Aviation - General

A complete history, relayed in a style that is both celebratory and objective.

Author: Ian Hall.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 348pp. 17cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781783400584

Original Price: £25.00

The Hawker Hunter was Britain's first swept-wing jet fighter capable of exceeding the speed of sound. It was a simple, rugged design that was easy to maintain in service.

Author: Philip Birtles

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 320pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781781558935

Weight: 957g

Original Price: £35.00

Delving deeply into a long-vanished part of aviation's golden age.

Author: Charles Bain

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 336pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781781556917

Weight: 997g

Original Price: £40.00

Howard Hughes' Amazing Pioneering Helicopter Exploits

Author: Donald J. Porter

Publisher: Fonthill

Paperback. 224pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781781554197

Weight: 392g

Original Price: £16.99

Author: Viktor Povinsky

Publisher: MMP

Hardback. 41pp. 21.5cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9788365958686

Weight: 464g

Original Price: £19.00

A fine record of the last truly great all-British fighter.

Author: Martin W Bowman

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 288pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526705648

Weight: 626g

Original Price: £25.00

A Pictorial Display of Low Flying in Cumbria and Beyond.

Author: Scott Rathbone

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 24.5cm by 17.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399092784

Weight: 920g

Original Price: £35.00

On 20 April 1941, a group of distinguished Americans headed by the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, John Winant, and which included Major General Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold, Chief of the US Army Air Corps, visited the de Havilland Aircraft Company’s airfield at Hatfield, England.

Author: Tony Fairbairn

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 256pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781399017336

Weight. 0.831kg

Original Price: £25.00

This book examines all aspects of the Vietnam War, particularly the events of 1965, and how tensions in the region heightened as the first American combat troops arrived in Vietnam.

Author: Stephen Wynn

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 192pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781473845954

Weight: 430g

Original Price: £19.99

Spotlight On, 26. The book contains 20 color plates showing 20 famous P-51 Mustang fighters depicted in the air.

Author: Tomasz Kaca

Publisher: MMP Books

Hardback. 44pp. 21.5cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9788367227025

Weight: 497g

Original Price: £19.00

This intriguing look at the early days of British aviation, which includes the first ever aircraft factory in Britain in the railway arches at Battersea; Larkhill on Salisbury Plain which became the British Army’s first airfield, and Barking Creek where Frederick Handley Page established his first factory.

Author: Bruce Hales-Dutton.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526750150

Weight: 580

Original Price: £19.99

Author: Joe Bamford, John Williams

Publisher: Fonthill

Paperback. 192pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781781550946

Weight: 381g

Original Price: £18.99