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Behind the Enemy Lines
ISBN: PB: 9788875654429, Bookport, IBN Editore, October 2019
136 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.
Between the spring and autumn of 1944, the Luftwaffe constituted a constant threat to the incursions of the MAAF (Mediterranean Allied Air Forces), and the losses in men and aircraft were even more substantial. In the span of a few months, between th...
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£14,95
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Gott Strafe England Volume 3: The German Air Assault against Great Britain 1914-1918
ISBN: HB: 9781911512752, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2019
356 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 200 black&white photos, 30 line drawings, maps
The aerial attacks against Great Britain by airships and aircraft in the Great War were a new development in the history of British warfare. Previously, it had been the British armies that had crossed the seas to do the fighting in foreign lands, but...
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£29,00
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Supersonic The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde
ISBN: HB: 9783791384092, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
192 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 200 colour illus.
This stylishly illustrated book looks back at the glamour of Concorde air travel and is as sleek and elegant as the aircraft it celebrates. When the first commercial Concordes zoomed off the runways in Paris and London in the late 1960s, crossing th...
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£27,50
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Forgotten Heroes Aces of the Royal Hungarian Air Force in the Second World War
ISBN: HB: 9781911512684, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
464 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 black&white and colour photos, 40 tables
Prior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces – including the Air Force – prepared to engage the Little Entente forces; however, after a short skirmish prior to the war with the Slovaks, during the war, their oppone...
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£59,00
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Sailplane Design A Guide for Students and Designers, from Drafting to Flight Test
ISBN: PB: 9788875650926, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2018
480 pp., 24x17 cm, 200 colour illus.
The book, enterely in English, gives constructors and designers all the necessary notions for building a sailplane. The volume starts with a project phase, passing then to aerodynamic and stability. The Author explains it all with a series of formula...
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£42,50
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After Germanwings The Life of an Airline Pilot
ISBN: PB: 9788875654115, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2018
218 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.
The Germanwings airline disaster, on 24 March 2015, has shaken the public opinion worldwide, since the pilot deliberately crashed his aircraft full of passengers into the French Alps. An analysis of the Germanwings crash is the starting point for the...
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£15,95
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Chaco Air War 1932-35 The First Modern Air War in Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781911512967, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 200 illus.
The Chaco War was probably the first "modern" conflict in Latin America where military aviation was widely used in all roles. Bolivia, as the reader will find out, had a very powerful military air force, but unfortunately for them and luckily for Par...
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£16,00
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101st Airborne in Normandy
ISBN: PB: 9781612005232, Casemate, February 2018
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 illus.
101st Airborne Division was activated in August 1942 in Louisiana, and its first combat mission was Operation Overlord. On D-Day – June 6, 1944 – 101st and 82nd Airborne dropped onto the Cotentin peninsula hours before the landings, tasked with captu...
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£19,00
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EMB-312 Tucano Brazil's Turboprop Success Story
ISBN: PB: 9780997309232, Casemate, Harpia Publishing, February 2018
256 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, colour and black&white illus.
Harpia Publishing is proud to announce the launch of a new title for 2017, EMB-312 Tucano: Brazil's turboprop success story, set to become the definitive English-language reference work on this revolutionary Latin American aerospace product. Written...
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£34,00
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Gerhard Fieseler The Man Behind the Storch
ISBN: HB: 9781911512745, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
324 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos
The Fieseler Storch is the most famous slow-speed aircraft of the Second World War. A remarkably versatile reconnaissance plane, as well as a Nazi showpiece and diplomatic gift – and even, in post-war British hands, a tool in helicopter design – it w...
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£25,00
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