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“john misseldine”

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  • Survival Against All Odds

    Sunday, 8 June 1942: Shot Down Over France

    by John Misseldine, Oliver Clutton-Brock ...
    A Royal Air Force pilot recounts his harrowing wartime experiences, including being shot down over occupied France, in this thrilling WWII memoir.Born in North London in 1922, John Misseldine enlisted in the Royal Air Force as soon as he turned eighteen. After training in California, he flew fighters with 611 Squadron, led by the legendary Battle of Britain veteran D.H. Watkins. Then, on June 8th, ... Read more

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  • Into the Darkness

    by Arthur R. Hoyle ...
    Our Lancaster raced over the perimeter track and then tore down the slope through the dispersal area... with its wheels thumping on the grass but still firmly on the ground. It now seemed that nothing could save us and that, in the next couple of moments, we would disappear in a great explosion. I could hear Bob saying "Get off the ground, you bastard, get off," while Harry just said nothing... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last of the Few

    The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won It

    by Max Arthur ...
    After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler’s inevitable invasion attempt. For the German army to land across the channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies-the Royal Air Force would have to be broken. So every day throughout the summer, German bombers pounded the RAF air bases in the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Enemy Coast Ahead

    The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson

    by Guy Gibson, Max Hastings ...
    A definitive new edition of a classic, World War II memoir, complete with more than 100 photographs, and notes from leading historians.Guy Gibson was the leader of the famous Dambusters raid, and Enemy Coast Ahead is a vivid, honest account, widely regarded as one of the best books on the Second World War. It also provides an insider's perspective, setting down in clear detail the challenges that ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Albert Ball VC

    The Fighter Pilot Hero of World War I

    by Colin Pengelly ...
    An action-packed military biography of a British fighter pilot and his rise through ranks during World War I.World War I pilot Albert Ball's invincible courage and determination made him a legend not only in Britain but also amongst his enemies, to whom the sight of his lone Nieuport Scout brought fear.Ball enlisted in the British army in 1914 with the 2/7th Battalion (Robin Hoods) of the Sherwood ... Read more

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  • Typhoon Pilot

    by Desmond Scott ...
    A decorated WWII flying ace and Royal Air Force Group Captain recounts his experience in the air over Europe in this thrilling military memoir.New Zealand fighter pilot Desmond Scott joined the Royal Air Force in 1940. Over the course of his illustrious service, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, and a Distinguished Service Order. For the heroic act of rescuing a pilot from a ... Read more

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  • The Men Who Flew the Mosquito

    Compelling Accounts of the 'Wooden Wonders' Triumphant World War Two Career

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    The twin-engined Mosquito was one of the classic aircraft of the Second World War. Famously wooden-built, its graceful lines and powerful performance have made it into an airborne icon. Its operational versatility as a fighter, low level bomber and reconnaissance aircraft was unsurpassed. In this book we get the firsthand crew accounts of a selection of the actions and missions that the 'Mossie' ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spitfire Manual

    by Edited by Dilip Sarkar ...
    An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the Air Ministry during the Second World War to aid pilots in flying the Supermarine Spitfire, here for the first time they are collated into a single book. An introduction is supplied by expert aviation historian Dilip Sarkar. Other sections include aircraft recognition, how to act as an RAF officer, bailing out, and so on. ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • D-Day Plus One

    Shot Down and on the Run in France

    by Frank Holland, Adam Wilkins ...
    A World War II RAF veteran tells the dramatic story of D-Day, his survival after being shot down by the Germans, and his journey back to Allied lines.The day after D-Day, the most momentous day of the Second World War, Frank Holland was an RAF pilot whose Typhoon aircraft had just been hit by German antiaircraft fire during a low flying attack on a marshaling yard in Normandy.He managed to take ... Read more

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  • Flying into the Flames of Hell

    Dramatic First-Hand Accounts of British & Commonwealth Airmen in RAF Bomber Command in WW2

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    The book contains twenty-three stirring accounts of what life flying as air-crew in World War Two was really like. The writers are a mixed bunch of pilots, navigators and gunners who flew medium and heavy bombers or Mosquitoes. It conveys the terror of being coned by German searchlights over the target, attacks by Luftwaffe night-fighters, catastrophic damage to aircraft and the ensuing struggle ... Read more

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  • The Last British Dambuster

    One man's extraordinary life and the raid that changed history

    by George Johnny Johnson MBE ...
    **Johnny Johnson has been awarded an MBE for his remarkable services in World War II'I was anxious to fight. Hitler was the bastard who had started all this and he needed sorting out. We were under threat. Everything we stood for: our country, our families and our way of life was being attacked by this maniac. He could not be allowed to win. So for me and many, many others like me, there was no ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bomber Boys

    Dramatic and True Life Experiences Over Occupied Europe, 1942—45

    by Mel Rolfe ...
    "Expertly researched . . . 20 different narratives in which these heroes venture out night after night on sorties throughout World War II Europe." — Plane and PilotThree weeks after Stirling air gunner Doug Fry was reported missing over Germany his mother was still clinging to the vain hope that he was alive.Then a neighbor said she had seen him in the cinema just down the road. The airman and his ... Read more

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