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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 , 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 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 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 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 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 , 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 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 , 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 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. On retirement he part of a highly professional and dedicated force. OCU, later being awarded the Air Force Cross. became a reservist flying instructor, eventually Promoted to , he became a flight completing a forty-year flying career. He flew commander on 3 (Fighter) Squadron based at some 6,400 hours in the , 3,300 ‘A fine tribute to an iconic aircraft.’ The Northern Scot Gütersloh. Finishing the tour as the squadron of them in the Harrier. INTO THE JET AGE WITH GRUB STREET THE JET AGE INTO executive officer he was awarded the Queen’s 8 9 JUNE 2015 AVAILABLE NOW

the last of the 39-ers an alien sky The Extraordinary Wartime Experiences The Story of One Man’s Remarkable of Squadron Leader Alfie Fripp Adventure in Bomber Command during sean feast the Second World War Foreword by Calton Younger ISBN 9781909166158 andrew wiseman £17.99, Hardback, 160pp, 234 x 156mm with sean feast 2 x 8pp b/w photos World Rights

ISBN 9781909808256 £20, Hardback, 192pp, 234 x 156mm the pathfinder Photo inserts World Rights companion sean feast By any measure, Andrew Wiseman (born Weiz- before falling victim to one of the ’s man) is a lucky man. The only son of a Polish top night fighter pilots and landing in France. father and an American mother, Andrew was born ISBN 9781908117342 and grew up in Berlin, just as was Briefly on the run he was betrayed and captured, £20, Hardback, 256pp, 240 x 170mm Illustrated throughout coming to power. As a Jew educated at the famous spending the next 12 months as a prisoner of World Rights Werner Siemens Real Gymnasium in Schoneberg, war, using his knowledge of Russian, Polish and he left only months before his school was closed German to act as one of the principal camp in- down and fled with his family to Poland, one step terpreters, and working as a ‘scrounger’ for the ahead of the Nazi persecution that was to follow ‘X’ committee of escapers. Moved from camp to churchill’s master and later take the life of his father. camp, he was one of those forced into the ‘Long March’ by the Germans attempting to escape navigator air commodore john A Pathfinder Squadron From Poland he again fled to , this time the Russian advance, and afterwards played a mitchell lvo, dfc, afc at War 1944–45 without his parents, arriving as a 16-year-old with key role in avoiding the potential bloodshed that with sEAN FEAST sean feast ISBN 9781906502744 ISBN 9781906502812 little or no grasp of English. After a crash course threatened when the Russians refused to allow £20 Hardback, 224pp, 234 x 156mm £12.99, Paperback, 224pp, 234 x 153mm in the language, he avoided being called up into the British and Norwegian prisoners to return 16pp b/w photos 16pp b/w photos World Rights World Rights the Polish army in exile thanks to the timely in- home – a role for which he was later recognised tervention of no less a man than General Sikorski by the King of Norway. himself, to enlist in the RAF to train initially as a heroic pilot and then as an air bomber in . Upon his release, Andrew used his language skills endeavour to work with the BBC monitoring service and sean feast

On his return to the UK he was posted to an all- later BBC Television as a producer, sharing many ISBN 9781909166516 Australian Squadron (466 Squadron) equipped adventures with the great broadcasters of their with the Handley Page Halifax. After his first time, including David Dimbleby and Raymond Now available only in ebook format operation in which he was nearly shot down, Baxter. Andrew survived a handful of eventful trips 10 11 MAY 2015 APRIL 2015

FIFTY YEARS OF TON-UP LANCS FLYING FUN A photographic record of the thirty-five RAF Lancasters that each completed From the Hunter to the Spitfire one hundred sorties and Back Again NORMAN FRANKS ROD DEAN NOW IN PAPERBACK

ISBN 9781909808270 ISBN 9781909808263 £20, Hardback, 192pp, 234 x 153mm £12.99, Paperback, 224pp, 252 x 194mm Colour inserts; b/w photos throughout Over 180 photographs World Rights World Rights

Rod Dean served in the RAF for 21 years, most pilot, including being involved in many varied A decade since its first publication, Grub Street examines the controversial accounting of the especially with 49 Squadron, and after retiring and interesting display-related episodes. With in are proud to present Ton-Up Lancs as a paperback number of operations flown by detailing each has been displaying civil aircraft since 1984. excess of 7,000 flying hours on 59 different types for the first time. Originally a revised study fol- raid undertaken by pilots and crew during 1942- – and only one aircraft (Spencer Flack’s Mustang) lowing its first appearance under the Claims to 1945 including sorties over Hitler’s Third Reich, Fifty Years of Flying Fun covers, in a roughly with a working autopilot – Rod gives a clear, and Fame series, the book focuses on the story of the Northern Italy and during support missions be- chronological order, over fifty continuous years largely humorous, insight into the operation of Avro Lancasters that completed one hundred fore and after D-Day. of flying. This ranges from joining the RAF in a cross section of piston and jet engine vintage sorties. 1962, through his intriguing first operational aircraft and his numerous decades of fun since With over 200 photographs reproduced through- tour on Hunters in , the early days of the the first solo on 19 March 1963. Thirty-five histories are recorded in this book out the book and an account from Sgt Ron Clark Jaguar in Germany and, finally in the RAF, an with stories and personal photographs from DFC, who flew EE139 Phantom of the Ruhr on its almost outrageous two years flying the Jaguar Fifty Years of Flying Fun is not just a book for the the aircrew that flew these aircraft. The most first sortie, Ton-Up Lancs is a fascinating tribute and Hunter with the Sultan of ’s Air Force. aviation enthusiast, but for anyone wanting to famous, R5868 Queenie, can still be seen in the to both the aircraft and aircrew that participated His subsequent civil flying has been exclusively learn about any aspect of flying history via the Bomber Command Hall at RAF Museum, Lon- in Bomber Command duties. in the general aviation and flying display fields memoir of a man who lived through it all. don. Renowned author Norman Franks also as a flying instructor and well known display

PRAISE FOR TON-UP LANCS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ‘This book shows us a fascinating insight into the world of Rod Dean joined the RAF in 1962 at eighteen time flying the Jet Provost, Meteor, Gnat and an aircraft at war.’ Aircrew Association years old, and spent his career flying on Chipmunk. He retired from the RAF as a operational squadrons and training units. He squadron leader, qualified flying instructor and ‘Well-researched and illustrated book.’ Airforce magazine principally flew the Hunter and Jaguar in tours qualified weapons instructor. ‘Essential reading for all armchair aviators.’ Online reviewer of the Middle East and Germany but also spent

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i chose the sky into the blue LEONARD H ROCHFORD DSC AND BAR, DFC NORMAn macmillan OBE, MC, AFC

ISBN 9781909808324 ISBN 9781910690017 £16, Hardback, 224pp, 210 x 135mm £16, Hardback, 256pp, 210 x 135mm b/w photos throughout b/w photos throughout World Rights World Rights

The newest addition to the Grub Street handed victories or driven out of control, and Into the Blue is widely regarded as a literary classic. nine victories in all. After being injured in an Classics range is this fascinating, insightful he vividly recalls these engagements in the Originally published in 1929, and 44 years since unfortunate accident on 6th he did and, at times, nail-biting account by the World air and the exploits of the pilots with whom its latest publication, Grub Street reintroduces not see further combat and returned to England War One veteran, Leonard H Rochford. This he flew, names that include other fighter aces you to Norman Macmillan’s insightful and to become a flight instructor. book has been out of print for more than thirty like Raymond Collishaw, who has written gripping book about his experiences as a pilot years and we are delighted to be putting it a foreword to this book, T F Havell, R H during the First World War. After his experience in the First World War, back on the shelves, with black and white Mulock and L S Breadner. he was closely associated with flying for many photographs throughout. Wing Commander Norman Macmillan, OBE, years and also became an enthusiastic writer of A member of his flight, Lt Col Kirkpatrick MC, AFC, DL, was born on 9 August 1892 in aviation books; of which, Into the Blue is the best. In these exciting memoirs, ‘Tich’ Rochford said of him, ‘I always had the impression that Glasgow. After serving sixteen months in the In 1925 Norman was the first person to make writes about his two action-filled years as a what he did came naturally to him. If he saw Highland Light Infantry, he joined the RFC an emergency landing at Heathrow, which was fighter pilot with the famous 3 an enemy aircraft and decided to attack, that in 1916. He learned to fly at Netheravon, and then a row of cottages. During World War Two (Naval) Squadron when he flew planes such was that. He went screaming down on it and in 1917 went to 45 Squadron on 1½ Strutters. he became wing commander war correspondent, as the and the . we all had our work cut out to keep up with Norman flew many missions on this type before retiring to Cornwall, where he became While flying many hundreds of hours in him. One could be pretty sure of the victim and claimed two victories before 45 were re- Deputy Lord Lieutenant of that county. Norman operations he was credited with many single- going down in flames.’ equipped with Camels in August 1917; Norman died on 5 August 1976 aged 83. then gained his first Camel victory in the same Other titles month they arrived. On 11th September he Norman Macmillan was decorated with the in the twice claimed Triplanes out of control Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and Grub Street during two separate engagements in the space devotion to duty in 1918 and was also later Classics of a few minutes. Macmillan went on to claim awarded the prestigious Air Force Cross. range ‘Grub Street is a publisher to be congratulated for reprinting important books.’ Cross & Cockade International

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SOPWITH PUP DH9:FROM RUIN REBORN TO RESTORATION ANDY SAUNDERS WITH ROY PALMER The Extraordinary Story of the Discovery in and Return to Flight of a Rare WWI Bomber ANDY SAUNDERS AND GUY BLACK

ISBN 9781909808300 ISBN 9781908117335 £20, Hardback, 192pp, 246 x 170mm £20, Hardback, 192pp, 240 x 170mm Illustrated throughout in colour and b/w Full colour throughout with over 150 photographs & drawings World Rights World Rights

This book follows the remarkable history Meyer, the German pilot, and accounts of In 2000, quite by chance, aircraft restorer Here the whole intriguing story is told – fully of Sopwith Pup N6161, an allied World War the incarceration of Elliott as a POW. Guy Black of Aero Vintage located the hulks illustrated step-by-step – from discovery to One aircraft which was shot down in 1917, of at least two Airco DH9 bombers in a recovery, through to research, restoration, re- then flown by the Germans and is now being After nearly one hundred years since its remote part of India – hidden away in what construction and first flight, all in fascinating, recreated to fly again. The author, Andy original flight and capture, the Sopwith is being had been a Maharaja’s elephant stable at his meticulous detail. Saunders, takes the reader through the life restored to its former glory. After painstaking palace in Bikaner, Rajasthan. They were truly span of the aircraft, from the development work and research using the original waxed remarkable finds, and extremely rare examples Also covered is the account of the restoration and naming of the Sopwith ‘Pup’ to its linen drawings from 1916-1918, the aircraft of a near-extinct and important WWI aircraft of the first DH9 to be completed, now housed eventual restoration and journey back into will be taking to the skies once more. type – none of which had survived in Britain. as a non-flying exhibit at the IWM Duxford. the air. The N6161 was built in Kingston and shipped to France in 1917, where it embarked With full colour photos of the reconstruction Recognising their importance to the UK’s on a brief mission that resulted in its fateful in process and original photographs from its aviation heritage, and excited by the challenge capture by German forces. Sopwith Pup Reborn time in World War One service, this book is the of restoration, Guy set about negotiating their contains first-hand accounts from the pilots first of its kind, rather like the aircraft itself. purchase and returning them back to England. G L Elliott of the allied forces, and Karl His colleague and author, Andy Saunders Also by Andy Saunders journeyed twice to India to complete the transaction and dismantle and pack them – a process not without massive difficulties and challenges. Now one of them will fly again!

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HAWKER NAPOLEONIC HURRICANE WARS IN SURVIVORS CARTOONS GORDON RILEY MARK BRYANT

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ISBN 9781909808348 ISBN 9781910690024 £25, Hardback, 224pp, 246 x 185mm £15, Paperback, 160pp, 305 x 229mm Illustrated throughout in colour Illustrated throughout World Rights World Rights

With 2015 being the 75th anniversary of Museum, London and the youngest – the very Napoleon Bonaparte was the most caricatured pudding – is not only one of the best known the Battle of Britain – arguably the Hawker last Hurricane ever built – is still flying with figure of his time, with almost 1,000 satirical political cartoons of all time but is also one of Hurricane’s ‘finest hour’ – it is appropriate the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. drawings about his exploits being produced the most parodied and is still being adapted to tell the story of the surviving Hurricanes This book documents each aircraft by country by British artists alone. The diminutive, today by cartoonists worldwide. Napoleonic from around the world. Building on research of origin and mark by mark from the day it pugnacious French emperor was a gift to Wars in Cartoons is divided into chapters each originally started thirty years ago, the author left the factory up to the present day. Some cartoonists and the Napoleonic Wars were the prefaced with a concise introduction that has delved into the archives to amass new have incredible histories whereas others served main topic of interest for some of the greatest provides an historical framework for the information – and in the process managed to in very mundane, but still essential, second- artists of ‘The Golden Age of Caricature’. drawings of that period. Altogether more identify positively one particular Hurricane line roles until they were disposed of. Where Indeed James Gillray’s The Plumb-Pudding than 300 cartoons and caricatures from both which had proved elusive for more than forty possible each aircraft is illustrated with a in Danger (1805) –featuring British Prime sides of the conflicts, in colour and black-and- years. present-day photograph together with others Minister William Pitt and ‘Little Boney’ white, have been skilfully blended to produce taken throughout its life. carving up the globe in the form of a Christmas a unique visual history. Today a number of Hurricanes are being privately restored globally. However the oldest From the serious enthusiast to the casual ‘A fascinating portrait not only of Napoleon in existence, a veteran of both the British museum or air show visitor, if you have an but of Britain in the 19th century.’ Expeditionary Force to France in 1939 and the interest in the Hurricane this is the book for Catholic Herald Battle of Britain is displayed in the Science you. Also by Mark Bryant

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A HISTORY OF THE A HISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN MEDITERRANEAN AIR WAR, 1940–1945 AIR WAR, 1940–1945 Volume 1: , June 1940–January 1942 Volume 3: Tunisia and the end in Africa, November 1942–May 1943 CHRISTOPHER SHORES, GIOVANNI MASSIMELLO, RUSSELL GUEST, CHRISTOPHER SHORES, GIOVANNI MASSIMELLO FRANK OLYNYK & WINFRIED BOCK AND RUSSELL GUEST COMING EARLY 2016 ISBN 9781908117076 ‘A monumental book...heavily illustrated with black ISBN 9781910690000 £40, Hardback, 560pp, £50, Hardback, 736pp, 240 x 170mm 240 x 170mm and white photographs. This is only the first volume Illustrated throughout Illustrated throughout of the Mediterranean Air War and when the series is World Rights World Rights completed it will constitute the most complete record of this theatre of war to have been compiled. It is unlikely to be surpassed.’ Britain at War Magazine The third volume in this series returns to advanced from the east to join hands with November 1942 to explain the background the units in the west. to the first major Anglo-American venture – Operation Torch, the invasion of French Now also described are the arrivals over the North Africa. It deals with the fratricidal front of American pilots and crew, the P-38 A HISTORY OF THE combats which followed the initial landings Lightning, the Spitfire IX and the B-17 Flying MEDITERRANEAN in Morocco and Algeria for several days. It then Fortress – and of the much-feared Focke Wulf considers the efforts made – unsuccessfully in FW 190. The aerial activities over Tunisia AIR WAR, 1940–1945 the event – to reach northern Tunisia before became one of the focal turning points of Volume 2: North African Desert, February 1942–March 1943 the Germans and Italians could get there to World War II, yet this is frequently overlooked forestall the possibility of an attack from the by historians. CHRISTOPHER SHORES, GIOVANNI MASSIMELLO, west on the rear of the Afrika Korps forces, RUSSELL GUEST, FRANK OLYNYK AND then beginning their retreat from El Alamein. As before, the air-sea activities, the WINFRIED BOCK reconnaissance flights and the growing day and The six months of hard fighting which followed night bomber offensives form a major part of ISBN 9781909166127 ‘This is a well-written and beautifully presented history. £50, Hardback, 736pp, as the Allies built up the strength of their joint this volume. The mastery of the whole African 240 x 170mm The layout is crisp and the amount of detail is immense. air forces and gradually wrested control of coastline of the southern Mediterranean by Illustrated throughout The photography, which is essential to a good history, in the skies from the Axis, are covered in detail. the Allies prepared the way for the invasions World Rights my opinion, is first rate. The story will expand as future Then from 1 April 1943 the continuing story of the European territories on the other side volumes appear. I can’t wait!’ War History Online of the Western is told from of this critical sea during 1943, which will be the point at which Volume 2 ended, as it dealt with in Volume 4.

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Bloody Shambles Churchill’s Navigator F H The first comprehensive account of air Stories from Air Commodore John Mitchell’s Faster than the Sun Hell on Earth operations over South-East Asia, December career including his time as Churchill’s Reminiscences of a Fleet Air Arm and test pilot Dramatic first-hand experiences of Bomber 1941-April 1942 navigator PETER TWISS Command at war CHRISTOPHER SHORES, BRIAN CULL AND AIR COMMODORE JOHN MITCHELL LVO, DFC, ISBN: 9781904943372, 256pp, 234 x MEL ROLFE YASUHO IZAWA AFC WITH SEAN FEAST 156mm, 16pp b/w photos, £10.95 pb ISBN: 9781902304953, 192pp, 234 x VOLUME ONE – The drift to war to the fall of ISBN: 9781906502744, 224pp, 234 x 156mm, 32pp b/w photos, £9.99 pb 156mm, 16pp b/w photos, £20 hb Fighter Pilot’s Summer ISBN: 9780948817502, 392pp, 234 x Sequel to the bestselling Fighter Pilot Hermann Göring Fighter Ace 153mm, 180 b/w photos, £29.95 hb Coastal Dawn WG CDR PAUL RICHEY AND NORMAN The First World War career of Germany’s most VOLUME TWO – The defence of Sumatra to the Blenheims in action from the FRANKS infamous airman fall of Burma through the Battle of Britain ISBN: 9781904010623, 248pp, 216 x PETER KILDUFF ISBN: 9780948817670, 494pp, 234 x 153 ANDREW D BIRD 135mm, 8pp b/w photos, £8.99 pb ISBN: 9781906502669, 224pp, 246 x mm, 180 b/w photos, £29.95 hb ISBN: 9781906502690, 224pp, 234 x 170mm, b/w illustrations throughout, £20 hb 156mm, 70 b/w photos, £20 hb Finding Bomber Boys Some outstanding mysteries of the Battle of Heroes All Dramatic and true-life experiences over Collecting Colditz Britain investigated and solved Veteran airmen of different nationalities tell occupied Europe 1942-1945 A unique pictorial record of life behind the walls ANDY SAUNDERS their stories of service in the Second World War MEL ROLFE of Colditz Castle ISBN: 9781909166011, 192pp, 246 x DR STEVE BOND ISBN: 9781904943860, 256pp, 216 x MICHAEL BOOKER 170mm, photos throughout, £12.99 pb ISBN: 9781906502713, 416pp, 234 x 138mm, 16pp, b/w photos, £9.99 pb ISBN: 9781909808003, 192pp, 248 x 156mm, 16pp b/w photos, £25 hb 190mm, full colour throughout, £14.99 pb Finding the Foe Brotherhood of the Skies Outstanding Luftwaffe mysteries of the Battle of Home is the Halifax Wartime experience of a gunnery officer and Convoy Peewit Britain and beyond investigated and solved An extraordinary account of re-building a classic Typhoon pilot Blitzkrieg from the air and sea, 8 August 1940 ANDY SAUNDERS WWII bomber and creating the Yorkshire Air DAVID INCE DFC ANDY SAUNDERS ISBN: 9781906502850, 208pp, 246 x Museum to house it ISBN: 9781906502645, 224pp, 210 x ISBN: 9781909166004, 192pp, 246 x 170mm, photos throughout, £20 hb IAN ROBINSON MBE 148mm, 16pp b/w photos, £20 hb 170mm, b/w illustrations throughout, £12.99 ISBN: 9781906502775, 160pp, 244 x pb Fire by Night 173mm, b/w & colour photos throughout, £20 Buccaneer Boys The dramatic story of one Pathfinder crew and hb True tales by those who flew the ‘last all-British D Black Thursday, 16-17 December 1943 bomber’ Distant Thunder JENNIE GRAY Hornchurch Offensive AIR COMMODORE GRAHAM PITCHFORK A helicopter pilot’s letters from war in and ISBN: 9781906502997, 208pp, 196 x A definitive account of the RAF fighter airfield, ISBN: 9781909166110, 224pp, 234 x Afghanistan 128mm, 60 b/w photos, £8.99 pb its pilots, groundcrew and staff, 1941-1962 156mm, illustrated throughout, £20 hb DON HARWARD RICHARD C SMITH ISBN: 9781908117281, 224pp, 234 x Five of the Few ISBN: 9781906502157, 224pp, 234 x C 153mm, approx 100 colour photos, £20 hb Survivors of the Battle of Britain and Blitz tell 156mm, 24pp b/w photos, £9.99 pb Chasing the Morning Sun their story Flying solo round the world in a homebuilt Dowding of Fighter Command STEVE DARLOW Hunter Boys aircraft Victor of the Battle of the Britain ISBN: 9781906502829, 224pp, 210 x True tales from pilots of the Hawker Hunter MANUEL QUEIROZ VINCENT ORANGE 138mm, 16pp b/w photos, £10 pb RICHARD PIKE ISBN: 9781908117090, 160pp, 243 x ISBN: 9781906502720, 320pp, 234 x ISBN: 9781909808034, 192pp, 234 x 171mm, b/w and colour photos throughout, 156mm, 70 b/w photos, £13.99 pb G 156mm, approx. 30 b/w and 30 colour photos, £20 hb Ghosts of Targets Past £20 hb Dust Clouds in the Middle East The lives and losses of a Lancaster crew in Churchill and his Airmen Air war for East Africa, Iraq, Syria, and 1944-45 I Relationships, intrigue and policy-making, Madagascar PHILIP GRAY Iron Man 1914-1945 CHRISTOPHER SHORES ISBN: 9781904943181, 182pp, 216 x Story of Rudolf Berthold, the indomitable VINCENT ORANGE ISBN: 9781898697374, 320pp, 242 x 138mm, 16pp b/w photos, £8.99 pb German Fighter Ace of the First World War ISBN: 9781908117366, 320pp, 234 x 163mm, illustrated throughout, £25 hb PETER KILDUFF 156mm, 16 pages b/w photos, £25 hb ISBN: 9781908117373, 224pp, 246 x 170mm, photos throughout, £20 hb 32 33 BACKLIST BACKLIST

J Luftwaffe Fighter Ace My Golden Flying Years RICHARD C SMITH Jaguar Boys From the Eastern Front to the defence of the From 1918 over France, through Iraq in the ISBN: 9781906502331, 160pp, 252 x True tales from operators of the Big Cat in Homeland 1920s, to the Schneider Trophy Race of 1927 195mm, over 200 b/w and colour photos, peace and war NORBERT HANNIG, EDITED AND AIR COMMODORE D’ARCY GREIG DFC, AFC £12.99 pb IAN HALL TRANSLATED BY JOHN WEAL EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY NORMAN ISBN: 9781909808157, 208pp, 234 x ISBN: 9781904010944, 224pp, 234 x 156mm, FRANKS WITH SIMON MUGGLETON RAF Evaders 156mm, 60 colour & b/w photos, £20 hb 20pp of photos on art paper, £18.99 hb ISBN: 9781906502805, 288pp, 216 x The complete story of RAF escapees and their 138mm, 16pp b/w photos, £20 hb escape lines, Western Europe, 1940-1945 Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units and their Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Oliver Clutton-Brock Aces 1931-1945 Defending the Reich against the RAF and the N ISBN: 9781906502171, 448pp, 246 x A detailed study of the development, equipment USAAF Nimrod Rise and Fall 170mm, 16pp b/w photos, £35 hb and operations flown by this force WOLFGANG FISCHER, EDITED AND A detailed study of the Nimrod written by its IKUHIKO HATA, YASUHO IZAWA AND TRANSLATED BY JOHN WEAL former test pilot Raw Courage CHRISTOPHER SHORES ISBN: 9781906502836, 224pp, 210 X TONY BLACKMAN The extraordinary and tragic story of four RAF ISBN: 9781902304892, 400pp, 234 x 148mm, 16pp b/w photos, £20 hb ISBN: 9781909166028, 224pp, 240 x brothers in arms 156mm, artwork and maps throughout; over 170mm, 4 colour throughout, £12.99 pb NORMAN FRANKS AND SIMON MUGGLETON 200 photos, £29.95 hb M ISBN: 9781908117137, 224 pp, 210 x Malta Spitfire No Parachute 148mm, 16pp b/w photos, £20 hb Japanese Naval Air Force Fighter Units and The diary of an ace fighter pilot A classic account of war in the air in the First their Aces 1932-1945 GEORGE BEURLING World War S A companion guide to Japanese Army Air Force ISBN: 9781906502980, 256pp, 196 x ARTHUR GOULD LEE Shot Down in Flames Fighter Units detailing operations flown by this 128mm, 30 b/w photos, £9.99 pb ISBN: 9781909166042, 240pp, 210 x A Second World War fighter pilot’s remarkable force 135mm, photos included, £14 hb tale of survival IKUHIKO HATA, YASUHO IZAWA AND Malta Spitfire Pilot DSO, OBE, DSC AND BAR CHRISTOPHER SHORES The experiences of a young and inexperienced O ISBN: 9781906502966, 256pp, 200 x ISBN: 9781906502843, 448pp, 234 x during ten weeks of terror, Observers and Navigators 128mm, 50 b/w photos, £9.99 pb 156mm, artwork, maps, drawings and photos April-June 1942 A comprehensive study of non-pilot aircrew in throughout, £35 hb DENIS BARNHAM the RFC, RNAS and RAF Special Ops Liberators ISBN: 9781909166035, 208pp, 210 x WING COMMANDER C.G. JEFFORD A study of 223 (Bomber Support) Squadron, L 135mm, 2 x 8pp photos and paintings, £10 pb ISBN: 9781909808027, 416pp, 286 x 100 Group and the Electronic War Lancaster Down! 210mm, illustrated throughout on quality STEVE BOND AND RICHARD FORDER The extraordinary tale of seven young bomber Malta: The Spitfire Year 1942 paper, £40 hb ISBN: 9781908117144, 256pp, 234 x aircrew at war A detailed day-by-day history of the struggle for 156mm, 16pp b/w photos, £25 hb STEVE DARLOW the island, and the final success of the Allies Open Cockpit ISBN: 9781908117267, 224pp, 234 x and islanders A riveting account of life as a fighter pilot at the Spitfire Mark I P9374 156mm, 16 pages b/w photos, £10 pb CHRISTOPHER SHORES AND BRIAN CULL front during the First World War The extraordinary story of recovery, restoration WITH NICOLA MALIZIA ARTHUR GOULD LEE and flight Lie in the Dark and Listen ISBN: 9780948817168, 704pp, 234 x ISBN: 9781908117250, 224pp, 210 x ANDY SAUNDERS The remarkable exploits of a Second World War 153mm, illustrated throughout, £45 hb 135mm, photos included, £12 hb ISBN: 9781908117069, 224pp, 246 x bomber pilot and Great Escaper 170mm, b/w and colour photos throughout, WING COMMANDER KEN REES WITH KAREN Mannock P £20 hb ARRANDALE The life and death of Major Edward Mannock Park ISBN: 9781904943419, 224pp, 234 x NORMAN FRANKS AND ANDY SAUNDERS The biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Spitfire Pilot 156mm, 16pp b/w photos, £10.95 pb ISBN: 9781906502126, 192pp, 244 x Park GCB, KBE, MC, DFC, DCL ‘A brilliant first-hand account of the life of a 170mm, b/w illustrations throughout, £20 hb VINCENT ORANGE fighter pilot before and during the Battle of Life’s Too Short To Cry ISBN: 9781902304618, 320pp, 234 x Britain.’ The Spectator The compelling memoir of a Battle of Britain Master Bombers 156mm, 16pp b/w photos, £12.99 pb FLIGHT LIEUTENANT DAVID CROOK DFC ace The experiences of a Pathfinder squadron at war INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD OVERY TIM VIGORS 1944-45 R ISBN: 9781906502041, 208pp, 196 x ISBN: 9781904943815, 320pp, 196 x SEAN FEAST RAF Duxford 128mm, 16pp photos on art paper, £8.99 pb 128mm, 8pp b/w photos, £9.99 pb ISBN: 9781906502812, 224pp, 234 x A history in photographs from 1917 to the 153mm, 16pp b/w photos, £12.99 pb present day 34 35 BACKLIST BACKLIST

Spreading My Wings ISBN: 9781898697527, 352pp, 234 x NORMAN FRANKS AND ALAN BENNETT Richthofen’s victories and victims One of Britain’s top women pilots tells her 156mm, 150 b/w photos, £30 hb ISBN: 9781904943334, 144pp, 243 x NORMAN FRANKS, HAL GIBLIN AND NIGEL remarkable story from pre-war flying to breaking 171mm, illustrated throughout, £9.99 pb MCRERY the The Last of the 39-ers ISBN: 9781904943976, 224pp, 250 x DIANA BARANTO WALKER The extraordinary wartime experiences of The Sowreys 210mm, illustrated throughout on art paper ISBN: 9781904010319, 224pp, 234 x Squadron Leader Alfie Fripp A unique and remarkable record of one family’s with b/w photos and ten sumptuous colour 156mm, 32pp b/w photos, £10.95 hb SEAN FEAST sixty-five years of distinguished RAF service paintings, £12.99 pb ISBN: 9781909166158, 160pp, 234 x GRAHAM PITCHFORK Stuka Attack! 156mm, 16pp b/w photos, £17.99 hb ISBN: 9781908117311, 224pp, 240 x V The dive-bombing assault on England during 170mm, approx 80 photos, £20 hb Victor Boys the Battle of Britain The Lightning Boys True stories from forty memorable years of the ANDY SAUNDERS True tales from pilots of the English Electric The Spitfire Smiths last V bomber ISBN: 9781908117359, 192pp, 240 x Lightning A unique story of brothers in arms TONY BLACKMAN WITH GARRY O’KEEFE 170mm, illustrated throughout, £20 hb RICHARD PIKE SQN LDR RIA SMITH DFC WITH ISBN: 9781908117458, 198pp, 234 x ISBN: 9781908117151, 192pp, 234 x CHRISTOPHER SHORES 156mm, approx 30 b/w and 30 colour photos, T 156mm, 16pp colour photos, £20 hb ISBN: 9781906502119, 224pp, 216 x £20 hb Tally Ho! 134mm, 16pp photos on art paper, £20 hb The memoir of a Battle of Britain veteran and The Lightning Boys 2 Vulcan Boys his flying career More true tales from pilots and crew of the The World’s Greatest War Cartoonists and True tales from operators of the iconic Delta V WING COMMANDER R W FOSTER DFC AE English Electric Lightning Caricaturists 1792-1945 bomber from the Cold War to the Falklands WITH NORMAN FRANKS RICHARD PIKE A study of the most significant international TONY BLACKMAN ISBN: 9781906502263, 224pp, 216 x ISBN: 9781909166134, 192pp, 234 x artists of the past two centuries who drew FOREWORD BY MARTIN WITHERS 135mm 16pp b/w photos, £20 hb 156mm, b/w and colour photo sections, £20 hb political cartoons and caricatures during ISBN: 9781909808089, 198pp, 234 x wartime 156mm, illustrated throughout, £20 hb The Long Road MARK BRYANT An authorised history of the famous RAF fighter Trials and tribulations of airmen prisoners from ISBN: 9781908117083, 192pp, 252 x Vulcan Test Pilot station Bankau to Berlin, June 1944-May 1945 196mm, illustrated throughout in b/w and The experiences of Tony Blackman in the REGINALD BYRON AND DAVID COXON OLIVER CLUTTON-BROCK AND RAYMOND colour, £20 hb cockpit of a Cold War icon ISBN: 9781909166196, 352p, 240 x CROMPTON TONY BLACKMAN 170mm, 2 x 8pp photo sections, £25 hb ISBN: 9781909166202, 400pp, 246 x To Hell and Back ISBN: 9781906502300, 224pp, 234 x 170mm, 16pp photo section, £30 hb True life experiences of Bomber Command at war 153mm, b/w and colour photos, £12.99 pb Tempest Pilot MEL ROLFE The experiences of a RNZAF pilot during the The Pathfinder Companion ISBN: 9781904010395, 192pp, 216 x W Second World War An examination of the Pathfinder Force 135mm, 16pp b/w photos, £8.99 pb Wimpy SQUADRON LEADER C J SHEDDAN DFC including interviews with surviving veterans A detailed illustrated history of the Vickers RNZAF WITH NORMAN FRANKS SEAN FEAST To the Last Ridge Wellington in service, 1938-1953 ISBN: 9781906502959, 224pp, 200 x ISBN: 9781908117342, 256pp, 240 x A first-hand account of the horrors of the First STEVE BOND 128mm, 50 b/w photos, £8.99 pb 170mm, illustrated throughout, £20 hb World War in the trenches ISBN: 9781909808140, 256pp, 246 x W H DOWNING 189mm, illustrated throughout, £25 hb Test Pilot The Quick and the Dead ISBN: 9781904010203, 224pp, 198 x ‘A lifetime of flying is contained within the Written in 1956, this book is an absolute 128mm, £7.99 pb Wind in the Wires covers of this book, and highly entertaining it is revelation on test flying with the British aircraft A classic memoir of flying during the First World War too!’ FlyPast organisations and manufacturers in the 1950s Tony Blackman Test Pilot DUNCAN GRINNELL-MILNE DSO, OBE, DFC (TWO BARS), WILLIAM ARTHUR WATERON A great insight into the world of the aerospace ISBN: 9781909808010, 256p, 210 x CZECH MILITARY CROSS ISBN: 9781908117274, 248pp, 210 x industry and what it takes to be a test pilot 135mm, b/w illustrations, £16 hb ISBN: 9781904010401, 192pp, 234 x 135mm, b/w photos, £14 hb TONY BLACKMAN 156mm, 40 b/w photos, £9.99 pb ISBN: 9781908117328, 248pp, 234 x Winged Victory The Red Baron’s Last Flight 156mm, b/w and colour photos, £12.99 pb ‘The greatest novel of war in the air.’ The Daily Mail The JG26 War Diary An in-depth investigation into what really V.M. YEATES Volume 1 1939-1942 happened on the day Von Richthofen was shot U ISBN: 9781904010654, 456pp, 216 x DONALD CALDWELL down Under the Guns of the Red Baron 135mm, £9.99 pb The complete fully illustrated record of Von

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