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TEN FIGHTER BOYS £8.99 During the Battle of Britain an RAF Spitfire squadron commander asked some of his pilots to write about their combat experiences. The book was published in 1942 as Ten Fighter Boys, penned by ten pilots on 66 Squadron, most of whom had seen action in the Battle of Britain and in fighter sweeps over France in 1941-2. By the time the book was published, three of the original authors were dead; by the end of 1942, only three of the ten were still alive. The book and its narrative style are very much of their time: the language is colourful, irreverent and dramatic, but at the same time filled with the pathos and fatalism that is the preserve of the fighter pilot. Softbound (Allan DFC & Forbes DFC) 256 pages with 20 black and white illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT DIE-LIFE OF HERSCHEL MCKEE £18.99 Herschel McKee's remarkable life story reads like that of a comic-book hero. A daredevil, a leader of men and, above all, a survivor, McKee fought in both World Wars, suffering numerous skirmishes with death. His colourful life included spells as a Foreign Legion soldier, fighter-pilot ace with the elite Lafayette Flying Corps, prisoner-of-war escapee, racing driver, WWII bomber-wing commander and test pilot. His amazing resilience led to him being nicknamed 'The Man Who Would Not Die' while he was still alive. Written in a lively, engaging style, here is the true story of an extraordinary man. (Olvey) Hardbound 272 pages with 32 black and white illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CODENAME VALKYRIE £19.99 On 20 July 1944 the last assassination attempt against Hitler failed. Leading conspirators behind the attempted coup and thousands of supporters and sympathisers were arrested and executed. First to fall to the vicious Nazi retribution was General Friedrich Olbricht, who had nurtured the plans over three years - codenamed Valkyrie. Olbricht was less glamorous than Stauffenberg, who laid the bomb in Hitler's bunker, but contributed far more to the overall resistance against Hitler. Helena Schrader traces Olbricht's transformation into an active conspirator dedicated to removing Hitler from power, showing how his plans might have succeeded had Stauffenberg not failed.  Hardbound (Schrader)  288 pages with 30 black and white images. Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: SHOOTING THE FRONT £40.00 Allied Aerial Reconnaissance in the Great War - Terry Finnegan examines the impact of aerial photography on the air forces of Britain, France and the US above the Western Front in this pioneering new work. His comprehensive history gives an authoritative account of aerial reconnaissance and the interpretation of photographs as they evolved into the most important sources of intelligence along the entire Western Front during the First World War. This magnificent book includes a wealth of images, many never before published, which help the reader to relive the dangerous but exhilarating experience of aerial observation during the First World War.  Hardbound (Finnegan) 524 pages with 300 black and white images DUE JANUARY 2011 Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: ROBERT BALLARD'S LUSITANIA £14.99 In May 1915, a German torpedo sank the sleek Cunard liner, Lusitania, taking 1195 civilian lives. The sinking turned world opinion against Germany, and the deaths of 123 American passengers was the first step in bringing the United States into the First World War. Rumours of conspiracies and cover-ups surround the liner, and over 80 years later she is still a ship of mystery. In 1993 Robert Ballard led an expedition to the wreck of the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland in search of the answers. Ballard's conclusions are authoritative and provide a fascinating, definitive account of what happened on that fateful May afternoon. Hardbound (Ballard) 228 pages with 125 colour and 125 black and white illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: FLIGHTPATH TO MURDER £19.99 On 16 September 1944 an Allied fighter pilot was shot down near Arnhem, the day before Operation Market Garden. He was captured, beaten and then murdered. War Crimes investigators brought four Germans to trial. One was executed but others involved were never caught. The man who was executed had fired the fatal shot 'under orders', but the man who gave the order has not been found - yet. This is the compelling story of ordinary family men who became cold-blooded killers, and of Tempest pilot Bill Maloney who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and lost his life to them. 288 pages with 35 black and white illustrations, hardbound (Darlow) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: WINGS OVER THE DESERT-IN ACTION WITH AN RFC PILOT £25.00 In action with an RFC pilot in Palestine 1916-18 - Few people know of the battle over the Sinai Desert between the Royal Flying Corps and German airmen, part of Britain's campaign against Turkey in the First World War. Although a smaller conflict than the Western Front, in some ways it was more dramatic, involving the use of cavalry and the Arab revolt led by T.E. Lawrence. This fascinating book is based around the experiences of the author's father, W.E.L. Seward, MC, who was a pilot with No 14 Squadron RFC. Illustrated with remarkable photographs that have only just come to light, this book provides a unique historical record. 224 pages with 100 black and white illustrations, hardback (Seward) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: DIGGING UP PLUGSTREET-THE WESTERN FRONT UNEARTHED £25.00 This is the compelling story of the Australian soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division who journeyed to England in 1914, and who fought and died on the Western Front during the First World War. Using archaeology as the vehicle for their story, Martin Brown and Richard Osgood follow in the footsteps of the 'Aussies', from their training on windswept Salisbury Plain to the cheerless trenches of Belgium, where they 'dug-in' north-east of Ploegsteert to face the Germans. They present a unique window into the world of the men who marched away to fight the so-called 'war to end wars'. 224 pages with 100 colour and 50 black and white images, hardbound (Brown & Osgood) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: GAMP VC-The Wartime Story of Maverick Submarine .. £19.99 Rear Admiral Anthony Miers VC - nicknamed 'Gamp' - was one of the Royal Navy's most controversial submarine commanders of the Second World War. Hot-tempered and incautiously spoken, he was notorious for his outbursts and those on the receiving end often ended up with a black eye, close-arrest or the sack - for some it was all three. After his death in 1985, allegations were made that Miers may have been responsible for war crimes in the Aegean in July 1941. He was soon named in the national press and there was a storm of controversy. Was Miers a war criminal? Author Brian Izzard relates his colourful war career and fully examines the war crimes allegation. 272 pages with 32 black and white illustrations, hardbound (Izzard) NEW Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: PLOUGH & SCATTER-Diary Journal of a WWI Gunner £19.99 J.Ivor Hanson's personal diary describes his experiences as a gunner on the Western Front in the First World War, which left a deep and lasting impression on him. He wrote about the officers and men with whom he served, and the horror and humour of trench life - all subjects of Hanson's intense scrutiny and incisive wit. He vividly describes the German Army's crushing Spring Offensive in March 1918, when the British Army on the Western Front was almost pushed back to the Channel coast. Imperial War Museum historian Alan Wakefield has edited the diaries and provides engaging explanatory narratives for each chapter to set them within the context of the First World War. 352 pages with 32 black and white illustrations, hardbound (Hanson & Wakefield)  Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: WHEN BRITAIN WENT TO WAR-Real Story of Life ...... £20.00 When Britain Went to War is the real story of what happened on the home front while Britain was fighting the Nazis. Illustrated with many unseen photographs from the Archive of the Daily Mirror When Britain Went to War looks at all aspects of wartime life from domesticity to entertainment and crime to the sheer struggle of getting through almost six year years of war. 256 pages with 250 colour illustrations, hardbound (Havers) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: WHEN THE WHISTLE BLOWS £19.99 The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War - This timely history - published in the 90th anniversary year of the end of the Great War - tells the full story of the 17th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, the 'Footballer's Battalion'. Based on extensive original research, Andrew Riddoch and Paul Kemp draw on many previously unpublished letters, personal accounts and photographs to paint a vivid portrait of this legendary British Army battalion that fought in three of the fiercest battles of the Great War - the Somme, Arras and Cambrai. The authors show how this remarkable battalion helped shape football, as well as military history. 336 pages with 80 black and white images, hardbound (Riddoch & Kemp) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: WORLD WAR II IN CARTOONS £10.99 WWII in Cartoons' provides a unique insight into the second World War through the medium of newspaper cartoons published at the time. The cartoonist's skill in distilling the events and situations which shaped the course of the war provides an ideal platform from which to view the struggle. 'WWII in Cartoons' uses one hundred contemporary cartoons to illustrate the conflict, places these in context and provides details explaining the event or issue and its significance to the story of the war. Structured in chronological order, it also provides a narrative to the war covering all the major turning points as events unfolded. It provides a fascinating insight from both a historic, cultural and artistic perspective to WWII. 112 pages with 100 black and white illustrations, hardbound (Tiffney) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: