Aircraft

PUBLISHERHis Majesty's Stationery Office.
BINDINGBound between two card boards with cloth over hinges and secured with cord.
BOOK CONDITIONAlthough generally worn, this manual remains in good condition for age. The binding feels intact and the text and images are largely clear and little marked. Fold out graph is...

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.

PUBLISHERHis Majesty's Stationery Office.
BINDINGThe leaves are bound between card boards with cloth over hinges. Secured by what look like two metal bolts.
BOOK CONDITIONIntact, but generally worn and discoloured commensurate with age. Various amendments have been pasted in, plus notes in ink and pencil. Monochrome photographs remain...

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...

PUBLISHERHer Majesty's Stationary Office.
BINDINGPaper covers secured with two staples.
BOOK CONDITIONCovers are generally worn, with some tearing around spine, creasing and discolouration. Staples have rusted but the binding is mostly secure, apart from the two centre pages which are loose but still present. Fold out chart is...

"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.

PUBLISHERReynal & Hitchcock, New York.
BINDINGCream / tan cloth boards with red and blue lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are rather worn, corners bumped. General fading / discolouration and some foxing and other small marks. Binding secure. There is a little browning to pages throughout, although mainly affecting endpapers and...

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.

PUBLISHERThe De Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd.
BINDINGCloth boards with cord securing the leaves. 
BOOK CONDITIONIntact, but boards are in generally worn and discoloured condition commensurate with age. Binding feels secure. The text remains largely clear and little marked. Folding plans are mostly very well preserved.
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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.