Secondhand Aviation & Military History Bargain Book Box SP2995

Secondhand Aviation & Military History Bargain Book Box SP2995

Twenty-four books of air war history and military fiction — the Battle of Britain, the Bismarck, Breaker Morant, the Blitz on Coventry, Barnes Wallis, and the fall of France. John Harris, Ernest K. Gann, Kit Denton, Roald Dahl, Ludovic Kennedy, Airey Neave, and others.

1. Take or Destroy — John Harris — A vital death-or-glory mission: destroy Rommel's fuel dump before the Afrika Korps breaks through to Cairo.
2. The Western Front 1914–18 — John Terraine — An authoritative survey of the great land campaign: the strategies, the battles, and the commanders who shaped the war in the West.
3. Breaker Morant — F.M. Cutlack — The life and court-martial of Harry "Breaker" Morant: horseman, poet, soldier, and the man that Australia still argues about.
4. Scramble: A Narrative History of the Battle of Britain (Illustrated) — Norman Gelb — A day-by-day narrative of the summer of 1940: the pilots, the losses, and the victory that wasn't supposed to happen.
5. Barnes Wallis — J.E. Morpurgo — The biography of the aeronautical genius who invented the bouncing bomb that destroyed the Ruhr dams.
6. 1940: The World in Flames — Richard Collier — Dunkirk, the Battle of France, the Blitz, and the desperate months when Britain stood alone.
7. The Cannibal Queen: An Aerial Odyssey Across America — Stephen Coonts — The bestselling author of Flight of the Intruder flies a 1942 Stearman biplane across America: aviation memoir and love letter to the country below.
8. C. Northcote Parkinson — naval fiction
9. Fighter Command 1936–68 — Chaz Bowyer — The illustrated history of RAF Fighter Command from its formation through to the Cold War era.
10. Little Cyclone — Airey Neave — The extraordinary Comet escape line: the network of civilians who smuggled Allied airmen out of occupied France, and the young Belgian woman who ran it.
11. The Burning of the Ships — Douglas Scott — The most bizarre and treacherous scheme of World War II: the story of escape routes through occupied France.
12. Fighter Station Supreme: RAF Tangmere — Wing Commander H.R. Allen DFC — The history of arguably the most famous fighter station of the Second World War: the squadrons, the battles, and the men who flew from it.
13. Air Raid: Coventry 1940 — Norman Longmate — A searing account of the bombing raid that made history: the night of 14 November 1940, when the Luftwaffe destroyed the centre of Coventry.
14. Red on White — Kit Denton — Based on a true story of courage and endurance by Allied soldiers in the snows of Russia.
15. The Hour of the Lily — John Kruse — A Cold War action adventure on an epic scale.
16. The Breaker — Kit Denton — The life of Breaker Morant: poet, horseman, mercenary, murderer? Denton's account of the man and the controversy that has never been resolved.
17. The Mercenaries — John Harris — Soldiers for hire in the post-colonial conflicts of Africa: loyalty, money, and violence.
18. Strike from the Sky: The Battle of Britain Story — The complete illustrated Battle of Britain story. NEL edition.
19. Pursuit: The Sinking of the Bismarck — Ludovic Kennedy — The classic sea saga: the hunt for Germany's greatest battleship across the North Atlantic in May 1941.
20. Fate is the Hunter — Ernest K. Gann — Gann's celebrated memoir of his years as a commercial aviator: the crashes, the near-misses, and why some men live and others don't.
21. Big Week! — Glenn Infield — The crucial week of the war: the air battle between General Doolittle and General Galland during the great American bomber offensive of February 1944.
22. In the Company of Eagles — Ernest K. Gann — A World War I aerial novel: a French pilot and a German pilot, their war over the Western Front, and the contest that will define them both.
23. Over to You — Roald Dahl — Dahl's early RAF stories: the pilots who fought over Greece, Syria, and North Africa, written while the memories were still raw.
24. Mafeking — Duncan Grinnell-Milne — Baden-Powell's heroic defence of the besieged town during the Boer War.