Pen Sword Aviation imprint: 311 books
6 Group Bomber Command
An Operational Record
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
6 Group was born out of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), which, among other things called for the formation of 25 Canadian Squadrons in Britain. This figure was later downsized. The Canadian vision was of a Canadian force operating independently alongside Bomber Command in the manner...
Panavia Tornado
Strike, Anti-ship, Air Superiority, Air Defence, Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare Fighter-bomber
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The Tornado has been the backbone of the RAF within its many different theaters of operation. The aircraft started as a European venture between Germany, Italy and the UK, based on the original swing-wing technology invented by Barnes-Wallis. It has also been successfully exported to several Middle-Eastern...
One of Churchill's Own
The Memoirs of Battle of Britain Ace John Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
John Greenwood was born in East London on 3 April 1921. At the age of eighteen, in February 1939, he forged his father’s signature and joined the RAF on a short service commission. Seven months later, Britain declared war on Germany and 253 Squadron was formed. In May 1940, John and his fellow pilots...
by Martin W Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The Phantom was developed for the US Navy as a long-range all-weather fighter and first flew in May 1958, before becoming operational in 1961. The US Air Force then realized that the Navy had an aircraft that was far better than any tactical aircraft in their inventory and ordered 543 F-4C variants....
by Malcolm Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Following in the same style as his previous book of Fleet Air Arm recollections, Malcolm Smith has collected a compendium of reminiscences from pilots who flew for the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines during the First World War. He includes first-hand testimonies from pilots manning early seaplane...
Twin Mustang
The North American F-82 at War
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
One of the most unusual and remarkable American fighter aircraft, the F-82 Twin Mustang was the last mass production propeller-driven fighter acquired by the U.S. Air Force. Originally intended as a very long-range fighter escort for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress during World War II, it arrived too...
Avro Lancaster 1945-1965
In British, Canadian and French Military Service
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The Avro Lancaster, such a stalwart of the skies during the Second World War, also enjoyed an interesting and surprisingly colourful post-war career. It is this era that the authors have chosen to focus on by profiling the type across its many variants.
Split into three primary sections, this...
Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz
Rare photographs from wartime archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and Blitz will comprise of some 140-150 images of the work of RAF and civilian salvage squads during the Battle of Britain, the Blitz and beyond. The images will depict losses across Britain, both RAF and German, during this period. Each picture will tell...
by Don Berliner
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This final volume in the three-volume set covering more than 300 types of Surviving World War II aircraft includes the less-glamorous ones that couldn't qualify for two volumes on Fighters and Bombers. They were the ones that served absolutely vital purposes like the Army's Jeeps and trucks and the...
by Paul McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta's survival in the Second World War. It was a battle which decided the outcome of the war in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Adrian Warburton, the airman described in the subtitle by Marshal of the Royal...
Battle of Britain
Airfields of 11 Group
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
The Royal Air Force's 11 Group played a leading role in the Battle of Britain. It included the airfields at Tangmere, Westhampnett, Kenley, Croydon, Biggin Hill, West Malling, Horchurch, Hawkinge, Gravesend, Manston, Rochford, North Weald, Martlesham Heath, Stapleford Tawney, Debden and Northolt....
Stirlings in Action With the Airborne Forces
Air Support to Special Forces and the SAS During WW11
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
This is the history of two RAF squadrons who shared many tasks during WWII. Although there was a healthy rivalry between personnel serving on 190 and 620 Squadrons, there was also a deep sense of camaraderie that forged bonds between them.
by Martin W Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
This new volume from Martin Bowman examines the closing years of the Second World War, as the tide turned against the German and Axis forces. It includes riveting first-hand accounts from German fighter pilots caught up in some of the most dramatic night time conflicts of the latter war years.
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The Royal Air Force: An Encyclopedia of the Inter-War Years
The Trenchard Years 1918 - 1929
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
The inter-war years between 1918 and 1939 saw the newly created Royal Air Force fighting for its very existence politically, being dispatched to the remotest corners of the British Empire and its Protectorates in various policing roles and then finally engaged in a headlong rush to modernize in the...