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Jagdflieger

	First Light by Geoffrey Wellum Buy used from: £1.22 Favourite account of the Battle of Britain and beyond, exciting, funny, very moving
	Adolf Galland: The Authorised Biography by David Baker Buy used from: £1.34 Excellent biography of the man who always strove to be the first and the best and undoubtedly was. More 'in cockpit' combat experience than Fighter General
	Jg 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe by Donald L. Caldwell Buy used from: £1.38 The finest unit history ever undertaken, over 1000 titles in the ref list and years of research really shows
	Fighter General: The Life of Adolf Galland by Raymond F. Toliver Buy used from: £21.71 Well written and nicely presented, more about the leader than the fighter pilot.
	To Fly and Fight: Memoirs of a Triple Ace by Clarence E."Bud" Anderson Buy used from: £39.01 Yeager's partner in crime 'Andy' Anderson. His description of the vertical combat with a Luftwaffe experte that was nearly his end is very memorable.
	JG 26: Photographic History of the Luftwaffe's Top Guns by Donald L. Caldwell Buy used from: £14.31 Hard to find, well worth the hunt if you've read JG26 though as it puts the faces to the names.
	The Big Show by Pierre Clostermann Buy used from: £43.60 As fine a work as Geoff Wellum's First Light, a very well written book that will make you laugh and cry
	Tumult in the Clouds by James Goodson Buy used from: £0.01 Fantastic account of the 4th Fighter Group's Eagles by their 'King of the Strafers'
	The Luftwaffe Fighter Force: The View from the Cockpit by Adolf Galland Buy used from: £25.00 This is a unique book compiled from the interrogations of surviving Luftwaffe experten by the Allies at the end of the War.
	Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940 by Patrick Bishop Buy used from: £3.40 Good overview of BoB, lots of firsthand accounts from good sources
	The Hardest Day: Battle of Britain, 18 August 1940 (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Alfred Price Buy used from: £0.47 Price takes this important day in focus as a microcosm of the entire battle - fascinating personal testimony with amazing photos, some taken from the cockpit of an attacking Dornier 17 bomber!
	Battle of Britain Day: 15 September, 1940 by Alfred Price Buy used from: £4.13 The turning point - most important day of the battle. This is a much more interesting way to read of the BoB than the repetitive, dry historical overviews of which there are many
	Spitfire: Flying Legend - 60th Anniversary 1936-96 (Osprey classic aircraft) by John M. Dibbs Buy used from: £4.99 Great words from Holmes to go with air-to-air master Dibbs's great photos!
	Spitfire Story by Alfred Price Buy used from: £4.19 The full story by the man probably most qualified to write it
	Duel Of Eagles: The Struggle for the Skies, 1918-1940 by Peter Townsend Buy used from: £2.14 3 Feb 1940 Townsend downs the first German bomber on English soil since 1918, giving him the premise for this book. Now doesn't that sound worth reading?
	Messerschmitt Bf 109 by Watanabe Rikyu Buy used from: £14.41 A concise textbook with superb artwork by a legend in this field - very large format, nice book.
	Wing Leader: Top-scoring Allied Fighter Pilot of World War Two (Fighter Pilots) by J.E. Johnson Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.60 Memoir written with a touching admiration and respect for his senior officers when a young Pilot Officer and Flight Commander in 616, especially considering the lofty heights to which he himself rose
	Nine Lives by Alan C. Deere Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £3.13 The legendary Kiwi BoB vet and Wing Leader - with foreword by Dowding. The 1991 Hardback has a famous Robert Taylor on the dust jacket
	Best of the Few: A Very Different, But True Account of England's Darkest Hours by Michael Robinson Rare as rocking horse sh.. The biography of 92 East India Squadron 1939-40
	The First and the Last: Germany's Fighter Force in the Second World War (Fortunes of War) by Adolf Galland Buy used from: £12.99 Galland's 1953 autobiog - this edition is now out of print also.
	Smoke Trails in the Sky: The Journals of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Anthony Bartley Buy used from: £19.99 Tony Bartley, another one of the 92 boys. Well written and highly enjoyable, especially accounts of the notorious 92nd Night Club
	One of the Few by John A Kent Buy used from: £9.99 Johnny Kent, CO of 92 late 1940 - early '41. Tough Canadian who pulled the playboys up by their bootstraps
	Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe (Schiffer Military/Aviation History) by Raymond F. Toliver Buy new: £37.95 / Used from: £25.00 The surviving Jagdflieger consider this book to be their monument
	Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager Buy used from: £37.95 The greatest test pilot of all time - this is a one in a million story!
	The Luftwaffe Over Germany: The Defense of the Reich by Don Caldwell Buy new: £23.04 / Used from: £10.99 Caldwell's latest - looking forward to finally reading this...another 10 years worth of research!