Books

19 results found

Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The dambuster who cracked the dam	Arthur G. Thorning	xii, 178 p. , [48] p. of plates : 25 cm	OL13741352W
The Flyer	Martin Francis	A scholarly study of the men of the RAF and British culture during the war, 'The Flyer' examines the lives of these men and their popular representation in literary and cinematic texts. It illuminate…	OL16418849W
With wings like eagles	Michael Korda	From the Publisher: Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force-often no more tha…	OL17717059W
Last of the few	Max Arthur	Presents personal accounts of the pilots who fought and survived that battle.	OL19951142W
617	Tim Bouquet	In May 1943, 617 Squadron RAF executed one of the most daring operations in military history. Flying barely 50 feet above black marble waters, Wing Commander Guy Gibson and his bombers mounted a raid…	OL20889372W
The dambuster's raid	John Sweetman	"Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. F…	OL20923717W
Air Force Lives	Phil Tomaselli	What was it like to serve as an airman in the Second World War, as a pilot, a bomb aimer, or aerial gunner, or as a trainee pilot in 1913, a Zeppelin chaser during the First World War, or serve as a …	OL21586873W
Fighter pilot	Helen Greathead	Britain is at war with Germany and your dream is to become a heroic fighter pilot. Experience what life in the skies is like as you make new friends on the nearby airbase and learn from them what it …	OL22094323W
Dogfight	Alfred Price	Places the reader in the cockpit during some of the greatest air battles of modern warfare. From WWI, where we get a rare insight into the fighter operations over the fields of France. Through to the…	OL22407329W
RAF ground support equipment since 1918	Fred Adkin	191 p. : 25 cm	OL2510323W
The few	Alex Kershaw	This book tells the never-before-told story of the American pilots -- -idealists, adventurers, romantics -- -who joined the RAF before America entered the war and helped save Britain in its darkest h…	OL2726854W
The Royal Flying Corps in France	Ralph Barker	xi, 237 p., [16] p. of plates : 25 cm	OL3072866W
Finest hour	Tim Clayton,Phil Craig	Sixty years ago, Europe lay at the feet of Adolf Hitler. Standing between Hitler and world domination was the just-appointed Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a few hundred pilots in the Royal Air…	OL3343217W
Wings over North Africa	A. G. Dudgeon	222 p., [20] p. of plates : 23 cm	OL3810375W
Shot down and on the run	Graham Pitchfork	Many POW escape stories are well known, but what about those who miraculously evaded capture in the first place and returned to fight another day? This book tells some of the epic stories of the thou…	OL5771284W
Five of the many	Stephen Darlow	Steve Darlow follows the exploits of five RAF Bomber Command's distinguished airmen.	OL5877006W
First light	Geoffrey Wellum	'An extraordinary, deeply moving and astonishingly evocative story. Reading it, you feel you are in the Spitfire with him, at 20,000 feet, chased by a German Heinkel, with your ammunition gone' INDEP…	OL5991877W
Vulcan 607	Rowland White	When Argentinian forces invaded the Falklands Islands in 1982, it took the British government by surprise. They needed a fast response, and military chiefs came up with a plan of action - Operation B…	OL8140367W
TRACING YOUR AIR FORCE ANCESTORS	Phil Tomaselli	If the author ever discovers there's a readable version here without his specific authority he'll hunt you down and kill you.	OL9792483W