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ROYAL AIR FORCE FIGHTER COMMAND LOSSES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR VOLUME 2
Written by Norman L.R. Franks.
Stock no. 1825979
Published by Midland Publishing. 1st 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1942-1943. Blue cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 1857800753. Very light foxing to text block. Spine slightly faded. Contents clean.

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TORPEDO AIRMEN: MISSIONS WITH BRISTOL BEAUFORTS 1940-42
Written by Roy Conyers Nesbit.
Stock no. 1825975
Published by William Kimber. 1st 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The vivid stories of a suicidal attack on the Schamorst, a night-time torpedo attack on Cherbourg, the winning of a Victoria Cross, a dramatic episode in the 'Channel Dash', the strange events that followed the death of a Commanding Officer, the sinking of an Italian Cruiser, the sky-jacking of an enemy aircraft and a forced landing in the middle of a battle in North Africa. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0718303695. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a small closed tear to lower edge of front flap fold and is scuffed to rear panel.

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FLEET AIR ARM AIRCRAFT 1939-1945
Written by Ray Sturtivant; Mick Burrow.
Stock no. 1825955
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 1995. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0851302327. Boards lightly scuffed, spine faded from dark blue to light blue (not obvious as fading). Text block browned, contents clean.

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SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE CRASH LOG (2 VOLUMES)
Written by David J. Smith.
Stock no. 1825906
Very good condition.

Volume 1: 1938-1942; Volume 2: 1943-1947. Large format. White cardwraps with blue titles. Stapled binding. Covers are a little grubby, small stain to rear cover of volume 1. Contents clean.

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MILES AIRCRAFT: THE WARTIME YEARS 1939-1945 (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Peter Amos.
Stock no. 1825900
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 2012. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Phillips & Powis Aircraft Ltd / Miles Aircraft Ltd, Reading, South Marston & Doncaster, and Miles Aircraft (Northern Ireland) Ltd. Continuing the story with the trials and tribulations of Miles Aircraft during the war. Contains a fully comprehensive history of each individual aircraft built during the period. Large format. Green glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and illustrations. Includes The Appendices in cardwraps. ISBN: 9780851304304. DVD is MISSING. Else contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at corners and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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THE HAWKER TYPHOON AND TEMPEST
Written by Francis K. Mason.
Stock no. 1825898
Published by Aston Publications. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Foreword by Wing Commander R.P. Beamont. ISBN: 0946627193. Tiny nick in cloth to lower edge of boards. Text block browned, foxing to top edge. A little foxing to page margins. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased, worn to top front corner, and lightly faded to spine.

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THE GREATEST SQUADRON OF THEM ALL (2 VOLUMES)
Written by David Ross; Bruce Blanche; Bill Simpson.
Stock no. 1825886
Published by Grub Street. 1st 2003. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The Definitive History of 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron, RAUXAF. Volume One covers Formation to the end of 1940. Volume Two Covers 1941 to date. B/w photos. A lovely set.

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MOSQUITO THUNDER: No. 105 SQUADRON RAF AT WAR 1942-5
Written by Stuart R. Scott.
Stock no. 1825881
Published by Sutton Publishing. 1st 1999. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

True account of the heroic exploits of this famous bomber squadron between 1942 and 1945. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 212 pages. B/w photos. Foreword by Air Marshall Sir Ivor Broom. ISBN: 0750918004. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased across top edge and is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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MARY AND RICHARD: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE AND WAR
Written by Michael Burn.
Stock no. 1825876
Published by Arbor House; William Morrow. 1st USA 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biography of Mary Booker and Richard Hillary. The story of one man's late wife's love for another man. Red cltoh spine with gilt title, grey paper boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 155710042X. Foxing to text block and minor foxing to prelims. Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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BOMBING GERMANY: THE FINAL PHASE
Written by Tony Redding.
Stock no. 1825869
Published by Pen & Sword Aviation. 1st 2015. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The destruction of Pforzheim and the closing months of Bomber Command's War. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781473823549. Light scuffing to rear panel of dustwrapper.

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AUSCHWITZ AND THE ALLIES
Written by Martin Gilbert.
Stock no. 1825867
Published by Pimlico. 1st thus 2001. Nearly fine condition.

When Hitler announced the 'complete annihilation of the Jews in 1942, the Allies heard but, astonishingly, they did not listen. In 1944, Allied reconnaissance pilots repeatedly photographed Auschwitz, these were overlooked by the Allies and routinely filed in government archives and not examined until 1979. Churchill himself ordered feasibility studies for air strikes on Auschwitz, the RAF did nothing, eventually they passed the buck to the Americans, who also did nothing. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0712668063. A lovely copy.

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DEFENDING THE REICH: THE HISTORY OF JAGDGESCHWADER 1 "OESAU"
Written by Eric Mombeek.
Stock no. 1825856
Published by Jac Publications. 1st 1992. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Red glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos throughout. 332 pages. ISBN: 0951573713. Top edge of text block slightly browned. Minor mark to lower front edge of boards. Contents clean. A few minor grubby marks to rear panel of dustwrapper.

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