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1) The few: the American "knights of the air" who risked everything to fight in the Battle of Britain
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The dramatic story of American pilots who defied their own country's neutrality in 1940 and joined Britain's Royal Air Force to combat Hitler.
6) Lancaster
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of the iconic WW2 bomber, through the words of the last surviving veterans of the bombing campaign.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Discovered in a box by his grandchildren after his death in 2002, Alastair Panton's Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer is a lost classic. One of the most moving, vivid and powerful accounts of war in the air ever written. And an unforgettable testament to the courage, stoicism, camaraderie and humanity of Britain's greatest generation.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Michael Korda takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than 3000 young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force--often no more than 900 on any given day--stood between Hitler and victory. Korda traces the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that led inexorably to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. He deftly interweaves the critical strands of...
10) Code Name Verity
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Of every 100 operational airmen in World War II, nine were killed flying in England and three severely injured in crashes; non-operational casualties numbered more than 15,000. Operational casualties were chillingly grim—more than 56,000 airmen died in World War II, more than half those involved. George Culling was a 19-year-old Lancaster navigator whose experiences often involved battling tricky and dangerous conditions. Fascinated by the ever-present...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport. Later, during the war, Hitlers minister, Joseph Goebbels, cast her as the "star" in his epic propaganda film about the sinking of the legendary Titanic. Following the films enormous...
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Get ready -- for the flight of your life! As an American pilot fighting for Britain's Royal Air Force, you'll soon see it's not all guts and glory being a World War II pilot."--Cover.
20) Mission of honor
Publisher
Cinedigm
Language
English
Description
A group of brave Polish pilots known as Squadron 303 fought in the skies over England in World War II, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modem form for barely 20 years before it was crushed between the opposing jaws of Germany and Russia. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane airplane and RAF blue uniforms, they fought, and Poland lived.
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