The Mallon Crew
We are delighted to be able to share with you another book that has a connection to Manston. The author made contact with the site after his tweet today in connection with D-Day. Later in...
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Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War
Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War tells the story of the largest British bombers of the First World War and the men who flew them. In 1915, the biggest...
Battle of Britain Voices
DESCRIPTION July 1940, and Britain is the only European country which hasn’t caved in to Hitler’s Third Reich. Hitler’s stated aim was to ‘eliminate the English home country as a base for the continuation of...
The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain
Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this is a book ultimately distinguished by its conclusions that it was the British...
Whirlwind: Westland’s Enigmatic Fighter
Faster and better armed than the Spitfire, the Whirlwind was the RAF’s counter to a new generation of armoured German bombers which it expected to meet in English skies in 1940. A few months after...
263 and 137 Squadrons: The Whirlwind Years
References to Manston to be confirmed. For many, the Westland Whirlwind conjures the image of yellow air-sea rescue helicopters, not the sleek twin-engine monoplane that was the RAF’s first single-seat, cannon-armed fighter. Although faster and...
Kent’s Own: The Story of No. 500 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force
‘Shrieking from the clouds, the Stukas achieved the measure of surprise they needed. The accuracy of the raid was good. Every runway was hit, the length of them just bomb craters, rock and earth. Fires...
Tales from the Control Tower
Tales From The Control Tower is based on the author’s personal experiences of the Royal Air Force. It starts in 1968 with anecdotes about Basic Training at Swinderby where recruits learned drill, marching and given...
