Hoppa till innehållet
Biblioteket meddelar: OBS! Antalet böcker du kan låna per kalendermånad är 5.

E-böcker / Samhälle & politik


Omslagsbild för Alfie's War
E-bok

Alfie's War

Written in three parts, and as a sequel to Seven Seas, Nine Lives, Richard Pike continues the remarkable experiences of Captain AWF ‘Alfie’ Sutton CBE DSC and bar RN. During events ...


Omslagsbild för Nimrod Rise and Fall
E-bok

Nimrod Rise and Fall

The scrapping of the Nimrod program has been one of the most controversial events in the military aviation world for many a year. For most of its operational life, from 1969 to dat ...


Omslagsbild för Jasta Boelcke
E-bok

Jasta Boelcke

As August drew to a close in 1916, the German Air Service was reeling almost helplessly towards inevitable defeat on the Somme. The Artillery and Feldflieger Abteilungen, the Kampf ...


Omslagsbild för The Lightning Boys
E-bok

The Lightning Boys

According to a recent international study, the Lightning is the fifth most popular military aircraft of all time. It has many thousands of devotees who are a ready market for this ...


Omslagsbild för Richard Hillary
E-bok

Richard Hillary

Richard Hillary was born in Australia in 1919 and brought up in England. Oxford educated, he was a writer foremost who was also a fighter pilot. When World War Two came he joined 6 ...


Omslagsbild för Distant Thunder
E-bok

Distant Thunder

Distant Thunder details the engrossing experiences of a helicopter pilot’s tales of war told through letters that come straight from the heart. Often the author labored well into t ...


Omslagsbild för Under the Guns of the Kaiser's Aces
E-bok

Under the Guns of the Kaiser's Aces

Following their imaginative, popular and successful approach to identifying and describing all the airmen who were claimed by Manfred von Richthofen in Under the Guns of the Red Ba ...


Omslagsbild för Furies and Fireflies over Korea
E-bok

Furies and Fireflies over Korea

With the outbreak of the Korean War, the UN Security Council called on its members to act and 16 nations did, with Britain sending aircraft carriers such as HMS Truimph, from which ...


Omslagsbild för Lancaster Down!
E-bok

Lancaster Down!

The grandfather of the author was a pilot in a squadron made up of Britons and Canadians. The story of this crew, from 1942 onwards, is so special because, collectively, they exper ...


Omslagsbild för Finding the Fallen
E-bok

Finding the Fallen

The logical successor to the highly acclaimed Finding the Few and Finding the Foe, this new work covers a selection of similar mysteries involving missing aircrew and spanning almo ...


Omslagsbild för Wings Around the World
E-bok

Wings Around the World

On May 6, 2003, Polly Vacher took off from Birmingham airport seeking to become the first pilot to complete a solo flight around the world via both Poles in a single-engine aircraf ...


Omslagsbild för Billy Drake, Fighter Leader
E-bok

Billy Drake, Fighter Leader

Born in London of an English father and Australian mother and educated in Switzerland, Billy Drake was to become one of the most illustrious RAF fighter pilots of World War II, ind ...


Omslagsbild för Air Battle for Dunkirk
E-bok

Air Battle for Dunkirk

‘Where is the RAF?’ was the oft-quoted question asked by soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk, to where they had retreated following the German blitzkrieg through northern Fran ...


Omslagsbild för Dieppe: The Greatest Air Battle
E-bok

Dieppe: The Greatest Air Battle

When Canadian troops and British Commandos made their now famous ‘reconnaissance in force’ against the harbor town of Dieppe on 19th August 1942, they were supported and protected ...


Omslagsbild för Heroic Endeavour
E-bok

Heroic Endeavour

It is 23rd December 1944 and a heroic yet dreadful action is about to take place over Cologne, involving the bravest of the brave – The Pathfinder Force. In the log book of one of ...


Omslagsbild för No Place for Chivalry
E-bok

No Place for Chivalry

Night fighting in the air is a devious and clandestine form of mortal combat. In the blackness of night, success goes to the resolute hunter who stalks his prey unseen, and strike ...


Omslagsbild för Special Ops Liberators
E-bok

Special Ops Liberators

The work of the RAF’s 100 Group remains one of the least known aspects of the 1939-45 war. Even less has been written about the specifics of day-to-day electronic warfare operation ...


Omslagsbild för Tempest Pilot
E-bok

Tempest Pilot

Jimmy Sheddan was one of the many New Zealanders who joined the RNZAF, then left his native land to come to England to fight the enemies of Great Britain and her Empire during Worl ...


Omslagsbild för Air War for Burma
E-bok

Air War for Burma

In his monumental work Bloody Shambles, Volume Two, Christopher Shores described in detail the British retreat out of Burma, culminating at the end of May 1942. The monsoon then br ...


Omslagsbild för Tony Blackman Test Pilot
E-bok

Tony Blackman Test Pilot

Tony Blackman OBE, MA FRAeS was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College Cambridge, where he obtained an honors degree in Physics. He learnt to fly in the RAF, trained as a te ...


Omslagsbild för Shot Down in Flames
E-bok

Shot Down in Flames

During the Battle of Britain, Geoffrey Page was shot down into the English Channel, causing him to suffer severe burns. This autobiography tells of his wartime exploits and the eff ...


Omslagsbild för Julius Buckler: Malaula! The Battle Cry of Jasta 17
E-bok

Julius Buckler: Malaula! The Battle Cry of Jasta 17

av

This important work was first published in German in late 1939, no doubt timed to impress the young Luftwaffe fighter pilots who were embarking on the second major air war in histo ...


Omslagsbild för Ship-Busters!
E-bok

Ship-Busters!

Low-level strikes against enemy shipping by torpedo-carrying aircraft were perhaps the most dangerous forms of air attack developed during WWII, and few isolated actions had such a ...


Omslagsbild för Stapme
E-bok

Stapme

Gerald Stapleton was born in Durban, South Africa in 1920. In January 1939 he took up a short service commission in the RAF and eventually joined 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron i ...


Omslagsbild för A Separate Little War
E-bok

A Separate Little War

Every day for nine months from September 1944 to the end of the war, young British, Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff aerodrome in northern Scotland in their Mosqui ...