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  • Air Power in War

    by Arthur W. Tedder ...
    The architect of the successful air strategy which led to Allied victoryArthur Tedder, who was knighted and raised to the peerage for his contributions to the Allied victory in World War II, served in the British air force in World War I and played an important role in professionalizing and organizing British air forces between the two world wars. During World War II, he held a succession of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    The Greatest True Air Adventure to Come out of World War I

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    In Fighting the Flying Circus, Captain Rickenbacker recounts his combat missions against the Germans in the skies over Europe during WWI. ... Read more

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  • Leaving Orbit

    Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight

    by Margaret Lazarus Dean ...
    Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known itIn the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled ... Read more

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  • Target Leipzig

    The RAF's Disastrous Raid of 19/20 February 1944

    by Alan Cooper ...
    A gripping account of the RAF's attempt to destroy a Messerschmitt factory in 1944, and the carnage and confusion that unfolded on a dark winter night.Seventy-nine heavy bombers failed to return from the catastrophic raid on the industrial city of Leipzig on the night of February 19–20, 1944. Some 420 aircrew were killed and a further 131 became prisoners of war. It was at that time the RAF's most ... Read more

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  • A Separate Little War

    The BANFF Coastal Command Strike Wing Versus the Kreigsmarine and Luftwaffe 1944 - 1945

    by Bird, Andrew D ...
    Every day for nine months from September 1944, young British Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff, Fraserburgh and Peterhead in northern Scotland to target German U-boats, merchant men and freighters in the fjords and leads of southwest Norway, encountering the Luftwaffe and flakships every step of the way. Truly this was a war within a war, bitter and bloody, at low level and close ... Read more

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  • Crete

    The Airborne Invasion, 1941

    by Tim Saunders ...
    Series series Battleground Mediterranean
    The invasion was launched to round off Hitlers Balkan Campaign against Crete in May 1941. The Island was important to Britains control of the Eastern Mediterranean and Churchill was determined that the Island would be held.The British garrison was largely made up of New Zealand and Australian troops who had been evacuated from Greece, with little more that what they stood up in. On the other hand ... Read more

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  • Shot at and Missed

    Recollections of a World War II Bombardier

    by Jack R. Myers ...
    In this riveting narrative, Jack R. Myers recounts his experiences as a B-17 bombardier during World War II. Commissioned a second lieutenant in 1944 at age twenty, Myers began flying missions with the 2nd Bomb Group, U.S. Fifteenth Air Force. He learned firsthand the exhilaration—and terror—of being shot at and missed.Based in Italy, the Fifteenth Air Force flew strategic bombing raids over ... Read more

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  • Hurricane Aces 1941–45

    by Andrew Thomas ...
    Series Book 57 - Aircraft of the Aces
    The Hurricane saw widespread action with Allied forces, as the RAF's first monoplane fighter. This book describes its many feats throughout 1945.It served as a fighter-bomber on the Channel Front, where the American Eagles and Polish units were amongst the Fighter Command squadrons flying the Hurricane, and where some of its highest-scoring aces operated. The Sea Hurricane was the principal ... Read more

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  • Kamikaze

    To Die for the Emperor

    by Peter C. Smith ...
    In this brand new publication from eminent historian Peter C. Smith, we are regaled with the engaging and often incredibly disturbing history of the Kamikaze tradition in Japanese culture. Tracing its history right back to the original Divine Wind (major natural typhoons) that saved Japan from invaders in ancient history, Smith explores the subsequent resurrection of the cult of the warrior in the ... Read more

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  • Night Witches. Soviet Airwomen of the Great Patriotic War

    by Gian Piero Milanetti ...
    night witches soviet airwomen ibn aviolibri aeronautica aviation war milanetti streghe notte ... Read more

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  • Soviet Hurricane Aces of World War 2

    by Yuriy Rybin ...
    Series Book 107 - Aircraft of the Aces
    In 1942, about 80 per cent of the fighters serving with Air Forces of the Karelian and Northern Fronts were Hurricanes. This book explores the bitter struggle against well-drilled Luftwaffe and Finnish units flying in the polar regions of northern Russia.Following the destruction wrought on the Red Army Air Forces during the first days of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Soviet Union found ... Read more

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  • Junkers Ju 87 Stukageschwader of the Russian Front

    by John Weal ...
    Series Book 74 - Combat Aircraft
    A detailed account of an iconic aircraft's performance in the invasion of the Soviet Union during World War 2.This final volume of the Osprey trilogy on the Luftwaffe dive-bomber charts its fortunes in the toughest theatre of all: the Eastern Front. Written by John Weal, a leading authority on the Luftwaffe, this book examines how, following its comprehensive defeat over the English Channel in the ... Read more

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