 | First Light by Geoffrey Wellum
Buy used from: £3.28 Favourite account of the Battle of Britain and beyond, exciting, funny, very moving
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 | Adolf Galland: The Authorised Biography by David Baker
Buy used from: £0.90 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
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 | Jg 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe by Donald L. Caldwell
Buy used from: £0.01 The finest unit history ever undertaken, over 1000 titles in the ref list and years of research really shows
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| Fighter General: The Life of Adolf Galland by Raymond F. Toliver
Buy used from: £17.34 Well written and nicely presented, more about the leader than the fighter pilot.
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 | To Fly and Fight: Memoirs of a Triple Ace by Clarence E."Bud" Anderson
Buy used from: £39.49 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.
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| JG 26: Photographic History of the Luftwaffe's Top Guns by Donald L. Caldwell
Buy used from: £22.08 Hard to find, well worth the hunt if you've read JG26 though as it puts the faces to the names.
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 | The Big Show by Pierre Clostermann
Buy used from: £18.99 As fine a work as Geoff Wellum's First Light, a very well written book that will make you laugh and cry
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 | 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'
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 | 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.
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 | Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940 by Patrick Bishop
Buy used from: £0.01 Good overview of BoB, lots of firsthand accounts from good sources
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 | The Hardest Day: Battle of Britain, 18 August 1940 (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Alfred Price
Buy used from: £0.68 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!
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 | Battle of Britain Day: 15 September, 1940 by Alfred Price
Buy used from: £4.67 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
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 | Spitfire: Flying Legend - 60th Anniversary 1936-96 (Osprey classic aircraft) by John M. Dibbs
Buy used from: £4.54 Great words from Holmes to go with air-to-air master Dibbs's great photos!
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| Spitfire Story by Alfred Price
Buy used from: £4.49 The full story by the man probably most qualified to write it
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 | Duel Of Eagles: The Struggle for the Skies, 1918-1940 by Peter Townsend
Buy used from: £0.95 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?
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| Messerschmitt Bf 109 by Watanabe Rikyu
Buy used from: £16.95 A concise textbook with superb artwork by a legend in this field - very large format, nice book.
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 | Wing Leader: Top-scoring Allied Fighter Pilot of World War Two (Fighter Pilots) by J.E. Johnson
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.75 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
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 | Nine Lives by Alan C. Deere
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.42 The legendary Kiwi BoB vet and Wing Leader - with foreword by Dowding. The 1991 Hardback has a famous Robert Taylor on the dust jacket
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| Best of the Few: A Very Different, But True Account of England's Darkest Hours by Michael Robinson
Buy used from: £9.68 Rare as rocking horse sh.. The biography of 92 East India Squadron 1939-40
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 | The First and the Last: Germany's Fighter Force in the Second World War (Fortunes of War) by Adolf Galland
Buy used from: £13.00 Galland's 1953 autobiog - this edition is now out of print also.
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 | Smoke Trails in the Sky: The Journals of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Anthony Bartley
Buy used from: £11.88 Tony Bartley, another one of the 92 boys. Well written and highly enjoyable, especially accounts of the notorious 92nd Night Club
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| One of the Few by John A Kent
Buy used from: £10.00 Johnny Kent, CO of 92 late 1940 - early '41. Tough Canadian who pulled the playboys up by their bootstraps
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 | Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe (Schiffer Military/Aviation History) by Raymond F. Toliver
Buy new: £37.95 / Used from: £12.21 The surviving Jagdflieger consider this book to be their monument
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 | 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!
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 | The Luftwaffe Over Germany: The Defense of the Reich by Don Caldwell
Buy new: £25.50 / Used from: £13.48 Caldwell's latest - looking forward to finally reading this...another 10 years worth of research!
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