New York: Ballantine Books, 1973. — 336 p. The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader.
Potomac Books Inc.: 2003. — 380 p. Graduating from the Imperial Russian Naval Academy at the start of World War I, de Seversky lost a leg in his first combat mission. He still shot down thirteen German planes and became the empire’s most decorated combat naval pilot. De Seversky elected to escape Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He served as a naval attaché in the...
Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1328876645, eISBN 978-1328876720. The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s — and won. Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi‑day events, and...
This is not only the story of one man's war, but of an aircraft - the Typhoon, or "Tiffy" as it was affectionately known - which the author describes as a "low-bred carthorse whose pedigree had received a sharp infusion of hot-headed sprinter's blood." He recounts his time as a young commander of a rumbustious New Zealand Air Force squadron, and later as the RAF's youngest...
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