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  • The War in the Air
    H. a. Jones
    Giant bombers and the war in the air around the worldThe fifth volume of this substantial and definitive history of air warfare during the First World War, as seen from the British and Imperial perspective, principally concerns the lesser theatres of this global conflict far from the trenches, mud and wire of the Western Front in Europe. The first section, however, covers the a...
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    23,03 €

  • AD ASTRA and ALL THAT
    Geoffrey Ardron
    The Wartime account of Geoffrey Ardron, a Signals officer who after training was posted to a remote Airfield close to the Lake District. From this quiet corner of the UK, he was later sent to Burma to set up communication links where he describes the horrors of the jungle, the constant rain and lots of leeches!This is an unpretentious account by a modest man who, like many othe...
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    13,58 €

  • The First Fighter Pilot - Roland Garros
    Ed Cobleigh
    Roland Garros enjoyed an exciting life. An aviation pioneer in the early 1900s, he taught himself how to fly a bamboo airplane despite crashing it at Versailles. He was a world-class athlete, a lawyer who wouldn't learn Latin, a sports car salesman on the Champs-Elysées, an airshow pilot and racer. He demonstrated flight to huge crowds up and down the Americas. Ultimately, ...
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    22,68 €

  • The First Fighter Pilot - Roland Garros
    Ed Cobleigh
    Roland Garros enjoyed an exciting life. An aviation pioneer in the early 1900s, he taught himself how to fly a bamboo airplane despite crashing it at Versailles. He was a world-class athlete, a lawyer who wouldn't learn Latin, a sports car salesman on the Champs-Elysées, an airshow pilot and racer. He demonstrated flight to huge crowds up and down the Americas. Ultimately, ...
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    15,59 €

  • Fleet Angels
    Barbara Marriott
    For twenty-five years, Helicopter Utility Squadron Two (HU-2) called the Naval Air Station Lakehurst home. They did good in Lakehurst, but their best work was done at sea aboard navy ships where they completed a number of missions, including their primary job: that of saving lives. For this, they earned the name Fleet Angels.Here is their history, their struggles, their heroics...
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    16,20 €

  • Inside The Black Vault
    John Greenewald / Jr. John Greenewald / JrJohn Greenewald
    This book reveals the relations between U.S. Government secrets and the UFO Phenomena. Armed with only official declassified documents, Greenewald outlines his more than two decade journey, struggling to pry loose every document he can find. He explores the UFO connection to the FBI, CIA, NSA, Air Force, Army, Navy, NSA, DIA, and countless others. ...
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    13,84 €

  • The War in the Air
    H. a. Jones
    The fourth volume of the history of air warfare—focusing on the war at sea and the Western FrontThis outstanding, multi-volume examination of aerial warfare during the First World War from the perspective of British air forces continues in volume four with accounts of two different theatres. As the war progressed Germany increasingly invested resources in the expansion of its s...
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    38,51 €

  • The War in the Air
    H. a. Jones
    The fourth volume of the history of air warfare—focusing on the war at sea and the Western FrontThis outstanding, multi-volume examination of aerial warfare during the First World War from the perspective of British air forces continues in volume four with accounts of two different theatres. As the war progressed Germany increasingly invested resources in the expansion of its s...
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    23,18 €

  • To So Few - Deflection
    Cap Parlier
    Deflection is the seventh book of Cap Parlier’s epic To So Few series of historical novels.  Accomplished American volunteer fighter pilot RAF Flying Officer Brian Drummond and his brethren of No.71 ‘Eagle’ Squadron finally overcome their frustration with being a show squadron and fly their first combat missions into German occupied France.  The improving spring weather of 1941...
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    15,27 €

  • Final Flight Final Fight
    Erin Miller
    When Arlington National Cemetery refused to accept my grandmother's last request to be laid to rest there, I refused to let her legacy as a veteran die along with her. My grandmother, Elaine Danforth Harmon, flew as a pilot with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of World War II. Despite being part of the first group of women to fly for the United States Army, the WAS...
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    18,41 €

  • Final Flight Final Fight
    Erin Miller
    When Arlington National Cemetery refused to accept my grandmother's last request to be laid to rest there, I refused to let her legacy as a veteran die along with her. My grandmother, Elaine Danforth Harmon, flew as a pilot with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of World War II. Despite being part of the first group of women to fly for the United States Army, the WAS...
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    11,95 €

  • Why We Killed Patton!
    Jr. Willis Samuel Cole / JrWillis Samuel Cole
    Based on actual and provable events that gave General Patton the power to destroy all those who were attempting to destroy him! General Patton had absolute proof,  two Congressional Medal Of  Honor awards had been approved by General Eisenhower, knowing both award Citations were false.  Exactly as General Eisenhower had verbally ordered them to exist! A group of men, from Priva...
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    22,81 €

  • One Damned Island After Another
    Clive Howard / Joe Whitley
    This is the official history of the Seventh Air Force. It is not a "brass hat" story; it is told from the point of view of the men themselves, often in their own words, with realistic vigor and with the lively sense of humor that made it possible to achieve victory in the Pacific.  On 19th October 1940, the Hawaiian Air Force, later known as the Seventh Air Force, was establish...
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    33,12 €

  • Harnessing the Airplane
    Lori A. Henning
    At its dawn in the early twentieth century, the new technology of aviation posed a crucial question to American and British cavalry: what do we do with the airplane? Lacking the hindsight of historical perspective, cavalry planners based their decisions on incomplete information. Harnessing the Airplane compares how the American and British armies dealt with this unique challen...
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    39,08 €

  • Song of the Sky
    Murchie Guy
    Guy Murchie (Jr.) (25 January 1907 – 8 July 1997) was a writer about science and philosophy: aviation, astronomy, biology, and the meaning of life. He was, successively, a world traveler; a war correspondent; a photographer, staff artist, and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; a pilot and flight instructor; a teacher; a lecturer; an aerial navigator; a building contractor; and f...
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    20,92 €

  • Song of the Sky
    Murchie Guy
    Guy Murchie (Jr.) (25 January 1907 – 8 July 1997) was a writer about science and philosophy: aviation, astronomy, biology, and the meaning of life. He was, successively, a world traveler; a war correspondent; a photographer, staff artist, and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; a pilot and flight instructor; a teacher; a lecturer; an aerial navigator; a building contractor; and f...
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    34,17 €

  • 51 Lessons From The Sky
    Fletcher McKenzie
    Learn from the largest air force in the world - the US Air Force. 51 Lessons From The Skycontains stories from USAF pilots and crew who lived to share their stories of air incidents, and close calls.If you enjoy Mayday, Air Crash Investigation or Seconds Before Disaster, then you will love this companion book to the best selling General Aviation book 81 Lessons From The Sky and...
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    16,78 €

  • Robert A. Lovett and the Development of American Air Power
    David M Jordan / David M. Jordan
    Robert Lovett grew up in Texas, went to Yale, and earned his wings as a naval air force hero in World War I. He played a key role in the development of the Army Air Force in World War II. His emphasis on strategic bombing was instrumental in defeating Hitler’s Germany. During his postwar State Department service, he was influential in initiating the Marshall Plan, the form...
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    58,70 €

  • Making a Night Stalker
    David Burnett
    David Burnett takes readers into a unique world of the 160th Special Operations Aviation regiment. His journey starts in a conventional Army unit where he doesn’t feel fulfilled in his duties and obligations. This lack of responsibility drives David to pursue the dream of becoming an MH-47G Chinook helicopter crew chief in the most secretive and elite aviation unit in the world...
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    24,89 €

  • TONKIN GULF YACHT CLUB
    René J. FRANCILLON / René JFRANCILLON
    This book is a comprehensive guide to US Aircraft carriers operations off Vietnam, between 1964 and 1975. After guiding andd describing the operations, the author focuses on the Vietnam war combat cruises of USS Coral Sea, as she spent more time on the line than any US aircraft carrier.First published in1988 only in black and white, it now includes in this revised edition over ...
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    51,30 €

  • Fall of the Japanese Empire
    Ron Werneth
     In “Fall of the Japanese Empire, Memories of the Air War 1942-45”, author Ron Werneth has once again compiled the narratives of survivors from the Pacific War and, reinforced by years of meticulous research, organized them into a highly readable account of what it was like to be there. Following on from his highly-acclaimed first book, “Beyond Pearl Harbor, the Untold Stories ...
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    54,12 €

  • Warnings Unheeded
    Andy Brown
    Mass murder and military aviation disaster. One community's experience with two fatal tragedies that occurred suddenly... but not without warning.On 20 June 1994, a vengeance-seeking gunman opened fire in an Air Force hospital. Despite warnings from his roommates and co-workers. Despite the efforts of mental-health doctors. A sociopath had slipped through the cracks.Four da...
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    27,58 €

  • Sharkbait
    Guy S. Clark
    In early 1966, Dr. Guy Clark received orders to go to Vietnam, and upon arrival that June was assigned to be a flight surgeon at Cam Ranh Bay Air Force Base, on the South China Sea. Thus began a year-long assignment that would find Clark flying more than ninety bombing missions over Vietnam in the Phantom F4-C, plunging deep into the Viet Cong-infested jungle with a gaggle of R...
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    20,42 €

  • Inside History of the Usaf Lightweight Fighters, 1900 to 1975
    Herbert A. Hutchinson / Herbert AHutchinson
    This book, in two volumes, attempts to explain the technology developments that evolved in the period from 1900 at Kitty Hawk through the ensuing seventy-five years leading to the development of the United States F-16 Multinational Weapon System in the mid-1970s. By 2017, 4,550 F-16s, all with the first all-electric, fly-by-wire flight control system have been manufactured for ...
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    23,33 €

  • Inside History of the Usaf Lightweight Fighters, 1900 to 1975
    Herbert A. Hutchinson / Herbert AHutchinson
    This book, in two volumes, attempts to explain the technology developments that evolved in the period from 1900 at Kitty Hawk through the ensuing seventy-five years leading to the development of the United States F-16 Multinational Weapon System in the mid-1970s. By 2017, 4,550 F-16s, all with the first all-electric, fly-by-wire flight control system have been manufactured for ...
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    17,76 €

  • The War in the Air-Volume 3
    H. a. Jones
    The third volume of the history of air war: Africa, Zeppelin Air Raids on Britain, the Western Front and moreThis magnificent appraisal of the aerial war during the First World War by H. A. Jones (1893-1945) continues in volume 3, beginning with a riveting account of the activities of the RFC and RNAS in German East and South-West Africa during 1914-16. These ‘side-show’ theatr...
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    36,97 €

  • The War in the Air-Volume 3
    H. a. Jones
    The third volume of the history of air war: Africa, Zeppelin Air Raids on Britain, the Western Front and moreThis magnificent appraisal of the aerial war during the First World War by H. A. Jones (1893-1945) continues in volume 3, beginning with a riveting account of the activities of the RFC and RNAS in German East and South-West Africa during 1914-16. These ‘side-show’ theatr...
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    21,78 €

  • Ready to Strike
    Adam Lunney
    Ready to Strike is the story of the only Royal Australian Air Force squadron to operate from airfields built immediately behind the front lines of the Normandy battlefield after the landings in France of June 1944.453 (RAAF) Squadron was a ‘for war only’ formation. Ready to Strike covers the period from the Squadron’s formation in May 1941 to the end of the Normandy campaign in...
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    24,58 €

  • It Wasn’t So Jolly
    Thomas A. Baker / Thomas ABaker
    This is the story of the 90th Bomb Group of the US 5th Air Force, nicknamed the Jolly Rogers, and the James Horner bomber crew, as told to the author by three surviving crew members, all in their 90s today. It records the experience of the men and the history of the Group in the Pacific theater in World War II, from 1942-1945. Formed in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack,...
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    28,94 €

  • The Bombing of Gernika
    Xabier Irujo
    Few events in the history of the world have aroused the passions of the decent, the fair, the peaceful, and the just as much as the brutal terror bombing attack on the Basque town of Gernika. From the decision of the fascist forces to attack the open city, to the horror of the bombing, to its aftermath, this short history tells the terrible events that colored not only the mode...
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    10,02 €


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