Grub Street Publishing imprint: 157 books
Oswald Boelcke
Germany's First Fighter Ace and Father of Air Combat
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This biography of the pioneering WWI flying ace who mentored the Red Baron is “fascinating . . . [it] captures combat aviation at its inception” (MiG Sweep: The Magazine of Aviation Warriors).
With a total of forty victories, Oswald Boelcke was Germany’s first ace in World War I—and...
by V.M. Yeates
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2004
There is no bitter snarl nor self-pity in this classic novel about the air war of 1914-1918, based very largely on the author's experiences. Combat, loneliness, fatigue, fear, comradeship, women, excitement - all are built into a vigorous and authentic structure by one of the most valiant pilots of the then Royal Flying Corps.
Vulcan Test Pilot My Experiences in the Cockpit of a Cold War Icon
My Experiences in the Cockpit of a Cold War Icon
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
In 2007 a restored Avro Vulcan Mark 2 XH558 took to the skies to help commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. To coincide with this the memoirs of one of its test pilots, Tony Blackman, was published to great acclaim. Now the first book about test flying this monumental delta-wing...
by Norbert Hanning
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004
Herr Norbert Hannings wartime career makes for fascinating and highly informative reading on an aspect of the 1939-45 air war not often covered in the English language; primarily that of the campaign against the Soviet Union. He was one of the midwar-generation Luftwaffe fighter pilots and began operations...
Chasing the Morning Sun: Flying Solo 'Round the World in a Homebuilt Aircraft: The Ultimate Adventure
Flying Solo 'Round the World in a Homebuilt Aircraft: The Ultimate Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Ten years ago Manuel Queiroz declared his intention to fly solo around the world. Having just beaten cancer, he was buoyed by the recent brush with mortality and ready to take on a life-changing goal. Five years ago he fulfilled his ultimate dream and Chasing the Morning Sun is the exhilarating story...
Buffaloes Over Singapore
RAF, RAAF, RNZAF and Dutch Brester Fighters in Action Over Malaya and the East Indies 1941-1942
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
The Brewster B-339 Buffalo received much criticism during its brief service with the RAF, some justified, some not. Some of the pilots who eventually flew it in combat were happy with their mounts, others hated it as an operational fighter. Rightly considered below par for service in the UK, the vast...
To Hell and Back: True Life Experiences of Bomber Command at War
True Life Experiences of Bomber Command at War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Classic stories of gallantry in World War Two. A new edition of Mel Rolfe's successful book containing twenty dramatic but true stories of Bomber Command adventures. Some of them defy belief - like the RAF bomb aimer who was blown out of his Liberator over Warsaw at 400ft without a parachute and made...
Dowding of Fighter Command: Victor of the Battle of Britain
Victor of the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
This, quite simply, is the definitive book on the life of the man who prepared the ground for victory in the Battle of Britain. Without him, Britain and the world would have entered a dark age. Making full use of archival sources and information provided by family members, respected historian Professor Vincent Orange has produced a masterful biography of a truly remarkable man.
D-Day Plus One: Shot Down and on the Run in France
Shot Down and on the Run in France
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
The day after D-Day, the most momentous day of the Second World War, Frank Holland was an RAF pilot whose Typhoon aircraft had just been hit by German anti-aircraft fire during a low flying attack on a marshaling yard in Normandy. He managed to take the aircraft up to 1200 feet but then the engine...
Collecting Colditz
A Unique Pictorial Record of Life Behind the Walls
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Over forty years of research has resulted in this exceptional photographic history of life within Colditz Castle, the infamous Second World War prisoner of war camp in Germany, which housed such illustrious names as Douglas Bader, Lorne Welch, Micky Burns and Jack Best. Michael Booker has accumulated...
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945. Volume 4
Sicily and Italy to the fall of Rome 14 May, 1943 – 5 June, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily...
Black September 1918
WWI’s Darkest Month in the Air
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
The follow-up to Bloody April 1917 continues fifteen months later into World War I. Much had happened over this period. More battles had been fought, won and lost on both sides, but now the American strength was feeding in to France with both men and material. With the mighty push on the French/American...
by Norman Franks, John E Gurdon
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Over and Above was first published in 1919 soon after John Everard Gurdon, aged just twenty, had been invalided out of the RAF following a brief but incident-filled stint as a flyer on the Western Front. Piloting the Bristol F.2b with 22 Squadron, his first victory was on 2 April 1918 and by 13 August...
Gallantry in Action
Airmen Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Two Bars 1918-1955
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
When the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service merged on 1 April 1918, to form the Royal Air Force, the new command needed to have its own gallantry medals to distinguish itself from the Army and the Royal Navy. Thus the new Distinguished Flying Cross came into being. Not that this new...