THE STIRLING STORY
Written by Michael J.F. Bowyer
Published by Crecy Publishing Limited
in 2002
ISBN: 0947554912
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- MILITARY
- MILITARY VEHICLES
- WORLD WAR II
THE STIRLING STORY
Written by Michael J.F. Bowyer.
Stock no. 1329459
1st.
2002.
Hardback.
Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.
The full history of Britain's first four-engined bomber of the Second World War. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and drawings. ISBN: 0947554912. A super copy, looks unread.
Front cover
Contents
- Glossary and Abbreviations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Remember the Stirling?
- Chapter One: Origins
- Chapter Two: Appraisal and Refinement
- Chapter Three: On Trial
- Chapter Four: Into the Grand Ring
- Chapter Five: Let Battle Begin
- Chapter Six: Temptation
- Chapter Seven: A Steady Increase
- Chapter Eight: Super Stirling
- Chapter Nine: All Change
- Chapter Ten: Lighting the Way Ahead
- Chapter Eleven: Behold - the Long Awaited
- Chapter Twelve: Fire Raiser
- Chapter Thirteen: The Way Ahead
- Chapter Fourteen: '...and mines were laid in enemy waters'
- Chapter Fifteen: Bomber Finale; Stirlings in Profile
- Chapter Sixteen: Operational Miscellany
- Chapter Seventeen: To Lift and Deliver
- Chapter Eighteen: Enter the Stirling Transport
- Chapter Nineteen: Adventure over Arnhem
- Chapter Twenty: Over the Rhine to Victory
- Chapter Twenty-one: Passenger and Freight
- Appendices x11
- Index