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  • RJ Mitchell: Legend of the Spitfire

    Series series British Flying Legends
    DESCRIPTIONRJ Mitchell: Legend of the Spitfire recounts the extraordinary achievements of one of Britain’s greatest aviation legends, the man responsible for creating Britain’s most iconic fighter aircraft, the Supermarine Spitfire.The book, which is around the length of a short story, approximately 40 printed pages, gives the reader a concise and straightforward insight into the life of RJ ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Admiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power

    Series series Studies in Naval History and Sea Power
    Admiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power covers the life and professional career of Adm. John S. McCain Sr. (1884–1945). Spanning most of the first half of the twentieth century, McCain’s life and career highlight the integration of aviation into the Navy, emphasizing the evolution of the aircraft carrier from a tactical element of the fleet stressing sea control to a strategic ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Every Man A Tiger (Revised)

    The Gulf War Air Campaign

    Series Book 2 - Commander Series
    General Chuck Horner commanded the U.S. and allied air assets—the forces of a dozen nations—during Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and was responsible for the design and execution of one of the most devastating air campaigns in history. Never before has the Gulf air war planning, a process filled with controversy and stormy personalities, been revealed in such rich, provocative detail. And in this ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Flying Drunk: The True Story of a Northwest Airlines Flight Three Drunk Pilots and One Man's Fight for Redemption

    The True Story of a Northwest Airlines Flight, Three Drunk Pilots, and One Man's Fight for Redemption

    by Joseph Balzer ...
    March 8 1990: An intoxicated three-man crew including Flight Engineer Joseph Balzer fly a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 with 91 passengers aboard from Fargo North Dakota to Minneapolis Minnesota. July 25 1990: All three pilots stand trial for flying a commercial airliner while under the influence of alcohol; all three are convicted and sent to federal prison. July 26 1990 present: Joe Balzer ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aircraft

    The Definitive Visual History

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Definitive Transport Guides
    Take an action-packed flight through the history of aircraft and discover the intrepid pioneers who made a dream realityUncover the engineering behind more than 800 aircraft models, from military jets to commercial planes. This visual history book captures the fascinating story of airplanes and aviation, and how their groundbreaking discovery has influenced the 21st Century.Inside the pages of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bombs Away

    The Story of a Bomber Team

    **A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writersA Penguin Classic**On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Wager with the Wind

    The Don Sheldon Story

    by James Greiner ...
    Don Sheldon has been called 'Alaska's bush pilot among bush pilots', but he was also just one man in a fragile airplane who, in the end, was solely responsible for each mission he flew, be it a high-risk landing to the rescue of others from certain death in the mountains of Alaska or the routine delivery of supplies to a lonely homesteader. Read James Greiner's Wager with the Wind to learn how a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Typhoon Pilot

    by Desmond Scott ...
    A decorated WWII flying ace and Royal Air Force Group Captain recounts his experience in the air over Europe in this thrilling military memoir.New Zealand fighter pilot Desmond Scott joined the Royal Air Force in 1940. Over the course of his illustrious service, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, and a Distinguished Service Order. For the heroic act of rescuing a pilot from a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guardian Angel

    Life and Death Adventures with Pararescue, the World's Most Powerful Commando Rescue Force

    “A fabulous read, filled with heroism, history, and hi-jinks, as author William F. Sine recounts his life as an Air Force Pararescue Jumper” (Readers’ Favorite).US Air Force Pararescue is the most skillful and capable rescue force in the world, taking on some of the most dangerous rescue missions imaginable. PJs (short for para-jumpers), are members of an elite unit whose commando skills are so ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hell's Highway

    A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September–November 1944

    **The author of The Battered Bastards of Bastogne does a “superb job of telling the history the 101st Airborne Division during Operation Market Garden” (**Kepler’s Book Reviews).Hell’s Highway is a history, most of which has never before been written. It is adventure recorded by those who lived it and put into context by an author who was also there. It is human drama on an enormous scale, told ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Serenade to the Big Bird

    by Bert Stiles ...
    Bert Stiles (1920-1944) was an American author of short stories who was killed in action during World War II while serving as a fighter pilot in the US Army Air Forces.His mother commemorated his memory by having his book published in 1947 in England (Lindsay Drummond Ltd.), with its first U.S. publication in 1952 (W.W. Norton & Company). Entitled Serenade to the Big Bird, the book achieved cult ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strategy

    This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world’s foremost military thinkers—a man generally regarded as the “Clausewitz of the 20th century.” Strategy is a seminal work of military history and theory, a perfect companion to Sun-tzu’s The Art of War and Carl von Clausewitz’s On War.Liddell Hart stressed movement, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign

    The Rolling Thunder Campaign

    Series Book 4 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    This is the sixth monograph in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. It covers aircraft carrier activity during Operation Rolling Thunder in the war. Operation Rolling Thunder was one of the longest sustained aerial bombing campaigns in history. And it would be a failure. The U.S. Navy proved essential to the conduct of Rolling Thunder. Exploiting the inherent flexibility and mobility of ... Read more

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  • Carrier Clash

    by Eric Hammel ...
    CARRIER CLASHThe Invasion of Guadalcanal &the Battle of the Eastern SolomonsAugust 1942Eric HammelThe Battle of the Eastern Solomons was historys third carrier clash. A collision of U.S. Navy and Imperial Navy carriers in the wake of the invasion of Guadalcanalwhose airfield the United States desperately needed and the Japanese desperately wanted backthe battle was waged at sea and over ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Wings of Gold

    The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II

    by Gerald Astor ...
    From critically acclaimed military historian Gerald Astor comes Wings of Gold, the first account of how the airplane transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the Pacific in World War II. Astor tracks that fateful journey from its humble beginnings in 1910 when Eugene Ely flew the very first plane off the deck of a U.S. Navy ship to the unprecedented air combat missions that helped ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Question of Honor

    The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II

    A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the refugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essential role in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by the Allies after the war.After Poland fell to the Nazis, thousands of Polish pilots, soldiers, and sailors escaped to England. Devoted to liberating their homeland, some would form the RAF’s 303 squadron, known ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey - NASA Research Pilot Stories, XB-70 Tragic Collision, M2-F1 Lifting Body, YF-12 Blackbird, Apollo LLRV Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (NASA SP-4108)

    This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - is the fascinating account of the life of Donald Mallick, a NASA research test pilot. This book puts the reader in the pilot's seat for a "day at the office" unlike any other. It recounts the tragic 1966 mid-air collision with the XB-70; describes flights of the lifting body and YF-12 blackbird, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Carrier Strike

    by Eric Hammel ...
    CARRIER STRIKEThe Battle of the Santa Cruz IslandsOctober 1942By Eric HammelThe Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, a strategic naval action in the bitter Guadalcanal Campaign, was historys fourth carrier-versus-carrier naval battle. Though technically a Japanese victory, the battle proved to be the Empire of Japans last serious attempt to win the Pacific War by means of an all-out carrier ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Island in the Sky

    Island in the Sky, first published in 1944, is aviator Ernest Gann’s exciting, realistic novel of survival in the far north of Canada. The Corsair, a plane attached to the Army Air Transport Command during the Second World War, is forced to land after heavy icing of the wings makes the plane unflyable. The crew look to Dooley, the pilot for guidance in order to survive the frigid conditions, and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Lucky 666

    The Impossible Mission

    “A fast-paced, well-researched…irresistible” (USA TODAY) World War II aviation account of friendship, heroism, and sacrifice that reads like Unbroken meets The Dirty Dozen from the authors of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is.It’s 1942, just after the blow to Pearl Harbor and the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, and the United States is reeling. A group of raw ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

    by Brian Lane ...
    Lane was the author of Spitfire!, originally published in 1942 under the pseudonym B.J. Ellan. The book is a first hand account of his experiences as a front line Spitfire pilot and is one of only a few contemporaneous autobiographical accounts of the life of a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Kingdom Come

    An Epic Saga of Survival in the Air War Over Germany

    The breathtaking, never-before-told, true story of a historic air force bombing mission in 1943 Germany.On September 6, 1943, three hundred and thirty-eight B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb Nazi weapons factories.Dense clouds obscured the targets, and one commander's critical decision to circle three times over ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Stay the Rising Sun

    The True Story of USS Lexington, Her Valiant Crew, and Changing the Course of WWII

    by Phil Keith ...
    A “well-written, superbly researched” account of a WWII aircraft carrier’s demise in the Pacific—and the legacy left by the “Lady Lex” (CPL Vincent L. Anderson, USMC, Marine Detachment, USS Lexington, survivor of the Battle of the Coral Sea).In May 1942, the United States’ first naval victory against the Japanese in the Coral Sea was marred by the loss of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitler's Rockets

    The Story of the V-2s

    In Hitler’s Rockets Norman Longmate tells the story of the V-2, the technically brilliant but hated weapon, the ancestor and forerunner of all subsequent ballistic missiles. He reveals the devious power-play within the German armed forces and the Nazi establishment that so influenced the creation of the rockets. He shows through contemporary documents and protagonists’ accounts how the British ... Read more

    $8.99 USD