The Lightning Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning (The Jet Age Series)
By: Richard Pike
4.28
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
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1. American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
By: Vince Flynn
4.25
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
Mitch Rapp is a gifted college athlete who just wants retribution for the Pan Am Lockerbie attack. … read more
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"The shock, the pain, the agonizing self-pity over the fact that he would never see her again, never hold her, never smell her, the list went on, and on, and on like some pounding surf that threatened…"-Vince Flynn, American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
2. Wings on My Sleeve (Phoenix Press)
By: None , Eric M. Brown
4.38
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Eric Brown went to Germany in 1939 on an exchange course, and his first experience of the war came … read more
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3. Chickenhawk
By: Robert Mason
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
A true story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma … read more
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4. Damned Good Show (Cassell Military Trade Books)
By: Derek Robinson
3.62
Format: 128 pages,
They joined an R.A.F. known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young … read more
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6. Victor Boys: True Stories from Forty Memorable Years of the Last V Bomber
By: Tony Blackman
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers and the most long lasting, serving in … read more
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7. The King of Torts
By: John Grisham
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Cl… read more
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8. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
By: Giles Milton
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secre… read more
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9. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
10. Better Off Dead (Jack Reacher, #26)
By: Lee Child
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona r… read more
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11. The Second Sleep
By: Robert Harris
3.49
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is. 1468. A young priest, C… read more
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12. The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
By: John Lisle
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch― The Dirty Tricks De… read more
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13. Tornado: In the Eye of the Storm
By: John Nichol
4.46
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the… read more
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14. Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6)
By: Val McDermid
4.21
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller th… read more
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"A cold case was a story, constructed piece by piece. Sometimes the pieces arrived in the wrong order so it made no sense at first...at the end, if you found all the pieces, you had a coherent tale. S…"-Val McDermid, Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6)
15. Night Intruder: A Personal Account of the Radar War Between the RAF and Luftwaffe Night-Fighter Forces (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 1)
By: Jeremy Howard-Williams
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
An engrossing memoir of one RAF fighter pilot’s battle against the Luftwaffe in the dead of night.I… read more
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16. Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
By: Andrew Martin
3.90
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Bell… read more
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17. Beyond the Sea: A Wren at War
By: Christian Lamb
4.03
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Love, duty and true-life adventure in the shadow of the Second World War. Christian Lamb is one … read more
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18. Luck of a Lancaster: 107 Operations, 244 Crew, 103 Killed in Action
By: Gordon Thorburn
4.25
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
No 9 Squadron of Bomber Command converted from the Wellington to the Lancaster in August 1942. W496… read more
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19. Mosquito: The Original Multi-Role Combat Aircraft
By: Graham M. Simons
4.21
Format: 517 pages, Kindle Edition
The "Wooden Wonder" - as the de Havilland Mosquito was affectionately known - entered the 1939-1945… read more
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20. SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour.
By: Damien Lewis
4.58
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
'Absolutely gripping from the word go' Alexis Conran, Times Radio'A convincing insight into the ter… read more
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21. Merlin: The Story of the Engine That Won the Battle of Britain and WWII
By: Graham Hoyland
4.35
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
The most iconic planes of WWII, the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, DeHavilland Mosquito an… read more
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22. Sydney Camm: Hurricane and Harrier Designer, Saviour of Britain
By: John Sweetman
4.07
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
‘This Man Saved Britain’ ran a headline in the News Chronicle on 18 February 1941, in a reference t… read more
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23. Enemy Coast Ahead
By: Guy Gibson
4.38
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
ENEMY COAST AHEAD is Victoria Cross recipient Guy Gibson's action-packed memoir about his time in B… read more
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24. The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII
By: Will Iredale
4.39
Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!Military History Matters Book of the Year Bronze Award Winner'Compellin… read more
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25. The Lightning Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning (The Jet Age Series)
By: Richard Pike
4.28
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
According to a recent international study, the Lightning is the fifth most popular military aircraf… read more
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26. Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
By: Andrew Smith
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing comes this edition of journalist And… read more
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"Santa Claus is a lie but if you think that's bad, check out what 'fuck' really means."-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
"Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon!" at that point, Apollo would never have happened."-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
"Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human traged…"-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
"Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is…"-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
27. Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
By: Max Hastings
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably… read more
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28. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more
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