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Land Girls at the Old Rectory

By Irene Grimwood

Spreading My Wings: One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story from Pre-War Flying to Breaking the Sound Barrier

By Walker, Diana Baranto

Test Pilot (Aviation Classics)

By Duke, Neville

Fighter Pilot's Summer: Sequel to the Best-Selling Fighter Pilot

By Richey, Wing Commander Paul, Franks, Norman

Luftwaffe Fighter Ace: From the Eastern Front to the Defence of the Homeland

By Norbert Hannig, John Weal

Victory Fighters: The Veterans' Story - Winning the Battle for Supremacy in the Skies Over Western Europe, 1941-1945

By Steve Darlow

Faster than the Sun: The Compelling Story of a Record-Breaking Test Pilot and WWII Navy Flyer

By Twiss, Peter

Lie in the Dark and Listen: The Remarkable Exploits of a Second World War Bomber Pilot and Great Escaper

By Rees, Ken, Arrandale, Karen

The Need

By Friedman, Ester

Where the Hell Have You Been?: Monty, Italy and One Man's Incredible Escape

By Carver, Tom

World War II Commanders: From the Attack on Poland to the Surrender of Japan

By Ian Westwell

Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

By Mavis Batey

The Spitfire Smiths: A Unique Story of Brothers in Arms

By Rod Smith, Christopher Shores

Mannock: The Life and Death of Major Edward Mannock VC, DSO, MC, RAF

By Norman L.R. Franks, Andy Saunders

Tally Ho!: From the Battle of Britain to the Defence of Darwin

By R.W. Foster, Norman L.R. Franks

A Pathfinder's War: An Extraordinary Tale of Surviving Over 100 Bomber Operations Against All Odds

By Flt Lt Ted Stocker, Sean Feast

Brotherhood of the Skies: Wartime Experiences of a Gunner Officer and Typhoon Pilot: Wartime experiences of a gunnery officer and Typhoon pilot

By David Ince

Dowding of Fighter Command

By Vincent Orange

Churchill's Navigator: Stories from Air Commodore John Mitchell's career including his time as Churchill's navigator

By John Mitchell, Sean Feast

My Golden Flying Years: From 1918 Over France, Through Iraq in the 1920s, to the Schneider Trophy Race of 1927

By D. D'arcy A. Greig, Norman L.R. Franks, Simon Muggleton

Shot Down in Flames: A WW2 Fighter Pilot's Remarkable Take of Survival: A WWII Fighter Pilot's Remarkable Tale of Survival

By Geoffrey Page

Be Bold

By Frederick Rosier, David Rosier

Journal

By Helene Berr, David Bellos

A Grand Gossip: the Bletchley Park Diary of Basil Cottle, 1943-45

By Cottle, Basil, Hodsdon, James, Hodsdon, Judith

Raw Courage: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of Four RAF Brothers in Arms

By Norman L.R. Franks, Simon Muggleton

Churchill and His Airmen: Relationships, intrigue and policy-making, 1914-1945

By Vincent Orange

Finding the Few: Some outstanding mysteries of the Battle of Britain investigated and solved

By Saunders, Andy

The Last of the 39ers: The Extraordinary Wartime Experiences of Squadron Leader Alfie Fripp

By Sean Feast

An Alien Sky: The story of one man's remarkable adventure in Bomber Command during the Second World War

By Andrew Wiseman

The Daily Telegraph Military Obituaries Book Three: 3 (Daily Telegraph Book of Military Obituaries) (Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries): Book 3

By David Twiston Davies