An overview of British aerial operations in World War II.
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Shipbusters
The story of the daring RAF pilots who flew low-level torpedo attacks against German battleships in World War II.
Read MoreThe Royal Flying Corps in World War Volumes I and II
'Ralph Barker has written a masterly anecdotal history of the flying war over France, and the courageous 'bird-men', who gave such dedicated support to the regiments deadlocked in the trenches beneath them' - Daily Telegraph
Read MoreHurricats
A thoroughly-researched account of this little known aspect of Second World War Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm operations.
Read MoreThe Blockade Busters
The story of how George Binney, a 39 year-old civilian working in neutral Sweden set about running vital cargoes of Swedish ball-bearings and special steels to Britain through the blockaded Skagerrak.
One of the greatest sea stories of World War II
Read MoreDown In The Drink
Among those who fought in the ferocious battles for the skies during the Second World War, some - shot down, or forced to ditch - had to confront an exceptionally pitiless enemy: the sea.
Read MoreMen Of The Bombers
Ten remarkable true accounts of unusual incidents and happenings to Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two.
Read MoreSurvival In The Sky
Fifteen "dramas of the air"
There can be nothing more poignant than a sequence of events which gives some occupants of an aircraft a chance of escape and others none.
Read MoreThe Thousand Plan
The story of the first large scale bombing in history, the R.A.F.'s firebombing of Cologne, Germany in 1942.
Read MoreStrike Hard, Strike Sure
All these stories are eloquent of devotion and endurance...all are moving. They are told graphically without sensationalism. (Times Literary Supplement)
Tales of Supreme Bravery (Daily Telegraph)
That Eternal Summer
Ralph Barker has unearthed twelve untold or little-known but unforgettable stories of men whose names may be unfamiliar but without whose selfless tenacity Britain would not have survived.
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