Pen And Sword Aviation imprint: 304 books
by Martin Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Charged with the formidable task of locating and marking German targets for attack by the main force of Bomber Command, the Path Finder Force - 8 (PFF) Group and those in 5 Group - was perhaps the most experienced and highly trained elite group created within the Royal Air Force during World War II....
Coming Down in the Drink
The Survival of Bomber 'Goldfish', John Brennan DFC
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Coming Down in the Drink is the story of Flight Lieutenant John Brennan DFC. John is an Irishman who need not have fought in the war at all. A sense of adventure took him to London where he trained as a chef before joining the RAF and qualifying as a wireless operator/air gunner. Posted to 148 Squadron...
by Martin W Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Here, Martin Bowman brings us the first book on Operation Varsity to include both British and US air and ground operations, as well as the US, British and Canadian paratroop and resupply missions, all presented together in one ambitious volume.
Operation ‘Varsity-Plunder’, the last large-scale...
Malta Strikes Back
The Role of Malta in the Mediterranean Theatre 1940-1942
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
“The key to our position in the whole Mediterranean lay in Malta.” (Tedder)
Two of the greatest strategic mistakes by Hitler involved failure to take control of two key locations, Gibraltar and Malta; between them these two were able to influence, and at times dominate, the Western Mediterranean...
Horizons
The History of the Air Cadets
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Although the first air cadet unit was raised in Bournmouth in 1928, the first squadrons to be formed in a privately funded national organisation were part of the Air Defence Cadet Corps in 1938. Thousands of youngsters joined and were able to learn about aircraft, aerodynamics, navigation, mechanics...
Camel Combat Ace
The Great War Flying Career of Edwin Swale CBE OBE DFC*
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This work follows the First World War career of Captain (later wing commander) Edwin Swale, CBE DFC and bar, who served with 210 Squadron RAF, piloting Sopwith Camel scouts between March and October 1918. During this timeframe, he destroyed seventeen enemy aircraft, the majority being the formidable...
Night Duel Over Germany
Bomber Command's Battle Over the Reich During WWII
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Bomber Command’s night offensive against Nazi Germany, which lasted for nearly six years, was one of Britain’s major contributions to the Allied effort during the Second World War. But the decision to conduct its main operations at night only came about following heavy losses by day, when its...
by Keith Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The 1970s were an event-filled and action packed decade for the Royal Air Force. Many events are worthy of note and all are recorded here, in words and images. Keith Wilson takes up from where he left off with RAF In Camera 1960s in order to take us on a journey through a particularly significant...
Aces, Airmen and The Biggin Hill Wing
A Collective Memoir 1941 - 1942
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
During the Second World War, RAF Biggin Hill was one of Fighter Command’s premier stations. Throughout the Battle of Britain and beyond, it became a hotbed of talent and expertise, home to many of the Command’s most notable and successful squadrons. Both on the ground and in the air, Biggin Hill...
An Eye in the Sky
The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force Career of Air Commodore Henry George Crowe MC, CBE, CBD (SC)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This is the biography of Henry Crowe whose career encompassed time as an infantryman with the Royal Irish Regiment during the First World War, an observer with the RFC and fledgling RAF, a pilot in Ireland at the time of the Irish War of Independence, a photographic officer and flight commander in...
by Richard Mead
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Sam Elworthy’s career was remarkable by any standards. Born in New Zealand in 1911 and educated in England, he was called to the Bar. After learning to learning to fly he joined the RAAF. During the Second World War he won the DFC, DSO and AFC and, after commanding 82 Squadron, worked closely with...
The Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War
Aircraft and Events as Recorded in Official Documents
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This book makes five original documents relating to the work of Britain's Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) during the First World War readily available to students and historians. To enhance visual interest a large collection of photographs, many hitherto unpublished, has been added. Some of these relate...
The Secret Betrayal of Britain's Wartime Allies
The eppeasement of Stalin and its post-war consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
As a British airman of the Second World War, Jim Auton dropped bombs on enemy targets all over central and eastern Europe. He was also engaged in a number of low flying operations, organised in order to drop containers of explosives and ammunition in an effort to assist groups of partisans in enemy...
Heathrow Airport
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Love it or loathe it, Heathrow is the United Kingdom’s largest and most important airport by a distance. It currently serves over 190 routes to more than 80 countries. Over £100 billion of imports and exports are handled every year, making it the UK’s primary port by value.
This fascinating...