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Product Description: Roy Nesbit’s highly illustrated history of Coastal Command’s 217 Squadron – the squadron in which he served – gives a firsthand insight into the hazardous low-level missions the squadron flew against enemy shipping and ports during the Second World War...read more

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9781473823280 | Pen & Sword, November 19, 2014, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Roy Nesbit’s highly illustrated history of Coastal Command’s 217 Squadron – the squadron in which he served – gives a firsthand insight into the hazardous low-level missions the squadron flew against enemy shipping and ports during the Second World War.

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Product Description: In 1942 a Catalina crew of 219 Squadron, based in the Shetlands, was selected to carry out a series of top secret operations, including a flight to the North Pole. They were made at the same time as a Norwegian expedition to Spitzbergen to keep the Germans out of the area...read more

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9781862272910 | New edition (Spellmount Ltd Pub, July 19, 2005), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An illustrated, book detailing the experiences of the British air crew as they carried out secret operations including a trip to the North Pole, and their later exploits, all carefully researched and including accounts from German sources and survivors of the crew.

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9780750954693 | Spellmount Ltd Pub, June 1, 2014, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In 1942 a Catalina crew of 219 Squadron, based in the Shetlands, was selected to carry out a series of top secret operations, including a flight to the North Pole.

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Product Description: In November 1942, the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended and seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germany’s vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine...read more

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9781781590287 | Pen & Sword, January 19, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In November 1942, the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended and seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germany’s vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine.

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Product Description: The uncertain fates of Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson and Glenn Miller have fascinated readers and aviation historians ever since they disappeared. Even today, more than half a century after their final flights, what happened to them is still the subject of speculation, conspiracy theory and controversy...read more

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9781848843196, titled "Missing Believed Killed: Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Glenn Miller & The Duke of Kent" | Pen & Sword, October 6, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The uncertain fates of Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson and Glenn Miller have fascinated readers and aviation historians ever since they disappeared.

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This is a picture-led narrative, drawing on a range of private and museum sources to illustrate the course of the Battle of Britain. Rather than concentrate solely on the exploits of RAF Fighter Command, the author's narrative tells the wider story of the battle.

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9780750923774 | Reprint edition (Sutton Pub Ltd, September 1, 2000), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Roy Conyers Nesbit not only describes the exploits of RAF Fighter Command and the German Liftwaffe, but he also tells the wider story of the battle--the contributions made to victory by RAF Bomber and Coastal Commands.

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9780750938853 | New edition (Sutton Pub Ltd, September 17, 2004), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This is a picture-led narrative, drawing on a range of private and museum sources to illustrate the course of the Battle of Britain.

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Product Description: Roy Nesbit brings to bear all the insight gained from his flying experience and his skill as a aviation historian as he investigates the wartime disappearances he describes in this haunting book. In vivid detail he retells the stories of two of the best-known disappearances - the pioneering aviator and renowned author Antoine Saint-Exupe'ry and the photo-reconnaissance ace Adrian Warburton...read more

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9781844158225 | Pen & Sword, June 19, 2009, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Roy Nesbit brings to bear all the insight gained from his flying experience and his skill as a aviation historian as he investigates the wartime disappearances he describes in this haunting book.

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Why did Hess fly to Scotland? Had Hitler authorized him to attempt to negotiate peace? Was British Intelligence involved? What was his state of mind at the time? Drawing on a variety of archive and eyewitness sources in Britain, Germany and the USA, this work is an objective assessment of the Hess' story.

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9780750923866 | Sutton Pub Ltd, April 1, 2000, cover price $34.95

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9780750947572 | New edition (Trafalgar Square, May 1, 2007), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Why did Hess fly to Scotland?
9780750931854 | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 2003, cover price $12.95

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Roy Conyers Nesbit has assembled a selection of some 400 photographs and illustrations to tell the story of the great battle for Europe following the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.

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9780750933162 | Sutton Pub Ltd, August 3, 2004, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: Roy Conyers Nesbit has assembled a selection of some 400 photographs and illustrations to tell the story of the great battle for Europe following the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.

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Product Description: RAF air photography has come a long way from faltering beginnings over the trenches of the Western Front during the First World War, when unwieldy plate cameras were fixed on the cockpit sides of Royal Aircraft Factory BE2 biplanes...read more

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9780750911306 | Sutton Pub Ltd, April 1, 1996, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: It became apparent very early on during World War I that aerial photo-reconnaissance and photo-interpretation would become essential tools for British intelligence.

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9780750932561, titled "The Eyes of the Raf: A History of Photo-Reconnaissance" | Sutton Pub Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: RAF air photography has come a long way from faltering beginnings over the trenches of the Western Front during the First World War, when unwieldy plate cameras were fixed on the cockpit sides of Royal Aircraft Factory BE2 biplanes.
9780750917292 | Sutton Pub Ltd, April 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Photo-reconnaissance has come a long way from its faltering beginnings over the trenches of the Western Front during World War I, when unwieldy plate cameras were held over the cockpit sides of RFC BE2a biplanes.

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9780750930031 | Sutton Pub Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: This comprehensive and fully illustrated history of the RAF is surely an achievement that few, if any, other books, have been able to match. From the early day of balloons and experimental flying machines, through two world wars, international incidents for the 'Cold War' to the Falklands campaign and beyond, this outstanding volume, two years in the making, follows the development of the Royal Air Force right up to the present day...read more

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9781840652857 | Salamander Books Ltd, June 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This comprehensive and fully illustrated history of the RAF is surely an achievement that few, if any, other books, have been able to match.
9781841002484 | Quadrillion Pub, August 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This comprehensive and fully illustrated history of the RAF is surely an achievement that few, if any, other books, have been able to match.

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9781902304052, titled "Britain's Rebel Air Force: The War from the Air in Rhodesia 1965-1980" | Grub Street the Basement, January 1, 1999, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: In the first 80 years of its existence as an independent air arm the Royal Air Force has gained major achievements in both war and peace. To mark the 80th anniversary of its formation in 1998, aviation author Roy Conyers Nesbit has written this illustrated history of Britain's "junior" service...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780750919494 | Illustrate edition (Sutton Pub Ltd, September 1, 1998), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In the first 80 years of its existence as an independent air arm the Royal Air Force has gained major achievements in both war and peace.

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Product Description: The story of RAF's lesser-known squadrons that enforced the shipping blockade around Germany.

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9780117726871 | The Stationery Office/Tso, May 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The story of RAF's lesser-known squadrons that enforced the shipping blockade around Germany.

Retells the story of the Royal Air Force, from the early days of balloons and experimental flying machines, through the two World Wars, to the Falklands campaign

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9780517033791 | Military Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Retells the story of the Royal Air Force, from the early days of balloons and experimental flying machines, through the two World Wars, to the Falklands campaign

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