Aviation & Space
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Enemy Coast Ahead – Uncensored: The Real Guy Gibson
$19.95 Read moreFirst published in 1944, Enemy Coast Ahead combines Guy Gibson’s RAF career, including the famous Dambuster raid which he himself led, with the inside story of life in RAF Bomber Command and is still … [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0859791181
- Language: English
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Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
$32.00 Read moreA revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan’s kamikaze–the suicide pilots of World War II–as told through the eyes of the survivors
In the final year of World War II, a horrific new we- Author: Sheftall, M. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0593472314
- Language: English
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F-15 Eagle: McDonnell Douglas Strike Fighter
$24.99 Add to cartThe McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is one of the most successful fighter designs of the 20th century. The type first flew in 1972, transitioning directly from the drawing board to production with remark… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation #62
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367072
- Language: English
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Abandoned Arkansas: Eaker Air Force Base
$24.99 Read moreFor fifty years, Blytheville was home to a fleet of one of the most versatile pieces of machinery in history. From the Cuban Missile Crisis, through the Vietnam War and Korean Conflict, to the fall of
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Fears, Gage
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 163499468X
- Language: English
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Sr-71 Blackbird: Lockheed’s Ultimate Spy Plane
$24.99 Read moreAs of 2023, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest manned jet aircraft ever produced. It set the record in 1976 and has been retired since the late 1990s. With its unrivaled speed and stunning ap… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation #61
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367080
- Language: English
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Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II
$30.00 Read moreThe first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances.
This book dis- Author: McGaugh, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 147285294X
- Language: English
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Myasishchev M-50 and M-52: The First Soviet Supersonic Strategic Bomber
$50.00 Read moreReborn in 1951, the Myasishchev design bureau made its mark by creating the M-4 strategic bomber. Yet, this subsonic aircraft was soon made obsolescent by supersonic fighter technology–any new strate… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Yefim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366424
- Language: English
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Warplane: How the Military Reformers Birthed the A-10 Warthog
$29.95 Read moreThe A-10 is the Air Force’s unlikely success story, an airplane designed to support the Army, and one that ground troops came to venerate. Originally conceived with the express purpose of destroying S
- Author: Sundt, Hal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1493067710
- Language: English
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The Ones Who Got Away: Mighty Eighth Airmen on the Run in Occupied Europe
$35.00 Read moreA remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away.
To be an airman in the Eighth Air Force flying over the war-tor- Author: Yenne, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1472858719
- Language: English
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Helicopters: A Guide to Over 80 Years of Rotorcraft, from the First Types Deployed in World War II to the Spe
$25.00 Read moreThis fully up-to-date reference book provides an authoritative overview of the military helicopter. It begins with a detailed history, from the ideas of Leonardo da Vinci through to the tilt-rotor air
- Author: Crosby, Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0754835669
- Language: English
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The Lancaster Story: True Tales of Britain’s Legendary Bomber
$26.99 Read more- Author: Miller, Sarah-Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1789296390
- Language: English
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Moral Imperative: 1972, Combat Rescue, and the End of America’s War in Vietnam
$27.99 Add to cartIn 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and search and rescue teams from all services and Air Americ… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Whitcomb, Darrel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0700630066
- Language: English
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The First Fighter Pilot – Roland Garros: The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat
$29.95 Add to cartRoland Garros enjoyed an exciting life. An aviation pioneer in the early 1900s, he taught himself how to fly a bamboo airplane despite crashing it at Versailles. He was a world-class athlete, a lawyer
- Author: Cobleigh, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1629671576
- Language: English
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Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam
$19.95 Add to cartZahn reconstructed his year of combat in Vietnam with surprising detail, capturing the cockiness, angst, and attitude of the naive nineteen-year-old 1st Cavalry Division attack helicopter pilot of 197
- Author: Zahn, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574886118
- Language: English
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Corsair: The F4U in World War II and Korea
$26.95 Add to cartThis is the remarkable story of an airplane that became a legend–with a sleek silhouette and bent wings, it doubled as a day and night fighter, could fly off carriers or from land, and served both as… [more below]
- Author: Tillman, Barrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1557509948
- Language: English
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Warnings Unheeded: Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base
$29.99 Add to cartMass murder and military aviation disaster. One community’s experience with two fatal tragedies that occurred suddenly… but not without warning.
On 20 June 1994, a vengeance-seeking gunman opened fir
- Author: Brown, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: November 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0997863439
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff: The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
$21.95 Add to cartBetween April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith and his peers worried about cramming a
- Author: Smith, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0806134224
- Language: English
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Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
$20.00 Add to cartThe night of May 16, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from an RAF airfield in Lincolnshire, England, each with a huge nine-thousand-pound cylindrical bomb strapped underneat… [more below]
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122787
- Language: English
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
$39.00 Add to cartOver the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0316743798
- Language: English
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Indestructible: One Man’s Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
$21.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family — imprisoned by the Japanese–and revolution… [more below]
- Author: Bruning, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0316339415
- Language: English
