| Hendrie, Andrew SEEK AND STRIKE - The Lockheed Hudson in WW 2. | £35.00 | |
| Kimber 1983; 320pp, 49 photos, diags, biblio; fine, near fine d/w; AUTHOR-SIGNED. Comprehensive biblio & source notes, records of successes, bases, individual aircraft & aircrew histories; much on Hudsons in the Pacific War. Also another, similar but unsigned - £18.00 | ||
| BN: 22359 | ||
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Hendrie, Andrew FLYING CATS - The Catalina Aircraft in World War II. Airlife 1st, 1988; 25 x 19cm, 240pp, photos, appendices (lists of aircraft,units, successes etc), ep maps; fine inc d/w; EX Chaz Bowyer Collection with small cutting added to title page re the Catalina Society. |
£25.00 | |
| Appendices give histories of individual aircraft in various air forces, combat records, line drgs etc. | ||
| BN: 24602 | ||
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Hendrie, Andrew SHORT SUNDERLAND IN WORLD WAR II - Airlife 1st, 1994; card covers, 24 x 18cm, 185pp, f.illus; fine inc d/w. |
£16.00 | |
| BN: 30100 | ||
| Hendrie, Andrew LOCKHEED HUDSON IN WORLD WAR II - | £18.00 | |
| Airlife 1st, 1999; 26 x 20cm, 192pp, f.illus; fine inc d/w.The RAF career of the Hudson; mainly in Coastal Command but occasionally used as a fighter (?!). | ||
| BN: 29733 | ||
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Henshaw, Alex SIGH FOR A MERLIN - testing the Spitfire. Murray 1st, 1979; 210pp, 60 photos; fine inc d/w except Owen Thetford's bookplate inside f. cover and a super Spitfire photo attached to title page. |
£20.00 | |
| The author's career as chief test pilot at Castle Bromwich, flying thousands of Spitfires - a classic of test-flying description. Also - Air Data, 1996; fine inc d/w - £18 Also - Arrow card-cover edn, 1990; nr fine - AUTHOR-SIGNED - £25 | ||
| BN: 24108 | ||
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Hensser, Flt Lt Henry CAMERA AT WAR - Jarrolds 1st, 1940s (nd); 92pp, 40 photos; vg int, cloth damp-stained, covered by good d/w |
£16.00 | |
| Experiences of an official Air Ministry photographer, with some of his work. | ||
| BN: 23831 | ||
| Hepburn, Sybil WINGLESS VICTORY - Wingate-Baker reprinted 1st, 1969; 190pp; fine, nr fine d/w. | £15.00 | |
| Caught during a holiday by the German advance across France, the author immediately joined the local escape organisation, worked for 5 years, saving the lives of 300 British & American airmen. | ||
| BN: 31699 | ||
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Herbert A.P. A.T.I. - "there is no need for alarm" Ornum Press London, 1944; 19 x 13cm, 32pp, sketches in text; vg (fine int) |
£14.00 | |
| Poetry by APH, sketches by John Nicolson. (A.T.I. was a flag signal meaning "No need for alarm", shown when France fell in 1940!). | ||
| BN: 28964 | ||
| Hess, Dean E. (Col, USAF) BATTLE HYMN - | £17.50 | |
| P.Davies 1st UK, 1957; 263pp, 15 photos; fine, nr fine d/w; Story of chaplain turned fighter pilot, starting in WW 2 but mostly about the Korean War - the book from which the Cinemascope film was made. ALSO - USA edn, McGraw-Hill, 1956; 15 photos, ep maps; vg, good d/w - £13.50 | ||
| BN: 21090 | ||
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Hess, William N. & T.G.Ivie FIGHTERS OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH - 1942-1945. Motorbooks 1st, 1990; 28 x 22cm, 264pp, f.illus (inc some contemporary colour) ; fine inc d/w. |
£24.00 | |
| Largely first-hand accounts. | ||
| BN: 29696 | ||
| Hillary, Richard THE LAST ENEMY | £18.00 | |
| Macmillan 1st, 1942; 19 x 13cm, 221pp; fine except Thetford bookplate and excellent portrait of Hillary stuck in at front; vg d/w. Autobiography up to writer's recovery from his burns. | ||
| BN: 23380 | ||
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Hillary, Richard, H.St G. Saunders & the Luftwaffe Pilots THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN - Wingate-Baker 1969; 20 x 13cm, 144pp, 18 photos; fine inc d/w. |
£8.00 | |
| Mainly extracts from "The Last Enemy" (Hillary) and "The Luftwaffe War Diaries" (Bekker). | ||
| BN: 31693 | ||
| Hilling, John B. STRIKE HARD - a bomber airfield at war. | £15.00 | |
| Sutton 1st, 1995; 25 x 18cm, 141pp, f.illus (photos, diags), biblio, Squadron details; fine inc d/w. RAF Downham Market and its Squadrons, 1942-46. | ||
| BN: 27389 | ||
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Hoare, John TUMULT IN THE CLOUDS - a story of the Fleet Air Arm. Joseph 1st, 1976; 208pp; nr fine inc d/w. |
£17.50 | |
| Memoirs of WW 2 in the FAA. | ||
| BN: 27498 | ||
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Holmes, Harry AVRO LANCASTER - the definitive record. Airlife, 1997; 30 x 22cm, 253pp, f.illus; individual aircraft histories; fine , torn d/w. |
£13.50 | |
| BN: 30817 | ||
| Holmes, Tony AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES - Legends of World War 2.(Artwork of Iain Wyllie). | £18.00 | |
| Osprey 1st, 2000; 29 x 25cm, 144pp, mostly full-page col pictures with explanatory text; fine inc d/w. | ||
| BN: 29875 | ||
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Holmes, Tony WINGS OF COURAGE - Tales from America's Elite Fighter Groups of WW 2. Osprey, 2010; 336pp, 34 photos; fine inc d/w |
£15.00 | |
| Covers the 354th (Mustang Pioneers), 332nd (Tuskegee Airmen), 475th (Pacific Elite) and 15th, 21st & 506th (The Tokyo Club) Fighter Groups. | ||
| BN: 31857 | ||
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Horne, Alistair TO LOSE A BATTLE - France 1940. Macmillan reprinted 1st, 1969; 556pp, 45 photos; fine in price-clipped d/w; AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION IN 1st TITLE PAGE "FOR DOUGLAS BADER - in hopes that this may bear some resemblance to your own recollections - with best wishes - " (Provenance reliable - purchased with other books indirectly from Bader family) |
£45.00 | |
| Mainly a description of the military reverses that ended with Dunkirk. | ||
| BN: 31691 | ||
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Home, James THEIR LAST TENKO - Quoin, 1989; 115pp, 17 illus, glossary; fine inc d/w. |
£20.00 | |
| Graphic story of 242 Squadron in the Far East in 1942 through Java and Sumatra - finally capture by Japanese forces and suffering until the war ended. For the unlucky "The Last Tenko" was death. | ||
| BN: 31695 | ||
| Horsley, Terence FIND, FIX AND STRIKE - The work of the Fleet Air Arm. | £12.50 | |
| Eyre & Spottiswoode 1st, 1943; 144pp, 15 photos; near fine.. | ||
| BN: 22361 | ||
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Horsley, Terence FISHING & FLYING - Eyre & Spottiswoode 1st, 1947;. 224pp, sketches in text by F.C.Tunnicliffe; vg int, cloth sl soiled, good pictorial d/w. |
£25.00 | |
| Rather scarce and celebrated for its literary style and art-work. | ||
| BN: 31692 | ||
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Houart, Victor (Ed'r) LONELY WARRIOR - the journal of Battle of Britain fighter pilot Jean Offenberg DFC. |
£19.50 | |
| Souvenir Press 1st English edn, 1956; 239pp, 28 illus; vg, torn d/w; scarce. | ||
| BN: 26956 | ||
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Houart, Victor DESERT SQUADRON - Souvenir Press 1st UK edn, 1959; 167pp, 22 photos; fine, vg d/w. |
£22.00 | |
| A picture of an "unknown squadron" the Mediterranean war based on stories told; trans from French of 1959. | ||
| BN: 25105 | ||
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Hough, Richard. ONE BOY'S WAR - Per Astra ad Ardua. Heinemann 1st, 1975; 151pp, 26 photos; fine inc d/w. |
£15.00 | |
| Personal memoirs of fighter operations. | ||
| BN: 24158 | ||
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Hough, Richard & Denis Richards THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN - the Jubilee history. H & S 1st,1989 ; 24 x 16cm, 413pp, many photos, maps, line drgs; nr fine, vg d/w. |
£19.50 | |
| Yet another angle, based partly on contacts with over 300 surviving pilots & ground crew. | ||
| BN: 26235 | ||
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Houghton, Sqn Ldr G.W THEY FLEW THROUGH SAND - The Western desert notes of an RAF officer. Schindler Cairo, 1942; 281pp, 27 sketches by the author, ep maps; vg (spine lettering faded) |
£24.00 | |
| The original Enyptian printing of this classic on desert air warfare. | ||
| BN: 22362 | ||
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Houlton, Johnnie DFC SPITFIRE STRIKES - a New Zealand fighter pilot's story. Murray 1st, 1985; 257pp, 34 photos, 3 maps; fine inc d/w. |
£18.00 | |
| Service mainly with 485th (NZ) Spitfire Sqdn. | ||
| BN: 23765 | ||
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Howard-Williams, Jeremy NIGHT INTRUDER - A personal account of the radar war between the RAF & the Luftwaffe. D & C 1st, 1976; 184pp, 13 photos, 4 diags; fine, nr fine d/w. |
£18.00 | |
| BN: 25400 | ||
| Hoyt, Edwin P. THE KAMIKAZES - | £15.00 | |
| Hale 1st, 1983; 333pp, 12 photos; fine inc d/w.History of the Japanese suicide squadrons of WW 2. | ||
| BN: 24624 | ||
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Hunter, W.J. (Jim) FROM COASTAL COMMAND TO CAPTIVITY - The Memoir of a Secpnd World War Airman. |
£15.00 | |
| Cooper 1st, 2003; 152pp, 32 illustrations inc remarkable prison camp paintings; fine inc d/w Captured after locating and attacking the Scharnhorst, the author kept a diary throughout his captivity as well as the paintings. | ||
| BN: 30949 | ||
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Hurd, Sir Archibald BRITANNIA HAS WINGS - The fleet in action - on, over and under the sea. Hutchinson 1st, c1943; 19 x 13cm, 112pp, 42 photos; eps sl soiled, o/w vg. |
£12.00 | |
| Includes much about the Fleet Air Arm. | ||
| BN: 31326 |
