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Product Description: Summer 1940, Britain is on the brink, a mere 2000 or so RAF fighter pilots stand between Hitler's Luftwaffe and air supremacy over the skies of southern England - the prerequisite for a German invasion.What was it like to fly a Spitfire? To shoot down a German bomber over London? Or to be shot down by the closely matched Messerschmittt 109? This short illustrated account of daily life in August and September 1940 is the ideal introduction to the story of the Battle of Britain...read more
By Hannah Holman (editor)

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9781445644684 | Amberley Pub Plc, August 1, 2015, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Summer 1940, Britain is on the brink, a mere 2000 or so RAF fighter pilots stand between Hitler's Luftwaffe and air supremacy over the skies of southern England - the prerequisite for a German invasion.

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Product Description: The story of Douglas Bader, the RAF fighter pilot who shot down twenty enemy fighters during the Second World War despite having lost both his legs, defies fiction. A fighter ace and highly decorated war hero, he became a household name in the 1950s thanks to the best selling book and blockbuster film Reach for the Sky, which charted his wartime exploits...read more

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9781445638195 | Amberley Pub Plc, February 19, 2015, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The story of Douglas Bader, the RAF fighter pilot who shot down twenty enemy fighters during the Second World War despite having lost both his legs, defies fiction.

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Product Description: What Manfred von Richthofen was to Germany, Albert Ball was to Great Britain: each, at the time, was the star turn of his country and Richthofen would describe Ball as ‘by far the best English flying man’. When Ball was killed in May 1917, during a dogfight with Richthofen’s Jasta 11, his body was buried with full military honors, and when the death was announced it was international news...read more

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9781445622361 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, June 19, 2014, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: What Manfred von Richthofen was to Germany, Albert Ball was to Great Britain: each, at the time, was the star turn of his country and Richthofen would describe Ball as ‘by far the best English flying man’.

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By Samuel Hynes (introduced by)

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9780143107347 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, May 27, 2014), cover price $16.00

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9781780962924 | Osprey Pub Co, September 17, 2013, cover price $22.95

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9781445612768 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, May 19, 2013, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: Paul McDonald is a former RAF fast-jet pilot whose flying career spanned 34 years. He is not a typical senior RAF officer having been brought up on a council estate in a bleak northern industrial town. He became a pilot by accident and struggled to gain his wings...read more

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9781848847484 | Pen & Sword, December 19, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Paul McDonald is a former RAF fast-jet pilot whose flying career spanned 34 years.

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Product Description: The Battle of Britain: Portraits of the Few is an exceptional tribute to the small group of legendary pilots that served with the Royal Air Force through one of the most critical periods of the Second World War. Portraits of the Few contains over 60 color illustrations, capturing the images and character of the military aviators who were designated the ‘Few’ by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill...read more
By Geoffrey Wellum (foreword by)

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9780956269645 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, July 5, 2012, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: The Battle of Britain: Portraits of the Few is an exceptional tribute to the small group of legendary pilots that served with the Royal Air Force through one of the most critical periods of the Second World War.

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Product Description: This is the autobiography of Group Captain Sir Hugh Dundas CBE, DSO, DFC, who was one of the most distinguished fighter pilots of World War II. He writes of his wartime experiences, and particularly of his period as Squadron Leader and Wing Commander and his involvement in the Battle of Britain...read more

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9781848844421 | Pen & Sword, July 19, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is the autobiography of Group Captain Sir Hugh Dundas CBE, DSO, DFC, who was one of the most distinguished fighter pilots of World War II.

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9781849086646 | Osprey Pub Co, May 22, 2012, cover price $22.95
9781849083454 | Osprey Pub Co, July 19, 2011, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: • Over 100 historic photographs most previously unpublished from veterans own personal collections. • ‘A new and excellent book. Sarkar has, for many years, interviewed veterans and analyzed the records of the air war in WW2...read more

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9781445600420 | Amberley Pub Plc, April 19, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Spitfire fighter pilots tell their extraordinary stories of combat during the Second World War.
9780195066807, titled "Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes" | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | also contains Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes | About this edition: Focusing on four major cases--the Rideout marital rape, the Preppy Murder case, the New Bedford gang rape, and the Central Park jogger case--the author critiques print journalism's coverage of sex crimes.

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9781445606958 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, July 19, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: • Over 100 historic photographs most previously unpublished from veterans own personal collections.

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Product Description: The remarkable Battle of Britain experiences of fighter pilot John Simpson, DFC, who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the epic air battle. Written by 43 Squadron's intelligence officer, Hector Bolitho, Finest of the Few revolves around Bolitho's friend, fighter ace John W...read more

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9781445600574 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, April 19, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The remarkable Battle of Britain experiences of fighter pilot John Simpson, DFC, who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the epic air battle.

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Product Description: This is the autobiography of an outstanding fighter pilot during his twenty year career with the Royal Air Force. Tony Doyle first flew when in the CCF where he completed a glider course and then a highly-prized Flying Scholarship...read more

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9781848843660 | Pen & Sword, March 19, 2011, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This is the autobiography of an outstanding fighter pilot during his twenty year career with the Royal Air Force.

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Product Description: Following training ‘Hawkeye’ Lee received his commission and was posted to 501 Squadron which was sent to support the Expeditionary Force in France, arriving on 10 May, only hours after the Blitzkrieg had been launched. Lee quickly opened his score, claiming several bombers during the first week of operations...read more

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9781848841468 | Pen & Sword, March 19, 2011, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Following training ‘Hawkeye’ Lee received his commission and was posted to 501 Squadron which was sent to support the Expeditionary Force in France, arriving on 10 May, only hours after the Blitzkrieg had been launched.

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Product Description: Brian Cull’s careful research provides a rare and unique insight into a forgotten RAF fighter ace: Squadron Leader Bill ‘Cherry’ Vale DFC, AFC (1914–81). Vale was one of the RAF’s top ten fighter aces of the Second World War, but surprisingly there is no published biography about him...read more

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9781844256570, titled "Gladiator Ace: Bill Cherry Vale, the RAF's Forgotten Fighter Ace" | Haynes Pubns, July 15, 2010, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Brian Cull’s careful research provides a rare and unique insight into a forgotten RAF fighter ace: Squadron Leader Bill ‘Cherry’ Vale DFC, AFC (1914–81).

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Product Description: ‘Classic . . . the definitive account of aerial combat – full of passion and poetry’ – Max Arthur, Independent ‘Magical evocation of the lonely battle fought in the clouds’ – The Daily Telegraph ‘This is a book everyone should read...read more

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9781853671432 | Reissue edition (Presidio Pr, May 1, 1993), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: ‘Classic .
9780850523478 | Reprint edition (Leo Cooper, October 1, 1992), cover price $33.50 | About this edition: ‘Classic .

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9781848325197 | Frontline Books, September 19, 2009, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: ‘Classic .
9781853677182 | Revised edition (Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal, February 1, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of World War I, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as "a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet.
9780020343905 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1970, cover price $1.50 | also contains Twentieth Century Masters of Erotic Art | About this edition: A memoir by a WWI fighter pilot, with the adventurous spirit of War Horse and the charm of The Little PrinceA singular, lyrical book, Sagittarius Rising is at once an exuberant memoir from the Lost Generation and a riveting tale of the early days of flight during World War I.
9780020343905 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1970, cover price $1.50 | also contains Twentieth Century Masters of Erotic Art | About this edition: A memoir by a WWI fighter pilot, with the adventurous spirit of War Horse and the charm of The Little PrinceA singular, lyrical book, Sagittarius Rising is at once an exuberant memoir from the Lost Generation and a riveting tale of the early days of flight during World War I.

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Product Description: Squadron Leader Tony Spooner, DSO, DFC was an RAF pilot who flew two operational tours with Coastal Command in the Battle of the Atlantic. During the war he also commanded the RAF Special Duties Flight in Malta. He died in 2002.

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9780750934732 | Trafalgar Square, June 1, 2004, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Squadron Leader Tony Spooner, DSO, DFC was an RAF pilot who flew two operational tours with Coastal Command in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Product Description: In the last few years, the national press has lavished coverage on several major sex-related scandals: the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, and the Mike Tyson case. With each event came lurid stories pitting either a loose or virginal woman against an unwilling or monstrous man...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780735104280 | Replica Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $31.85 | About this edition: In the last few years, the national press has lavished coverage on several major sex-related scandals: the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, and the Mike Tyson case.
9780195066807 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | also contains Spitfire Voices: Life As a Spitfire Pilot in the Words of the Veterans | About this edition: Focusing on four major cases--the Rideout marital rape, the Preppy Murder case, the New Bedford gang rape, and the Central Park jogger case--the author critiques print journalism's coverage of sex crimes.

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9780195086652 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 9, 1993), cover price $39.99

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9780333778982 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 2001, cover price $135.00

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9781137509826 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, April 16, 2001), cover price $39.99

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