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By the Bomb’s Early Light

by Paul Boyer

The Bomb had a fallout beyond the physical destruction it wrought. Whatever lessons were learned came at a terrible price. The book examines its impact on the American psyche and policy-making from the trivial to the sublime.

Negative Gravity:
 A Life of Beatrice Shilling


by Matthew Freudenberg

This aeronautical engineer solved a vexing problem in a famous WWII aero engine, raced motorcycles, had a long string of letters after her name, but resolutely marched to her own beat—which is why today few remember her!

Northrop Flying Wings

by Graham M. Simons

What occupied Jack Northrop’s mind in the 1920s would take until the late 1980s to be fully realized. Being ahead of one’s time is a difficult enough cross to bear; add to that financial woes, political bickering, a military that can’t make up its mind—and life becomes a drag. And drag is the very thing Northrop hated.

German Air Projects 1935–1945: Attack, Multi-Purpose and Other Aircraft

by Marek Ryś

An assortment of highly exotic machinery illustrates innovative approaches to engineering problems. Some seem to be answers to questions no one asked, others are task-specific adaptations of already existing apparatus.

America’s Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project CONSTANT PEG

by Gaillard R. Peck, Jr.

For ten years the U.S. Air Force secretly trained Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps fighter aircrews against actual Soviet MiG jet fighters. Written by the man who initiated the program this book covers everything from fighting the bureaucracy to fighting the enemy.

Borneo Boys: RAF Helicopter Pilots in Action

by Roger Annett

Terrorists, rebels, border conflicts, dubious alliances—sounds like everyday modern news. This book revisits a long forgotten conflict from 50 years ago. For once, it turned out well.

Blue Moon Over Cuba

by William B. Ecker & Kenneth V. Jack

The title may not sound like it but this book reads like a thriller and, being written by people who were there, it can hardly be topped for authenticity.

Big Week: Six Days that Changed the Course of World War II

by Bill Yenne

A multi-faceted picture of the improbable turn-around of the Allied air campaign that paved the way for D-Day.

Defiant, Blenheim and Havoc Aces

by Andrew Thomas

Different planes with different tasks—what brings them together in this one book is their stop-gap tour of duty as nightfighters.

Plane Spotter’s Guide

by Tony Holmes

Don’t leave home without it. This pocket-size reference guide can settle many arguments—how high? how fast? what motor?—in the field.

From Supermarine Seafire XVII to Douglas DC-10, A Lifetime of Flight

by Ronald Williams

By looking over Williams’ shoulder as he pilots a great variety of aircraft in many different parts of the world you a sense for the practical and technical aspects of commercial flight from its early piston days to the jet age.

Hitler’s Eagles: The Luftwaffe 1933–45

by Chris McNab

A good one-stop survey of both the good and the bad, the weak and the strong of an essential part of the war effort that started as a dominant air force and then deteriorated.

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