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bullet** 230 Squadron Royal Air Force
by Guy Warner
bullet50 Ans d'Aviation Française en Couleur 1910-1960; Avions Hors Série No 9
by Jean-Claude Soumille
bulletAbove Flanders Fields - a Complete Record of the Belgian Fighter Pilots and their Units During the Great War 1914 - 1918
by Walter Pieters
bulletAbove the War Fronts - a Complete Record of the British Two-Seater Bomber and Observer Aces, the British Two-Seater Fighter Observer Aces and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Fighter Aces 1914 - 1918
by Norman Franks, Russell Guest and Gregory Alegi
bullet** Ace of Aces: The Life of Capt Eddie Rickenbacker
by H. Paul Jeffers
bulletAces and Airmen of World War 1
by Alan Wood
bulletAir Combat Paintings: Masterworks Collection
by Robert Taylor
bulletAIRCO - The Aircraft Manufacturing Company
by Mick Davis
bullet*** Aircraft Down
by Alec Brew
bullet** Airfields and Airmen: Arras
by Mike O'Connor
bullet* Airfields and Airmen: Cambrai
by Mike O'Connor
bulletAirfields and Airmen: Somme
by Mike O'Connor
bulletAirfields and Airmen: Ypres
by Mike O'Connor
bullet# Airfields of North-East England in the Second World War
by Martin Chorlton
bullet *** An Airman's Wife
Aimée McHardy
bullet* Air Power of the Kingdom of Bulgaria
by Dimitar Nedialkov
bullet** Air Power
by Stephen Budiansky
bulletAirships of the First World War
by Terry C Treadwell and Alan C Wood
bullet# Airships Over the North Channel: RNAS Airships in Ulster during the First World War
by Guy Warner
bullet* Air Warfare: an International Encyclopedia
by Walter Boyne
bulletAllied Aviation Of World War 1: A pictorial history of Allied Aviators and aircraft of the Great War
by Hugh W Cowin
bulletAlways Prepared - the Story of 207 Sqn RAF
by John Hamlin
bulletAmerican Aces of World War I
by Norman Franks
bullet*** The Annals of 100 Squadron 
by Major C. Gordon Burge, OBE

bullet** Army Aviation in Ulster
by Guy Warner with Alex Boyd
bulletAustro-Hungarian Aces Of World War 1; Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 46
by Christopher Chant
bullet* Aviation Awards of Imperial Germany in World War 1 and the Men Who Earned Them
by Neal W O’Connor
bulletLes Avions Caudron (Tome 1); Collection Histoire de l'Aviation No 11
by André Hauet
bullet* The Baby Killers: German Air Raids on Britain in the First World War
by Thomas Fegan
bullet*** Balloon-Busting Aces of World War 1
by Jon Guttman
bullet*** Balloons at War: Gasbags, Flying Bombs & Cold War Secrets
by John Christopher
bulletBarker VC
by Wayne Ralph
bullet# Before Endeavours Fade: A Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War 
by Rose Coombs MBE
bullet* Bircham Newton: a Norfolk Airfield in War and Peace
by Peter Gunn
bulletThe Blackburn Aircraft Company
compiled by Malcolm Hall
bulletBlandford To Baghdad: The Story of No 72 Squadron's First Commanding Officer
by Guy Warner
bulletBleriot - Herald of an Age
by Brian A Elliott
bullet# Born Adventurer: The Life of Frank Bickerton, Antarctic Pioneer
by Stephen Haddelsey
bulletBoxkite to Jet - the Remarkable Career of Frank B. Halford
by Douglas R Taylor
bulletThe Bristol Aeroplane Company
by Derek N James
bulletBristol Aircraft - A Pictorial History of British Achievement
by Robert Wall
bulletBritish Aircraft Before the First World War
by Michael H Goodall and Albert E Tagg
bullet *** British and American Aces of World War 1: The Pictorial Record
by Norman Franks
bulletBritish Aviation Squadron Markings of WW1
by Les Rogers
bullet* British Built Aircraft: Volume 1 Greater London
by Ron Smith
bullet* British Built Aircraft: Volume 2 South West & Central Southern England
by Ron Smith
bullet** British Built Aircraft: Volume 3 South East England
by Ron Smith
bullet *** British Built Aircraft Volume 4: Central & Eastern England
by Ron Smith
bulletBritish and Empire Aces of WW1; Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 45
by Christopher Shores
bullet# British Single-Seater Fighter Squadrons on the Western Front in World War 1
by Alex Revell
bulletCamel Drivers
by Otis Lowell Reed & George Roland
bulletCasualties of the German Air Service, 1914 - 1918
by Norman Franks, Frank Bailey and Rick Duiven
bullet## Catapult Aircraft: Seaplanes That Flew From Ships Without Flight Decks
by Leo Marriott
bullet*** The Chronicles of  55 Squadron RFC and RAF
by Leonard Miller
bullet*** Classic Fighters Marlborough 2005
by Allan Udy
bulletThe Complete Fighter Ace - All the World's Fighter Aces, 1914 - 2000
by Mick Spick
bullet*** Control in the Sky: The Evolution and History of the Aircraft Cockpit
by LFE Coombes
bulletThe Daily Telegraph Book of Airmen's Obituaries
by Edward Bishop
bulletDear Bert: An American Pilot Flying in World War I Italy 
by Edward Davis Lewis
bulletThe Development Of Piston Aero Engines; Second Edition
by Bill Gunston
bullet* Dog-Fight: Aerial Tactics of the Aces of World War I
by Norman Franks
bulletDolphin and Snipe Aces of  World War One; Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 48
by Norman Franks
bulletDorset Flight: The Complete History
by Rodney Legg
bullet** The Dream of Civilized Warfare
by Linda R Robertson
bullet# Early German Aces Of World War I: Osprey Aircraft Of The Aces 73
by Greg VanWyngarden

bullet** Echoes of  Eagles
by Charles Woolley and Bill Crawford
bullet*** Les Escadrilles de l’Aeronautique Militaire Française: Symbolique et Histoire 1912-1920
by Service Historique de l’Armée de l’Air.
bullet## Essex Airmen 1910–1918
by John Barfoot
bulletThe Family and Local History Handbook 6th Ed.
bulletFilton and the Flying Machine
compiled by Malcolm Hall
bulletThe First Blitz: The German Air Campaign Against Britain 1917-1918
by Andrew P Hyde
bulletThe First Naval Air War
by Terry Treadwell
bullet *** Flying an Ugly Duckling
by Michael Cambray
bullet** Flying Guns: World War One
by Anthony G Williams and Dr Emmanuel Gustin
bullet** The Flying Machine in Gloucestershire
by Derek James
bulletFokker Aircraft of WW1
by Paul Leaman
bullet** Fokker D.VII Aces Of World War One; Part I
by Norman Franks and Greg VanWyngarden
bullet** Fokker D.VII Aces Of World War One; Part 2
by Norman Franks and Greg VanWyngarden
bulletFokker Dr.1 Aces of World War 1
by Norman Franks and Greg van Wyngarden
bullet# The Fokker Dr.I and D.VII in World War 1
by Heinz J Nowarra
bullet* Fokker Dr. I: A World War One Legend
by Paul Leaman
bulletThe French Air Service War Chronology: 1914-1918
by Frank W Bailey and Christopher Cony
bullet** From Biplane to Spitfire: The life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond
by Anne Baker
bullet*** German Aces of World War 1: The Pictorial Record
Norman Franks & Greg VanWyngarden
bullet

# German Air Forces 1914-1918: Osprey Elite 135
by Ian Sumner

bulletGerman & Austrian Aviation of WW1
by Hugh W Cowin
bullet* German Air Raids on Britain 1914-1918
by Joseph Morris
bullet# German Airships
by Heinz J Nowarra
bullet* German Fighter Aces of World War 1
by Terry C Treadwell & Alan C Wood 
bullet# Gifts of War: Spitfires and other Presentation Aircraft in Two World Wars
by Henry Boot and Ray Sturtivant
bulletThe Gloster Aircraft Company
by Derek N James
bulletThe Great Book of Bombers
by Jon Lake
bulletThe Great Government Aerodrome - RFC Narborough - The Story of a First World War Airfield
by Narborough Airfield Research Group
bullet*** The Great War-Plane Sell Off: The Unusual Story of Croydon’s Aircraft Disposal Company and its aeroplanes 1920-1931
by Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume
bullet*** Groupe de Combat 12 ‘Les Cigognes’
by Jon Guttman
bulletGuynemer: Les Avions d'un As
by Bernard Klaeyl‚ and Philippe Osch
bullet** The Great No.1 Factory at  Kingston, Surrey
by Don Williams
bulletHalberstadt: Luftfahrtgeschichte in einer deutschen Fliegerstadt.
by Werner Hartmann
bullet* Handley Page: a History
by Alan Dowsett
bulletThe Hat in the Ring Gang: The Combat History of the 94th Aero Squadron in World War 1
by Charles Woolley
bullet* Heroic Flights: The First 100 Years of Aviation
by John Frayn Turner
bullet # History of No 6 Squadron, RNAS in WW1
by Mike Westrop
bullet *** History of No 10 Squadron, RNAS in WW1
by Mike Westrop
bullet* Hornchurch Scramble: Vol 1
by Richard Smith
bullet* The House of Gwynne: Cars, Pumps and Aeroengines 1849 - 1968
by Ken Good
bullet** Howden's Airship Station
by Kenneth Deacon
bulletHurricane: The Illustrated History
by Philip J Birtles
bulletThe Illustrated Directory of Fighters
by Mike Spick
bulletThe Illustrated Red Baron - the Life and Times of Baron Manfred von Richthofen
by Peter Kilduff
bullet# The Imperial German Eagles In World War I: Their Postcards And Pictures
by LJ Bonnekant
bullet *** In the Footsteps of the Red Baron
by Mike O'Connor & Norman Franks
bullet* Independent Force
by Keith Rennles
bullet# Infamous Aircraft: Dangerous Designs and their Vices
by Robert Jackson
bulletInternational Warbirds: An Illustrated Guide to World Military Aircraft 1914-2000
by John C Fredriksen
bullet* In The Royal Naval Air Service: being the war letters of the late Harold Rosher to his family
bullet** In Wiltshire's Skies
by Colin Cruddas
bullet* Italian Aces Of World War 1 and their Aircraft
by Roberto Gentilli, Antonio Iozzi and Paolo Varriale
bullet *** Jagdgescwader Nr II Geschwader ‘Berthold’
by Greg VanWyngarden
bullet** Jagdstaffel 5; Vol 1
by G.K. Merrill
bullet** Jasta Boelcke: The History of Jasta 2 1916-1918
by Norman Franks
bulletThe Jasta War Chronology - a Complete Listing of Claims and Losses August 1916 to November 1918
by Norman Franks, Frank Bailey and Rick Duiven
bullet*** Junkers Aircraft & Engines, 1913 - 1945
by Antony L Kay
bulletKnights of the Air - Canadian Fighter Pilots in the First World War
by Lt Col David L Bashow
bullet## Knights of the Skies: Armour Protection for British Fighting Aeroplanes
by Michael C Fox
bullet* Königsberg: A German East African Raider
by Kevin Patience
bullet *** Das Kriegstagebuch der Jagdstaffel 12
by Michael Schmeelke
bulletThe Lafayette Flying Corps
by Dennis Gordon
bullet# The  Last Flight of the L48: The True Story of Theberton’s Zeppelin
by Ray Rimell
bullet** Last of the Red Devils: America’s First Bomber Pilot
by Frank Joseph
bullet* Letters of the Wright Brothers
edited by Brian Riddle and Colin Sinnott
bullet# Letters From An Early Bird
by Donal MacCarron
bulletMachine Gun
by Anthony Smith
bullet*** Mario Calderara: Aviator and Inventor
by Lodovico Calderara & Attilio Marchetti
bullet** Marshall of Cambridge
by Stephen Skinner
bulletThe Martinsyde File
by Ray Sanger
bulletMick Mannock, Fighter Pilot - Myth, Life and Politics
by Adrian Smith
bullet# Miracles and Munitions
Gordon L Routledge
bulletMother of Eagles: The War Diary of Baroness von Richthofen
by Suzanne Hayes Fischer
bullet** Naught Escapes Us - The Story of 206 Squadron RAF
by Peter B Gunn
bullet* Nieuport - a Biography of Edouard Nieuport
by Gérard Pommier
bulletNieuport Aircraft of WW1
by Ray Sanger
bullet# Nieuport Flyers of the Lafayette
by Jon Guttman
bullet*** No Place for Chivalry: RAF Night Fighters Defend the East of England Against the German Air Force in Two World Wars.
by Alastair Goodrum
bulletNumber One in War and Peace: The History of No. 1 Squadron 1912-2000
by Norman Franks and Mike O'Connor
bulletObservers and Navigators -  and other non-pilot aircrew in the RFC, RNAS and RAF
by Wing Commander CG Jefford MBE, BA, RAF Retd
bullet* The Official History of the Great War. Military Operations, Other Theatres 1914 - 18: Maps on CD-ROM
bulletThe Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright; 2 volumes
edited by Marvin McFarland
bulletPark: The Biography of ACM Sir Keith Park GCB, KBE, MC, DFC, DCL
by Vincent Orange
bulletPercy Pilcher and the Challenge of Flight
by Philip Jarrett
bulletPfalz Aircraft of WW1
by Jack Herris
bullet# Pfalz Scout Aces Of World War I: Osprey Aircraft Of The Aces 71
by Greg VanWyngarden
bulletPillars of Fire - Battle of Messines Ridge, June 1917
by Ian Passingham
bullet# Pioneer Airline Pilot: The Life and Times of Capt EH Lawford AFC
by Hayden Lawford
bullet *** Plane to Plane
by Martyn Chorlton
bulletPost-War Yorkshire Airfields
by Barry Abraham
bulletPioneer Aircraft; Early Aviation before 1914
by Phil Jarrett
bullet# RAF Duxford: A History in Photographs from 1917 to the Present Day
by Richard Smith
bulletRating Pilot RN 1912-1953
by Alan Clifford
bullet *** The Red Baron
by Manfred von Richtofen
bullet## The Red Baron's Last Flight
by Norman Franks and Alan Bennett
bulletRené Dorme and Joseph Guiguet; the air war of two aces
by Marc Chassard
bulletI Reparti Dell' Aviazione Italiana Nella Grande Guerra
by Roberto Gentilli & Paolo Varriale
bulletRAF Gibraltar
by Tony Fairbairn
bulletRFC / RNAS Handbook, 1914 - 18
by Peter G Cooksley
bullet** Richthofen's Circus: Jagdgeschwader Nr I
by Greg VanWyngarden
bulletRoyal Air Force Awards 1918 - 1919
by Kenneth J. Nelson
bullet*** The Royal Air Force: An Encyclopedia of the Inter-War Years Volume I, The Trenchard Years 1918-1929
by Wg Cdr Ian M. Philpott
bulletRoyal Flying Corps Communiqués, 1917 - 1918
edited by Chaz Bowyer
bulletThe Royal Flying Corps in World War 1
by Ralph Barker
bullet* Russian Aeroplanes 1914-1918
by Mikhail Maslov
bullet*** Russian Aviation a Pictorial History 1885-1945
DA Sobolev
bullet* Sagittarius Rising
by Cecil Lewis
bullet# The Sanke Cards
by Charles Woolley
bullet## Schlachflieger!: Germany and the Origins of Air/Ground Support 1916-1918
by Rick Duiven & Dan-San Abbot
bullet** Second To None: A Pictorial History of Hornchurch Aerodrome through two World Wars and Beyond, 1915-1962 
by Richard C Smith
bullet** September Evening: The Life and Final Combat of the German World War One Ace Werner Voss
by Barry Diggens
bullet** Sidney Cotton: The Last Plane out of Berlin
by Jeffrey Watson
bulletSharks Among Minnows: Germany's First Fighter Pilots and the Fokker Eindecker Period, July 1915 to September 1916
by Norman Franks
bulletShells and Bright Stones - a biography of Leo Walmsley
edited by Nona Stead
bulletShropshire Airfields
by Alec Brew & Barry Abraham
bullet* Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution 1912–18
by Eric Ash
bulletSky Sailors: The Story of the World's Airshipmen
by Cec Mowthorpe
bullet## Slessor: Bomber Champion
Vincent Orange
bulletThe Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Directory of Airlpanes; Their Designers and Manufacturers
edited by Dana Bell
bulletSomme Success: The Royal Flying Corps & the Battle of the Somme, 1916
by Peter Hart
bullet* Sopwith Camel Aces of World War 1: Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 52
by Norman Franks
bullet* The Sopwith Pup
by Jack Bruce, Gordon Page and Ray Sturtivant
bullet*** Sopwith Pup Aces of World War 1: Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 67
by Norman Franks
bullet** Sopwith Triplane Aces of World War 1
by Norman Franks
bullet** South West Wings: A Diary of aviation incidents and accidents in West Somerset and North Devon
by Martin R Sutton
bullet** SPA124 Lafayette Escadrille - American Volunteer Airmen in World War I
by Jon Guttman
bullet

# SPAD Two-Seat Fighters of World War 1: Great War Aircraft in Profile 7
by Jack Herris

bulletSPAD VII Aces of World War I 
by Jon Guttman
bullet** SPAD VII C.1
by Tomasz Gronczewski and Seweryn M. Fleischer
bullet*** SPAD S.VII CI
by Martin Velek
bulletSPAD XII and XIII Aces of World War I; Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 47
by Jon Guttman
bulletThe Storks - the Story of France's Elite Fighter Groupe de Combat 12 (Les Cigognes) in WW1
by Norman Franks and Frank Bailey
bullet* Strong by Night: History and Memories of 149 (East India) Squadron 1918 - 1956
by John Johnston and Nick Carter
bulletStrong Foundations: Driffield's Aerodrome from 1917 to 2000
by Geoff Simmons and Barry Abraham
bullet** Talking with the Red Baron
by Peter Kilduff
bullet** Taking Flight
by Richard P Hallion
bullet** Taking To The Skies: The Story of British Aviation 1903-1939
by Graham Smith
bullet* Those Fabulous Flying Years: Joy Riding and Flying Circuses between the Wars
Colin Cruddas
bullet*** Three's Company: An Illustrated History of No 3 (Fighter) Squadron RAF
by Jack TC Long
bullet* Tracing Your First World War Ancestors
by Simon Fowler
bullet*** Twentieth Century Maverick: The Life of Noel Pemberton Billing
by Barbara Stoney
bullet* Under the Guns of the German Aces
by Norman Franks and Hal Giblin
bullet* Under the Guns of the Kaiser's Aces
by Norman Franks and Hal Giblin
bullet*** Uniforms and Equipment of the British Army in World War 1
by Stephen J Chambers
bulletUnited States Naval Aviation 1910 - 1918
by Noel C Shirley
bullet *** Upwards and Onwards
by Bill Randle
bullet** US Army Airships 1908-1942
by James R Shock
bullet** US Navy Airships 1915-1962
by James R Shock
bullet# Versteende Vleugels
by Eddy Lambrecht
bullet# Voices In Flight: Conversations With Air Veterans Of The Great War
by Anna Malinovska & Mauriel Joslyn
bullet## Voices of Silence: The Alternative Book of First World War Poetry
by Vivien Noakes
bulletWar in The Air (Battery Press)
by Walter Raleigh & HA Jones
bullet*** War in The Air (Naval & Military)
by Walter Raleigh & HA Jones
bulletWe Are the Dead
by Larry Gray
bulletWestland Aircraft 1915-1926: The Westland Aircraft Collection Volume 1
by Compiled by F Ballam & D Gibbings
bulletWhen This Bloody War is Over: Soldiers' Songs of the First World War
by Max Arthur with an introduction by Lyn Macdonald.
bullet** Winged Victor: A Biography of Victor M Yeates
by Gordon F. Atkin
bullet** Winged Victory
by Victor M. Yeates
bulletWingless Eagle: US Army Aviation through World War 1
by Herbert A Johnson
bullet** Wings Over Wiltshire 
by Rod Priddle
bullet *** With a Smile and a Wave: The life of Captain Aidan Liddell VC, MC
by Peter Daybell
bullet* The Wright Brothers Legacy 
by Walt Burton and Owen Findsen
bullet** Zeppelins: German Airships 1900-1940
by Charles Stephenson
bullet# The Zeppelin in Combat: A History of the German Naval Airship Division 1912-1918
by Douglas H Robinson

 

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