RAF

  • Bowman, Martin W., Bombs Away! Dramatic First-Hand Accounts of British & Commonwealth Bomber Aircrew in WWII, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2010.
  • Bowman, Martin W., Flying Into the Flames of Hell, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2006.
  • Brickhill, Paul, Reach for the Sky, Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books, 1954.  (Story of Douglas Bader, the legless RAF fighter pilot.  Great battle scene descriptions.)
  • Brown, Alan, Flying for Freedom, The Allied Air Forces in the RAF 1939-1945, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2011.
  • Carruthers, Bob (ed.), The Spitfire, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England: Pen and Sword Aviation, 2013.
  • Chorley, W.R., Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Leicester, England: Midland Counties Publications, 1992-1998, in 6 volumes on aircraft and crew losses: Vol. 1, 1939-1940; Vol. 2, 1941; Vol. 3, 1942; Vol. 4, 1943; Vol. 5, 1944; Vol. 6, 1945.  (There are some additional volumes that I do not have.)
  • Clutton-Brock, Oliver, Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War In Germany 1939-1945, London: Grub Street, 2003.
  • Clutton-Brock, Oliver, RAF Evaders, The comprehensive story of thousands of escapers and their escape lines, Western Europe, 1940-1945, London: Grub Street, 2009.
  • Hough, Richard and Denis Richards, The Battle of Britain, The Greatest Air Battle of World War II, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1989.
  • Kershaw, Alex, The Few, The American “Knights of the Air” Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain, Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006.
  • Lambert, Max, Night After Night, New Zealanders in Bomber Command, Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2007.
  • Middlebrook, Martin, The Berlin Raids, RAF Bomber Command, 1943-44, London: Cassell & Co., 2000.
  • Nesbit, Roy Conyers, An Illustrated History of the R.A.F., Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition, Godalming, Surrey, UK: Colour Library Books, Ltd., 1990.
  • Overy, Richard, The Bombers and the Bombed, Allied Air War over Europe, 1940-1945, New York: Viking, 2014.
  • Terraine, John, The Right of the Line, The Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1997.  (Bombing policy.)
  • Van der Kop, Hans, The Flying Dutchman, An exciting true story of war in the air, Wellingborough, England: Patrick Stephens, Ltd., 1985.
  • Vanderstok, Bob, War Pilot of Orange, Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1987.

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