Air Forces & Warfare

When the Second World War began in 1939 it was thought that it would be fought along the same lines as the First World War, with the Allied air for...

Duncan Grinnell-Milne was one of that select band of young men who made history in the air between 1915 and 1918 when they learned to fly in machin...

This is an account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defence and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them,...

The Last Year of the Luftwaffe is the classic story of a once all-conquering force struggling to stave off an inevitable and total defeat. This sup...

The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role in developing and sustaining R...

These are the first-hand memoirs of the late William Albert Tate (W.O, RAF Bomber Command) framed within the factual history of his service career ...

By the late summer of 1944 the allied drive in Western Europe was in danger of stalling as lines of communication became ever more extended. A 'bac...

Although New Guinea''s Thunderbolt pilots faced several different types of enemy aircraft in capricious tropical conditions, by far their most comm...

The Vickers Wellington was one of very few aircraft types to have been in production and frontline service throughout World War II, and more than 1...

The Gloster F.9/40 was Britain s first jet fighter and as the Meteor F.I became the first jet-powered aircraft of any description to enter service ...

Built within a 180-day time limit in 1943, the F-80 Shooting Star first saw service in Italy in the final year of World War 2, and consequently was...

Winged Sabres is the story of a RFC & RAF squadron flying the cumbersome FE2 from February 1916 to September 1917, and then the superlative Bri...

Harry and Tom Eeles both served in the Royal Air Force as pilots over the time span of 1929 to 2010, eighty years of the Royal Air Force''s one hun...

On 16 November 1916, Lieutenant Geoffrey Dorman took off from Shoreham in a Royal Aircraft Factory FE2b with the intention of heading West along th...

Located by the Baltic near the town of Barth in Western Pomerania, Germany, Stalag Luft I was one of a number of Stammlager Luftwaffe, these being ...

The Phantom was developed for the US Navy as a long-range all-weather fighter and first flew in May 1958, before becoming operational in 1961. The ...

Following nearly two years of planning and exacting preparation, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of the Nazi-dominated European continent, ...

''Father of the Flying Corps'' and ''Father of Australian Aviation'' were two of the unofficial titles conferred on Oswald ( Toby ) Watt when he di...

David Herriot served almost 40 years in the Royal Air Force as a navigator, first on the Buccaneer S2 and subsequently on the Tornado GR1. This vol...

The war in air over North Africa and the Mediterranean during the Second World War has long been overshadowed by the battle on the ground. Between ...

As early as the 1920s, Communist Soviet and then Chinese agents had been infiltrating Malaya. Then in 1929 the Malayan Communist Party, or MCP, was...

This is the story of the air war over Western Europe, told first-hand by the American and German pilots and aircrew who took part. It spans the per...

The 1970s were an event-filled and action packed decade for the Royal Air Force. Many events are worthy of note and all are recorded here, in words...

In a few short years after 1914 the Royal Navy practically invented naval air warfare, not only producing the first effective aircraft carriers, bu...

The engrossing account of one of World War IIs legendary figures. A member of the legendary Band of Brothers, Ed Shames was involved in some of t...

Famously dubbed 'Bandit Country' by a UK government minister in 1975, South Armagh was considered the most dangerous part of Northern Ireland for t...

Includes bibiliographical references (p.188) and index.

Seven decades after World War II, we now know that the margin between Allied victory and defeat was often narrower than many realized. The decis...

In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic, to attack Allied shipping. The ...

This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes and Defiants in England against the Luftwaffe and from Mal...

From humble beginnings in 1911 with floatplanes, by the 1930s, the US Navy possessed dirigibles and were introducing fighter planes. By the start ...

The Heinkel He 111 was the main work-horse of the Luftwaffe's bomber force throughout much of the Second World War. Consequently, when Hitler launc...

The Avro Vulcan was the last V Bomber to see active service in its primary role during the Falklands conflict. It is the most popular of the three ...