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Letters from a Lancaster Gunner

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The riveting and heart-breaking story of a young Lancaster gunner told through his original letters home.(1942-1943).

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Home Front: Alfred T. Palmer’s WWII Photography

SA-Führer: The Senior Leadership of Hitler’s Storm Troops (Volume 2)

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RAF Coningsby in the Second World War

The Air National Guard: The Early Years, 1946–1965

First World War Aircraft in Scale: Scratchbuilding in 1/144 Scale

Aircraft Modelling: Conversions, Scratchbuilding, and Superdetailing

Fascist Italy at War: 1939–1943

The Messerschmitt Bf 110 Story

The 28th Infantry Division and the Battle of the Bulge

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Hawker Hunter: A Classic British Jet Fighter

The William E. Boeing Story: A Gift of Flight

Ultimate Allied Fighters of the Second World War

Scharnhorst and Gneisenau

John Cunningham: Second World War Night Fighter Ace and Test Pilot

The Road to Auschwitz: The Deportation of the Slovak Jews by the Hlinka Guard

Arnhem Umbrella: Major Digby Tatham Warter DSO

Crushing the Japanese Surface Fleet at the Battle of the Surigao Strait

The Complete Knight's Cross - Volume Three: The Years of Defeat 1944-1945

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RSHA: Reich Security Main Office – Organisation, Activities, Personnel

RAF and USAAF Airfields in the UK

Silent Invaders: Combat Gliders of the Second World War (paperback edition)

Skalski Against all Odds: The First Allied Ace of the Second World War (paperback edition)

Rodolfo Graziani: Story of an Italian General

The Complete Knight's Cross - Volume Two: The Years of Stalemate 1942-1943

Gotha Aircraft: From the London Bomber to the Flying Wing Jet Fighter

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RAF Bomber Command: 'Strike Hard, Strike Sure' 1936-1945

Goldfish Caterpillars & Guinea Pigs: Accounts of Pilots and Air Crews from World War II (paperback edition)

American Aircraft Development World War Two Legacy: 1945-1953 and The Korean War

Panzersoldaten! Italian Blackshirt Division of the Eastern Front 1941-1943

The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich: 1933-1939

Operation Mallory Major from Below: Women and Men Under a Hailstorm of Bombs

Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History

Macchi C.202 Folgore: Italy’s Best Fighter of the Second World War

Soviet Fighters of the Second World War

Japanese Tanks and Armoured Warfare: 1932-45 A Military and Political History

Fighters of the Dying Sun: The Most Advanced Japanese Fighters of the Second World War

The Complete Knight's Cross - Volume One: The Years of Victory 1939-1941

Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies Volume 3

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The Extraordinary Life of Mike Cumberlege SOE

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We’ve All Life Before Us: A Love Story of the Second World War

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Letters from a Lancaster Gunner

Arnhem Umbrella: Major Digby Tatham Warter DSO

The Extraordinary Life of Mike Cumberlege SOE

We’ve All Life Before Us: A Love Story of the Second World War

A Short Thousand Years: A Childhood in the Third Reich

Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis - The Most Remarkable Spy of The Second World War

Skalski Against all Odds: The First Allied Ace of the Second World War (paperback edition)

Autogiro Pioneer: The Life of Jack Richardson

Night Hawk: Flight Lieutenant Karel Kuttelwascher DFC and BAR, the RAF’s Greatest Night Intruder Ace

John Cunningham: Second World War Night Fighter Ace and Test Pilot

The Diary of Sonny Ormrod DFC: Malta Fighter Ace

A Short Thousand Years: A Childhood in the Third Reich - available now from Fonthill Media

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A Short Thousand Years: A Childhood in the Third Reich

The true story of the Second World War and peace in a Westphalian village as seen through the eyes of a child.

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Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis - The Most Remarkable Spy of The Second World War

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Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis - The Most Remarkable Spy of The Second World War

The untold story of the war’s only quintuple spy. Working for Britain and Russia, he defrauded the Nazis of £2.5 million.

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Skalski Against all Odds: The First Allied Ace of the Second World War (paperback edition)

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Skalski Against all Odds: The First Allied Ace of the Second World War (paperback edition)

The gripping history of a fighter pilot who fought with the RAF and was nearly executed upon his return to Poland.

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Night Hawk: Flight Lieutenant Karel Kuttelwascher DFC and BAR, the RAF’s Greatest Night Intruder Ace

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Night Hawk: Flight Lieutenant Karel Kuttelwascher DFC and BAR, the RAF’s Greatest Night Intruder Ace

The biography of the RAF’s greatest night intruder ace by a family member with unique access to his personal records.

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John Cunningham: Second World War Night Fighter Ace and Test Pilot

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John Cunningham: Second World War Night Fighter Ace and Test Pilot

A comprehensive record of John Cunningham’s achievements in Second World War combat and pioneering jet airliner development.

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The Avro Shackleton: The Long-Serving 'Growler'

Soviet Bombers of the Second World War

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The Fairey Battle: A Reassessment of its RAF Career

Hawker Hurricane: The Multirole Fighter

Rare Birds: Forgotten Aircraft of the Second World War

Messerschmitt Bf 109: The Design and Operational History

RAF Liberators Over Burma: Flying With 159 Squadron

Tupolev Tu-2: The Forgotten Medium Bomber

Ultimate Allied Fighters of the Second World War

John Cunningham: Second World War Night Fighter Ace and Test Pilot

Silent Invaders: Combat Gliders of the Second World War (paperback edition)

Hawker Hunter: A Classic British Jet Fighter

The Messerschmitt 210/410 Story

Gotha Aircraft: From the London Bomber to the Flying Wing Jet Fighter

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RAF Bomber Command: 'Strike Hard, Strike Sure' 1936-1945

Goldfish Caterpillars & Guinea Pigs: Accounts of Pilots and Air Crews from World War II (paperback edition)

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Soviet Fighters of the Second World War

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806 Naval Air Squadron: The FAA’s Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron of the Second World War

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Blenheims Over Greece and Crete 1940-1941 (paperback edition)

Flying into the Storm: RAF Bombers at War 1939-1942

History of the de Havilland Vampire (paperback edition)

Battle for the Channel: The First Month of the Battle of Britain 10 July-10 August 1940

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The Diary of Sonny Ormrod DFC: Malta Fighter Ace

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The Diary of Sonny Ormrod DFC: Malta Fighter Ace

The complete story of Sonny Ormrod’s period of aerial combat over Malta. His was one of many young lives lost in the effort to safeguard Malta, and he was there when only Hurricanes were available to combat the Luftwaffe’s onslaught.

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