L. E. O. Charlton. The Royal Air Force and U.S.A.A.F. from July 1943 to September 1944. London: Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [1944?]. I didn’t know of this book by Charlton. It’s a chronology of the air war, with hundreds of great photos; looks like writing these kept Charlton gainfully employed during the war.
Jörg Friedrich. The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2006. A controversial and best-selling book in Germany a few years ago, now translated into English. Note: this is a review copy supplied by the publisher (a first for Airminded).
Kenneth Munson. Airliners Between the Wars 1919-39. London: Blandford Press, 1972. Not a complete survey, just the 70 most significant types. I’ll have to do a plot of the performance data at some stage.
John Ray. The Night Blitz, 1940-1941. London: Arms & Armour Press, 1998. Probably the standard history of the Blitz.
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1 January 2007 at 1:58 am
Christine Keeler
Just in relation to ‘The Royal Air Force and U.S.A.A.F. from July 1943 to September 1944′, courtesy of C-Span you can watch an interview with Alex Kershaw, author of ‘The Few: The American Knights of the Air Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain’, here:
http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=7723&schedID=468
4 January 2007 at 5:12 pm
Brett Holman
Thanks, Christine — I generally have an aversion to books which use “knights of the air” in their title in a non-ironic fashion, but he sounds like he knows his stuff.
5 January 2007 at 1:32 am
Christine Keeler
Likewise. But canny marketing all the same, using American pilots and aimed squarely at the US market.
Back to watch ‘Reach For the Sky’. Wizard prang. Tally Ho.
5 January 2007 at 1:34 am
Christine Keeler
Hmmm. A few bloopers with the spitfires…