr...

The story of the Supermarine Spitfire has been told across many years and the debate about it is enduring, yet the Spitfire remains a true icon. Fo...

Since it was first published in 1989, Men of the Battle of Britain, the complete third edition of which was published in 2015, has become a standar...

The Battle of Berlin, the bombing of the Big City' as it was known to the crews of RAF Bomber Command, raged from 18 November 1943 to the end of t...

Eighty years after the Battle of Britain this vivid and dramatic book tells the story, in their own words, of six brave young men who fought courag...

Since the end of World War II, the strategic bombing of Germany has inspired numerous studies, countless books and several documentary films, and i...

The Junkers 87 Stuka was an iconic weapon of World War Two and an aircraft name that was, and still is, instantly recognised worldwide. Its roles i...

In a companion volume to his Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944-1954, Leo Marriott describes, using over 200 archive photographs, the fi...

We Seek the Highest has been the motto of the thousands of Officer Cadets who, over ten decades, have passed through the rigorous training regime a...

History has recorded that the first ever powered flight took place at Kitty Hawk in America, on 17 December 1903 and was carried out by the Wright ...

This book describes one twenty-four-hour period in the Allied Strategic Bomber Offensive in the greatest possible detail. The author sets the scene...

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

Nineteen-year-old Lionel Morris left the infantry for the wood and wires of the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front in 1916, joining one of the...

Flying the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom was a young man''s dream but the path from Civvy Street to operational on a fighter squadron was long, a...

The Rhodesian Special Air Service, one of the most formidable fighting forces in the world, operated almost exclusively across the borders during t...

The US Air Force has performed peripheral reconnaissance adjacent to the traditional foe of Russia, China, North Korea and others for seven decades...

The fate of the free world hung in the balance. Stalin's Soviet Union sought to drive the Western democracies from Germany to continue the communis...

_ I realised that this brief but abortive sortie was to be the final mission of my Luftwaffe flying career.'_ Johannes Kaufmann's career was an ex...

After World War II the Royal Air Force went through a considerable downsizing, but retained an essential maritime reconnaissance role for the prote...

The Red Star and the Roundel are the symbols of organisations that share a century of existence, a century with a full quota of conflict as well as...

In 1938, the Reichsluftfahrtsministerium (German Air Ministry, RLM), issued a requirement for a new twin-engine heavy fighter to replace the Me 110...

New and updated edition: the original autobiography is enhanced by the addition of family photos and extracts from unpublished letters and writings...

The ideas behind the Grumman F-14 Tomcat first began to take shape back in the late 1950s when it was discovered that the Soviet Union was quickly ...