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  • The Price They Paid
    Michael Putzel
    The Price They Paid is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the flight crews that followed him into the most intensive helicopter warfare ever-and how that brutal experience has changed their lives in the forty years since the war ended. ...
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    11,07 €

  • How to Identify Warplanes
    Anonymous
    During World War II, this guide to identifying warplanes was given by Richfield Oil distributors and dealers to their customers with the proviso: 'In making this book available to the public, the Richfield Oil Corporation of New York has revealed no information which would be of aid to the enemies of our country. All items included in the contents have been compiled from establ...
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    10,80 €

  • Memoirs of a B-29 Pilot
    Charles R. Reyher / Charles RReyher
    'Memoirs of a B-29 Pilot' chronicles the author’s wartime experiences leading up to and as a B-29 Superfortress Aircraft Commander.. He was engaged in the Air Offensive-Japan from the Marianas Islands in the South Pacific. He looks back at those experiences from the professional view of a retired airline captain, having flown over 35 years of service with Trans World Airlines. ...
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    27,36 €

  • L’aviazione legionaria in Spagna - Vol. 1
    Guido Mattioli
    L’Aviazione Legionaria, (citata anche come Aviación Legionaria nella letteratura in lingua spagnola) era un corpo di spedizione della Regia Aeronautica italiana, che venne creato nel 1936 per fornire supporto logistico e tattico alle truppe guidate da Francisco Franco durante la guerra civile spagnola. Opera su due volumi con numerose fotografie d’epoca in b/n. Viene qui rappre...
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    28,97 €

  • L’aviazione legionaria in Spagna - Vol. 2
    Guido Mattioli
    L’Aviazione Legionaria, (citata anche come Aviación Legionaria nella letteratura in lingua spagnola) era un corpo di spedizione della Regia Aeronautica italiana, che venne creato nel 1936 per fornire supporto logistico e tattico alle truppe guidate da Francisco Franco durante la guerra civile spagnola. Opera su due volumi con numerose fotografie d’epoca in b/n. Viene qui rappre...
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    29,02 €

  • India’s Forgotten Rocket Pioneer
    Gurbir Singh
    During 1934 and 1944 in Calcutta, Stephen Smith worked alone and unsupported on developing rocket transport. In 1935, he was the first to demonstrate the successful transport by a rocket of livestock, food and medicine. This book charts the story of Stephen H Smith, described by a contemporary as “the greatest one-man campaign for rocketry”. He dedicated his life working alone ...
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    22,10 €

  • Without Precedent. 2nd Edition
    Owen Zupp
    An ordinary man. An extraordinary life.‘Without Precedent’ recounts the life of commando and fighter pilot, Phillip Zupp. One man who served in two very different wars.From humble rural beginnings, surrounded by drought and The Great Depression, he forged an incredible life with little more than courage and tenacity. During World War Two, he saw combat on the ground in New Guin...
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    32,83 €

  • Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana A.N.R. 1943-1945
    Eduardo Manuel Gil Martínez / Anna Cristini
    In questo libro l’autore descrive al meglio l’organizzazione e la storia dell’Aeronautica Militare Italiana che dopo l’armistizio nel 1943 rimase sotto il comando di Benito Mussolini e alleato della Germania: l’Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (A.N.R). Lo studio parte dal suo fondatore il tenente colonnello Ernesto Botto, con il ritorno di oltre 1.000 aerei italiani sequestra...
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    40,54 €

  • Wings In The Hands Of The Lord
    Louis LaHood
    Wings In The Hands Of The Lord presents a firsthand account of 30 bombing missions during WWII. From the pilot’s log of 1st Lieutenant Louis LaHood, this is the day-by-day memoir of his Army Air Forces service as he led his nine-man crew over various targets throughout occupied Europe in 1944.LaHood vividly captures the dangers, near misses, and tragedies he encountered as a pi...
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    10,85 €

  • Air Forces
    Each forward-thinking air force has now to consider potential threat scenarios that are futuristic and require some degree of planning. This volume contains data on 14 nations and their attempts to modernize, mobilize and keep ahead of their adversaries. ...
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    56,96 €

  • The War in the Air
    H. A. Jones / HaJones
    The first great war which was also fought in the skies draws to its conclusionThe sixth volume of this excellent and comprehensive history of the war in the air during the First World War concerns the closing years of the great conflict and the final campaigns that led to the armistice. Allied air forces became more sophisticated as they quickly evolved driven by the imperative...
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    32,93 €

  • Gooney Bird Driver
    Jon A. Maguire / Jon AMaguire
    'Gooney Bird Driver' is a collection of war stories from C-47 pilot Joe D. Maguire, one of the 'forgotten pilots' of the 27th Air Transport Group which carried just about everything across war torn Europe in World War 2, from wounded troops to cans of black and white paint (for adding invasion stripes to aircraft) to the Glenn Miller Band.   Joe completed 35 combat missions, ra...
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    20,94 €

  • Before Pearl Harbor
    Michael Lemish
    Early on Sunday morning, December 7th 1941, waves of Japanese Naval bombers took off from carriers in the Pacific to attack the United States Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In his radio address shortly after the raid, President Roosevelt described the unprovoked act of aggression as  “...a day that would live in infamy.” It ended the United States’ position of neutrality in...
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    17,92 €

  • Flight to Arras
    Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
    Flight to Arras is a memoir recounting the author's role in the French Air Force as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. The book condenses months of his flights into a single terrifying mission over the town of Arras. At the start of the war there were only fifty reconnaissance crews, of which twenty-three were in his unit. Within the first ...
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    11,01 €

  • LUFTWAFFE PILOTS IN WORLD WAR II
    Christer Bergström
    ”LUFTWAFFE PILOTS IN WORLD WAR II: The Veterans’ Stories Volume 1”contains absolutely unique and hitherto unknown facts and personal accounts by Luftwaffe veterans themselves. Author Christer Bergström enjoys the reputation of being one of the world’s foremost experts on World War II. He has published 32 books on the subject, most of them in English. This book answers question:...
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    25,98 €

  • Heavy Date Over Germany
    Ray Perry was a farm boy from rural West Texas when America entered World War II. He always had a fascination with planes, so he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps with the intention of becoming a pilot. The Army Air Corps needed tail gunners, however, so Ray served his country at the back end of a B-17, completing thirty-five combat missions before the war’s end. This is the story...
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    26,59 €

  • Black Cross Red Star Air War Over the Eastern Front
    Christer Bergström
    Regarded as the standard work on the air war over the Eastern Front during World War II, Christer Bergström’s unique Black Cross/Red Star series covers the history of the air war on the Eastern Front in close detail, with the perspectives of both sides. Based on a close study of German and Russian archive material, as well as interviews with a large number of the airmen who par...
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    42,96 €

  • The War in the Air
    H. A. Jones / HaJones
    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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    29,19 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 / HaJones
    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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    29,37 €

  • 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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    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 €

  • 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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    22,24 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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