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Military History GRUB STREET Military History 2015/2016 Welcome to our new catalogue and thank you for your continued support of our list. Here is a reminder of the praise we’ve received in the past: GRUB STREET NEW BOOKS & STOCKLIST ‘Many readers will already have Grub Street books on their shelves, the publisher having cut a well-deserved niche for accuracy and JANUARY 2015–JANUARY 2016 readability – not an easy balance. They have an enviable reputation for well-researched works that are difficult to put down.’ Flypast CONTENTS ‘Grub Street is a publisher to be congratulated for reprinting New Titles 2 important books.’ Cross & Cockade International Bestselling Ebooks 21 Ebooks 23 ‘Some of the most valuable, and well-researched books in my library are those published by Grub Street. 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ALL DETAILS HEREIN ARE CORRECT AT THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS JUNE 2015 AVAILABLE NOW PHANTOM BOYS THE LIGHTNING BOYS True Tales from Pilots of the True Tales from the UK Operators English Electric Lightning of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 RICHARD PIKE RICHARD PIKE ISBN 9781908117151 £20, Hardback, 192pp, 234 x 156mm Approx 30 colour & 30 b/w photos World Rights ISBN 9781909808225 Reprinted Five times ‘Richard Pike is to be congratulated on this £20, Hardback, 192pp, 234 x 156mm fascinating compilation of true tales.’ Aeroplane Approx 30 colour & 30 b/w photos World Rights THE LIGHTNING BOYS 2 From the best-selling author of Hunter Boys with some still in service fifty years after its True Tales from Pilots and Engineers and The Lightning Boys volumes, comes the first flight. of the RAF’s Iconic Supersonic Fighter newest addition to Grub Street’s popular Boys series; Phantom Boys. Originally developed for Throughout the twenty chapters of this book, RICHARD PIKE the US Navy, this twin-engined supersonic thirteen contributors will take readers across long-range fighter-bomber first flew in the the world with adventures in the Falkland ISBN 9781909166134 spring of 1958. It then entered service for the Islands, the United States of America, the £20 Hardback, 192pp, 234 x 156mm Approx 30 colour & 30 b/w photos US Navy in 1961, and in 1969 with the Fleet United Kingdom, the Far East and Germany. World Rights Air Arm and RAF in the UK. There are anecdotes of reconnaissance mis- sions, encounters with the Russian Tupolevs, ‘Pike has written a superb sequel to his bestseller.’ Regarded as one of the most versatile fighters record-breaking flights and life on HMS Ark Aberdeen Press & Journal ever built, it was the US Navy’s fastest and Royal. The scope, flair and pace of the writing highest-flying aircraft. It ended its service in this book will appeal to the general reader in 1991 with the RAF. But it continued to as well as to the enthusiast. HUNTER boys serve a variety of air forces across the world, True Tales from Pilots of the Hawker Hunter RICHARD PIKE PRAISE FOR RICHARD PIKE ‘Richard Pike has done an excellent job in encouraging the ISBN 9781909808034 writers and compiling their stories into one volume.’ £20, Hardback, 192pp, 234 x 156mm Approx 30 colour & 30 b/w photos Online Reviewer World Rights ‘Thanks to the author for sharing with us.’ ‘An intriguing insight into the experiences Online Reviewer INTO THE JET AGE WITH GRUB STREET THE JET AGE INTO of the Hawker Hunter pilots.’ Military History Monthly 4 5 JANUARY 2015 AVAILABLE NOW VULCAN BOYS From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales VALIANT BOYS of the Iconic Delta V Bomber True Tales from the Operators of the UK’s tony blackman First Four-Jet Bomber Foreword by MARTIN WITHERS TONY BLACKMAN ISBN 9781909808089 £20, Hardback, 208pp, 234 x 156mm & ANTHONY WRIGHT 30 colour & 30 b/w photos World Rights Foreword by Marshal of the RAF Sir Michael Beetham GCB, CBE, DFC, AFC ‘Packed with fascinating, and at times ISBN 9781909808218 hilarious anecdotes.’ Airflix Model World £20, Hardback, 192pp, 234 x 153mm 2 x 8pp colour inserts World Rights Following on from the success of Victor Boys and bombs in Egypt during the very brief and Victor BOYS Vulcan Boys, Tony Blackman, in collaboration abortive Suez campaign. We are reminded of with Anthony Wright, brings you Valiant Boys to how the Valiant provided the UK’s first nuclear True Stories from Forty Memorable complete the V Force set. This is a fascinating deterrent by always having some armed aircraft Years of the Last V Bomber collection of personal accounts of operating on stand-by twenty-four hours a day, supported tony blackman Britain’s first V bomber by aircrew and ground by their air and ground crews, ready to be flown crew. The book tells the story from the aircraft’s at a moment’s notice on a one-way trip to launch ISBN 9781908117458 £20, Hardback, 198pp, 234 x 156mm birth taking off from Vickers’ tiny airfield at an atomic war. Approx 30 colour & 30 b/w photos Brooklands to its premature death from fatigue. World Rights There are tales of testing atom bombs in the Not as well known as the Vulcan and Victor, the Australian desert, dropping hydrogen bombs Valiant is often overlooked; this book will go a in the middle of the Pacific and, as a complete long way to redress the balance. ‘Victor fans will enjoy this generous contrast, attacking airfields with conventional assemblage of first-hand accounts.’ The Aviation Historian PRAISE FOR TONY BLACKMAN ALSO BY ‘Tony Blackman has the happy knack of adding exactly the right level TONY of technical detail to a free flowing narrative thus satisfying BLACKMAN the casual reader and enthusiast alike.’ Online Reviewer INTO THE JET AGE WITH GRUB STREET THE JET AGE INTO 6 7 SEPTEMBER 2015 AVAILABLE NOW jaguar BOYS True Tales from Operators of the Big Cat HARRIER BOYS in Peace and War Volume One: Cold War through IAN HALL the Falklands, 1969–1990 BOB MARSTON ISBN 9781909808157 £20, Hardback, 208pp, 234 x 156mm Approx 60 colour & b/w photos Harrier Boys Volume 2 covering the second generation World Rights of Harriers from the GR5 to follow in 2016 One of the best-loved of RAF types, the Jaguar ISBN 9781909808294 commanded a fierce loyalty and affection which shines £20, Hardback, 192pp, 234 x 156mm 16 pages of colour; b/w photos throughout through in these accounts of an aircraft that will live World Rights forever in the memory. In Harrier Boys, Volume One: Cold War Through are brought to life by contributors including ‘Stories appear from the Cold War, Gulf War and the Falklands, 1969-1990, Bob Marston, who Graham Williams, who flew the Transatlantic Balkan eras and are enjoyable and educational.’ Jets flew Harriers for many years, draws together Air Race, Peter Dodworth, a member of the accounts from others who worked with this original Harrier Conversion Team, Peter Harris, unique jet through its history. The excitement, a participant in the early defence of Belize, Sir camaraderie and pride of Harrier operators Peter Squire, OC 1 (F) Squadron during the buccaneer BOYS shine through in the personal stories of those Falklands conflict, and Australian Dave Baddams, True Tales by those who flew the whose lives were changed by their experience of who commanded the Royal Navy Sea Harriers ‘Last All-British Bomber’ this iconic aircraft, both on land and at sea. In of 800 Squadron. AIR COMMODORE GRAHAM PITCHFORK this first volume, events of the Cold War years Foreword by AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR MICHAEL KNIGHT KCB, AFC ISBN 9781909166110 ABOUT THE AUTHOR £20, Hardback, 224pp, 234 x 156mm 2 x 8pp colour inserts; b/w photos throughout After completing the Harrier course on 233 Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air. World Rights Operational Conversion Unit, Bob Marston Promoted to wing commander, he flew the Jaguar joined 1 (Fighter) Squadron finishing the tour as OC Operations Wing at RAF Coltishall, Arranged in chronological order, the book traces the qualified as a fighter reconnaissance instructor. before moving into the training world at RAF history of the aircraft and the tasks it fulfilled. As well After a tour on IV (AC) Squadron, including Cranwell, where he was made group captain as describing events and activities, it provides an insight two years of flying Harrier displays, he became and became OC 1 Elementary Flying Training into the lifestyle of a Buccaneer squadron and the fun and a Hawk qualified flying instructor before School, responsible for all light aircraft flying enjoyment of being a ‘Buccaneer Boy’ in addition to being returning to Wittering as a Harrier QFI on 233 training for UK armed forces.
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