Author: Norman Franks

Jimmy Sheddan was one of the many New Zealanders who joined the RNZAF, then left his native land to come to England to fight the enemies of Great B...

This is the captivating story of the four Raw brothers, all of whom served with the Royal Air Force. The eldest three flew during WW2 and all three...

When the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service merged on 1 April 1918, to form the Royal Air Force, the new command needed to have its...

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...

During the First World War, Italy was on the side of their British Allies and their fight was against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, bordering on Aus...

Following the extraordinary career of a Second World War bomber pilot, Flying Among Heroes brings together adventure and human daring with the hars...

By the close of 1916, the air war over France was progressing amazingly. The Royal Flying Corps, the French Air Force and the opposing German Air S...

A decade since its first publication, Grub Street are proud to present Ton-Up Lancs as a paperback for the first time. Originally a revised study f...

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...

The follow-up to Bloody April 1917 continues fifteen months later into World War I. Much had happened over this period. More battles had been fough...

Where is the RAF? was the oft-quoted question asked by soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk, to where they had retreated following the German b...