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Cross & Cockade International Cross & Cockade International THE FIRST WORLD WAR AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY Registered Charity No 1117741 1970 – 2019 www.crossandcockade.com BOOK REVIEWS for JOURNAL 1 to 49 11, LUSTRATION IN ACTION John Batchelor and Geraldine Christy 240 17.2.090 100 DECISIVE BATTLES: from Ancient Times to the Present. Paul K. Davis 462 31.4.237 100 YEARS OF ADVERTISING IN BRITISH AVIATION Colin Cruddas 192 39.4.278 100 YEARS OF BRITISH NAVAL AVIATION Christopher Shores 311 40.3.210 100 YEARS OF CONFLICT 1900-2000 Simon Trew & Gary Sheffield 344 32.2.126 1914: GLORY OF DEPARTING Edward Owen 192 17.4.184 1915: THE DEATH OF INNOCENCE Lynn MacDonald 625 25.4.217 1918 A VERY BRITISH VICTORY Peter Hart 552 39.4.278 1940 THE STORY OF No 11 GROUP FIGHTER COMMAND Peter G. Cooksley 224 14.3.142 2F.1 SHIP’S CAMEL: Windsock Datafile No 170 Colin A. Owers 32 47.1.079 50 ANS D’AVIATION FRANÇAISE EN COULEURS 1910-1960 Avions Hors Série No 9 Jean-Claude Soumille 96 33.2.130 75 EVENTFUL YEARS: A TRIBUTE TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1918-1993 Wingham Aviation Books 300 24.4.217 A BOY MESSENGER'S WAR MEMORIES OF GUERNSEY AND HERM 1938-45 Martin J. Le Page 100 26.4.219 A CLASP FOR THE FEW Kenneth G Wynn 470 13.2.090 A CONTEMPTIBLE LIlTLE FLYING CORPS I. McInnes and J.V. Webb 517 23.2.107 A FLYING FIGHTER: AN AMERICAN ABOVE THE LINES IN FRANCE E.M. Roberts 349 19.4.203 A GERMAN AIRMAN REMEMBERS Hans Schroder 214 18.1.043 A GREAT ADVENTURE IN EAST AFRICA: An RFC Observer’s WWI Exploits Frederick W. Lane 446 46.3.219 A GUIDE TO MILITARY MUSEUMS AND OTHER PLACES OF MILITARY INTEREST Terence Wise 290 23.2.108 A GUIDE TO THE WOULD BE PILOT Joan Balfour ?? 14.3.142 A HARD LOCAL WAR: The British Army and the Guerrilla War in Cork 1919-1921 William Sheenan 256 42.2.139 A History of No 10 Squadron Royal Naval Air Service in WWI Mike Westrop 194 36.1.066 A HISTORY OF No 6 SQUADRON ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE IN WORLD WAR I Mike Westrop 223 37.4.270 A HISTORY OF THE EASTBOURNE AVIATION COMPANY 1911-1924 Lou McMahon and Michael Partridge 174 31.3.171 A HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE AIR 1914-1918: (Part 1) Sir Walter Raleigh 409 45.3.215 A MEDAL FOR LIFE: LIEUTENANT W.L. ROBINSON, WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT AND RFC Leslie Wm. Bills 148 21.2.098 A MILITARY ATLAS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR Arthur Banks 142 21.2.097 A NURSERY OF THE AIR FORCE W. Brian Costello 197 17.3.138 A PASSION FOR FLIGHT: New Zealand Aviation Before The Great War Vol One Errol W Martyn 184 43.3.214 A PASSION FOR FLIGHT: New Zealand Aviation before the Great War, Vol 2: Errol W. Martin 320 44.3.214 A PASSION FOR FLIGHT: New Zealand Aviation before the Great War, Vol 3; The Joe Hammond Story and Military Beginnings 1910- Errol W. Martyn 1914 208 45.1.070 A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE SS 1923-1945 Andrew Mollo 192 08.1.044 A RATTLE OF PEBBLES: THE FIRST WORLD WAR DIARIES OF TWO CANDADIAN AIRMEN Brereton Greenhous 414 18.4.184 A RECORD OF THE BATTLES AND ENGAGEMENTS OF THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS . 1914-1918 E.A. Jones 48 24.4.220 A ROUGH RIDE Hugh Neems 64 45.1.071 A SOLENT FLIGHT Ivor J. Hilliker 127 23.2.107 A STRAGGLER FROM 1914-1918 W.J.F. Harvey 68 45.4.287 A SUBALTERN’S SHARE IN THE WAR: Home letters of the late George Weston Devenish Mrs Horace Porter 100 41.1.071 A TALENT FOR ADVENTURE Andrew Croft 286 23.2.109 A TECHNICAL & OPERATIONAL HISTORY OF THE LIBERTY ENGINE: Tanks, Ships and Aircraft 1917 – 1960 Robert J Neal. 616 40.3.210 A TOWN FOR FOUR WINTERS: GREAT WAR CAMPS ON CANNOCK CHASE C.J. and G.P. Whitehouse 48 21.2.099 A WESTERN FRONT COMPANION 1914-1918 John Laffin 218 27.2.108 A WORLD WAR 1 ADVENTURE: The Life and Times of RNAS Bomber Pilot Donald E. Harkness The Harkness Family 562 46.2.144 A WORLD WAR I ADVENTURE: The Life and Times of RNAS Bomber Pilot Donald E. Harkness House of Harkness 562 46.3.218 A YANK IN BOMBER COMMAND Robert S Raymond 159 08.2.092 A YANKEE ACE IN THE RAF, THE WORLD WAR 1 LETTERS OF CAPTAIN BOGART ROGERS John H. Morrow Jnr and Earl Rogers 259 28.2.113 Serge Comini ABBAYE NOTRE-DAME DE BEAUPRÉ-SUR-LA-LYS. DES HOMMES SUR LES TERRES… ET LES CHEMINS DES DAMES 1914-1918 400 49.4.319 ABC MILITARY MARKINGS 1996 P.R. March 176 27.3.170 ABOVE FLANDERS' FIELDS. A COMPLETE RECORD OF THE BELGIAN FIGHTER PILOTS AND THEIR UNITS DURING THE GREAT WAR, Walter Pieters 1914-1918 122 29.3.173 ABOVE THE LINES: A COMPLETE RECORD OF THE FIGHTER ACES OF THE GERMAN AIR SERVICE, NAVAL AIR SERVICE AND FLANDERS Norman L.R. Franks, Frank W. Bailey and MARINE CORPS 1914-1918 Russell Guest 320 25.2.109 ABOVE THE TRENCHES SUPPLEMENT C. Shores, N. Franks and R. Guest 62 27.3.171 Christopher Shores, Norman Franks, Russell ABOVE THE TRENCHES: A COMPLETE RECORD OF THE FIGHTER ACES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE AIR FORCES 1915-1920 Guest 397 21.4.217 Norman Franks, Russell Guest and Gregory ABOVE THE WAR FRONTS ?? 28.2.114 Norman Franks, Russell Guest and Gregory ABOVE THE WAR FRONTS Alegi 218 29.3.173 ABOVE YPRES: The German Air Force in Flanders 1914-18 Bernard Deneckere 164 44.4.286 ACE Spencer Dunmore 272 14.1.042 ACE OF ACES: The Life of Capt Eddie Rickenbacker H. Paul Jeffers 343 35.3.207 ACE OF THE BLACK CROSS: The Memoirs of Ernst Udet Ernst Udet 202 44.4.287 ACES Video 92mi 27.3.171 ACES AND AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR ONE Christopher Campbell 144 12.2.094 ACES AND AIRMEN OF WORLD WAR I Alan C Wood 176 33.4.267 ACES AND KINGS L. W. Sutherland 288 17.1.046 ACES FALLING: War Above the Trenches 1918 Peter Hart 386 38.4.262 ACES HIGH Alan Clark 183 04.2.099 ACES HIGH AT REDCAR: The History of Redcar Royal Naval Air Station 1915 to 1919 John Harland Watson 135 45.4.287 ACTION STATIONS 1:- WARTIME MILITARY AIRFIELDS OF EAST ANGLIA, 1939-1945. Michael J F Bowyer ?? 10.3.137 ACTION STATIONS 4: MILITARY AIRFIELDS IN YORKSHIRE Bruce Barrymore Halpenny 216 13.2.090 ACTION STATIONS 5: MILITARY AIRFIELDS OF THE SOUTH WEST Chris Ashworth 265 21.4.216 ACTION STATIONS 7:- MILITARY AIRFIELDS OF SCOTLAND, THE NORTH-EAST AND N. IRELAND David J. Smith 232 15.1.041 ACTON AERODROME AND THE ALLIANCE AEROPLANE COMPANY A H Goodlet ?? 10.1.040 AD FLYING BOATS: Windsock Datafile 159 Colin A. Owers 36 45.2.144 ADSTANTES: A HISTORY OF No III (FIGHTER) SQUADHON ROYAL AIR FORCE Stephen A. Burton 156 30.2.120 ADVENTURE IN THE SKY Sandy Johnstone ?? 10.1.041 ADVENTURE WITH FATE Harald Penrose 343 16.1.046 AEG AIRCRAFT OF WWI Jack Herris 186 46.3.218 Aero Journal No 18 April/May 2001 PERIODICAL ?? 32.2.126 AERODROME OF DEMOCRACY: CANADA AND THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN 1939-1945 F.J. Hatch 223 15.2.091 AERODROME UPDATE: THE OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST WARPLANES ?? 28 25.4.217 AEROFAN No 88, January – March 2004 Giorgio Apostolo ?? 35.3.208 AEROFAN No 90 PERIODICAL ?? 35.4.276 AEROFAN No 93-95 PERIODICAL 56 37.1.068 AEROFAN No 96 : January-March 2006 PERIODICAL 56 37.2.137 Aerofan on CD-ROM ?? 36.1.068 AEROGUIDE 1. BRITISH AEROSPACE HAWK T Mk 1 Roger Chesneau and Ray Rimmell 32 15.1.042 AEROGUIDE 2. SEPECAT JAGUAR GR Mk 1 and T Mk 2 Roger Chesneau and Ray Rimmell 32 15.1.042 AEROMILITARIA: Winter 2010 PERIODICAL ? 42.1.072 AERONAUTICA A.J. Marriott-Smith 64 20.4.220 Aeroplane 2011: April , May, July, September, October, November, December PERIODICAL ?? 43.1.072 Aeroplane 2012: January, February, March, PERIODICAL ?? 43.1.072 AEROPLANE for January 2003 PERIODICAL 17 34.1.068 AEROPLANE MONTHLY: Oct 09, Nov 09, Dec 09, Mar 10, Jun 10, Jul 10, Oct 10, Feb 11,Mar 11 PERIODICAL ? 42.1.072 AEROPLANE MONTHLY: various months -2006, 2007, 2008 PERIODICAL ? 39.3.211 AEROPLANES OF THE ROYAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY Paul R. Hare 144 30.3.178 AEROPLANES: A Compilation of the World’s Original Aircraft Built Before 1920 Michael A. Antonelli 264 47.4.319 Rosario Abate, Gregory Alegi and Giorgio AEROPLANI CAPRONI: GIAANI CAPRONI AND HIS AIRCRAFT 1910-1983 Apostolo 247 25.1.048 AGAINST ALL ODDS: THE LIFE OF GROUP CAPTAIN L.W.B. REES VC. OBE.. MC.. AFC W. Alister Williams 296 21.1.044 AIR ACES OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE 1914-1918 Martin O'Connor 336 18.1.042 AIR AND SEA POWER IN WORLD WAR I: Combat and Experience in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Navy Maryam Philpott 258 45.2.144 AIR BAND RADIO GUIDE - 2nd edition Graham Duke 112 27.1.049 AIR COMBAT PAINTINGS Masterworks Collection Robert Taylor 128 33.1.056 AIR COMMAND Raymond Collishaw & R V Dodds 256 04.4.191 AIR DEFENCE OF GREAT BRITAIN J R Bushby 207 05.2.095 AIR ENTHUSIAST - ARTICLES PERIODICAL ?? 37.3.208 AIR ENTHUSIAST, 2006, 2007 PERIODICAL ? 39.3.211 AIR FORCE RECORDS FOR FAMILY HISTORIANS Public Record Office Readers' Guide No 21.
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