Air Forces & Warfare

''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 ...