Air Forces & Warfare

Written by an expert on the SR-71 Blackbird, this book offers readers a short, fascinating history of this incredible military aircraft . Lockheed...

This powerful collection, depicting the first war in the air, showcases the work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great...

From the very beginning of aviation in South America, French aircraft and aviators played a major part in the development of military flying in Per...

Shot down and killed in April 1944, Lionel Anderson, a low flying Mosquito intruder pilot, was part way through his second tour of operations. He h...

The nearly half-million American airmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. In Unsung Eagles, award-...

Thunderbolt to War gives a remarkable insight into the structure and operations of a leading USAAF Fighter Squadron in England during the Second Wo...

Renowned for decades as the worlds foremost railroad artist, Howard Foggs career spanned half a century and some twelve hundred paintings. However,...

Riversdale Robert 'Barney' Barnfather was an RAF fighter pilot who flew Spitfires in action almost continuously from November 1941 until the end of...

The narrative description and condensed history of the Spitfires construction, combat career and post-war service, bought together to tell the comp...

Luftwaffe over Scotland is the first complete history of the air attacks mounted against Scotland by Nazi Germany during World War Two and undertak...

'On 15 November it came suddenly out of nowhere inches above the hangars with a crackling thunderclap of twin Merlins. As we watched, bewitched, it...

This is the Battle of Britain memoir of Roger Hall, a 152 Squadron Spitfire pilot based in southern England, the heart of the fighting during the e...

Zero to Hero is unique in that it tells the story of Victor Roe, one of the longest- serving RAF rear gunners with The Pathfinders and in so doing,...

Having been classified by the Air Ministry as a Master Diversion airfield, RAF Manston was for many years open twenty-four hours a day and availabl...

As a very young boy in the Second World War the seeds were sown to fly in the blue sky. Terry made up his young mind with great determination to re...

Twelve years since The Daily Telegraph Airmen''s Obituaries Book Two was published, Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork, has compiled ninety-one obituar...

''Teutonic Titans: Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the Kaiser''s Military Elite'' covers the era 1847-1955-heavily illustrated with over 500 images of ...

A great many books have been written over the years about individual airfields or those in particular counties/areas but this one covers a good pro...

Just weeks after Pearl Harbor, Darwin was mauled by a massive Japanese attack. Without a single fighter to defend Australian soil, the Australian g...

This volume carries on where FIRST OF THE FEW finished, in the same style and format. 10 July-the official first day of the Battle of Britain-witne...

Founded in 1925 in Warnemunde, Arado-Flugzeugwerke, from the outset, produced civil aircraft as well as developing prototypes for the clandestine a...

British RAF wireless operator/air gunner Bill `Enoch Kirkness of Horsforth, Yorkshire, flew thirty-two B-24 Liberator bomber sorties, twenty-eight ...

This is the story of two airmen - an RAF Rear Gunner and a Luftwaffe Pilot. Alexander Ollar was raised in the Highlands of Scotland. He became an e...

After the fall of France and the allied retreat from Dunkirk, Hitler proposed the planned invasion of Great Britain. A secret aerial reconnaissance...

Essentially a development of the Avro Lancaster via the later Lincoln, the Avro Shackleton was the RAFs first line of defence in the maritime role ...

In May 1940, the opposing German and Allied forces seemed reasonably well matched. On the ground, the four allied nations had more troops, artiller...

Following the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, at which the Americans refused to back Britain's plan to invade the Dodecanese Islands in the ...

From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat there emerged a r...

Thanks to a broken leg during flight school, Arthur Stanley Gould Lee gained valuable additional time flying trainers before he was posted to Franc...

The most iconic German aircraft of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the Luftwaffe's principal fighter from 1939 until 1942 when ...

The 93 pilots featured in Fallen Eagles were all decorated for bravery during The Great War. All survived the conflict only to die flying in the p...

From the opening day of the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command took the offensive to the enemy and played a leading role in the liberation of Eur...

When the Allies crossed the Rhine, Hitler decreed to go down fighting to the last man. A strange triangular bomber launched the 'Nicht loschbares F...

An account of the eight Zeppelin attacks on this major port city on the east coast of England. The new and dreadful experience of aerial bombardmen...

RAF Chivenor, situated in North Devon, closed as an operational station in October 1995. In The Perfect Aerodrome: A History of RAF Chivenor 1932-1...

In the early days of flight, no one imagined the aeroplane as a weapon of war. Inevitably, the First World War proved the catalyst that was to chan...

The Apache helicopter is a revolutionary development in the history of war, designed to hunt, take out and destroy its targets, to inflict damage o...

In this radical reappraisal, Greg Baughen has used archive material to build up an intriguingly different picture of how air power developed in Bri...