Aviation - General

History and Development 1930-1960 - Volume 2.

USSR, USA, Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy & Hungary.

Author: Antony L. Kay

Publisher: The Crowood Press

Hardback. 269pp. 22.5cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9781861269393

Weight: 1.22kg

Original Price: £40.00

BOAC, Boeing and a Jet Age Battle.

Author: Lance Cole

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 256pp. 16cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399077378

Weight: 582g

Original Price: £15.99

This book covers the design, development, production and operational service of the Vickers Wellington from before the Second World War through to the 1950s.

Author: Philip Birtles

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 256pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781781558683

Weight: 760g

Original Price: £30.00

First flown in 1940, the prototype Vought F4U Corsair instantly became the fastest fighter in the world and the fastest US aircraft of any description. 

Author: Martin W Bowman.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 121pp. 19x24.4x1cm.

ISBN: 9781526705884

Weight: 400g

Original Price: £14.99

Winged Sabres is the story of a RFC & RAF squadron flying the cumbersome FE2 from February 1916 to September 1917, and then the superlative Bristol Fighter: a two-seater ‘fighter-reconnaissance’ squadron with an astonishingly high success rate.

Author: Robert A Sellwood.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 300pp. 16x24x2.8cm.

ISBN: 9781526729576

Weight: 700g.

Original Price: £25.00

The author of this book was close to the Zeppelin story from its early days. It is sadly ironic that this talented man and strong advocate of the Zeppelin should die in Hindenburg disaster shortly after he had produced the draft for this book.

Author: Ernst A. Lehmann

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 352pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781781550120

Weight: 933g

Original Price: £25.00