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Hawker Hunters at War Iraq and Jordan, 1958-1967

Cooper Tom, Salti Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9781911096252, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 113 black&white photos, 12 colour photos, 15 colour profiles

Designed by Sydney Camm as a swept wing, daytime interceptor with excellent manoeuvrability, the Hunter became the first jet aircraft manufactured by Hawker for the Royal Air Force. It set numerous aviation records and saw widespread service with a l...

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Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1: The Victory Years, 1939-1942

Cony Christophe, Roba Jean-Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781612004082, Casemate, October 2016
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 300 colour illus.

This remarkable work pulls the lid off one of the legendary air forces in history at the very peak of its power-unveiling the and machines as they truly existed day-to-day, underneath the propaganda of their own regime and the scare stories of their...

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Green Leader Operation Gatling, the Rhodesian Military's Response to the Viscount Tragedy

Pringle Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781911096726, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
242 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 colour and black&white photos, maps

On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small chi...

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Flying The Icon Spitfire

Cotter Jarrod

ISBN: HB: 9780993212987, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, September 2016
160 pp., 27.9x20.8 cm, 200 illus

The Supermarine Spitfire is not only one of the most famous British icons, but it is arguably the most widely-recognised and popular aircraft in the history of aviation. For many generations it was said to be "every schoolboy's dream" to fly a Spitfi...

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Biography & Memoires

Aviation

Ruddy Awful Waste Eric Lock DSO, DFC & Bar: The Brief Life of a Battle of Britain Ace

Brew Steve, Bradbury Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780993415234, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, August 2016
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 illus.

In early 1939, 19-year-old Salopian Eric Lock joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve to fulfil his dream of flying. Within eighteen months, he found himself pitted against one of the largest air forces in the world, fighting for the survival of his homelan...

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ETA A Bomber Command Navigator Shot Down and on the Run

Mellor Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780993415258, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, August 2016
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

Gordon Mellor served as a navigator with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, and ETA is the first-hand account of a conflict that tests not only his initiative and resilience, but also the ability to survive amidst the extreme dangers of...

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Technology & Engineering

Sailplane Design Example Design - Calculation Example - Structural Dimensioning

Pajno Vittorio

ISBN: PB: 9788875652579, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2016
316 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.

A book nearly all photographic with an English text, dealing with military fighting aircrafts this time, also analyzing the use of fighters in the immediate after war. Each photo has a technical and descriptional dossier. A review of 406 photos of ma...

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Eyes All Over the Sky Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War

Streckfuss James

ISBN: HB: 9781612003672, Casemate, June 2016
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

After the first successful flight by the Wright brothers in 1903, the age of aviation was born, and by 1910 army commanders in the United States and Europe began ordering aircraft and experimenting with them. But at the outbreak of World War I in 191...

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Black Hawks Rising The Story of AMISOM's Successful War against Somali Insurgents, 2007-2014

Oloya Opiyo

ISBN: HB: 9781910777695, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
286 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Black Hawks Rising – the title of this book – acknowledges the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peace-makin...

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Flashpoint China Chinese Air Power and the Regional Balance

Rupprecht Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780985455484, Casemate, Harpia Publishing, May 2016
80 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, colour and black&white illus.

From the South China Sea to the mountains of Nepal, the continued economic rise of the People's Republic of China has led to a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the region. As a result, the relationship between China and its neighbours, as we...

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