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  • Spitfire Diary
    E.A.W. Ted Smith
    A former R.A.F. pilot tells the true story of air-to-ground combat in World War II. Before his eighteenth birthday E.A.W. “Ted” Smith was in the British Royal Air Force where he served five years on over thirty RAF bases in South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, England, Scotland, France, Belgium, and Holland. Joining the RAF 127 Squadron after D-Day as a fighter and bomber pilot, he...
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    21,76 €

  • 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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    49,65 €

  • From Guam and Beyond
    Dan Ragan / Jr. Floyd E. Horn / JrFloyd EHorn / Richard (Dick) Leighton
    The stories in this book were supplied by squadron mates who served with the U.S. Navy's Airborne Early Warning Squadron One or VW-1, a squadron that supported the Seventh Fleet and also engaged in typhoon tracking. The squadron's existence spanned a nearly 20 year period that began with the Korean War and ended with the Vietnam War. This collection is titled “From Guam...
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    24,38 €

  • Ghosts of World War II
    Barbara Marriott
    It was nothing more than a thin strip of land bordered by an ocean and a landlocked salt river. Its inhabitants were hoards of sand flies and mosquitoes. In time, it probably would have been taken over by developers, and become another resort area. But catastrophic events, beyond its shores, dictated a different role.The sand was shaped into a naval base and the sand flies and ...
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    11,40 €

  • Football Flyboy
    Lisa Reinicke
    As World War II winds down, a cocky young Army Airforce pilot confronts the messy cleanup of a war-ravaged world. As loneliness, frustration, fear, and a strong call to duty begin to shape him, Buster also known as Bill would become known as the Football Flyboy—is humbled by the devastation and struggles he sees around him.  Writing letters home to his family back in Oklahoma,...
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    13,88 €

  • The War in the Air-Volume 2
    H. a. Jones
    The second volume of the history of air war—the Somme, Gallipoli and more.Readers of this the second volume of ‘The War in the Air’—the account of the activities of the British air force during the First World War—will note that the author is different to that of the first volume, since Sir Walter Raleigh died following a journey to the Middle East, and the task of completing t...
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    38,54 €

  • The War in the Air-Volume 2
    H. a. Jones
    The second volume of the history of air war—the Somme, Gallipoli and more.Readers of this the second volume of ‘The War in the Air’—the account of the activities of the British air force during the First World War—will note that the author is different to that of the first volume, since Sir Walter Raleigh died following a journey to the Middle East, and the task of completing t...
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    23,21 €

  • Trails of Tragedy and Triumph
    Nikos Ligidakis
    This book is about an American B24 bomber crew shot down in enemy territory while returning from a successful mission. The narrative recounts human tragedy and captures the triumph of the human spirit. These men's heroic run for freedom bonded them in life and death. They walked for over six-hundred miles, climbing steep mountains, running through the German-occupied vall...
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    27,75 €

  • Football Flyboy
    Lisa Reinicke
    Does a good man’s life end at his death?The answer for daughter Lisa Reinicke was, “No.” Her father was known by manynames: Buster, Bill, Billy, Dad, and the Football Flyboy. His deeds, no matter how small,should be passed down to family, friends, and anyone looking for inspiration, andlife-lessons from one who worked, lived and part of the Greatest Generation. TheFootball†Flyb...
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    15,64 €

  • Adventures of a Young Marine in WWII
    Walter Augustyniak
    Walt Augustyniak was born and raised in the coal region of Northeastern Pennsylvania during the Depression Era.  He graduated high school as valedictorian in the summer of 1941 at 16 years of age.  Jobs for teens were scarce.  Walt was able to attend and complete a locally hosted college course in Engineering, offered free to recent high school graduates.  In the course of atte...
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    11,53 €

  • The History of Aviation
    Landen Rosen
    The history of aviation has extended over more than two thousand years, from the earliest forms of aviation, kites and attempts at tower jumping, to supersonic, and hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air jets. Kite flying in China dates back to several hundred years BC and slowly spread around the world. It is thought to be the earliest example of man-made flight. This...
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    10,20 €

  • The B-26 Goes to War
    Stan Walsh
    Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar Chantilly, Virginia Two complete and separate design cycles chronicles our story - The B-26 Goes to War. War fever caused authorities to forego prototype testing - the B-26 went straight from drawing board to battle. The 22nd Bomb Group, with short 65 ft. wingspan B-26s entered combat in the Southwest Pacific....
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    12,46 €

  • Bou Pilot
    Jon Drury
    Drop into one man’s world of transport flying at the height of the Vietnam War and experience the good, the bad, and the ugly—with character and compassion.Humorous, compassionate, and tragic day-to-day experiences of a transport pilot in combat.When Jon Drury was shipped to Vietnam with 90 percent of his graduating class, he was assigned to the short field C-7A Caribou by De H...
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    15,90 €

  • Blades of Thunder
    W Larry Dandridge
    Six young Army pilots and green officers, all they between each 20 band 21 years old, arrive in Vietnam where each become men, highly skilled pilots, and proficient officers within a few months. None of them will be the same after their first combat tour in Vietnam. All of them will bear the scars of war for life, either physically or mentally or both. All will be strengthened ...
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    38,11 €

  • The War in the Air
    Walter Raleigh
    Volume 1 of 6 volumes about the early years of the Royal Air ForceMan has dreamed of flight from the moment he first beheld the freedom of the birds of the air. Having resolved the practical problems of becoming airborne, it was not long before applications were considered which led to the development of aviation for use in warfare. Manned observer balloons provided a ‘birds-ey...
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    31,61 €

  • The War in the Air
    Walter Raleigh
    Volume 1 of 6 volumes about the early years of the Royal Air ForceMan has dreamed of flight from the moment he first beheld the freedom of the birds of the air. Having resolved the practical problems of becoming airborne, it was not long before applications were considered which led to the development of aviation for use in warfare. Manned observer balloons provided a ‘birds-ey...
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    20,78 €

  • Sky Patrol 1938
    Phillip W. Stewart / Phillip WStewart
    Those of us, who are fascinated by 1930’s aviation, study the decade primarily through the written word and photographs. If we’re lucky, we get to see a favorite vintage airplane at an air show, beautifully restored and oozing vast amounts of art deco ambiance. However, there is another resource—the MCA/Universal Newsreel Library Collection preserved within the U.S. National Ar...
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    24,14 €

  • Lockheed Model L-200 Convoy Fighter
    Jared A Zichek
    The second part of a two volume work examining the Lockheed Model L-200 Convoy Fighter of 1950, which led to the XFV-1 Salmon turboprop tailsitter naval aircraft. It was one of five submissions to the US Navy's Convoy Fighter competition, which called for a high performance turboprop VTOL fighter to protect convoy vessels from attack by enemy aircraft. Major subjects includ...
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    18,76 €

  • Lawrence DeWolfe Kelsey
    Jane‐Alexandra Krehbiel
    Lawrence DeWolfe Kelsey, Jr. joined the U.S. Merchant Marine as a radio officer at sixteen. WWII led him to Australia, India and ultimately to Okinawa, while atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Before the war ended, he found himself in Bari, Italy, with his ship’s cargo holds ablaze. By twenty, he was the radio operator on the Finn Ronne Antarctic Expedition. B...
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    26,26 €

  • The Marines' Lost Squadron
    Mark Carlson
    Finally, there is a book that reveals the truth about the worst air disaster to strike a Marine Corps fighter squadron during the Second World War. Marine Fighter Squadron 422 was a group of twenty-four typical young Americans trained to fly the famous F4U Corsair into combat with the legendary Japanese Zero. When they arrived in the Pacific, they suddenly found that not all th...
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    19,56 €

  • Dartmouth Conspiracy
    James S Stevenson
    What do you do when you are ordered to kill the occupants of a building when one of those occupants is part of your family and a childhood friend?Karl Deichman knows that if he carries out orders to lead a precision bomb attack on the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in September 1942, he will probably kill his English cousin with whom he has sworn a pact of friendship until de...
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    13,60 €

  • The Greatest Air Combat Stories Ever Told
    Tom McCarthy
    In The Greatest Air Combat Stories Ever Told, the editor has compiled the finest tales of heroism and valor in the skies over the battlefield! It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Baron Manfred Von Richthofen, Len Deighton, Jay A. Stout, and many others. It includes tales of legendary aces from the Great War up through the present day, and is the newest ti...
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    16,48 €

  • Combined Operations
    Jeremy Black
    This book provides the first broad history of the evolution of combined operations since antiquity. Jeremy Black provides a balanced assessment of strategic, operational, and technical developments over time, considering both the potential and the limitations of amphibious and airborne warfare—past, present, and future. ...
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    127,65 €

  • Combined Operations
    Jeremy Black
    This book provides the first broad history of the evolution of combined operations since antiquity. Jeremy Black provides a balanced assessment of strategic, operational, and technical developments over time, considering both the potential and the limitations of amphibious and airborne warfare—past, present, and future. ...
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    50,16 €

  • Battles in the Clouds
    A collection of first-hand accounts and reports of the air in the warCompared to accounts of conflict on land and sea, the library of accounts of the war in the air during the First World War is quite small. Many of the books written about the subject (which holds an abiding fascination for students of the earliest period of aviation and aerial combat) are published by Leonaur,...
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    27,68 €

  • Battles in the Clouds
    J. Humphrey Lewis / JHumphrey Lewis
    A collection of first-hand accounts and reports of the air in the warCompared to accounts of conflict on land and sea, the library of accounts of the war in the air during the First World War is quite small. Many of the books written about the subject (which holds an abiding fascination for students of the earliest period of aviation and aerial combat) are published by Leonaur,...
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    17,59 €

  • Two Up
    Jim Smith / Ron Smith
    'Two Up' is a collection of aviation anecdotes and photographs covering five decades and going back to the brothers' early fascination with aircraft in the sixties. It includes a wealth of insider information from two brothers who spent their working lives in the aviation industry.. From the sixties both Smith brothers have spent their life, leisure and working time...
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    47,47 €

  • Pickle Barrel and Mushroom
    Robert Underhill
    America entered WWII with minimal air power: few fighter planes and less than three dozen four-engine bombers. Yet the nation had unmatchable advantages with its enormous industrial capacity, men and women ready to meet every need, and scientists at work on atomic theories. Armed forces swelled, the most remarkable growth being in the Army Air Corps.Allied strategists adopted a...
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    12,94 €

  • Jack Bell's War
    Marcus Fielding
    On 20 December 2017 John ‘Jack’ Bell will celebrate his 100th birthday; a great achievement for any person but very special when that person was seriously wounded in the Second World War and survived over three years in Italian and German Prisoner of War camps.Even at this senior age Jack maintains his parade ground posture, dresses smartly and has a razor sharp mind. He looks ...
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    31,82 €

  • Lockheed Model L-200 Convoy Fighter
    Jared A Zichek
    This book presents the original proposal for the Lockheed Model L-200 Convoy Fighter of 1950, which led to the XFV-1 Salmon turboprop tailsitter naval aircraft. It was one of five submissions to the US Navy's Convoy Fighter competition, which called for a high performance turboprop VTOL fighter to protect convoy vessels from attack by enemy aircraft. The original L-200 desi...
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    19,16 €


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