Air Forces & Warfare

Life and Death in Bomber Command is an intimate account of the human cost of the bombing offensive against Nazi Germany and targets in occupied Eur...

Into the Swarm: Stories of RAF Fighter Pilots in the Second World War is a collaborative work by Christopher Yeoman (Rise Against Eagles) and Tor I...

'Westland Whirlwind' For many the name conjures up yellow air-sea rescue helicopters, not the sleek twin-engine monoplane that was the RAF's first ...

This is the first time that the history of the German Kampfeinsitzer Kommandos, better known as KEKs and the Fokkerstaffels, have been gathered in ...

Operation Tonga - The Glider Assault: 6 June 1944 is an account of the Glider Pilot Regiment's role in Operation Tonga, the first stage of the ai...

The immediate post-VJ-Day period of RAF history is often consigned to be little more than a footnote in most published accounts. In this first deta...

Air Commodore Pink chose RAF Manston as his final resting place and a number of aces from the First World War such as Squadron Leader Bartlett serv...

Weston Birch (Bert) Hall carved out his place in history with an almost devilish delight. Much of what has been written about him, including his ow...

Tales From The Control Tower is based on the author's personal experiences of the Royal Air Force. It starts in 1968 with anecdotes about Basic Tra...

The life-story of Lady Lucy Houston DBE must surely be one of the most romantic and dramatic epics of the last one hundred and fifty years, yet now...

This work follows the First World War career of Captain (later wing commander) Edwin Swale, CBE DFC and bar, who served with 210 Squadron RAF, pilo...

Station 115-Shipdham is the unique story of 600 acres of Norfolk countryside in the centre of the agricultural heartland of East Anglia. It was tur...

The East of England, particularly Suffolk, became a new home for thousands of American airmen during the Second World War. After starting to arrive...

This frank account of New Zealand Spitfire pilot Doug Brown traces his training and action experienced in the RAF and social activities during the ...

9 April 1940: Finn Thorsager was the first Norwegian to open fire on invading German forces. He was credited with shooting down an enemy aircraft i...

As a small club airfield during the 1930s, West Malling was very popular with flyers. Taken over by the RAF in 1939 it became a forward landing air...

Donald Barnard came to England from St Lucia to join the RAF as a bomber pilot. On his second tour of operations, he was shot down over northern Fr...

The Blitz was a defining moment of the Second World War when civilians faced total war from the air with bombing raids over Britain. This title bri...

A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world'...

Contact! is an enthralling set of recollections from ex-RAF pilot, instructor and test pilot Bob Tuxford. The book follows his twenty-year career w...

The Royal Air Force and her Commonwealth allies were thrust into war in 1939 with an ill equipped structure of aircrew and aircraft. There had been...

'Shrieking from the clouds, the Stukas achieved the measure of surprise they needed. The accuracy of the raid was good. Every runway was hit, the l...

During the Second World War, the RAF employed Special Duties pilots and aircrew on operations across a wide range of extraordinary and daredevil mi...

During the Second World War, thousands of American servicemen were uprooted from the US and deposited in rural England and immediately thrust uncer...