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  • Sir Frederick Handley Page

    The Life of a Groundbreaking Aircraft Designer as Revealed in His Own Words

    by Frank Vann ...
    Sir Frederick Handley Page’s aviation career began after his dismissal from Johnson & Phillips Ltd. for unauthorized aircraft experiments. Undeterred, he founded his own company, building his first aircraft in a shed on marshland. From these humble beginnings, Handley Page became one of the 20th century's most significant aircraft manufacturers, designing models pivotal in both world wars.His ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Chastise

    The Dambusters

    by Max Hastings ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.Operation Chastise was one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Second World War, yet it has also become one of the most misunderstood.Max Hastings tells the gripping story of the Dambusters raid, from the invention of the bouncing bomb to the moonlit cockpits of young ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World

    When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World

    In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft -- a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the Lightning, which ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Slide Rule

    by Nevil Shute ...
    ''Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Aviation Engineer'' by Nevil Shute is a captivating memoir detailing the author's early life and prolific career as an aeronautical engineer before he turned to full-time writing. The book covers his childhood, his work on early British airships, and the launch of his own aircraft company. The memoir is organized into three distinct phases of his life: 1. Early ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Rockets

    The Story of the V-2s

    In Hitler’s Rockets Norman Longmate tells the story of the V-2, the technically brilliant but hated weapon, the ancestor and forerunner of all subsequent ballistic missiles. He reveals the devious power-play within the German armed forces and the Nazi establishment that so influenced the creation of the rockets. He shows through contemporary documents and protagonists’ accounts how the British ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Spitfire

    Portrait of a Legend

    by Leo McKinstry ...
    In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands,' said Churchill. The future of Europe depended on Britain.A self-confident Herman Goring thought that it would be only a matter ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • His Majesty's Airship

    The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

    by S. C. Gwynne ...
    From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) aviation history detailing the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship—and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian princess at its heart.The tragic fate of the British airship R101 ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Jet Man

    The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution

    The story of Frank Whittle – RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero.'Wonderful' David Edgerton, TLS'A fascinating account' Aeroplane Monthly'Casts new light on the intense, heroic character of Frank Whittle' Leo McKinstry'[A] thorough dissection of the evolution of the jet engine... I recommend this mighty tome unreservedly' Journal of Aerona... ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

  • The Big Hop

    The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future

    by David Rooney ...
    **“Riveting.… [R]estores the 1919 achievement of those two young men, Alcock and Brown, to their rightful place in aviation history.” —Julia Flynn Siler, Wall Street JournalThe inspiring story of a pathbreaking 1919 flight and the courageous fliers who risked their lives to make aviation history.**In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in “the Big Hop”: an ... Read more

    $21.29 CAD

  • Lettice Curtis

    The name of Lettice Curtis is well known in the aviation world. Her career as an aviator is both remarkable and unique, yet until now it has never been put into print. Inspired by requests from many who have known her, Lettice has finally put pen to paper and opened her photo album to tell her amazing story from school days to retirement. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Most Secret

    The Hidden History of Orford Ness

    by Paddy Heazell ...
    Orford Ness was so secret a place that most people have never even heard of it. The role it played in inventing and testing weapons over the course of the twentieth century was far more significant and much longer than that of Bletchley Park.Nestled on a remote part of the Suffolk coast, Orford Ness operated for over eighty years as a highly classified research and testing site for the British ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finding the Few

    Some Outstanding Mysteries of the Battle of Britain Investigated and Solved

    by Andy Saunders ...
    An "extraordinarily researched" account of a quest to find MIA fighter pilots decades after World War II (Barrett Tillman).1940: The air over Britain is filled with danger. Courageous and heroic men fly and fight, often sacrificing their lives to keep the nation free. Some of them will disappear into the summer sky without leaving a trace . . .This remarkable book records the lives of RAF pilots ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus