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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
SPITFIRE WOMEN OF WORLD WAR II	GILES WHITTELL	The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II – mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots.Why would the well-bred daughter o…	OL13676162W
The dambuster who cracked the dam	Arthur G. Thorning	xii, 178 p. , [48] p. of plates : 25 cm	OL13741352W
The Spitfire Smiths	R. I. A. Smith	viii, 216 p., [16] p. of plates : 23 cm	OL13784085W
With Wings Like Eagles	Michael Korda	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 than nine hundred on …	OL14990298W
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
A Trenchard Brat At War	Thomas Lancashire	"The announcement of my intention to apply for entry into the Royal Air Force was met by abject horror from my mother and she was quite adamant that no son of hers was going to join the armed forces.…	OL17435728W
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
Spitfire in combat	Alfred Price	viii, 180 p. : 27 cm	OL18703811W
Last of the few	Max Arthur	Presents personal accounts of the pilots who fought and survived that battle.	OL19951142W
The Kamikaze hunters	Will Iredale	"Follows a group of young men who fought towards the end of World War II, from their enlistment and initial training to the terrifying and unexpected reality of fighting against pilots who would rath…	OL20031836W
The Jail Busters	Robert Lyman	In February 1944, the French Resistance in the Amiens area was in turmoil. Its strength had been decimated by German aggression and the work of a number of traitors in their midst, and hundreds of it…	OL20350889W
The last British Dambuster	George Johnson	I was anxious to fight. Hitler was the bastard that had started all this and he needed sorting out. We were under threat. Everything we stood for - our country, our families and our way of life - was…	OL20807140W
Harry's War	Harry Drinkwater	Summary:'I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up …	OL21060233W
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 Battle of Britain	John Philip Ray	July 1940: as Britain stood alone, the Army exhausted and defeated by the Wehrmacht and the Royal Navy stretched worldwide, only the English Channel and the RAF remained between Britain and the expec…	OL3019509W
The Royal Flying Corps in France	Ralph Barker	xi, 237 p., [16] p. of plates : 25 cm	OL3072866W
The Battle of Britain	Richard Alexander Hough,Denis Richards	At the end of June 1940, with Western Europe overrun by the Germans, the Nazi war leaders knew that RAF Fighter Command had to be subdued before the invasion of Britain could take place. They set abo…	OL3189880W
War in a Stringbag	Charles Lamb	Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. It was an antiquated machine, but it could outmanoeuvre almost any other aircraft…	OL3670837W
Wings over North Africa	A. G. Dudgeon	222 p., [20] p. of plates : 23 cm	OL3810375W
Five of the many	Stephen Darlow	Steve Darlow follows the exploits of five RAF Bomber Command's distinguished airmen.	OL5877006W