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Fleet Air Arm 1939-45 Portfolio

Fleet Air Arm 1939-45 Portfolio

Österreichs Luftfahrzeuge

Österreichs Luftfahrzeuge

£55.00








"Austrian Aircraft: History of Aviation to the end of 1918"
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The Beaufort File

The Beaufort File

DeHavilland: A Pictorial Tribute

DeHavilland: A Pictorial Tribute

£10.00








A tribute, in full colour photographs, to the products of one of the most famous names in aviation
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The Longest Hop

The Longest Hop

£22.00








Celebrating 50 years of the Qantas "Kangaroo Route" between Sydney and London from 1947 to 1997
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Pre 1918

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Flying Corps Headquarters 1914-1918

Price: £5.00


One of the most unlikely midwives to the fledgling Royal Flying Corps was the literary, fashionable and unsoldierly figure of Maurice Baring. In 1914, aged 40, he obtained a commission in ...
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Aces High

Price: £8.50


They were forbidden to carry parachutes; they lived in dread of being shot down in flames; their life expectancy was measured in days ... But these were the ...
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World Aircraft Volume 1 Origins-World War One

Price: £5.50


The World Aircraft series provides a comprehensive and well-documented history of early aviation. This first volume, Origins-World War One covers over 280 flying machines and aeroplanes; from the extraordinary drawings and ...
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Hunting With Richthofen

Price: £10.00


The Bodenschatz Diaries: "Sixteen months of battle with JG Freiherr von Richthofen No.1" Translated by Jan Hayzlett, the book also contains the war journal of Geschwader No.1 from 24th June ...
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Zeppelins Over England

Price: £10.00


The 'blitz' on London and other great cities is now a familiar and tragic episode of aerial warfare. Not so familiar, except to readers of an older generation, is the strange, ...
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They Fought for the Sky

Price: £15.00


In four short years, man developed to terrible perfection the ability to kill and destroy in the lonely battlefield of the sky. In 1913, flying machines were little more than toys ...
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Bristol F2b Fighter: King of Two Seaters

Price: £11.50


The tragic losses amongst RFC airmen during the early months of World War 1 caused an outcry by the public and in Parliament, and as a result the War Office gave ...
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Bloody April.......Black September

Price: £18.00


Even those people who know little of WWI's air war will have heard of Bloody April. After more than 18 months of deadly stalemate on the Western Front, by April 1917 ...
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Battlebags

Price: £16.50


Affectionately named 'battlebags' by their crews and 'pigs' by the local civilian inhabitants, Royal Naval Air Service airships were a familiar sight around Britain's shores during the First World War. At ...
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German War Birds

Price: £10.00


"Vigilant" tells the dramatic tales of air combat as fought by the best German pilots of World War One. Manfred von Richthofen, Max Immelmann, Oswald Boelcke and other famous daredevil flyers ...
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The Canvas Falcons

Price: £12.00


World War I began as a glorious adventure. On the ground soldiers marched off jauntily, promising their loved ones they'd be home by Christmas. In the air, flimsy "flying crates" made ...
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An Airman's Outings

Price: £8.50


The Author's experiences of air fighting in France during the First World War. A paragraph from page 76: "When slightly behind the trenches a confused chatter from below told us ...
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Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the  Red Baron

Price: £9.00


This book provides the first clear, fully documented view of Manfred von Richthofen - 'The Red Baron'. The most successful air-fighter of World War One, he shot down 80 enemy aircraft ...
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Bomber Pilot

Price: £10.00


Bomber Pilot 1916-18 is a unique and fascinating record of a pilot's life in the pioneer days of aerial warfare. It is based on the diary of Squadron Leader C. P. ...
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