RAFCommands contributor and Author Matt Poole writes about his first published book : RAF Liberators over Burma – Flying with 159 Squadron By Bill Kirkness DFM and Matt Poole Fonthill Media, November 2017 – http://fonthillmedia.com Hardcover: 224 pages with 53 black-and-white photographs Publisher: Fonthill…
This book aims to record as many patches as possible from the flying units together with a brief resume of each unit, where known. Phil Camp has collected more than a 1000 patches of the Indian Air Force in an…
Robert Brody has published a new book “Runways to Freedom”. The book is about the Tempsford Squadrons – “Runways to Freedom”, is based on years of extensive research and many conversations with veterans and family members: this is the true…
By now everyone would be familiar with the “Bloody Shambles” style of air war books authored by Chris Shore. The latest volume in the Mediterranean Air War Series, Volume 3 (1940-1945)is now currently on sale. The book has been co-authored…
Steve Brew‘s latest book “A Ruddy Awful Waste” on the life of RAF ace E S Lock has been published. Read about it in the forum announcement here. Synopsis In early 1939, 19-year-old Salopian Eric Lock joined the RAF Volunteer…
Words fail you when trying to describe this book. One cannot use the regular superlatives like ‘brilliant’, ‘memorable’ , ‘entertaining’ while write about a book that deals with the grim topic of recovery of human remains. Yet, this book is…
Rapid Rundown: RAF Operations in the Middle and Far East 1945-1948 is a delight for someone interested in the RAF Operations in the far east. Simon Gifford tackles the unaddressed scope of the RAF winding down its presence in Asia…
Clipped Wings: Royal Air Forces Pre-Operational Training Aircraft Losses : 1939-42 (UK, Rhodesia, India & Minor Territories) Compiled and Edited by Colin Cummings Published by Nimbus Publishing ISBN-13 978-0952661986 Price £25.00 After compiling previous series of volumes or Post War…
A Short War, The history of 623 squadron by Steve Smith. This is a history of an often overlooked and neglected bomber squadron, No.623 Squadron. Formed from No.218 (Gold Coast) Squadron in August 1943 the squadron flying from RAF Downham Market participated…
Commanding Far Eastern Skies: A Critical Analysis of the Royal Air Force Air Superiority Campaign in India, Burma and Malaya 1941-1945 (Wolverhampton Military Studies) has its origins in a PhD dissertation that was done by the Author , which itself…
