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  • Marine Aviation at Quantico 1918-1941
    John M. Elliott / Usmc(ret) Major John M. Elliott
    Having had the good fortune to read this book in manuscript form, I was very pleased to be asked to write the foreword to what is a most interesting and historical publication. My father, Frank Dailey, was a Marine aviator who served in VF-9M at Quantico in the 1930s so these stories were of great interest to me. This book will have an appeal to aviation historians and particul...
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    34,93 €

  • Captain Roy Brown, a True Story of the Great War, Vol. I
    Alan Bennett / Denny Reid May / Margaret Brown Harman
    The decades-old question surrounding the death of the Red Baron has been embroiled in controversy. In this book, the author has uncovered new information and insights, shedding new light on the events of that day.This is a true story of young men who fought and died for their country. It puts the reader behind the stick of a Sopwith Camel from the pilot’s point of view. This i...
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    30,06 €

  • Captain Roy Brown, a True Story of the Great War, Vol. II
    Alan D. Bennett / Alan DBennett / Denny Reid May / Margaret Brown Harman
    The decades-old question surrounding the death of the Red Baron has been embroiled in controversy. In this book, the author has uncovered new information and insights, shedding new light on the events of that day.This is a true story of young men who fought and died for their country. It puts the reader behind the stick of a Sopwith Camel from the pilot’s point of view. This i...
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    31,40 €

  • The Flying Spanner
    Peter Ellis Brown
    This book has been written by an aircraft engineer to give you an insight into his sixty years as a maintenance man, inspecting, rectifying, and certifying many types of aircraft all over the world, and as a Licensed Engineer for forty-four years. The book takes you through his five years in the Royal Air Force, as an engine mechanic on Merlin engines as fitted to the Avro Linc...
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    60,91 €

  • Collision Over Vietnam
    Don Harten
    On June 18, 1965, thirty B-52s took part in the first Strategic Air Command B-52 bombing mission in Vietnam, a mission that, if carried out successfully, might have halted the war in its tracks. Before two of the aircraft could deliver their payload, they collided midair, killing eight men as both planes exploded over the South China Sea. In Collision Over Vietnam, Lieutenant D...
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    12,88 €

  • Collision Over Vietnam
    Don Harten / Harten Harten
    On June 18, 1965, thirty B-52s took part in the first Strategic Air Command B-52 bombing mission in Vietnam, a mission that, if carried out successfully, might have halted the war in its tracks. Before two of the aircraft could deliver their payload, they collided midair, killing eight men as both planes exploded over the South China Sea. In Collision Over Vietnam, Lieutenant D...
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    24,44 €

  • In the Hands of the Arabs
    Zetton Buchanan
    A woman in IraqThis book of a woman’s ordeal at the hands of Arabs in post First World War Mesopotamia (now modern day Iraq) is such a riveting account that to describe too much would be to spoil the experience for the reader. The young wife and mother, Zetton Buchanan, had joined her husband, Captain ’Billy’ Buchanan of the RAF, on his eastern posting with a degree of expectat...
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    25,52 €

  • In the Hands of the Arabs
    Zetton Buchanan
    A woman in IraqThis book of a woman’s ordeal at the hands of Arabs in post First World War Mesopotamia (now modern day Iraq) is such a riveting account that to describe too much would be to spoil the experience for the reader. The young wife and mother, Zetton Buchanan, had joined her husband, Captain ’Billy’ Buchanan of the RAF, on his eastern posting with a degree of expectat...
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    16,58 €

  • The Only One Who Got Away
    Gunther Pl Schow / Gunther Pluschow
    An outstanding story of the aerial war and a daring escape from captivityFor the uninitiated this book’s original title, ’My Escape from Donnington Hall,’ gave few clues as to the astonishing and unique nature of its contents. Its author was a young German, Gunther Plüschow. As an airman in German service at the outbreak of the First World War he was, unusually, serving in Chin...
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    25,69 €

  • The Only One Who Got Away
    Gunther Pl Schow / Gunther Pluschow
    An outstanding story of the aerial war and a daring escape from captivityFor the uninitiated this book’s original title, ’My Escape from Donnington Hall,’ gave few clues as to the astonishing and unique nature of its contents. Its author was a young German, Gunther Plüschow. As an airman in German service at the outbreak of the First World War he was, unusually, serving in Chin...
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    16,74 €

  • Prelude to Courage, An Air Warrior’s Journey of Faith
    David H Bergquist
    During World War II the United States mobilized over sixteen million men and women to fight Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Nearly one-half million of those patriots, including Lieutenant Austin Rodney Keith, did not return. This is his story; the story of a young theater-loving Maine man caught up on the stage of history. Austin trained as an air warrior with the Army Air For...
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    27,80 €

  • The Axis Air Forces
    Frank Joseph
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    95,17 €

  • Fork-Tailed Devil
    Martin Caidin
    One of America’s greatest military aviation historians relates the astonishing--and true--story of the only American warplane to fight in every operational theater in World War II from Pearl Harbor to Alaska and North Africa to Northern Europe. ...
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    48,68 €

  • Fork-Tailed Devil
    Martin Caidin
    One of America’s greatest military aviation historians relates the astonishing--and true--story of the only American warplane to fight in every operational theater in World War II from Pearl Harbor to Alaska and North Africa to Northern Europe. ...
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    23,59 €

  • The Promise Kept
    Mike Pungercar
    They flew in bombers, unpressurized, wearing heated suits and oxygen masks for hours at altitudes where temperatures reached 50 below zero. Thousands of young Americans served in World War II, and today a thousand veterans of this part of our history are dying each day. We must not forget their sacrifices, their stories. In World War II, the Eighth Air Force sent up thousands ...
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    19,17 €

  • Voices from the Luftwaffe
    Bob Carruthers
    'It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.'Hermann GöringThis is the history of the Luftwaffe through the eyes of those who served in combat. The rise of the Luftwaffe from the ashes of the Great War is traced through recollections of Luftwaffe personnel who manned the gliders ...
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    30,10 €

  • Arsenal of Defense
    J'Nell Pate / J’Nell Pate
    Named after a Mexican War general William Jenkins Worth, Fort Worth began as a military post in 1849. More than a century and a half later, the defense industry remains Fort Worth’s major strength with Lockheed Martin’s F-35s and Bell Helicopter’s Ospreys flying the skies over the city. Popularly known as 'Cowtown' for the iconic cattle drives and stockyards that brought the ci...
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    26,42 €

  • Innovation in Carrier Aviation (Naval War College Newport Papers, Number 37)
    Mark D. Mandeles / Mark DMandeles / Norman Friedman / Thomas C. Hone / Thomas CHone
    Published by the Naval War College Press. This study is about innovations in carrier aviation and the spread of those innovations from one navy to the navy of a close ally. The innovations are the angled flight deck; the steam catapult; and the mirror and lighted landing aid that enabled pilots to land jet aircraft on a carrier’s short and narrow flight deck. Illustrated. ...
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    28,75 €

  • With the French Flying Corps
    Carroll Dana Winslow
    Petite bleu to pilote-a young American’s flight into warThe author of this book, Dana Winslow, was a young American in Paris as France recruited men to fight the invading German forces of the Kaiser at the outbreak of the First World War. Feeling strongly for the plight and cause of the French, he immediately went to Les Invalides and there enlisted in the French Flying Corps a...
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    24,62 €

  • With the French Flying Corps
    Carroll Dana Winslow
    Petite bleu to pilote-a young American’s flight into warThe author of this book, Dana Winslow, was a young American in Paris as France recruited men to fight the invading German forces of the Kaiser at the outbreak of the First World War. Feeling strongly for the plight and cause of the French, he immediately went to Les Invalides and there enlisted in the French Flying Corps a...
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    14,52 €

  • Guynemer
    Henry Bordeaux / Mary R. Parkman / Mary RParkman
    Georges Guynemer, Knight of the Airby Henry BordeauxThe Chevalier of Flight: Captain Guynemerby Mary R. Parkman’Until one has given all, one has given nothing’Georges GuynemerThis special Leonaur edition contains two accounts of one the most most honoured French fighter aces of the First World War, Georges Guynemer. Born into a wealthy Parisian family, Guynemer was a sickly chi...
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    27,62 €

  • Guynemer
    Henry Bordeaux / Mary R. Parkman / Mary RParkman
    Georges Guynemer, Knight of the Airby Henry BordeauxThe Chevalier of Flight: Captain Guynemerby Mary R. Parkman’Until one has given all, one has given nothing’Georges GuynemerThis special Leonaur edition contains two accounts of one the most most honoured French fighter aces of the First World War, Georges Guynemer. Born into a wealthy Parisian family, Guynemer was a sickly chi...
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    17,52 €

  • En L’Air! (in the Air)
    Bert Hall
    Legionnaire and Fighter PilotAmerican soldier of fortune Bert Hall enlisted in the French Foreign Legion-Deuxieme Regiment Étranger-which was on its way to the front from Morocco, signing on for the duration of hostilities just two days after the Great War broke out in 1914. He served in the legion infantry, one of several welcome replacements from the United States of America ...
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    25,66 €

  • En l’air! (In the Air)
    Bert Hall
    Legionnaire and Fighter PilotAmerican soldier of fortune Bert Hall enlisted in the French Foreign Legion-Deuxieme Regiment Étranger-which was on its way to the front from Morocco, signing on for the duration of hostilities just two days after the Great War broke out in 1914. He served in the legion infantry, one of several welcome replacements from the United States of America ...
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    16,71 €

  • Ten Propositions Regarding Air Power
    Philip S. Meininger / Philip SMeininger
    From the foreword: Air power has become the dominant form of military power projection in the modern world. The doctrinal underpinnings of air power thought are, of course, traditionally ascribed to the three great theorists of air power application, Douhet, Trenchard, and Mitchell. Since the Second World War, the air power community has not often explored the doctrinal implica...
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    21,77 €

  • Ten Propositions Regarding Space Power
    M. V. Smith / MVSmith
    This study rides the coattails of Colonel Philip S. Meininger’s book, Ten Propositions Regarding Air Power. As the United States ponders its future regarding space operations, the time has come to frame similar propositions regarding spacepower. Specifically, this study seeks to answer the question, 'What is the nature of spacepower?' It also test the aerospace integration sch...
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    31,17 €

  • The Ghosts of Stalingrad
    Willard B. Akins II / Willard BAkins II
    The Battle of Stalingrad was a disaster. The German Sixth Army consisted of over 300,000 men when it approached Stalingrad in August 1942. On 2 February 1943, 91,000 remained; only some 5,000 survived Soviet captivity. Largely due to the success of previous aerial resupply operations, Luftwaffe leaders assured Hitler they could successfully supply the Sixth Army after it was tr...
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    22,29 €

  • Richthofen & Boelcke in Their Own Words
    Manfred Freiherr Von 1892- Richthofen / Oswald B. Elcke / Oswald BElcke / Oswald Boelcke
    The Red Battle Flyerby Manfred Freiherr von RichthofenAn Aviator’s Field Bookby Oswald BöelckeTwo German Aces of the Great WarThere can be little doubt that the most iconic fighter pilot of the First World War on the Western Front was the aristocratic German ’ace of aces,’ Baron Manfred von Richtohofen. Known universally, due to his particularly conspicuous bright-red coloured ...
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    25,52 €

  • Richthofen & Boelcke in Their Own Words
    Manfred Freiherr Von 1892- Richthofen / Oswald B. Elcke / Oswald BElcke / Oswald Boelcke
    The Red Battle Flyerby Manfred Freiherr von RichthofenAn Aviator’s Field Bookby Oswald BöelckeTwo German Aces of the Great WarThere can be little doubt that the most iconic fighter pilot of the First World War on the Western Front was the aristocratic German ’ace of aces,’ Baron Manfred von Richtohofen. Known universally, due to his particularly conspicuous bright-red coloured ...
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    16,58 €

  • A History of the 17th Aero Squadron
    Frederick Mortimer Clapp
    Episodes from the United States first war in the airThe United States of America joined the Allies in the First World War in April of 1917. While the addition of its enormous resource of men and military personnel was undoubtedly pivotal in a war that had become one of attrition against a much war weakened enemy which was struggling alone, it was inevitable that the history of ...
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    25,63 €


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