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Top Drawings, No. 32 Focke-Wulf Ta 152 - C-1/H-0/H-1 Models
ISBN: PB: 9788364596988, Casemate, Kagero, February 2017
36 pp., 29.7x21 cm
Not for sale in Poland! The Focke-Wulf Ta 152 was designed as a high altitude fighter, which could engage American heavy bombers and their escorts on equal terms. Work on this aircraft began in 1943 and the design was referred to as Spezial Hohenjن...
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£17,00
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Three in Thirteen The Story of a Mosquito Night Fighter Ace
ISBN: HB: 9781612004402, Casemate, February 2017
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Joe Singleton was an unlikely hero. A junior manager at a paints and varnish company at the outbreak of war, he was surprised to discover he had a hidden talent for flying. Despite RAF Fighter Squadrons crying out for replacements after the carnage o...
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£19,00
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Consolidated B-36 A Visual History of the Convair B-36 "Peacemaker"
ISBN: PB: 9780986112720, Casemate, The Ampersand Group, December 2015
120 pp., 28.8x22.6 cm, 250 illus.
Conceived during WWII, and first flown on 8 August 1946, seven decades later the Convair B-36 remains the largest bomber in the world. The requirements for the aircraft that became the B-36 were born out of concern about the German advances in Europe...
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Mosquito Down! The Extraordinary Memoir of a Second World War Bomber Command Pilot on the Run in Germany and Holland
ISBN: HB: 9780992620721, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, June 2014
208 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Frank Dell's experience as a Second World War pilot with the Royal Air Force's Light Night Striking Force takes an even more dramatic turn when his Mosquito is shot down over Germany on the night of 14/15 October 1944. In Mosquito Down Frank recounts...
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£19,00
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Macchi MC 205 Veltro
ISBN: PB: 9788886815550, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2007
64 pp., 24x17 cm, 22 colour illus., 37 black&white (including three-views and profiles)
Unmissable Italian/English volume that tells the story of the Macchi MC205, the II WW Italian aircraft that was meant to take the place of MC202. Complete and rich of technical details, with coloured photos both wartime and current (the modern shots...
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£9,95
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De Havilland Vampire in Italian Service
ISBN: PB: 9788875650209, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2006
248 pp., 24x17 cm, 60 colour illus., 159 black&white (including three-views and profiles)
Thanks to these aircrafts Italy entered into the jet era. The De Havilland DH.100 Vampire was in fact the second jet engine fighter to be used in service in Great Britain and at the same time the first single-engine jet plane of the type mass-produce...
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£19,95
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Junkers Ju.87 Picchiatello
ISBN: PB: 9788886815581, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2005
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 18 colour illus., 88 black&white (including three-views and profiles)
This Italian publication has a bilingual text and it deals with the Italian Ju 87, a bombing aircraft of the IIWW widely used by the Regia Aeronautica. The text is supplemented with interesting photos, one of which is in World War II vintage colour....
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£15,95
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Fieseler Fi-156 Storch in Italian Service
ISBN: PB: 9788875650650, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2005
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 76 colour illus., 62 black&white (including three-views and profiles)
Among the many aircraft used by Regia Aeronautica units during the II WorldWar, the Fieseler Storch proved to be extremely versatile and higly appreciated by italian crews. Although wide use was also made of the feared Stuka and the powerful Me 109s,...
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£20,95
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North American P/F 51 Mustang in Italian Service
ISBN: PB: 9788875650193, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2004
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 46 colour illus., 80 black&white (including threeviews and profiles)
A bilingual text rich in black & white and colour photographs, colour profiles and an appendix. The book retraces the development and the characteristics of this marvellous fighter, one of the best out of World War II, not only for its effectiveness...
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£15,95
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Macchi MC 200 Saetta, Part 2
ISBN: PB: 9788875650056, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2004
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 38 colour illus., 97 black&white (including three-views and profiles)
The volume starts retracing the role of this fighter during the IIWW. The historical dealing encloses a lot of photographs with commented captions. Particularly interesting is the part eferring to the manufacturing of the Pack model kit Mc 200 (1/48...
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