Grub Street Publishing: 196 books
Furies and Fireflies over Korea
The Story of the Men and Machines of the Fleet Air Arm, RAF and Commonwealth who Defended South Korea, 1950 - 1953
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
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 piston engined Sea Fury fighters and Fairey Firefly fighter-bombers operated.
This is the story of the British...
Aces High
A Further Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Air Forces in WWII, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
This volume updates the information in the first volume and adds some new names. Information has been added on the pilots who gained success against the V-1 flying bombs during 1944-45. Detail is also provided on those units in which virtually all the fighter pilots served at some time or another...
Footprints on the Sands of Time
RAF Bomber Command Prisoners-of-War in Germany 1939 - 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
This extensive book is divided into two parts. The first, which has eighteen chapters, deals with German POW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command POWs were sent. Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps - capture, escape, illness,...
Most Secret Squadron
The First Full Story of 618 Squadron and its Special Detachment Anti-U-Boat Mosquitos
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Des Curtis was one of the founder members of 618 Squadron. Formed within days of the illustrious 617, 618’s primary objective was to mount a daylight low-level attack by Mosquitos on the German battleship Tirpitz within hours of the attack on the Ruhr dams. The operation, code named Operation Servant,...
by Steve Darlow
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Churchill’s ‘Few’ will forever be remembered by history as men who thwarted the seemingly invincible German war machine, when all seemed lost. They countered the full force of the Luftwaffe in the daylight battles during the summer of 1940, and in the night skies of the winter and spring of...
by Patrick Gibbs, DSO, DFC & bar
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
A WWII wing commander’s “adrenaline-charged account of torpedo attacks a few feet above the sea” (The Daily Telegraph).
In this vivid and very personal story, written during World War II at the height of action, Patrick Gibbs expresses the frustrations, triumphs, and disasters he experienced...
Battle of Heligoland Bight 1939
The Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe's Baptism of Fire
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The story of the first British bombing raid of the Second World War, of why Bomber Command flew by night and of the Wellington Mk.1A are all closely linked together. It is a story of the stone age of strategic bombing.
On the 4th of September 1939 Squadron Leader Paul Harris led 149 Squadron...
Aces High
A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces of WWII, Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
A revised collection of the biographies of the highest scoring Allied fighter pilots of World War II. All details of their combat are arranged in tabular form. Included are a selection of photographs from hitherto private collections.
by Christopher Shores, Brian Cull
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
The air battle for Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war. In the past, there has been much controversy amongst air historians on many of the details of the operations. It was here, for example, that "Pat" Pattie believed by many to be the Royal...
BEYOND COURAGE
Air Sea Rescue by Walrus Squadrons in the Adriatic, Mediterranean and Tyrrhenian Seas 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2003
This new book covers the adventures of 283, 284, 293 and 294 Walrus Squadrons, operating from North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Sardinia.
The pilots, like their counterparts in England, knew of the dangers of landing on the sea. It was a daunting task attempting to rescue downed airmen as they...
Coastal Dawn
Blenheims in Action from the Phoney War through the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In 1940, the defense of Great Britain rested with a handful of volunteer aircrew, Churchill’s ‘few’. Overshadowed in later folklore by the more famous Spitfire and Hurricane pilots, there were other pilots, observers and air gunners – just as courageous – flying the Bristol Blenheim MKIV-F....
The Sowreys
A Unique and Remarkable Record of One Family's Sixty-Five Years of Distinguished RAF Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
A fascinating look into the extraordinary history of the Sowrey family; an RAF dynasty whose service spans the first sixty-five years of the RAF’s existence.
Members fought in both world wars and five of the Sowreys were awarded the Air Force Cross, amongst their other numerous decorations....
Forever Vigilant
Naval 8/208 Squadron RAF – A Centenary of Service from Camels to Hawks
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
208 Squadron based at RAF Valley in Anglesey will be celebrating its 100th anniversary in October 2016, making it one of the few RAF squadrons to achieve this unique distinction whilst still part of the RAF’s current order of battle. To celebrate this achievement, Air Commodore Pitchfork has compiled...
Special Ops Liberators
223 (Bomber Support) Squadron, 100 Group, and the Electronic War
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
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 operations and the countermeasures employed. This book, the result of many years meticulous research by Squadron Leader Richard...