Aircraft

A detailed profile of the Groups, Wings and Divisions of the U.S. air Force that served at home and abroad during WWII.

A most evocative manual that was clearly used at the time to teach the complex arts of air navigation to young airmen.

PUBLISHERA.J. Levin. Salisbury, London, Cape Town.
BINDINGPaper covered boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are very faded from the original green colour, especially spine. Worn around edges, corners and ends of spine are bumped. Some browning and a little foxing throughout, although most printed pages and images remain clear and little...

"Adventures of the well-known Belgian Ace," Major the Chevallier Willy Coppens de Houthulst, DSO, MC etc.

The autobiography of a doctor who served with the Fleet Air Arm from the late 1940's to 1959, an era of incredible mechanical and medical advances.

Intended as in instructional manual for the use of Army and RAF Personnel and revised at the outset of WWII. A most comprehensive and fascinating volume.

PUBLISHERWilliam Kimber, London.
BINDINGBrown cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONA little shelf wear to very edges, otherwise in good condition. Printed pages and images remain clear with few noticeable marks. 
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The autobiography of the pioneering female flyer. By the age of 28, she had achieved more long distance solo flights than any other pilot, including London to New Zealand.

The autobiography of Australian born Air Vice Marshall Bennett, including his experiences of bombing raids and piloting flying boats.

The incredible experiences and escapes from captivity of a parachutist during WWII.

A Biography of Squadron-Commander F. J. Rutland, famous for his courage and feats of daring whilst serving in the R.N.A.S in WWI. His speciality was flying reconnaissance planes off from the turret tops of cruisers, before the development of Aircraft Carriers. However, the mysterious circumstances of his arrest and long period of detention without trial during WWII are strange and disquieting.

The story of Japan's most successful fighter pilot during WWII, the war in the Pacific.

The memoires of a former officer in the Soviet Army and head of the Aerodynamics Laboratory, who defected from the USSR.

The true story of how three airmen of the US Navy survived in a raft for 34 days after their scout bomber crashed in to the Pacific.

Written in the aftermath of WWII, a history of the development of the Soviet Air Force and it's part in the war, leading to the imposition of the Iron Curtain and uncertain future relations.